Apple CEO Tim Cook is still trying to convince shareholders that the iPhone maker remains a step ahead in the race to innovate, even though recent performance of the company’s stock lags behind other technology trendsetters.

The Obama administration expressed growing concern Friday over Russian intentions in Ukraine, with Secretary of State John Kerry delivering a blunt warning to Moscow against military moves in the country’s southern Crimea region that could further inflame tensions.

The Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange in Tokyo filed for bankruptcy protection Friday and its chief executive said 850,000 bitcoins, worth several hundred million dollars, are unaccounted for.

A Carthage man will face trial this summer on charges of second degree murder in the April 2012 death of Mario Gonzalez, 43, in a camp on the Spring River just north of High Street and east of Francis Street.

Off to war, maybe?

The defendant in a criminal case involving the kidnapping and murder of a Golden City girl is asking that a judge either bring in a jury from another county or move the trial out of Barton County.

The biggest fundraiser of the year for the Carthage High School vocal music department filled the Carthage R-9 Auditorium Saturday.

The Home Builders Association of Southwest Missouri is putting on its 28th annual Home Show this weekend, and some exhibitors will be trying something new. For the first time, the Home Show has scheduled workshops and demonstrations to help those who want to tackle do-it-yourself projects.

A judge found probable cause Thursday for a Nevada, Mo., woman to stand trial on charges that she promised to give two Joplin men a car if they helped her snatch her 1-year-old daughter from the custody of the girl’s father at gunpoint. The Jasper County prosecutor’s office filed five new felony counts against Elise D. Deboutez, 27, at a preliminary hearing in Jasper County Circuit Court in Joplin.