Carthage News Archives

The National Transportation Safety Board announced that the motor coach accident that occurred in Sherman last year was caused by a tire failure, which was not the result of fact that it was retreaded.

The Missouri Office of Administration has announced that it had awarded a contract to Federal Construction, Inc., for construction of the new Missouri Highway Patrol Crime Lab in Jasper County.

By Jeff Lehr jlehr@joplinglobe.com A 27-year-old man received a suspended sentence Monday in Jasper County Circuit Court on an arson conviction for setting his home near Carthage on fire for insurance gain.

Globe/T. Rob Brown Jasper County Deputy James Marler uses a metal-detecting wand Thursday to check David Roland, of Joplin, at the entrance of the Jasper County Courts Building in Joplin.

The Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department says a recent study has found tourism had an economic impact worth $6.1 billion in the state in 2008.

The Missouri Office of Administration has awarded a contract to Federal Construction, Inc., for construction of the new Missouri Highway Patrol Crime Lab in Jasper County.

A Tulsa man pleads guilty to attempting to entice an underage girl for sex. According to the report Robert Graef, 29, drove from Tulsa, Oklahoma to Jasper County, Missouri to have sex with who he thought was a 13-year-old girl.

An Oklahoma man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Springfield to attempting to entice via the Internet someone whom he believed to a be a 13-year-old girl and to crossing state lines to have illicit sex with her.

A Joplin man fails to appear in court on a murder charge, and is now a fugitive from the law.

A man accused of causing severe brain damage to his girlfriend's 15-month-old daughter by slamming her head on a tile floor and pushing her down two flights of stairs was ordered Thursday to stand trial on a felony assault charge.

CARTHAGE, Mo. - Clydesdales, Cobras, crafts, cars - and crowds - will be the order of the day on Saturday for the final day of the 43rd annual Carthage Maple Leaf Festival.

A Sarcoxie man is facing charges that he shot his brother Wednesday morning at a residence in northeast Jasper County.

CARTHAGE, Mo. - Plans are being made to fill the vacancy created by the death of Chad Wampler, Carthage public works director, who died Sept.

The Missouri insurance department says its mediation efforts have helped return almost $11 million to consumers who filed complaints about insurers.

For the past six and a half years, Brian Bisbee's work area has been any place he happened to be inside the former Carthage Crisis Center.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol has announced that a DNA "match" made from a DNA sample analyzed at the Patrol's Springfield Crime Laboratory has resulted in the first criminal charge being filed as a result of Missouri's recently expanded DNA law.

Bob Sheldon Jr. used to go frogging with his father when he was little. He remembers watching his father wade through the water, waist-deep, while he followed after, barely keeping his chin above water.

Globe/T. Rob Brown A flooding Spring River telegraphs the reason for the sign Friday afternoon at the entrance to Kellogg Lake Park in Carthage.

Minor to moderate flooding is forecast for rivers around the region this weekend in the wake of a slow-moving storm system that dumped more than 5 inches of rain on parts of the area Thursday.

There will be Civil War-era music, a mock trial and even a funeral procession on Saturday in a celebration at the Cave Spring school and cemetery northeast of Sarcoxie.

Globe/Roger Nomer Carson Trent, 12, and Tyler Talley 12 , from Central City Christian Church, scrape a bannister as part of the Hearts and Hammers project on Saturday.

Thanks to the work of the Eastern Jasper County Historic Sites Association, a piece of Civil War history is being preserved and a Civil War monument being dedicated today near Sarcoxie.

By Susan Redden sredden@joplinglobe.com CARTHAGE, Mo. - A volunteer committee on Wednesday accepted the draft version of a plan aimed at improving water quality in Spring River.