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There are 14 candidates running for mayor and four open seats on the Springfield City Council. Two of the open council seats represent the entire city, while one open position represents Zone 1 in Springfield's northwest quadrant and the other represents Zone 4 in the southeast. Here's an overview of who is running in the order they will appear on the ballot. For more in-depth information about the candidates and their policies, go online to news-leader.com. Mayor Ken McClure (Incumbent) Background: McClure, 70, has been mayor of Springfield since 2017. He grew up in Springfield and lived her...

Share Your browser does not support iframes, but you can use the following link: Link Don Grommesh, Bill Lear’s employee No. 8, served as chief engineer, vice president of Learjet engineering and vice president and general manager of customer service. Al Higdon, Joined Lear Jet in 1964 and helped make Learjet a household name. Higdon, now retired, is co-founder of Sullivan, Higdon & Sink, now Signal Theory. Dave Franson, joined Learjet as director of public affairs from 1997 and served for seven years. Franson is now president of the Wichita Aero Club. Photo credit: Learjet Don't miss a sin...

OTC expands line worker program; average pay for job field nearly $80K Claudette Riley, Springfield News-Leader © Ozarks Technical Community College Ozarks Technical Community College will expand its line worker program to the Richwood Valley campus this fall. It started at the college's Lebanon location. Demand for line workers spurred Ozarks Technical Community College to expand its training. The OTC Board of Trustees finalized a plan Monday to offer the line worker training program at its Richwood Valley campus, which is located between Ozark and Nixa in Christian County...

The decision by the coordinating board is the first time the law has been triggered. Aaron Light, director of the respiratory therapy program at OTC, said expectations have changed. OTC students who graduate with an associate's degree in respiratory therapy were in high demand prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. "They work in acute care settings," Light said. "They are doing patient assessments, nebulizer treatments, running mechanical ventilators, drawing arterial blood gases in anybody from a newborn up to a geriatric patient." The American Association of Respiratory Care, which accredits pr...

Courtesy Wichita has turned out tens of thousands of planes over the years, but nothing the Air Capital of the World produced could match the aura of the Learjet. "There's no denying that there's simply never been any business jet before, or since, that has had quite the cool status of a Learjet," said aviation historian Richard Harris. The Learjet helped create the market for corporate jets, making it affordable for business executives to use a private plane. Credit Courtesy Beginning in the mid-1960s, the Learjet became the coveted status symbol of the rich and famous. It became synonymou...