PINEVILLE -- Splitlog Baptist Church, located in Goodman, hosted the second annual law enforcement banquet to honor law enforcement and public service employ...

Jett Hitt and his wife Carrie Byron started raising bison in McDonald County four years ago so that Hitt could pursue a career milestone.

As the noon sun beats down on this fall Saturday, kids clamor to win prizes and have some free fun. It's a sight that Norma and Jason Capps like to see.

SOUTHWEST CITY -- From Highway 43 to the heart of Main Street, festive -- and sometimes frightening -- decorated hay bales line the roadway in Southwest City...

ANDERSON -- A handful of residents attended Anderson's regular council meeting on Tuesday to speak about the upcoming Halloween festivities.

The McDonald County R-1 School District Board of Education, at its Oct. 14 meeting, adopted a new covid-19 protocol under which more students can stay in sch...

GOODMAN -- The Goodman Board of Aldermen, at its meeting Tuesday, heard a report on water and sewer rates from Kristina Hartley of Midwest Assistance Program.

MCDONALD COUNTY -- The McDonald County Health Department reported another covid-related death this week, bringing the total to 58.

Quarterback Cole Martin and his convoy of blockers delivered the goods Friday night as McDonald County hauled away a pivotal Big 8 West victory.

The season ended suddenly. A two-run lead slipped away in the top of the seventh as third-seeded Webb City rallied for a 3-2 win over top-seeded McDonald Cou...

McDonald County keeps winning, and people around the state are noticing.

Soccer Richie Gasca scored the winning goal as McDonald County defeated Willard 3-2 to finish second in the Willard junior varsity tournament on Saturday.

Cole Martin started the stampede, and the Mustangs kept running.

Tomas De La Cruz kept shorthanded McDonald County in the match, but Willard eventually pulled away for a 4-1 soccer victory Monday at Mustang Stadium.

Playoff position and second place in the Big 8 West are at stake when McDonald County visits Nevada on Friday night.

Golf - Led by Fayth Ogden's 104, McDonald County finished eighth in the district tournament Monday at the Bill & Payne Stewart Golf Course in Springfield.

Though Halloween is often associated with knocks on the door and children's voices saying "trick or treat," there was one Halloween knock on the door which w...

What's done is done. The past can't be changed and, as hard as it may sometimes be to accept it, that's just the way it is. We are not privy to the future an...

What's in a name? I, like most folks, take for granted and give little or no thought to the origin of names given to places. Now that I have called McDonald ...

Thoughts of our vast differences now make me smile. How could it be that two people, two who were so different, could have been so very right for each other?...

It was Thursday, May 10, in the year 1894, and the place was Southwest City, Missouri's Bank.

I just started thinking about all the fun I used to have. I find it hard these days to remember all the things that were fun when I was young. Sometimes it i...

Several years have now passed since I made a promise to my wife Robin. She knew she had only a few days to live and she was, as was her nature, worried about...

It's been nigh on eighty-two years now but, by golly, what a time the folks in Pineville, Missouri, had that night at the Dixie Belle Theatre! There was high...

"Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things from Your law." Psalm 119:18 (Read Psalm 119:17-24)

"No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serv...

"But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from childhood you have kn...

"Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before ...

"Therefore, I will judge you, O house of Israel, each according to his ways," says the Lord GOD. "Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions, s...

"And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him ... And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall up...

"Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word. So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I tru...

"Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander fro...