Another iconic Route 66 neon sign to be preserved in Springfield

The City of Springfield's Convention and Visitors Bureau announced has announced that the city is the new owner of the iconic Route 66 Sonrise Doughnut sign.

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Prosecutors expected to give details on shooting of baby

This combination of Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018 booking photos providing by McKinley County Adult Detention Center shows Shayanne Nelson, left, and Tyrell Bitsilly, right. Nelson's 8-month-old girl is fighting for her life after police say her 3-year-old brother accidentally shot her in the face Saturday in a Gallup, N.M., motel room while Nelson and her boyfriend Bitsilly were in a shower.

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Billboard discussion raises content concerns

A discussion about billboards prompted statements of concerns what content should be on them during the Tucumcari Lodgers' Tax Board meeting Wednesday. During a teleconference with Dezaree Vega-Garcia of the city-hired Griffin & Associates marketing firm of Albuquerque, board members talked about new designs of what soon will be displayed on four billboards along Interstate 40 - the dinosaur museum, disc golf course, recreation on nearby lakes and the longstanding Tucumcari Tonite slogan.

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Spook Light legend was debunked more than 70 years ago

For decades, locals of the tri-state area of Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas have talked about the so-called "Spook Light" phenomenon that occurs on a country road near the hamlet of Hornet, Missouri. It's been described as a flickering ball of light that would appear in the early evening, then would disappear if you attempted to walk or drive toward it.

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Texas Historical Commission now considers Washburn a Route 66 town

The Texas Historical Commission recently completed a survey of Route 66 in the Lone Star State, including an interactive Google Map that shows even obscure alignments, hundreds of photos of historic sites and an apparent ruling that Washburn once was a town on the Mother Road. Results of the survey of Texas' 178 miles of Route 66, funded in part by the Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program, recently was finished and uploaded online here .

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Dark Days

I recently found myself leaning on a rail that separated me from the mighty Hudson River. It was dusk, the end of a cold, cloudy day.

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Kim Phillips: Retirement next in Chuck Carpenter story

Denton Convention & Visitors Bureau staff wish Denton Chamber of Commerce President Chuck Carpenter a happy retirement during the official send-off event Monday at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Denton Convention Center. Attending were, from left, Conrad Allen, Dana Lodge, Dave White, Erin Wilson, Kim Phillips, Wendy Haun, Carpenter, Christine Gossett, Val Dacus and Veronica Maldonado.

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Man held after baby shot was charged in other case with kids

The Zia Motel in Gallup sits on Historic Route 66. The medical condition of an 8-month-old girl who police say was shot in the face at the motel remains a mystery. The girl's mother, Shayanne Nelson, says her 3-year-old son found a gun and accidentally shot the infant while Nelson and her boyfriend were in the shower.

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Mini Golf Course Lets Mother Road Market Guests Explore Route 66 Icons

At the Mother Road Market in Tulsa, you can hit the highlights of Route 66 and your car never leaves the parking lot. It's Route 66 themed miniature golf and the creator of the course is Nick Bayer of Creatco Studios in Oklahoma City.

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Springfield wins auction for historic Route 66 neon sign

The city of Springfield is the winning bidder for a historic neon sign that's one of the city's remaining Route 66 landmarks. The State Journal-Register reports an online auction was held for the Sonrise Donuts sign, which went up along Route 66 in 1949.

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Michael Cohen - His Inner Life

Colson found redemption. In the darkness he turned toward evangelical Christianity, eventually becoming a selfless - and brandname - minister.

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Bail reduced for mother of New Mexico infant shot in face

In this May 29, 2007, file photo, vehicles drive past in Zia Motel on Historic Route 66 in Gallup, N.M. The medical condition of an 8-month-old girl who police say was shot in the face at the motel remains a mystery. The girl's mother Shayanne Nelson, says her 3-year-old son found a gun and accidentally shot the infant while Nelson and her boyfriend were in the shower.

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Sonrise Donuts neon sign in Springfield being auctioned

The nearly 70-year-old Sonrise Donuts neon sign along Route 66 in Springfield, Illinois, will be auctioned by tonight after the building's non-doughnuts tenant said he no longer wanted it there. The online auctions - separately for both halves of the rooftop sign - will end today at 7 p.m. Central.

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Route 66 Rising sculpture in Tulsa is finished

Construction on the massive Route 66 Rising sculpture at the traffic circle at Mingo Road and Admiral Place in Tulsa came to completion last week. The $650,000 sculpture, paid for with Vision 2025 sales-tax money, is about 70 feet long and 30 feet tall.

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Review of 66 on 66

The creation of the Interstate Highway System under the administration of President Dwight Eisenhower opened a faster, more convenient passage across America, but, with its four-lane "freeways," it also marked the death of its rural and small town communities. Master photographer Terrence Moore's documenting of Route 66, established in 1926 as one of the original roads connecting the East and West coasts, began in the 1970s.

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By Accident of Fate: The Fires in Paradise

I breathe dead people . The words ran unfettered across the chalkboard of my mind as I drove the curves of Oregon Route 66 back down into Ashland.

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Energy Hearings This Week December 2018

S.2395, to amend title 54, United States Code, to authorize the provision of technical assistance under the Preserve America Program and to direct the Secretary of the Interior to enter into partnerships with communities adjacent to units of the National Park System to leverage local cultural heritage tourism assets, S.3439 and H.R.5532, bills to redesignate the Reconstruction Era National Monument as the Reconstruction Era National Historical Park, S.3468, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the Nashua, Squannacook, and Nissitissit Rivers as components of the Wild and Scenic Rivers System, S.3505, to provide for partnerships among State and local governments, regional entities, and the private sector to preserve, conserve, and enhance the visitor experience at nationally significant battlefields of the American Revolution, War of 1812, and Civil War, S.3533, ... (more)

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Albuquerque sues company over bad ART buses

Albuquerque announced Friday it was suing the BYD company over its faulty electrical buses made for the city's troubled Albuquerque Rapid Transit line. Keller said the city reached out to BYD in an attempt to settle the conflict through mediation, but the mayor said BYD "didn't even call us back."

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Police: Baby girl shot by brother, 3, in critical condition

An 8-month-old girl is fighting for her life after police say her 3-year-old brother accidentally shot her in the face in a New Mexico motel room while their mother and her boyfriend were in a shower. The infant girl is listed in critical condition and her condition has not changed since she was found by police after she was shot Saturday in Gallup, New Mexico, Gallup Police Capt.

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'A safe haven': 'Green Book' movie, preservation efforts fuel...

Rev. Allen Threatt III and his cousin Edward Threatt stand outside the historic Threatt Filling Station on U.S. 66 at Pottawatomie Road in Luther. The early gas station on Route 66 was a safe haven for black travelers and locals.

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A Struggling Desert Town Bets Its Future on Pot

Jeff Williams, the incoming mayor of this small desert city near the Arizona border, arrested a lot of people for selling marijuana in his days as a county sheriff. He voted against legalizing the stuff in a 2016 statewide referendum.

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2019 Nissan Kicks: It's at home on urban roads, including Route 66

St. Louis's legendary no-tell motel -- is long gone from the shoulder of "America's Highway." But you still can get your Kicks on Route 66, simply by driving Nissan's newest crossover down Watson Road.

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Give a traveler a gift of trip planning and a more comfortable journey to the destination

Just like Santa, I've got a list of naughty and nice people on my holiday gift list. The naughty people get a nice-looking gift card for some lousy coffee.

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Small town Missouri newspaper, the Uranus Examiner ends publication, blaming judgmental people

The Uranus Examiner, a small Missouri newspaper whose name inspired chuckles and groans when it launched a few months ago, is closing. In statements posted on Facebook, Managing Editor Natalie Sanders and Louie Keen, the paper's owner and publisher, blamed a judgmental "Fuddy Duddy Squad" for the Examiner's demise.

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VIDEO: Tornado damages Country Classic Cars near Staunton

A tornado severely damaged several buildings and cars Saturday at Country Classic Cars along old Route 66 near Staunton, Illinois. It was the second disaster to befall the classic-car lot in less than 18 months.

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A year after rebuilding from a fire, Country Classic Cars hit by tornado

The change in air pressure from the tornado sucked in the garage doors in this building at Country Classic Cars. Photos by Anita Noel.

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US Senate bill would designate Route 66 as historic trail

Missouri and Kansas supporters are optimistic that the iconic Route 66 is on the road to becoming part of a National Historic Trail. U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Jim Inhofe announced this week that a bipartisan bill would include Route 66 in the National Trails System Act, which would allow the National Park Service to award federal grants for preservation, development and promotion along the route from Chicago to Los Angeles, the Joplin Globe reported.

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The United Pacific/Street Rodder Sherm's Plating Road Tour Part 4

On Wednesday morning it was time for the Sherm's Plating Tour to move on from Pomona. We started our day with a morning drivers' meeting in front of the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsport Museum right next to our hotel.

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Grants brewery hopes proposed Route 66 legislation will help legal battle

A new proposal moving through Congress would help preserve Route 66 as a cultural landmark, and it could help one New Mexico business in a legal battle. After being sued by a European company that has a trademark on the Route 66 name, Henry Lackey, the owner of Route 66 Junkyard Brewery in Grants, has hope the proposed legislation could help his fight.

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Denny's windmill in Arcadia is spinning again

The blades of a windmill atop a Denny's restaurant along Route 66 in Arcadia, California, were spinning again this weekend. The last-of-its-kind windmill at the Arcadia Denny's, originally a Van de Kamp's coffee shop, is back and turning one again.

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Tulsa Shop Hopes To Welcome 'Space Cowboy Muffler Man'

A business located on Route 66 in Tulsa hopes to install a huge piece of art related to the road's rich history. Buck Atom's Cosmic Curios says it plans to install a 20-foot tall Space Cowboy Muffler Man outside the shop.

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Man finds good and bad on walk across America James Smith set out in...

York County man found the good - and the bad - in people on his walk across America James Smith set out in July to walk across America seeking the good people. Check out this story on ydr.com: https://ift.tt/2SlqHPa James Smith arrives at the Santa Monica pier October 26 after walking from in York starting on July 9, 2018 in search of good people.

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Fire heavily damaged this residence in Dickson, Oklahoma, on November 26, 2018.

The residence on Dickson Road caught fire around 9 p.m. Investigators said the cause of the blaze has not been determined. Former Catholic priest Manuel La Rosa-Lopez is accused by two people of fondling them two decades ago when they were teenagers.

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