The Carthage Civil War Museum lost a teacher and long-time volunteer, and the community lost a historian and advocate with the sudden death Monday of Paul Kash.
An investigation into a burglary on Sept. 18 of a locked storage shed in the 500 block of Walnut Street led to the arrest on Thursday of two Joplin men on charges of second degree burglary and resisting arrest.
According to the The World Wide Fund for Nature’s Living Planet Index, the world’s animal population has declined 52 percent in the past 40 years. The dramatic drop is attributed to humans killing animals for food and taking over or otherwise destroying their habitats.
A 20-year-old Joplin mother pleaded guilty Monday to a felony child abuse charge for spanking her 18-month child so hard that she left hand prints on the toddler.
A caller on a Department of Homeland Security tip line Sunday claimed that a bomb had been placed at an Empire District Electric Co. substation in Joplin.
A Lanagan man was killed when he was struck by a pickup truck at 7:15 a.m. Monday on Missouri Highway 76, three miles west of Anderson in McDonald County, according to the Missouri State Highway Patro