by Mike Lear | May 22, 2012 | Education, News, Politics / Govt
The Joplin High School Class of 2012 has graduated in a ceremony that took on a double meaning, as President Barack Obama and Governor Jay Nixon helped to celebrate the class and to mark the one year anniversary of the tornado that devastated the community. The...
by Bill Pollock | May 10, 2012 | Sports Features
Major League Baseball and the Players Association is teaming up with Habitat for Humanity to build nine houses in Joplin and Tuscaloosa, AL, towns ravaged by deadly tornadoes. The Royals are taking part of the project called the “All-Star Build.” Two of...
by Mike Lear | Apr 2, 2012 | News, Weather
Beginning today and for the next few months, when weather turns severe the National Weather Service will be trying some new things with the warnings it issues in most of Missouri. These warnings will include new hazard, impact, source information and updated Call to...
by Bill Pollock | Mar 26, 2012 | Sports Features
“We did it!” Those were the first words I heard from Steve Pona, one of the 24 basketball players, who finished the world’s longest basketball game on Sunday night at the Missouri Athletic Club in downtown St. Louis. The game started at 5 a.m....
by Bill Pollock | Mar 22, 2012 | Sports Features
We’ve been following the attempt by 24 basketball players in St. Louis to break the Guinness Book of World Records mark for the longest basketball game to be played. Team Joplin and Team St. Louis have completed a little more than the first 24 hours of a planned...
