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Body camera footage of Kansas standoff that led to police killing 2 year old released
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 4 months agoDuring the Baxter Springs incident, Eli Crawford killed the mother of his child. His daughter was...
Joplin council considering offers on library building
The Joplin Globe, Mo. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMar. 9—Offers for the former Joplin Public Library building are being considered by the Joplin City Council. City Attorney Peter Edwards said the city received several offers to purchase the ...
Pay plan adoption stalls for lack of supermajority
The Joplin Globe, Mo. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMay 1—A new Joplin city government job classification system and pay plan failed to get the required votes needed Monday night for immediate adoption. Three council members voted against the ...
Lawsuit in sniper death of child settled for $1.5 million
The Joplin Globe, Mo. via Yahoo News· 2 months agoMar. 28—Claims against the cities of Joplin and Baxter Springs, Kansas, along with Cherokee County in the 2022 death of 2-year-old Clesslynn Crawford, have been settled with the girl's family ...
Judgment in Joplin telephone tax case reversed
The Joplin Globe, Mo. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJul. 22—A Missouri appeals court has partly reversed a decision in a case in which the cities of Joplin and Columbia were awarded judgments sought for unpaid municipal taxes on telephone services ...
Pete Rose comes out of exile to remind us why he’s there in the first place
Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Fla. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoST. PETERSBURG — For years, I vowed to avoid reading about Pete Rose. To my everlasting regret, I broke that promise this weekend. Any Rose headline, good or bad, would make me turn the page ...
Joplin City Council approves firefighter raises
The Joplin Globe, Mo. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJan. 4—Joplin firefighters are to receive pay increases averaging 11.2% as the result of Joplin City Council approval Monday night of a new labor agreement reached Dec. 14 with the union local ...
Joplin council to take applications for open seat
The Joplin Globe, Mo. via Yahoo News· 7 months agoNov. 20—Applications for a temporary appointment to a vacated seat on the Joplin City Council will be taken starting Tuesday, council members decided at a meeting Monday night. Mayor Doug Lawson ...
Joplin council approves positions for use tax projects
The Joplin Globe, Mo. via Yahoo News· 9 months agoSep. 22—The Joplin City Council has agreed to go forward with several new job positions that were created under plans for community projects to be funded with use tax revenue. "We've been at ...
Tax-break request for Joplin warehouse project placed on hold
The Joplin Globe, Mo. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFeb. 16—A request for $20.2 million in industrial revenue bonds for the construction of a warehouse is on hold because a contract for the purchase of the land has now lapsed, the Joplin City ...
