A Prairie Grove man pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Washington County Circuit Court in connection with shooting a police officer who lost part of a leg as a ...

PRAIRIE GROVE -- The secretary of Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism last week committed to holding a second public meeting before any decisi...

FARMINGTON -- Farmington City Council rescinded its mask ordinance last week, effective immediately, but the city will continue to hold public meetings throu...

PRAIRIE GROVE – Battlefield State Park will commemorate its 50th anniversary with a low-key celebration this weekend.

PRAIRIE GROVE -- Prairie Grove School Board approved a 2% raise last week for Superintendent Reba Holmes and also is considering a proposal to allow a flexib...

FARMINGTON -- For the second time in eight months, Farmington employees have spent hours mowing the grass at the now-closed Valley View golf course.

Lily Sterling, a rising senior at Lincoln High School, was one of 26 students from Arkansas and Oklahoma who completed the 2021 Arkansas Tech University Firs...

LINCOLN -- Allison Bond, 24, of Lincoln, likes to write poems and likes to write letters. She has used both interests the past year to connect with more than...

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.

Webb City pounded out 16 hits on the way to a 13-1 win over the McDonald County 18U baseball team on June 9 in an 8-on-8 league game at Joe Becker Stadium in...

JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) invites turkey hunters, landowners and managers interested in wild turkeys and others to join ...

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...

An article in the May 20 edition of the McDonald County Press incorrectly stated that Elizabeth M. Elkins, 19, was a passenger in Rhonda Wise's car during an...

Do you want to hear something odd? Sometimes I read an old story I wrote and I can't believe I put that collection of words together. No, it's not because th...

Effie McMillin's child, Carl was such a special boy. He was the twin brother of Charlie but, although only 3 years of age, the differences between the two we...

In an April 15 feature story about White Rock Fire Department volunteers Coleen and Dan Moore, the article should have read that the White Rock Fire Protecti...

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"Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: and sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all ...

There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, whic...

"The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ex...

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Genesis 1:1

"Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of ...

And when He had spoken these things, while they beheld, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly towar...

"And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom h...