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Oct. 25—On ground once saturated with lead mining chat, many of the 50-plus participants with this year's Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce annual economic growth tour got their first look at the ...
Joplin is the main hub of the three-county Joplin-Miami, Missouri-Oklahoma Metro area, which is home to 210,077 people; this makes the city the fifth largest metropolitan area in Missouri. In May 2011, a violent EF5 tornado killed more than 150 people and destroyed one-third of the city.
(The Center Square) – A Missouri delegation is focusing on border security after being briefed with an Operation Lone Star Task Force led by Goliad County, Texas, Sheriff Roy Boyd. The ...
This includes Joplin, a southwestern Missouri town located near the Oklahoma and Kansas state lines in Carter’s district, roughly 1,000 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border.
Jasper County is located in the southwest portion of the U.S. state of Missouri.As of the 2020 census, the population was 122,761. [1] Its county seat is Carthage, [2] and its largest city is Joplin.
The Tri-State district was a historic lead-zinc mining district located in present-day southwest Missouri, southeast Kansas and northeast Oklahoma. The district produced lead and zinc for over 100 years. Production began in the 1850s and 1860s in the Joplin - Granby area of Jasper and Newton counties of southwest Missouri. Production was ...
A southwest Missouri city improperly spent $120,000 from a restricted trust fund and paid $17,000 to a business owned by a former mayor. A former local prosecutor in Kansas stole electronics and ...
The district includes Springfield, the home of Missouri State University, the Joplin, Missouri, metropolitan area, Missouri's 5th largest, and the popular tourist destination city of Branson. Located along the borders of Kansas , Oklahoma , and Northwest Arkansas , the district occupies part of the Bible Belt with a strong socially conservative ...