Sarcoxie News

By Susan Redden sredden@joplinglobe.com A corporation formed by two Sarcoxie-area brothers will be allowed to charge their mother more than $5,200 per month to care for her in her own home.

Cynthia Baker Olson, a 1971 graduate of Carthage High School, was among those killed last Friday when a tractor-trailer slammed into a line of vehicles on Oklahoma's Will Rogers Turnpike, killing 10 people.

As protests and violence continue on the streets of Tehran over a recent election, American citizens have plenty of opinions about what the United States should do.

The death toll from a chain-reaction collision in northeast Oklahoma, which began when a tractor-trailer slammed into cars stopped for a previous accident, climbed to 10 on Sunday.Shelby Hayes, 35, of Frisco, Texas, died about 7 a.m. at Freeman Hospital in Joplin, Mo., the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said.

By Greg Grisolano ggrisolano@joplinglobe.com SARCOXIE, Mo. - Carol Peck was sitting on the piano bench in her living room when her youngest son, Wayne, came to tell her goodbye.

A Joplin man was charged Friday with third-degree domestic assault after an incident Thursday night in which police cordoned off his neighborhood after he allegedly threatened to shoot his wife.

This year's Monett Junior Livestock Show went off without a hitch as area youngsters from across southwest Missouri exhibited their prized animals at two show arenas located at the farm of Danny and Julie Vaught just north of Monett off of Highway H. The Monett Chamber of Commerce sponsors the annual event, which is one of the oldest running youth ...

From the metro desk, here are a few of the headlines you will find in Wednesday's Joplin Globe and online at joplinglobe.com. Junior-high students to gather for community service projects Surveys show Sarcoxie residents opposed to sheriff's proposal Third Thursday activities to include opening of farmers' market Little movement on Besse Hotel ...

A Centralia man's defense, that he was merely indulging in fantasy during sexually explicit online chats with a sheriff's detective posing as an underage girl, did not play well with a Jasper County jury.

A Jasper County sheriff's detective testified Tuesday that a Centralia man went well beyond chitchat in his online solicitation of sex with a person he thought was a 13-year-old girl by the name of "Candy." Donald C. Bisans, 48, is standing trial on three counts of attempted enticement of a child via the Internet.

SARCOXIE, Mo. - A proposal by the Jasper County sheriff to provide police service for Sarcoxie had people talking Tuesday.

Postcard "votes" are still to be counted, but most residents expressing an opinion don't favor a proposal that the Jasper County Sheriff's Department furnish law enforcement for Sarcoxie.

The town of Sarcoxie Missouri could soon be losing their local police force if the Jasper County Sheriff's Office sets up shop in the town.

With the summer swimming season just getting under way, the Jasper County Health Department released statistics on Friday that suggest local residents should be careful which river or creek they dive in.

SARCOXIE, Mo. - A project in the works will create a memorial for more than 40 area residents who were Union soldiers and defenders of the Cave Spring and Bowers Mill area during the Civil War.

Belleville News Democrat, USA AP SARCOXIE, Mo. -- A French village has inducted a man from this southwest Missouri town into its local museum as a hero for his service in helping liberate the area during World War II.

Globe/T. Rob Brown Sheryl Carlson, of Joplin, has kept several pieces of memorabilia from the World War II military years of her father, Lloyd David Lewis, who suffered combat injuries in France in 1945.

A Sarcoxie woman was injured last night in a Jasper County crash, the Missouri Highway Patrol said.

CARTHAGE, Mo. - Jasper County is looking at a license application for a business adjacent to an adult-video store, but it has not issued approval for the operation, officials said Thursday.

Already sheared, white, gray and fawn-colored alpacas keep the remaining alpacas and Dusty the llama company as they awair their shearing at the Rock'n D Ranch.