In July of this year, YouTube announced its plans to implement an AI-based age verification system to distinguish between minors and adults on the platform. The system was described by the YouTube ...

Missouri State University has launched the Engaged Citizen Award (ECA), a new scholarship that “recognizes students’ effort and dedication to building a better community.” A post to the Office of ...

It is impossible to hum while plugging your nose. Readers may be thinking, “I can still hum.” According to Alana Mantie-Kozlowski, a communication sciences and disorders professor at Missouri State ...

A celebrated piece of Springfield history and culture has vanished from downtown streets, which has since been a cause of uproar and community backlash. The mural, inspired by Robert E. Smith’s ...

The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is a movie-lover’s dream, and despite the Springfield, Missouri, theater being one of just over 40 locations in the chain’s network, it’s a pumping vessel in the heart of ...

The Ku Klux Klan brings to mind images of burning crosses, lynchings, racial slurs and acts that embody what the organization views as “white power.” The KKK is notorious, and has secured its place in ...

In their first game of the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) era at Missouri State University, the Football Bears lost 73-13 to the University of Southern California Trojans. The contest featured an ...

The number of fatal car crashes in Springfield and southwest Missouri is beginning to climb. According to Cris Swaters, public affairs officer for the Springfield Police Department, there have been 19 ...

The Missouri State University women’s basketball team looked slow to act, noncohesive and inaccurate in the final game of its first season in Conference USA, losing to Middle Tennessee State ...

This weekend, Theatre North of 60, a performance group for adults 55 and older, put on their final show of Annie at National Avenue Christian Church. They performed a total of six shows over two ...

For another year in a row, the Missouri State University women’s basketball team’s franchise player is a local kid. Entering her third season in college ball, Republic, Missouri’s own, junior guard ...

After years of waiting, the newest dormitory on the Missouri State campus opened — Heitz House. This seven-story building offers many amenities to students. Heitz offers private rooms for students.