Airport Drive News

From the metro desk, here are a few of the headlines you will find in Thursday's Joplin Globe and online at joplinglobe.com . City officials set to celebrate completion of Joplin Athletic Complex Airport Drive ...

CARTHAGE, Mo. - Plans for Jasper County's first neighborhood project district were endorsed Thursday by the County Commission.

Globe/T. Rob Brown Sarah Steelman, who is vying to be the Republican nominee for governor of Missouri this fall, speaks Tuesday afternoon at Stone's Corner in Airport Drive.

Sharon Fuller regularly makes the trip from her home in Airport Drive to downtown Joplin.

CARTHAGE, Mo. - Carthage police believe two juveniles who were taken into custody Wednesday are responsible for more than a half-dozen acts of vandalism and 15 to 20 instances of damage to or thefts from ...

Airport Drive will have its own police force starting July 1, under a contract being developed with the Jasper County Sheriff's Department.

An extra $9,000 for the Streets Department. A projected 46% increase for Public Works.

CARTHAGE, Mo. - A proposed city budget - after more than $2 million in cuts - will be the focus of a meeting at 6:30 p.m. today by the budget committee of the Carthage City Council. via Joplin Globe

“If there was a connection between here and here, it certainly was not intentional”

By Jeff Lehr jlehr@joplinglobe.com David A. Hagensieker did not intentionally benefit from Carthage city sewer services without paying for them, his attorney, William Fleischaker, told a Jasper County jury ... via Joplin Globe

A donated eight-acre site at 3423 N. Main St. was announced Thursday afternoon as the Joplin Humane Society's site for a new shelter. via Joplin Globe

“This is the place to be right now”

By Melissa Dunson mdunson@joplinglobe.com The times are definitely a-changin' for Mark Rains' quiet community of Airport Drive Village, and the change is being ushered in with earthmovers and dump trucks. via Joplin Globe

Missouri Governor Matt Blunt will deliver his State of the State address tonight. via OzarksFIRST.com

“I think we are left at the mercy of the self-reporting and self-regulating of the (utility) companies”

Since July, Gail Miller said, she has called Empire each month to warn the company that a tree near the power lines on her street in Duquesne was reaching too close and needed to be trimmed. via Joplin Globe

A woman accused of driving the getaway car in what investigators said were a robbery and an attempted robbery of the same Joplin bank branch about a year ago received a suspended prison sentence Monday and was ... via Joplin Globe