SPRINGFIELD, MO. — Matthew Billy Romesburg was sentenced on April 6, 2026, by Greene County Judge Jerry Harmison to 18 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections following his guilty plea to five felony charges arising from a violent confrontation on December 30, 2023, along Interstate 44 near the West Bypass in Springfield. The court denied probation. All sentences were ordered to run concurrently. There was no plea agreement in the case. This incident began when Romes

SPRINGFIELD, MO. — On April 6, 2026, Nikolai Martin Janes, 20, of Springfield, was sentenced to five years in the Missouri Department of Corrections after pleading guilty to Involuntary Manslaughter in the First Degree in connection with the July 1, 2023, shooting death of 19-year-old Keontae Tureaud. Greene County Circuit Judge Jerry Harmison presided over the case and denied probation, ordering Janes to serve his sentence in prison. On the evening of July 1, 2023, Springfi

Larry Robertson Booking Photo SPRINGFIELD, MO. — Larry Thomas Robertson, 40, of Springfield, was found guilty of five felony counts of child sex crimes on March 25, 2026, in Greene County Circuit Court following a jury trial that began March 23, 2026. The jury deliberated for just under two hours before returning its verdict. Robertson was convicted of two counts of Statutory Sodomy in the First Degree, two counts of Child Molestation in the First Degree, and one count of Ra

SPRINGFIELD, MO. — Thomas David Norton, 33, of Springfield, was found guilty by a jury today of domestic assault in the first degree, tampering with a witness, and tampering with a victim — following a two-day trial in Greene County Circuit Court. The jury deliberated for approximately an hour and twenty minutes. The case was presided over by Judge Todd Myers, who scheduled sentencing for May 7, 2026. On September 27, 2025, Springfield Police were dispatched to a domestic di