The Joplin Globe, Joplin, MO

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  • Identity-theft victim jailed on culprit’s warrant

    Kurt Millard spent most of last weekend in the Jasper County Jail, locked up on another man’s arrest warrant. The 26-year-old Joplin resident could not convince his jailers they had the wrong guy. “I got the run-around the whole weekend,” Millard told the Globe. “I didn’t even get to wish my mother a happy Mother’s Day.”

    May 16, 2013

  • Attorney general files suit against California contractor

    Attorney General Chris Koster on Thursday filed a lawsuit against a California man, alleging he failed to provide construction materials and home repair services that had been paid for by victims of the Joplin tornado.

    May 16, 2013

  • Organizers ambitious in goals for this year’s Heart Walk

    Organizers of the Four-State Heart Walk, to be held in September in Joplin, are ambitious: Last year’s event raised about $27,000, while this year they have set a goal of $50,000. So far, $17,500 has been raised. Among the donors to date: Two students at Nevada High School who put on a fundraiser in February as a class project and brought in $2,500.

    May 16, 2013

  • 051613 triplets3_72.jpg Parents of triplets embarking on Heart Association campaign

    To the casual observer, it sounds odd: One of their triplets has a heart defect, and Jayme and Chris Harper are grateful. “It could have been much worse,” Jayme said. “We just thank God every day she’s alive. We’re grateful. Be thankful for what you have, and not what you don’t have.”

    May 16, 2013 2 Photos

  • Work could begin soon on new Interstate 44 interchange east of Joplin

    Construction of a new interchange at Interstate 44 and Prigmore Avenue to serve the Crossroads Center Business and Distribution Park was added Thursday to the Transportation Improvement Program for Southwest Missouri.

    May 16, 2013

  • Lions open regional play against top-seeded Minnesota State

    For most of March and April, Minnesota State endured a long winter as it gradually made its case for the home-field advantage that goes along with being the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Division II Central Region baseball tournament.

    May 15, 2013

  • Teal,Kayleigh.jpg Seneca students to remember classmate by participating in Joplin run

    Kayleigh Teal will be remembered Saturday by several participants and bystanders in the Joplin Memorial Run. They can be recognized by their teal-colored shirts reading “Running in Memory of Kayleigh Teal.”

    May 15, 2013 1 Photo

  • 051513 EMS trng2_72.jpg First responders prepare for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, explosive emergencies

    Skip Harper, emergency preparedness coordinator for Freeman Health System, is a realist about what might happen in the Four-State Area that would put lives in danger.

    May 15, 2013 2 Photos

  • MSSU to develop plan to boost, maintain enrollment

    Administrators at Missouri Southern State University will work this summer to create what they call a strategic enrollment plan. The plan will be developed from research and input from Noel-Levitz, a higher education consulting firm based in Colorado and Iowa that has been hired by the university to help determine how to attract, retain and graduate more students.

    May 15, 2013

  • Kayleigh Teal’s friends to run in her memory on Saturday

    At the Joplin Memorial Run on Saturday, teal-colored shirts will be in abundance in the crowd, and there also will be some in the race.

    May 15, 2013

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