Steve Pokin

OPINION| An angry group of about 200 mostly young people marched from the downtown square to the federal courthouse in Springfield on Thursday evening to protest the shooting death Wednesday, Jan. 7, of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. Ra... See more

Prosecutors have charged an 18-year-old with sexual abuse for allegedly attacking a woman who was doing her laundry late at night in the laundry room of a Springfield apartment complex. Nathaniel Bradley is being held in the Greene County Jail without bon... See more

Paul Reichert, 81, of Springfield, called me last month after watching the 2025 movie “Nuremberg.” He wanted me to know that Springfield lawyer Robert Dickerson Durst, who died in 1988, also had represented a Nazi accused of war crimes. Reichert, a retire... See more

I never knew so many readers were interested in the Burger King in Ozark that still hasn’t been rebuilt. Then again, I’m often stunned by which stories readers flock to and which ones they basically ignore. My Answer Man column on the Ozark Burger King ra... See more

Steve! What’s being constructed on the north side of West Chestnut Expressway — right before (heading west) it intersects with West College Street (U.S. Route 66)? — your newsroom colleague, Jack McGee, of Springfield Nothing is going to be built there, J... See more