An offbeat Thanksgiving parade in Southwest Missouri is adding glitz and glamor this year. For its 14th annual Lighting of ...

After finishing one game below .500 last year, the New Heights girls basketball team looks to rely on a strong base of ...

A crowd braved freezing temperatures to watch the fourth annual Sparkle in the Park lighting ceremony in Carthage’s Central ...

Ron Richard was inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians in Jefferson City on Monday. A bust of the late Joplin lawmaker ...

TOPEKA — The director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation proposed construction of a $114.4 million headquarters to replace administrative buildings that subjected employees to fire-safety dangers ...

A Joplin man was sentenced Tuesday to 74 days in jail and was fined $500 in the deaths of eight puppies left in a closed plastic tote outside the Joplin Humane Society. Seth Vaile, 30, 2108 Harlem Ave ...

A Kansas City man with a long record of prison sentences for drug trafficking has been charged with four counts of assault against Joplin police officers on Sunday during a ...

A tax abatement and redevelopment plan for a historic building that was originally a livery stable in downtown Joplin’s early ...

Every public pension program in Missouri should adopt policies against making political contributions from retirement funds, State Treasurer Vivek Malek wrote in a letter sent Monday to system ...

A Joplin man was shot and killed Sunday night by a Jasper County deputy dispatched to quell a disturbance, according to the Jasper County Sheriff's Department.

Missouri Southern State University pole vaulter Emily Presley set a new level of excellence in women’s track and field with ...

In October 2022, Carthage resident Magdalena Vasquez and her family were jolted when a fire in their home at 800 Clinton St.