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In an effort to bring further revenue options for the city, namely to fund police and fire department wage increases, the Joplin City Council heard a revenue report from the finance committee at a special work session Monday night. Some of those options are listed below: The Use Tax would bring an estimated revenue of […]

(AP) A convicted felon has been charged with abducting two Christian college students and forcing them to perform sex acts on each other at gunpoint after they violated curfew and were locked out of their southwest Missouri campus. 49-year-old Robert Hyslop is jailed without bond on charges of kidnapping, sexual abuse and sodomy. No attorney […]

Authorities are investigating a possible murder-suicide near a suburban Kansas City park. Police say in a Facebook post that two bodies were found Sunday near Riverfront Park in western Shawnee, Kansas. The discovery was made while officers were responding to a request from Kansas City, Missouri, police to check on the welfare of a person […]

Officials say a southwest Missouri high school coach has died in a hunting accident. 24-year-old Justin Atchison was killed Saturday on the first day of the deer firearm season. Willard Fire Protection District battalion chief Kevin Samsel says the Greene County Sheriff’s Office is handling the investigation. Willard High School’s head football coach, Brock Roweton, […]

(AP) Civil rights leaders are calling for a detectives group to rescind a speaking invitation to a white Oklahoma officer acquitted for fatally shooting an unarmed black man. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund sent a letter Friday to the Southeastern Homicide Investigators Association expressing concerns about Rogers County Sheriff’s Deputy Betty Shelby speaking […]

(AP) Federal immigration officials say a man charged with killing three people in Missouri should have faced deportation proceedings after he was arrested for separate offenses last year in New Jersey. Luis Perez, who is from Mexico, is being held without bond. Springfield police say Perez fatally shot two men and wounded two others Nov. […]