McDonald County residents can rest easy now that three escaped inmates, considered armed and dangerous, are again in custody following a days-long search tha...

Jesseca Freese believes that her flowers sell themselves. The colorful variety she offers at Mountain Happenings at Sims Corner sparks a lot of conversation....

PINEVILLE -- Dennis Kirk, a 33-year member of the American Legion, retired from his 30-year position as adjutant this month. At Kirk's surprise party, he was...

McDonald County Fair organizers believe that this year's 47th annual multi-day event was a success.

Anderson's board of alderman reviewed the ordinance regarding fireworks during the rescheduled meeting on Tuesday.

PINEVILLE -- Jesse James Days, the annual summer event filled with pageants, prizes and parades, will take place this summer. The event was canceled last yea...

MCDONALD COUNTY -- For the third week in a row, covid-19 cases are increasing in McDonald County. The County Health Department reported another covid-induced...

Do you recognize this McDonald County WWII veteran? He received a silver dollar from Bonnibel Sweet and, in return, he sent her a photo from his time in the ...

For the first time in two years, spring sports athletes at McDonald County High School had an awards night.

Three wrestlers will represent McDonald County High School at the freestyle and Greco-Roman national championships to be held July 16-23 in Fargo, N.D.

If the McDonald County 16U baseball team learned anything in its five games of last week's Chad Wolff Classic, it was to never, ever give up.

The McDonald County High School varsity baseball team cruised to an 18-5 win over Carthage in an 8-on-8 league game on June 16 at Joe Becker Stadium in Joplin.

The McDonald County 14U baseball team scored two runs in both the seventh and eighth innings to pull out a 7-7 tie with Joplin on June 15 in an 8-on-8 league...

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.

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...

When I was in high school trying to write reports and term papers, I had a difficult time. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get anything to sound right...

In June of 1933, a 65 year-old man residing 10 miles east of Anderson, Missouri burned his house to the ground. Then using a cord tied two sticks of dynamite...

It was in the year 1961 that I spent my first of three summer sabbaticals in the rural and quaint Southwest Missouri town of Noel. I stayed with my grandpare...

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...

"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; because that which m...

We welcomed several visitors as we gathered to worship Sunday morning at Mill Creek Baptist Church. Doug Cory opened our service with prayer. Happy birthday ...

Tyrel Lett and Chloe were celebrating birthdays as we gathered to worship Sunday morning at Mill Creek Baptist Church. Doug Cory greeted the congregation as ...

"If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared." Psalm 130:3-4

Again, I was asked about the mystery of Jesus challenging Peter. Why did Jesus ask the same question three times? Let's read John 21:15-17 from the NCV.

"For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ." 1 Cor. 3:11 (read 1 Corinthians 3)

We were thankful for the cool July morning as we gathered to worship Sunday at Mill Creek Baptist Church. Anna Lee Emanuel and Lou Durbin were celebrating bi...

"If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared." Psalm 130:3-4