The Community Clinic of Southwest Missouri in Joplin is working to limit the regional prevalence of lung disease, which studies suggest affects residents in the Four-State Area at a higher rate than the national average.

Missouri Southern State University’s head football coach Jeff Sims said this week that the death of Braeden Bradforth when they were both at Garden City Community College had nothing to do with the conditioning drills run the night Bradforth died.

Jarred Bruner considered he and Vincent Kimmel to be “pretty close friends.”

A Joplin woman was fined $600 in Joplin Municipal Court and placed on probation on charges related to a June 19 attack by her dog on a former circus pony that had to be euthanized because of the seriousness of…

A 10-year-old Joplin girl struggled Thursday to control her emotions and find the words to express at a preliminary hearing in Jasper County Circuit Court what 29-year-old Kristopher Cole is charged with doing to her on multiple occasions over the…

Joplin’s annual Emancipation Park Days, which celebrates African American freedom and achievement, will take place Friday through Sunday in Ewert Park.

The school year is nearly upon us, initiating the season of late alarms, rushed mornings and school drop-off lines.

Dear Dave: My husband and I have been married five years and we’ve decided we want to have children. We’ve both been working full time since our wedding, and we were wondering if we should adjust our emergency fund and…

NOEL, Mo. — DNA has been collected and dental X-rays are being taken in an effort to identify a woman’s body discovered on a hillside northeast of Noel.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A spokesman for Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is leaving the governor’s office to lead Parson’s expected re-election campaign.