Sections Options Links Classifieds InteractiveAt a press conference last Wednesday, Missouri State legend Jackie Stiles announced her plan to use her basketball skills and Springfield celebrity to help raise money for the Ronald McDonald house. The NCAA's all-time leading scorer will be hosting a series of basketball clinics later this year.
If you get pumped about pumpkins, there are several area restaurants that include the portly fruit on their menu this time of year. Andy's Frozen Custard Andy's Frozen Custard has multiple locations in Springfield, and each building makes one feel like the carnival is in town.
Dangerous weather is nothing new to the Midwest, so it's no wonder that the Nov. 8 episode of Discovery Channel's "Storm Chasers" featured a tornado touching down in Missouri. The episode, which aired Sunday at 9 p.m., showed a tornado from May 2009 that touched down in Kirksville, Mo.
Who thought that we would see Ewan McGregor as a Jedi in anything but Star Wars? I certainly didn't. In the new movie "The Men Who Stare at Goats" he is just that, a Jedi Warrior. Kind of. Ok, so he's not your typical Star Wars universe Jedi, but a psychic Jedi.