Carthage News

CARTHAGE, Mo. - Delpha Speak got what could have been the most expensive phone call of her life on Thursday morning.

CARTHAGE, Mo. - David Butler, a longtime officer with the Carthage Humane Society, has been fired as manager of the group's animal shelter.

Jasper County Coroner Jerry Neil confirmed this morning that one person is dead in a chain-reaction accident on Interstate 44.

Unofficial reports indicate that three have died as a result of a crash on U.S. Interstate 44.

CARTHAGE, Mo. - Night sounds are lovely, now that the cicadas - I used to call them jar flies - have ceased their relentless mating calls.

CARTHAGE, Mo. - Carthage residents soon will be asked once again to weigh in on odor problems from the city's industrial bottoms.

Hanes Geo Components, a supplier of environmental-construction products, plans to open a distribution center in Butner.

Three men are facing drug-trafficking charges in the wake of what the McDonald County Sheriff's Department believes is the largest seizure ever of processed marijuana - about 300 pounds - in the county.

CARTHAGE, Mo. - After collecting more than $6,700 from Guy Sesler's account during the last two years that he was a county ward, Rita Hunter, Jasper County public administrator, says Sesler owes her an ...

A Columbia man faces federal child pornography charges stemming from an arrest in May after he allegedly drove to a Carthage hotel to meet someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl for sex.

Oh, those zany Florida voters. You remember, those were the folks with the butterfly ballots and hanging and pregnant chads who sent the Bush-Gore contest to the Supreme Court in 2000.

CARTHAGE, Mo. - Three years later, Jasper County is back to square one in looking at the need for a new juvenile-detention center.

Marge Housh of Carthage has been named the 42nd Annual Maple Leaf Parade Grand Marshal, according to the Carthage Chamber of Commerce and the Maple Leaf Festival planning committee.

A bionic woman, a cat with a keen sense of direction, and an atom-smasher that couldn't be bothered to bring about doomsday -- it must be time for another good news roundup! Today's Good Stuff: Quote of the Day ...

From the metro desk, here are a few of the headlines you will find in Thursday's Joplin Globe and online at joplinglobe.com. Tar Creek conference to explore impact of CAFOs on streams, Grand Lake Joplin council ...

Three women suspected of running a merchandise-return fraud at Wal-Mart stores in three states have been charged with receiving stolen property.

A Tuesday-morning fire that destroyed a Miami house is being investigated as a suspected case of arson, according to the Miami Fire Department.

Boilers will have to be turned on by Oct. 1, and installation of wood floors must start by Oct.

A former employee of a Carthage nursing home testified Thursday that fellow nurse assistant Dennis A. Rowe laughed after striking a resident in the groin and face, and forcing water into his nasal passages and ...

A Webb City man has been bound over for trial on felony charges stemming from an alleged stabbing of another man in April in Carthage.