Webb City News

NEOSHO, Mo. - Sprinkled throughout the rural Neosho home of Jack and Sallie Divine are several pieces of hand-made furniture.

Fireworks were being blamed for a blaze late Tuesday afternoon that ultimately ignited some bales of paper and damaged the exterior wall of a recycling business in Webb City.

Damien Tiregol loves his job. That's a good thing, because his is the sort of job you have to love or it would wear you out.

WEBB CITY, Mo. - Elaine Frack envisions a downtown filled with bookstores, coffee shops and comfortable places to meet friends to talk.

LUBBOCK, Texas - Jury selection is under way in the capital murder trial of a former rural Pineville man accused of killing a pregnant woman, her husband and young son in 2005 in the Texas Panhandle.

A Jasper County judge granted a continuance of a preliminary hearing Thursday in connection with a stabbing two years ago in Webb City to give the county prosecutor's office the chance to present additional evidence.

The self-proclaimed most powerful man in the state of Missouri, Speaker of the House Ron Richard, R-Joplin, continued to pile up the lobbyists' gifts during the final month of the 2009 legislative session.

A former Webb City, Missouri pastor pleads guilty to felony child molestation charges.

JANE, Mo. - McDonald County Public Water Supply District No. 1 has secured funding for a $7.8 million sewer system expansion to serve Jane and the immediate area.

Roy Huling, 60, who was pastor of First United Pentecostal Church in Webb City, on Friday pleaded guilty to felony child molestation in Jasper County Circuit Court.

KidsFirst, a new non-secular organization based on a national model formed as a ministry of the First Presbyterian Church of Webb City, is looking for additional volunteers.

A Webb City, Missouri teen pleads guilty to stabbing a girl while walking her home from a party.

The housing market may be on the slide, but that isn't stopping some 4-Staters from checking out the latest in home design.

Seeking any relatives regarding a very old adoption that took place in Jasper Co, MO some time between 1923 and 1925.

In its relatively brief existence, the Neighborhood Life House has had a noticeable impact.

Globe/ T. Rob Brown Blair Melia and Bayleigh Carrierperform part of a dance in Russell Ball's music class Friday at Webster Primary School in Webb City.

An Anderson woman was injured in a two-vehicle accident at 3:34 p.m. Thursday on Highway 66, near Duquesne in Jasper County, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

Two vehicle stops and a pedestrian check by Joplin police on Thursday led to felony drug arrests of three adults and the detention of a juvenile on a drug charge.

An Anderson woman was taken to the hospital this afternoon after a crash in Jasper County.

WEBB CITY, Mo. - The Webb City R-7 School Board on Tuesday night approved a 2009-10 budget that, at $38 million, is about half a million more than the spending plan for the current year.