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An Oronogo man choked his wife and threatened to kill her and their children, according to a probable cause statement filed today in Jasper County Cir…
(From the Jasper County Prosecuting Attorney's Office) The Jasper County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office announces that Joseph Hood entered his plea of…
The Jasper County Prosecuting Attorney's office charged a Carthage man with two counts of domestic assault and a single count of kidnapping after alle…
Walter Adam Justus (DOB 1964) waived his preliminary hearing today in Dade County Circuit Court was bound over for trial on sexual abuse and child mol…
A Joplin man who was sentenced to 10 months in prison in 2025 after violating the terms of his supervised release, may be heading back to prison only…
The Lawrence County Prosecuting Attorney's office charged a Springfield woman with prostitution today. The initial appearance for Amanda Kay Benson (D…
(From the Pittsburg Police Department) On Monday, June 8, 2026, at approximately 8:42 a.m., Pittsburg Police Department Dispatch received a phone call…
A change of plea hearing has been scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 17, for Quincy E. Richards, 38, Joplin, who was indicted earlier this year in U…
A Joplin man with four DWI convictions has been charged in Newton County Circuit Court with driving while intoxicated following an April 20 traffic st…
(From the U. S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri) A Joplin, Mo. man was charged in federal court for being a felon in possession of a fir…
(From Dade County Sheriff Ryan Robison) On June 3, 2026, deputies with the Dade County Sheriff's Office arrested Billy Lewis of Everton, Missouri, for…
(From the McDonald County Sheriff's Office) On May 23, 2026, the McDonald County Sheriff's Office, in cooperation with the Anderson Police Department,…
The City of Joplin's failure to repair a dangerous condition at the railroad crossing on Maiden Lane caused a Joplin woman to suffer a serious injury…
(From the Jasper County Sheriff's Office) On 6-3-2026, at approximately 5:30 PM., Jasper County Deputies responded to a call of a disturbance with sho…
The Jasper County Prosecuting Attorney's office has filed sexual abuse and sexual contact with a student charges involving a third Carthage High Schoo…
The Jasper County Prosecuting Attorney filed three felony charges following a Carthage Police Department investigation into an armed robbery at Pete's…
A Carl Junction man was killed in a two-vehicle accident 11:25 a.m. today on I-44 six miles west of Mount Vernon. According to the Highway Patrol repo…
All of the buses in four school districts out of 20 in Jasper, Newton, McDonald, Barton and Dade counties passed their Highway Patrol inspections, acc…
A Joplin man faces four felony charges after allegedly driving drunk and plowing into another car and injuring three people Monday at 10th and Maiden…
Trey Matthew Bowman (DOB 1998), Carthage will be arraigned 8:30 a.m. Wednesday in Jasper County Circuit Court in Joplin on a robbery charge. Bowman al…
