Home Instead Senior Care is offering a chance to play Santa this year to homebound seniors who might be overlooked during the ...

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

The New Heights Christian Academy boys basketball team rolled through its Class 2 District 12 tourney last season before ...

The Thanksgiving games aren't the best this year as the day starts with the lowly Chicago Bears (4-7) playing at the home of the NFL's best team, the Detroit Lions (10-1). I'm saying that the Lions ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hand-painted holiday scenes with recognizable Joplin features will be lit Tuesday night at Joplin City Hall. The winter scenes are painted to resemble stained glass art by Neosho artist Sandra ...

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 ...

Dan Rife’s lawsuit to stop the Carthage City Council from removing him from his position as mayor will move to an evidentiary hearing sometime in the next ...

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 ...