The 2025 tornado season marked the deadliest year in Missouri history for tornadoes since the EF-5 Joplin tornado of 2011. Last year, Missouri had two major tornado outbreaks that occurred March 14 to ...

Remember the next scheduled Joplin City Council meeting, February 17, will be held on the campus of MSSU as they anticipate a large number of people to attend regarding the proposed data center. To ...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of killing a traveling salesman he and his brother had met at a bar has become the first person executed in Florida this year. Ronald Palmer Heath, 64, was ...

This winter has been a roller coaster ride, with bursts of record warmth or frigid cold. Right now, we’re in another winter warm mode, and with it, another batch of record highs. Two record highs were ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Somalia is showing signs of revival from decades ...

Two brief EF-0 tornadoes touched down north of Plum Grove on Tuesday afternoon as a single supercell moved through Liberty County, according to a preliminary National Weather Service survey. The storm ...

JOPLIN, Mo. (KOAM) — Today is National Missing Person Day (February 3) in the U.S. We wanted to share the top myths about missing persons: When reporting a missing person contact your local law agency ...

Video game developers, designers, and scholars have devoted a substantial amount of time to understanding immersion—the psychological state in which players feel present within the game world—and ...

I write about the world’s richest people and their businesses. Forbes estimates that the deal announced Monday evening boosted Musk’s fortune by $84 billion. Elon Musk just became the first person ...

NEVADA, Mo. — Timothy Lee Brooks, 73, passed away peacefully in his sleep at his home in Nevada, Missouri on Jan. 27, 2026. Tim entered this world on June 13, 1952, at the “old” Freeman Hospital, 2008 ...

Morgan Pinder is a writer at GameRant and a graduate researcher at Deakin University in Australia. Their research interests are in video games, environmentalism and gothic media. Morgan’s most recent ...

Joplin’s First Community Church is celebrating 100 years with events Sunday. “We are a traditional church in the best sense of the term,” said Russell Willoughby, pastor. “We’re a place where people ...