Miami News

Saline County residents will have plenty of opportunities to celebrate America's birthday this summer.

A large tree limb reclines on a sagging power line in the 400 block of East North Street in Marshall Wednesday evening, June 17, after a fierce storm roared through the area.

An Oklahoma man has been charged with felony tampering in connection with a stolen car that was recovered by Joplin police.

Kansas City Star, MO Missouri has agreed to two-year home and away agreements to play Indiana and Miami in football.

A man was killed in a dirt bike wreck overnight. Police were called to the wreck near South 55th and Miami streets about 11:15 p.m. Thursday.

Ragtime jazz scholars consider J.W. "Blind" Boone a historical footnote. Devotees in the town he called home as an adult say the composer and pianist was a musical treasure ripe for preservation.

A Miami, Mo., man was injured Sunday during a crash in Saline County, according to a report from the Missouri Highway Patrol.

New girders are being put into place on the bridge. The supporting piers on which the girders are being placed were left standing from the old bridge.

A Miami man arrested Friday, March 27, for allegedly driving a truck across a number of rural lawns and fields was charged Thursday, April 2, in Saline County Circuit Court with seven counts of class B misdemeanor second-degree property, according to unofficial online court records.

Editor's note: Our policy is to withhold the names of people allegedly involved in crimes until formal charges have been filed.

They say the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. That's good logic especially if you're driving in your car.

Several citizens helped law enforcement officers locate arrest two people who apparently left the scene of a two-vehicle accident near Malta Bend Thursday, March 12, according to a report from the Saline County ...

The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission has approved a $14.8 million dollar contract to OCCI Inc.

Defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson of St. Louis is headed to Missouri after all.

This morning there was a meeting held with utility company representatives & the President of Signs-Up Ltd.

Charred fields and the remains of a building destroyed in a fire Jan. 8 can be seen on the Narron farm near Miami.

John Guthrey Sr. purchased land in Saline County in 1867. He built a house in Miami that still stands.

The Kile farm, which consists of 320 acres of river bottom and bluff ground near Miami, is one of the oldest farms still owned by the same family in Saline County.

Missouri State High Patrol troopers investigate a traffic crash on North English Avenue in Marshall Wednesday afternoon, Jan.

Erica Rennison helps sort toys donated to the Saline County Holiday Project, an annual event intended to make sure every child in the county gets presents for Christmas.