Urban areas regularly add stop signs and other obstacles to state highways until the state goes to the trouble of building highway bypasses.

A dump truck driver was found dead Thursday afternoon after his truck veered off a rural, southwest Missouri highway and came to rest in a pond.The crash that killed Ronnie Kimbrough, 67, of Stella was discovered several hours after it happened on Missouri O near Stark City, according to a preliminary report from the Missouri State Highway ...

Joplin Globe The Missouri Department of Transportation is reporting water over the road - near intersection with Route O on Route 86 in Newton County.

Joplin Globe The Missouri Department of Transportation is reporting water over the road - near intersection with Route O on Route 86 in Newton County.

A Stark City man was injured Monday when he lost control of his tractor-trailer on wet pavement and slid off the road, according to Missouri State Highway Patrol reports.

A Stark City man suffered minor injuries early Monday, May 25, when the tractor-trailer rig he was in overturned, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol report.