Along with the usual fair sights, sounds and smells — livestock, poultry, produce and the like — there will be something a bit unusual at the Cherokee County American Legion Free Fair this year: Decorated brassieres. And pink. Lots of pink.
An $80,000 grant from Westar Energy will fund solar panels to provide both energy and education at the Robert W. Plaster Center, now under construction at Pittsburg State University.
An Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 700 people in West Africa is moving faster than the efforts to control the disease, the head of the World Health Organization warned as presidents from the affected countries met Friday in Guinea’s capital.
Two American tourists charged with “anti-state” crimes in North Korea said Friday they expect to be tried soon and pleaded for help from the U.S. government to secure their release from what they say could be long prison terms.
With the sound of artillery blasts at a distance, dozens of international investigators arrived Friday at the eastern Ukraine site where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashed and began a painstaking search for the remains of as many as 80 victims.
Two candidates are running for the Republican nomination for Jasper County Collector, long-time incumbent Stephen Holt and Joplin businessman David Crocker.
Christa Kimzey and her twin sister Rebecca Lankford both had baby boys, two days apart, in the same room of the Spradling Birthing Center at Mercy Hospital Carthage with Dr. Lydia Keisler, MD.
A planned 72-hour cease-fire between Gaza and Israel lasted less than two hours this morning. Both sides are accusing the other of breaking the truce. Also this morning, an Israeli soldier was captured by Palestinian militants as he and other soldiers were dismantling a tunnel.