The Joplin Globe, Joplin, MO Lead Stories 2012-02-11T11:33:42-06:00 urn:uuid:141e062a-ca8a-4c88-b79c-c3ca045bf256 ‘Fire all over’: Four suffer minor injuries in apartment blaze By Jeff Lehr urn:uuid:4204812b-6aa2-4f1b-8177-71866a15b431 2010-08-23T23:49:55-05:00 <p> Her phone started ringing, followed by a noise of uncertain origin outside her apartment. That&#8217;s how the sleep of 28-year-old Sylvia Moran was dispelled in the nick of time Monday morning. Moran got up, looked out a window and saw smoke.</p> Heat repeat: Year's third heat wave to continue through week By Kevin McClintock urn:uuid:2de0c453-5e05-4acb-b05c-b2b4d0d4ad78 2010-08-09T23:28:40-05:00 <p> For the third time this summer, a wave of hot weather has washed across the Joplin metro area, causing heat indexes to soar into the triple digits.</p> United Way groups note campaign status urn:uuid:b72a30c1-25f3-4f77-a122-63df666df979 2008-11-20T20:49:00-06:00 The Carthage Area United Way is more than two-thirds of the way toward reaching its campaign goal of $310,000 for the year, volunteers were told Thursday. Jerry Ray Clemens urn:uuid:92684122-c7c2-4bde-b2d8-da8cb7c15e27 2008-11-07T15:32:00-06:00 Agency shows off mobile home as possible alternative in buyouts urn:uuid:409da5bc-ac28-4d50-bf92-fb74c6ec693b 2007-08-02T20:56:00-05:00 MIAMI, Okla. — To help alleviate the housing problems facing some of the Tar Creek residents who are taking part in a federal buyout, officials staged an open house Thursday displaying a Federal Emergency Management Agency mobile home. Local fairs attract crowds, competitors urn:uuid:326caa47-ff02-49cf-a0ca-d9bb7c6445c9 2007-07-13T19:29:00-05:00 For many area residents, the county fair is a pleasant diversion for an afternoon or evening, to admire the animals, eat a hot dog or take the kids to the carnival. April showers might freeze flowers urn:uuid:f35af338-a197-4d33-9b8b-6b42ae332d5d 2007-04-05T22:50:00-05:00 Joplin gardeners were heading for the covers Thursday, not because they were trying to get warm in the cold but because their plants needed protection from record-cold temperatures and the possibility of a spring snowstorm. Counties examine roles of shelters urn:uuid:3b251303-b653-44d6-80e0-8720402f772f 2007-01-28T23:21:00-06:00 Joplin officials are still assessing Memorial Hall’s role as an emergency shelter, while a Newton County official said the network of shelters there fared well during the ice storm this month. Keeping education affordable urn:uuid:e4b78d08-6a58-4c76-b96e-8a104739f49d 2007-01-28T23:06:00-06:00 Autumn Peters, of Monett, has attended classes at Kent State University in Ohio and Pittsburg State University in Kansas. Owner of Guest Houses defends track record urn:uuid:23c3889a-ee54-4efb-b037-ff1e0baf1389 2007-01-23T23:20:00-06:00 The owner of the Anderson Guest House, where a fire in November claimed 11 lives, defended his track record Tuesday and said the media have portrayed him unfairly.