Neosho News

NEOSHO, Mo. -- Three Joplin area lawmakers on Friday outlined plans to seek leadership posts in coming legislative session.

McDonald County police are investigating what they call a brutal murder. The McDonald county sheriff, Rob Evenson, tells KSPR news that 26 year old Caleb Sadler of Del Rio, Texas is charged with first degree murder.

Freddie Wooten stands in front of the storm shelter he built at his own expense in Henager, Ala., following a tornado in 2011, a year in which 358 people were killed in tornadoes in the South.

Wendy Newton has never liked severe weather. She has, somewhere in the recesses of her mind, a memory of a tornado swirling toward her house when she was little, and her father yelling at her and the rest of her family.

A home west of Neosho was heavily damaged by fire last night. Neosho Fire Chief Mike Eads tells News Talk KZRG they were called to 9964 Norway Road just after 8:30pm. "The front of the residence was fully involved.