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The Crowder College Board of Trustees has announced four finalists to fill the position of president. Public forums featuring one finalist each day will be held Monday through Thursday of this week for the group. They are Dr. Kim Armstrong, Dr. David Hinds, Dr. Katricia Pierson and Dr. Coleen Simpson. The public forums will take …

A Neosho man was put under arrest by the Missouri State Highway Patrol Saturday after he allegedly caused two hit-and-run crashes. The first crash took place around 3:30 Saturday afternoon in an area near 44th and South Main, just outside the Joplin City limits. The Patrol says 37-year-old Dustin Harp left the scene of that …

There was an ATV accident in Vernon County Saturday afternoon. The Missouri Highway Patrol says two juveniles from Nevada suffered injuries when a 2011 Suzuki King Quad 500 they were on skidded and overturned on Panama Road about two miles east of Nevada. It all happened around 2:40 Saturday afternoon. The 15-year-old male driver suffered …

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) – Firefighters were battling a large fire at a recycling business in East St. Louis Sunday morning. Thick black smoke billowed up into the air after the fire was reported before 5 a.m. Sunday at Tek Recycling in the Illinois suburb of St. Louis. Part of a large building’s roof …

PARIS (AP) – France is inducting Missouri-born cabaret dancer Josephine Baker who was also a French World War II spy and civil rights activist into its Pantheon. She is the first Black woman honored in the final resting place of France’s most revered luminaries. A coffin carrying soils from places where Baker made her mark …

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri officials want to continue having a private company handle calls about jobless benefits in the state even though the unemployment rate has returned to pre-pandemic levels. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations is asking companies to bid on a contract to …