Houston, MO. – The Texas County Sheriff’s Department is currently seeking information on a man depicted in video footage. While the nature of what happened has not been shared, it has been stated this ...

Houston, MO. – The Texas County Sheriff’s Department is currently seeking information on a man depicted in video footage. While the nature of what happened has not been shared, it has been stated this ...

For 47 years, Gary Herd has been in the woods near his Thornfield home during the spring and fall seasons hunting turkeys. But since 1987 he has gone hunting with calls he has crafted himself. Today ...

In approximately 1950, Ivan and Edna Sullivan took their boys Larry (age 3) and Garland (age 5) to the swimming hole that later became the roadside park on Highway 5 north of Ava. Highway 5 didn’t ...

At DOCO Inc. Sheltered Workshop located at 1306 Prince St. in Ava, work can look like building pallets, snapping Easter eggs, washing trays, destroying outdated beverages for recycling, printing ...

Butch Stone’s interested in flint knapping was not for its artistic element, but for a desire to see if he could kill a deer with an arrow point he made for himself. Along with knapping out his own ...

Christmas on the Square in Ava drew large crowds on Saturday, Dec. 13, as residents and visitors gathered downtown for a full day of holiday festivities, shopping and the city’s largest Christmas ...

Juanita was a 1944 Ava High School graduate and a 1945 graduate of Hopper Beauty Academy of Springfield. She worked as a beautician for many years before buying the Beauty Nook in the early sixties.

Kevin Hansen, 55, of Ava, was originally arrested in January after Douglas County deputies and Ava police served a narcotics search warrant at an apartment on East Grand Avenue, where methamphetamine ...

A video was recently posted on youtube of a visit to the Ava Police Department by a man who proclaimed himself a journalist and a First Amendment Auditor. He had a confrontational meeting with the ...

It has been over 110 years since the first railroad locomotive rolled into Ava. It was a time when the horse was still important to transportation of people and materials in the area. But today it is ...

The Ava Police Department is warning residents about a new mail scam involving letters that appear to come from the Internal Revenue Service. The letter, which looks official and even includes a QR ...