The Joplin Globe, Joplin, MO - Neosho, Newton & McDonald counties

Return of Stellabration ready
STELLA, Mo. — The community of Stella will again honor local veterans during its second Stellabration this weekend.
Last year marked the first time the community put on Stellabration, which highlighted the opening of its new Veterans Memorial Park. This year’s celebration again will have a theme of honoring the veterans
Former clerk, accused of faking cancer, ordered to stand trial
PINEVILLE, Mo. — A former clerk in the McDonald County prosecutor’s office will stand trial on a felony charge of stealing after allegedly faking cancer and then taking donations for assistance, a judge ruled Wednesday. Tammy R. Young was bound over for trial after a brief preliminary hearing that consisted principally of testimony from a former co-worker who helped organize fundraisers for Young in April and May.
Voters endorse plan for full-time prosecutor in McDonald County
McDonald County voters on Tuesday threw their support behind a proposal to make the prosecutor’s office a full-time position, while bond measures passed in the communities of Lanagan and Diamond, according to complete but unofficial results.
Manslaughter charge filed in wake of hunting death
NEOSHO, Mo. — A rural Granby man was charged Monday with first-degree involuntary manslaughter for allegedly shooting and killing a teenager during a nighttime hunting accident. Jacob D. Shamblin, 25, faces the Class C felony charge in connection with an Oct. 18 hunting incident that claimed the life of Steven Cox, 19.
Prosecutor proposal heads ballot
A proposal to make the McDonald County prosecutor’s office full time and a pair of bond issues for the communities of Diamond and Lanagan will come before voters Tuesday.
McDonald County’s electorate will be asked to make the prosecutor’s position full time and to raise the prosecutor’s salary from $53,000 to $106,000, according to County Clerk Barbara Williams. The measure requires a simple majority vote for passage. If approved, it would take effect in June 2011, Williams said.
Lori Marble: Great Day for Wildcat bandmates
NEOSHO, Mo. — The air swirling around the football stadium Thursday night was heavy with misting rain.
Fans were excited, players were ready; the only thing missing was the band. The possibility of severe weather for the final home game of the season forced the band to not play.
High winds whip Neosho
NEOSHO, Mo. — The National Weather Service deems the strong winds Thursday afternoon that suddenly struck Neosho a microburst.
The high winds that hit the town about 4:15 p.m. during a day of stormy weather tore the roof off the evidence barn at the Neosho County Sheriff’s Department, downed power lines, tipped over a tractor-trailer and brought some trees down.
Meteorologist Andy Foster, with the NWS office in Springfield, said a storm survey team that studied the aftermath of the high winds determined that a microburst caused the damage.
Neosho roundabout gearing up
NEOSHO, Mo. — A 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air two-door hardtop was the first car to travel around a new roundabout that leads to a $2.3 million overpass on East South Street.
A 2009 Chevrolet Malibu followed.
Local officials, residents and business leaders Friday afternoon gathered for a ribbon-cutting to announce the completion of the project, but the town’s first roundabout and overpass won’t open to traffic for about a week, Mayor Jeff Werneke said.
Area towns, counties brace for impact of sales tax losses
Cities and counties are pinched from a year of sales tax decline, some more than others, but they are trying to keep residents from feeling the pain too much by spending reserves, cutting nonessential services and trimming employee pay.
Lori Marble: Neosho pie makers wrap up another successful season
NEOSHO, Mo. — Across Neosho, countless sugar cravings are satisfied, and freezers are stacked ready for spur-of-the-moment baking.
In the City of Springs, a tradition as anticipated and time-honored as the holidays themselves has just wrapped up with the annual making and selling of pies by Neosho’s First Christian Church.
Finishing out their pie-making season this year with a total of 200 cherry and 1,047 apple pies, the pie creators exhibit as much enjoyment assembling as do those consuming.
Governor assessing need for increased job training
NEOSHO, Mo. — In years past, Kit Loveland, 45, worked in the retail business as a store manager.
“Stores are always closing,” she said Thursday when talking about her career change to the medical field.
Doe Run Co. to clean up mining sites
About 240 acres of former mining land in the western part of Jasper County will be cleaned up by Doe Run Co., the Environmental Task Force of Jasper and Newton Counties learned Wednesday.
Search for victims begins again
Official: Efforts to find witnesses in sex-abuse case against Granby church pastor prove to be unsuccessful.
Investigators seize telltale mask, hat in bank robberies case w/ affidavit and criminal complaint
The affidavit of an FBI special agent reveals that investigators seized $1,700 in cash, and a cat mask, a khaki hat and a motorcycle helmet at the home of suspected bank robber Richard Bratt.
Authorities believe the items tie the 57-year-old Bratt to recent armed robberies of banks in Joplin, Webb City and Independence, Kan., in addition to Thursday’s robbery of the U.S. Bank in Neosho.
Manslaughter charge filed in Noel shooting
PINEVILLE, Mo. — A Noel man was charged Tuesday with voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death last month of another Noel man.
Neosho man suffers stab wound
Seneca man taken to hospital after being beaten
Fatal shooting in Anderson deemed self-defense case
PINEVILLE, Mo. — A 39-year-old man, who reportedly shot and killed another man in self-defense Sunday night in Anderson, has been turned over to U.S. marshals in anticipation of a federal weapon charge.
Court records: Federal counts expected against ex-group home owner
Additional federal criminal charges are expected to be filed against the former owner of an Anderson group home where a fire in 2006 ultimately took the lives of 11 people.
The defense attorney for Robert J. DuPont Jr., 65, whose connection with the Anderson Guest House is the crux of the existing federal charges, last week sought a continuance in DuPont’s upcoming trial. In that same motion, attorney Stuart Huffman, of Springfield, noted that “additional counts will be filed” against DuPont, according to court documents.
Newton County sheriff probing hunting accident in rural Granby
GRANBY, Mo. — Newton County authorities on Monday were investigating what witnesses described as a hunting accident that left a 19-year-old dead.
Neosho hatchery visitors center on track
NEOSHO, Mo. — Construction of a visitors center at the Neosho National Fish Hatchery is on track to be done by July 2010.
“It’s going wonderful,” said David Hendrix, hatchery manager.
The hatchery broke ground on the 9,500-square-foot center in July, eyeing one year for work to be done.
Hendrix said the foundation for the new center has been laid, and work on the frame has started.
Seneca school construction projects on track despite rainy weather
SENECA, Mo. — Two major construction projects for the Seneca school district remain on track to be completed in August, according to Rick Cook, superintendent.
Architect Kyle Denham last week told board members that the concrete pad is complete for the new intermediate school, and the pad for the high school work will be done in about two weeks.
“It has been a very wet two weeks, but actually we’ve made a lot of progress with all the rain and water we’ve had,” he said.
Police: Bank-heist suspect linked to other robberies
A middle-aged gunman. Medium build to heavy-set. In an older model white car, often parked close enough to be spotted when he fled. Usually brought his own bag for the loot. In retrospect, the details in common now seem to be falling quickly into place like the final pieces of a puzzle as investigators work to tie a suspect nabbed in the aftermath of Thursday’s bank robbery in Neosho to a number of recent armed robberies in Missouri and Kansas.
Lori Marble: Hatchery stocks more than trout
The Neosho National Fish Hatchery — the nation’s oldest operating hatchery — is located both physically and emotionally in the “heart” of Neosho.
“I instill the belief at every opportunity that without our community we’re nothing. The community of Neosho and the surrounding area is why we’re successful,” said Dave Hendrix, hatchery manager. “We strive to do our job well; that makes it easy for folks to support us. It’s our community that made the difference. We work to continually nurture those relationships.”
Suspect arrested in wake of Neosho bank robbery
NEOSHO, Mo. — A suspect captured following a bank robbery Thursday morning in Neosho is drawing interest from investigators of unsolved robberies in Webb City and Joplin. A man wearing a “Jason” mask and a hat entered the US Bank at 1094 Neosho Blvd. shortly before noon Thursday, displayed a handgun to a teller on duty behind the counter and another bank employee in a side office, and demanded money.
Neosho man to seek Missouri House seat
A Neosho resident has announced plans to run as an independent candidate for state representative from Missouri’s 130th legislative district.
Matt Clark, 39, is seeking the post currently held by Kevin Wilson, whose tenure will end due to term limits. He is the third person to publicly announce for the seat; Lynn Otey, Neosho, and Bill Reiboldt, rural Neosho, have said they will seek the Republican nomination for the office, forcing a primary.
McDonald County procedures flagged by state auditors
A state audit of McDonald County has found weaknesses in governmental-department procedures across the county. Problems in accounting procedures were common. In Prosecuting Attorney Janice Durbin’s office, receipt slips were not always issued or recorded in the electronic system, which poses the potential for improper money handling, according to the audit.
Carthage Crisis Center moves to new location
CARTHAGE, Mo. — For the past six and a half years, Brian Bisbee’s work area has been any place he happened to be inside the former Carthage Crisis Center.
After a move completed last weekend, Bisbee and his wife, Marilyn, who share director duties, have office space in the new center, plus far more space to serve homeless people.
Opening of Neosho overpass draws near
NEOSHO, Mo. — More than 50 years after an improved South Street was suggested as an east-west corridor through Neosho, residents should see that idea realized next week.
City officials said Monday that a tentative ribbon-cutting ceremony has been set for Oct. 23, weather permitting, for the completion of the South Street railroad overpass and accompanying roundabout.

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