Officials with the Community Blood Center of the Ozarks issued an emergency appeal Tuesday for blood donations. This is the center’s first code red alert since May 2011, when Joplin was struck by an EF-5 tornado.
Bequests create three new funds for Carthage Foundation
Mason happy as former Guinness Record holder
County approved for park service grant
City reinstates library's full-time hours
Carthage families end 2013 with baby girl
Y prepares for Battle of the Bulge
Jasper County judges mete out prison terms to two sex offenders
Joplin City Council may take up finance committee appointments
Judge: Man accused in firebomb plot fit to stand trail
A federal judge decided Monday that Gregory A. Weiler II is now competent to stand trial on a charge stemming from an alleged plot to firebomb dozens of churches in Oklahoma. U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Cleary ruled at a hearing in federal court in Tulsa that Weiler, 25, of Elk Grove Village, Ill., has been restored to competency based on a report made to the court by doctors who evaluated and treated the defendant in recent months at a U.S. Bureau of Prisons operation in Butner, N.C.