Santa's helpers are in Pineville, Missouri this weekend. Dozens of stocking stuffers are filling the McDonald County 911 call center and giving back to the community.

In a presentation featuring the Jaws of Life carving up a compact car, and teachers stumbling about while wearing goggles that simulated intoxication, McDonald County High School DECA students had a simple message.

By Derek Spellman dspellman@joplinglobe.com PINEVILLE, Mo. - A former clerk in the McDonald County prosecutor's office will stand trial on a felony charge of stealing after allegedly faking cancer and then taking donations for assistance, a judge ruled Wednesday.

PINEVILLE, Mo. - A Noel man was charged Tuesday with voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death last month of another Noel man.

PINEVILLE, Mo. - McDonald County officials say a fatal shooting in Anderson during the weekend was self-defense and the shooter will not be charged in the death.

LUBBOCK, Texas -- Jurors are deciding whether a man from Pineville, Mo., who admitted killing a farming family will be sentenced to die by lethal injection or serve life in prison without parole.

The Pineville motor vehicle and driver license office will close at the end of the business day on Wednesday and reopen when a new license office contract agent has been chosen to replace the retiring agent, according to a news release.

The Lebanon Area Chamber of Commerce Friday announced the 2009 Community Achievement Wall of Honor inductees.

A Pineville man and woman, both in their late 20s, died in a car accident early Friday morning when their all-terrain vehicle ran off a road in extreme southwest Missouri and struck a tree, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol.

A report of a livestock trailer being hauled on U.S. Highway 71 in McDonald County with the leg of a cow sticking through the floor and dragging along the pavement resulted in the arrest of two men and a woman from Arkansas.

A judge on Monday delayed the trial of a Missouri man charged with murdering a pregnant woman, her husband and son at a Texas Panhandle farmhouse in 2005, pending the arrival of DNA test results.

Bi-county traffic wrecks resulted in one fatality and two injuries since Friday.

Levi A. King pleaded guilty to murdering Orlie McCool, 70, and his 47-year-old daughter-in-law, Dawn McCool in Pineville, Mo., back in 2005.

A Pineville teenager died as the result of a one-car crash on Interstate-44 in Lawrence County.

Mo. courthouse clerk accused of faking cancer JEFF LEHR,Joplin GlobePublishable Editors Notes: An AP MEMBER EXCHANGEPINEVILLE, Mo.

Start the player to watch Brenda Montgomery talk about the death of her son, Aaron Gillming, after Ricky Crase pleaded guilty in Newton County Circuit Court to two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of Gillming and John Lackey.

A Springfield man died of injuries suffered in a two-vehicle accident at 12:15 a.m. Friday on Highway 43 at the interchange with Interstate 44, according to Joplin police.

Two people were injured today in a two vehicle crash in McDonald County. Pineville resident Ashley Wellesley, 20, sustained moderate injuries.

Benton County Daily Record, AR By Andra Atteberry Staff Writer ! andraa@nwanews.com PINEVILLE, Mo.

Three Benton County residents died, and a fourth was injured, in a one-car crash in Pineville, Mo., around 9:15 p.m. Sunday, officials reported.