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Democrat Robert Evenson sneaked past Republican Gregg Sweeten by 18 votes in the race for the open McDonald County sheriff's post Tuesday.

McDonald County voters on Nov. 4 will face a ballot filled with contested races for the positions of sheriff, Eastern and Western District county commissioners, coroner, assessor and public administrator.

This is a correlation of all of the ballots in McDonald County. Not all of these items may be on your ballot depending on what area of the county you live in.

A 20-year-old man waived his right to a preliminary hearing Wednesday in Jasper County Circuit Court on a felony charge that he and an accomplice assaulted and seriously injured a man in May outside a Joplin ...

Braden "Ryder" Gillming will turn 5 years old on Thursday. It will be his first birthday without his dad.

JANE, Mo. - Mike Ross, director of Freeman Ambulance Service in McDonald County, is at a loss to explain why it takes an ambulance the same amount of time to get to Jane, whether it comes from Noel or Anderson.

NEOSHO, Mo. - A Noel woman who served as treasurer for what was the Humane Society for Newton and McDonald counties has been charged with embezzling almost $90,000 from the organization over a three-year ...

Three men are facing drug-trafficking charges in the wake of what the McDonald County Sheriff's Department believes is the largest seizure ever of processed marijuana - about 300 pounds - in the county.

Three southwest Missouri men are behind bars this weekend after the McDonald County Sheriff's Department sees its largest processed marijuana bust.

Three people will likely be charged today in what is being called the largest drug bust in McDonald County history, said Sheriff Don Schlessman.

It's being called the largest drug seizure in McDonald County history. Deputies confiscated 300-pounds of marijuana Saturday morning from an auto parts store in Noel, Missouri.

Last week, I read Gerard Noel's book, Pius XII The Hound of Hitler . The Catholic Herald review of a few weeks ago revealed that Noel blames Pius for contributing to the start of the Great War and World War II.

Two Green Country families are grieving, after their sons were killed in a car crash in Noel, Missouri, last month.

Some movies are good: well-written, full of complex and developing characters, plotted in a way that makes sense.

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a warning to consumers to immediately stop using the Simplicity 3-in-1 and 4-in-1 convertible close-in sleeper models after several infants have died from ...

A cigarette apparently started a deadly fire at an apartment late Wednesday. It broke out around 11:30 p.m. in the Circle Drive Apartments, a complex for senior citizens.

U.S. authorities were reported looking into a possible design flaw link between two baby deaths and a popular bassinet.

Federal officials on Thursday urged retailers to stop selling Simplicity bassinets connected to two infant deaths, including one last week in Shawnee.The Consumer Product Safety Commission secured agreements ...

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a safety alert urging parents and caregivers to stop using Simplicity convertible bassinets after the deaths of two babies.

By Jeff Lehr jlehr@joplinglobe.com Defendants in two Joplin felony-assault cases were ordered bound over for trial Wednesday after their alleged victims testified against them at preliminary hearings in Jasper ...