President Barack Obama will seek to keep 9,800 U.S. troops in Afghanistan after the war formally ends later this year and then will withdraw most of those forces by the end of 2016, senior administration officials said Tuesday.

Close to three months after the Malaysian jetliner disappeared, the government on Tuesday released reams of raw satellite data it used to determine that the flight ended in the southern Indian Ocean, a step long demanded by the families of some of the passengers on board.

A principal in Arkansas has been named as one of the best – and her roots are in Carthage.

The last day of school will be the end of Jeanne Sneddon’s teaching career in Carthage.

Carthage artist Larry Glaze hosted a previewing event at his home on May 13 for his latest work that will benefit the Breast Cancer Foundation of the Ozarks.

An upcoming Color Dash will help the Carthage High School pay for fitness equipment.

It had been two months since the staged murder of faculty member Susan Lowery at Carthage High School.

Over the weekend, the White House accidentally leaked the name of the CIA’s “chief of station” in Afghanistan. A press release containing the names of people who would be at a military briefing with President Barack Obama during his visit to Afghanistan listed the name of the CIA official. One journalist caught the mistake and contacted the White House, which sent out a new release without that official’s name, but the information was already sent out to about 6,000 […]

A proposal for a health center based at Joplin High School has resurfaced. The Board of Education tonight will consider a proposal between the school district and a collaboration of Access Family Care, Freeman Health System, Ozark Center and Preferred Family Healthcare Inc. to maintain a health center at the new high school to provide a variety of health services to students on site.

Thanks to a last-minute change of venue prompted by uncooperative weather, the annual Memorial Day program in Pittsburg went on. The service on Monday was moved indoors from the Veterans Memorial Amphitheater to the training center for the Kansas Army National Guard after a torrential rainstorm nearly caused the event to be canceled.