Carthage College dance program students are performing “To The Growth Edge” Tuesday-Thursday, Nov. 19-21, in the school’s Wartburg Theatre.

One week after Carthage Ward 5 voters recalled City Council member Tiffany Cossey from office, the Carthage City Council was forced to cancel its regular meeting because of a lack of a quorum. The ...

Jean Wolf, a 74-year-old retired para teacher, spent her Sunday afternoon preparing things for her mother's celebration of ...

President-elect Donald Trump named Stephen Miller his deputy chief of staff and Tom Homan as his “border czar,” appointing a battle-tested duo to design and direct immigration policy from the White ...

Here are the Springfield area high school football top performers for district semifinal week of the 2024 postseason in ...

In the middle of the stress of counting the ballots from a historic election Tuesday, employees of the Jasper County clerk’s ...

Leggett & Platt's Board of Directors declared a dividend of $.05 per share for the fourth quarter 2024. The dividend will be paid on January 15, 2025 to shareholders of record on December 13, 2024.

Voters across the area seemed to be moving quickly through the polling places, especially in Joplin and Carthage, but workers ...

The Wild West was full of notorious figures, but few characters were as fascinating—or as notorious—as Belle Starr, known as the “Bandit Queen.” Born Myra Maybelle Shirley on February 5, 1848, in ...

Rep. Cody Smith, a Carthage Republican who ran unsuccessfully for state treasurer in August, said there are two factors ...

The cabin, built on the frame of an old house trailer, with corrugated tin siding outside and old barn siding inside, is ...