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Ty's Take Mid-week around Howell County reads like it always does—some trouble on the roads, a couple of folks tangled up with the law, life moving along with its regular mix of accident and intent. But there's something worth holding onto in the noise: seven
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Ty's Take When money actually finds its way to the classroom and into the hands of kids who need it, you notice. The Paula Kaye Speraneo fund is putting real dollars into West Plains schools this month, and the state's rural education grants landed here too—
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Ty's Take Nearly four inches of rain in one storm will test any drainage system, and Tuesday night's downpour did exactly that—leaving more than 1,300 folks without power across West Plains while crews worked through the wet dark to get things running again. This
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Ty's Take June 25th marks seventy-three years since the guns started up on the Korean peninsula—a war that didn't make the evening news the way it should have, that pulled boys from places like this one across an ocean most of them had never crossed,
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Ty's Take The rain that hit southwestern Howell County hard enough to trigger a flash flood warning Tuesday is the kind that comes down like a bucket turned upside down—good for the pastures and stock tanks, bad for anybody caught in a low water crossing or parked
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Ty's Take We've lost four good women this week—Virginia Adams, Betty Jean Riley, Janet Marie Moritz, and Sylvia Atkisson—and that's the kind of toll that reminds you how these hills hold their people close and tight. Meanwhile, the roads around us keep
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Ty's Take This week you've got everything from a 250th America parade down in Willow Springs to a murder case grinding to a halt, a veteran finding his way back through the VA, and some guy up in Alton who apparently decided to visit other people&
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Ty's Take Out here, we don't often get to see the machinery of justice work in our favor, but the decision to drop charges against that Arkansas man—a father who acted to protect his daughter—reminds us that sometimes the law catches up with what
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Ty's Take That million-dollar gift to the Community Foundation for MSU-West Plains scholarships shows what happens when people who made it out remember where they came from—and what happens when a regional university does right by the kids who can't afford to leave. Scholarship money
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Ty's Take Milan Mimcilovic turning down the NBA draft to play college ball at Kentucky tells you something about West Plains and what this town can build when it decides to do something right—a kid with legitimate pro options choosing the long road instead, and choosing to
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Ty's Take Mike Leach never coached a down in Missouri, but he'd have understood this country—the kind of man who built something unconventional out of nothing much, talked straight, and didn't apologize for it. That the Hall of Fame ballot has him on
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Ty's Take It's been a rough stretch on the roads around here—five crashes in a week, a woman dead down in Flippin, people hurt on the highway near Ava, and that's just what made the scanner. Summer's coming and so are