NOEL -- The Tyson Noel complex donated a $12,400 check to McDonald County Emergency Management to pay for a new rescue boat, a boat that was greatly needed b...

NOEL -- Summer school in McDonald County offers a variety of different classes and activities, according to Greg Capps, principal of Noel Primary School.

The Goodman Board of Alderman, at its meeting Tuesday night, approved the purchase of two new Tasers for the police department.

In a letter to parents that was posted online June 11, the McDonald County R-1 School District announced a covid-19 outbreak in its summer school program.

Gina McKinney's little Rhode Island Red chicks peck and run around in a cage on a Saturday morning.

ANDERSON -- McDonald County High School's carpentry class, taught by Mark Kaufman, started renovating the theater building last year, with the project contin...

The McDonald County Health Department reported 46 new cases of covid-19 last week and two covid-induced deaths. These are the first deaths reported in more t...

SOUTHWEST CITY -- The shores of Southwest City's Honey Creek and its recently repaired dam were filled with friends, family and fishing poles during the sixt...

The McDonald County 16U baseball team jumped out to an early 5-0 lead on the way to a 9-6 win on June 8 over Joplin in an 8-on-8 league game at Joe Becker St...

McDonald County High School junior catcher, Cole Martin, has been named to the first team of the Missouri High School Baseball Coaches Association's Class 5 ...

Webb City claimed a 15-1 win over the McDonald County 14U baseball team in an 8-on-8 league game on June 10, at Wendell Redden Stadium in Joplin.

Webb City pounded out 16 hits on the way to a 13-1 win over the McDonald County 18U baseball team on June 9 in an 8-on-8 league game at Joe Becker Stadium in...

JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) invites turkey hunters, landowners and managers interested in wild turkeys and others to join ...

The McDonald County 16U baseball team beat the White Brothers out of Fordland, Mo., 12-0 on June 6 in its final game of the Northeast 16U Baseball Tournament...

After getting shut out in all three of its games in last week's season-opening tournament, the McDonald County 14U baseball team scored nine runs in three ga...

Come Oct. 19, the population of Jane will more than double for a day. McDonald County High School will be hosting a cross country meet at its new course, The...

Following his election to the Missouri House of Representatives, Kevin Wilson created the column "Standing In the Gap" as a way to keep his constituents info...

Over the past few years, I have found that life with all its subtleties has gotten in the way of living. Therefore, and it has been some time coming, I made ...

Folks say that McDonald County was a wild and woolly place back in 1939. The sparsely populated Southwest Missouri county was a place where all manners of si...

A great war was raging in 1864 and, as is the case in any war, young men and women would die. Upon learning of the death of Mrs. Bixby's sons, President Abra...

An article in the May 20 edition of the McDonald County Press incorrectly stated that Elizabeth M. Elkins, 19, was a passenger in Rhonda Wise's car during an...

Do you want to hear something odd? Sometimes I read an old story I wrote and I can't believe I put that collection of words together. No, it's not because th...

Effie McMillin's child, Carl was such a special boy. He was the twin brother of Charlie but, although only 3 years of age, the differences between the two we...

In an April 15 feature story about White Rock Fire Department volunteers Coleen and Dan Moore, the article should have read that the White Rock Fire Protecti...

"Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: and sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all ...

There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, whic...

"The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ex...

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Genesis 1:1

"Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of ...

And when He had spoken these things, while they beheld, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly towar...

"And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom h...

"But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were dr...