I was recently invited to attend the 2026 Teaching Personal Finance Conference at Stanford University. I spent a full day ...

JOPLIN, Mo. (KOAM) -- The City of Joplin is warning of a Main Street closure due to the Missouri Southern Homecoming Parade.

A county board in Virginia is suing to stop the construction of President Donald Trump’s “Triumphal arch,” bringing another legal challenge to the controversial 250-foot project.

When South African jurist Navi Pillay won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, she happened to be at a conference at the Nuremberg Court in Germany, where the landmark ...

When Johnson County, Kansas, firefighters heard about a pet stuck in a tree, they surely weren't expecting one with scales.

The City of Joplin is providing an update as crews near the end of its major improvement projects. The projects were made ...

In a damning interview, a former senior aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that the Israeli leader was warned internally of the potential for war ahead of ...

Shannon Becker shared his top three biggest local stories of the week, featuring a DWI crash investigation in Joplin and a ...

The Joplin Regional Airport welcomes a new boarding bridge for passengers, and details of a new veterans facility heading to ...

A 77-year-old Afton, Oklahoma, man died Thursday after his vehicle left the road and struck an embankment in Ottawa County, ...

Isaias has strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 120 mph, according to a special update from the ...

About 6:15 p.m. Wednesday, October 7, 2026, Miami Police conducted a traffic stop on a motorcycle near 20th Ave NW and F St NW.