Joplin's girls basketball team kicked off its 2025-26 campaign Tuesday with a mix of veterans and underclassmen as the Eagles ...

It's not what you know, it's who you know — even if you may have committed terrible crimes. That's the Jeffrey Epstein version of the famous line about success.

I won’t tell you right now that the Kansas City Chiefs cannot make the playoffs. If I did, it would go against everything I ...

A Neosho man was sentenced Monday in Newton County Circuit Court to serve consecutive sentences totaling 25 years in prison for what the Newton County Prosecutor described ...

The United Way of Southwest Missouri and Southeast Kansas said Monday it is working to restore nonprofit tax-exempt status and is awaiting an IRS decision that would restore that status.

A committee of citizens, engineers and city officials is working to address a problem with several Carthage bridges, include ...

The recently restored historic house at 405 S. Moffet Ave. in Joplin’s Murphysburg Historic District will once again host an afternoon tea on Saturday, Dec. 20, mimicking a social event ...

The board of governors at Missouri Southern State University approved new academic degree and certificate programs during its regular meeting Friday.

MU Extension is partnering with the Show Me Youth Ag Academy, Missouri State University and Acrisure-Gibson Insurance to hold a Feeder Cattle Grading, Feeding and Marketing Workshop at 6 p.m. Dec. 9, ...

The communitywide pickup will be Dec. 13, and food will be distributed Dec. 20.