From the metro desk, here are a few headlines you will find in Thursday’s Joplin Globe and online at joplinglobe.com.
Area residents react to final push for health-care reform
State funds cut for local health provider
Moeller to become principal of Webb City High School
Joplin school officials consider purchase of surveillance system
Allergy season approaches; for children, symptoms settle in at younger age
These stories, local sports results and the Health & Family section — Thursday in The Joplin Globe and online at joplinglobe.com.