Sue Elinore (Fingerle) Taunton, age 77, Joplin, passed away Friday, April 20, 2018.

Dick Perkins, age 67, of Joplin, Missouri passed away Friday, April 20, 2018 following a recent cancer diagnosis.

Virginia M. “Bowen” Ball, 87, passed away April 20, 2018 at the home of her daughter, Vicci West, in Oronogo, MO, where she was under hospice care for coronary heart disease, diabetes and COPD.

Betty Louise Budd, formerly of Jasper, was born January 22, 1932 to Thomas Jefferson Brown and Edna Zelia Currier, in Carl Junction, MO.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Carthage man was sentenced in federal court on Wednesday, April 18, for his role in a conspiracy to distribute more than $1 million worth of methamphetamine in southern Missouri and in the Kansas City, Mo., area.Jarub Ray Baird, 27, of Carthage, was sentenced by U.S. Chief District Judge Greg Kays to 11 years and 10 months in federal prison without parole.On […]

Artie Monroe, 64, Carthage, passed away Friday, April 13, 2018 at Mercy Hospital, Springfield, MO after a short illness.

Willa F. McNary passed away on April 11, 2018. She was born on Oct. 5, 1940.