In addition to the COVID-19 pandemic contributing to school closures and layoffs nationwide, officials fear it’s also fueling a drop in the number of child abuse and neglect cases being reported.
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Alex Brady, 12, can’t help but empathize with children struggling during the COVID-19 crisis.
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Alex Brady, 12, can’t help but empathize with children struggling during the COVID-19 crisis.
For years and years, golf professionals and their staffs at area golf courses have done everything they can to help the players.
Highlighted by a state record, Joplin High School's Garrett Landis and Tylor Peck won state championships in last month's Missouri state powerlifting meet at Glendale High School in Springfield.
Hopefully stopping what's been a revolving door of women's basketball coaches at Northwestern State, Anna Nimz was named head coach of the Lady Demons on Saturday in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
With Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s announcement Thursday, any hope of high school spring sports in Missouri disappeared.
It’s nothing that Katie Scott hasn’t been through before.
Former Missouri Southern All-American defensive tackle Brandon Williams has been named to the D2.Football.com All-Decade Team.
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.
ISTANBUL (AP) — Police across Turkey are conducting routine ID checks on the streets, stopping anyone who looks under 20 or over 65 as they enforce a coronavirus curfew for the young and the elderly. Yet factory workers are still going to their jobs, people freely ride buses and many offices…
CHICAGO (AP) — The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus eclipsed Italy's for the highest in the world, surpassing 20,000, as Chicago and other cities across the Midwest braced for a potential surge in victims and moved to snuff out smoldering hot spots of contagion before they erupt.
NEW YORK (AP) — “Saturday Night Live” tried its first “quarantine version" of the comedy show, with coronavirus pioneer Tom Hanks, Coldplay singer Chris Martin and the comedy show's entire cast phoning in with jokes from home.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Lenard “Lenny” Wells didn’t just put on a badge and grind through his police work. He mentored generations of officers and community activists who went on to become police leaders and lawmakers. He helped ensure African Americans had equal access to promotions in the des…
CLOVER, S.C. (AP) — When Pastor Matt McGarity looked out at his Clover, South Carolina, congregation, he saw a view unlike anything he’d seen before. The familiar faces of his flock were blurred behind vehicle windshields, with the exception a few children sticking their heads out of sunroof…
“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
Hope is a message the Rev. Marsha West Eichler, pastor at First United Methodist Church in Joplin, has tried to pass on to her congregation through an online platform since March 15.
Our ancestors came to the New World for many reasons, one of which was religious freedom.
The hidden, violent and downright eerie aspects of the Ozarks — the types of stories passed down between generations — will be the subject of a television series now under development that could premiere on a major network as soon as 2021.
Cabbage was a last resort in my house growing up. It was almost a green vegetable, so it was hard to convince us kids to eat it. Mom had to chop it up into tiny pieces.
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Monty James Wells, 73, of Carthage, passed April 8, 2020. He was born November 21, 1946, to James Dallas Wells and Josephine Vanderbilt Wells. Monty served in the United States Army. Monty loved his grandchildren; was a mechanic; and loved working on things. He was a talented artist and cart…
SENECA, MO - Willie James Page, 67, passed away Thursday, April 9, 2020. Private services will be held Wednesday at Parker Mortuary, Joplin, MO. Graveside committal will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Parkway Cemetery.
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