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Ty's Take Three motorcycle gang members pleading guilty to charges stemming from a 2021 gunfight on the Strip is the kind of story that reminds you how fast things can turn ugly around here, even in a place built for fun. The lake draws all kinds—families towing
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Ty's Take Summer around the lake means kids home from school, renters flooding in, and everybody scrambling to keep up—which is exactly when things fall apart if you're not paying attention. The folks at Bacon and other outfits reminding homeowners to get their A/C
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Ty's Take Busy weekend on the water and off it—an Illinois visitor in the hospital after a boating incident, a wreck that sent someone to Morgan County Medical, and fire crews rolling on a condo complex over in Osage Beach that turned out to be containable. Nothing
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Ty's Take High-speed chase on the lake this weekend ended with a teenager thrown from his vehicle, and you can read the details in today's paper—but what strikes you is the timing. We're heading into the busiest season the Ozarks sees all year,
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Ty's Take Anybody who's been around the lake long enough knows that summer here moves fast—one minute you're pulling the boat out for Memorial Day, the next you're calling the funeral home because somebody's kid didn't make
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Ty's Take A seven-year-old from Stover is gone, killed in a utility vehicle accident that'll sit heavy in this county for a long time—the kind of loss that makes you look at your own kids different, makes you think twice about what we let slide
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Ty's Take Three powerboat incidents in one Saturday afternoon at the Shootout races, a rescue from the Community Bridge, a fatal crash on a county road—that's the kind of weekend that reminds you the lake doesn't care how many boats are registered or
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Ty's Take The Fourth of July looked different this year before it even got here—Osage Beach dropping the parade but keeping the fireworks, which is its own kind of statement about what matters most when the calendar fills up and the crowds roll in. But underneath the
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Ty's Take One car, one moment, one family torn apart on a Camden County road—and somewhere tonight, people who knew this Illinois woman are trying to make sense of why she was here and why she isn't anymore. These accidents don't come with
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Ty's Take Offshore racing season out here brings the best and worst of lake culture into sharp focus—the skill and speed that draw thousands to watch, and the split-second decisions that separate a good day from a tragedy. Two separate powerboat crashes during last weekend's
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Ty's Take Two fatalities on our highways this week, a couple more serious injuries, and that's just what made the scanner before Friday morning—which tells you something about the stretch we're in. Summer weekends bring more traffic, more speed, more boats full of
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Ty's Take Highway 7 claimed another life this week—a head-on that left one dead and three hurt, the kind of collision that stops you cold when you see the emergency lights. We've had the conversations around here a hundred times about that stretch of road,