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Negotiators from the Kansas House and Senate are moving closer to a deal on canceling all or part of a scheduled drop in the ...
Missouri's 2013 legislative session has come to an end.The House and Senate each wrapped up their work Friday shortly aft...
Republicans in the Kansas House have drafted a new plan for cutting income taxes in hopes of breaking stalemate on tax issues...
The Kansas Legislature's top Republican leaders are acknowledging that their private negotiations on tax issues have hit ...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has vetoed legislation that would have repealed a tax break for low-income seniors and disabled r...
A $7.1 billion general appropriations bill to fund state government for the upcoming fiscal year has cleared its first hu...
Kansas Senate President Susan Wagle says her chamber and the House are narrowing their differences over canceling a scheduled...
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin has been pushing for a tax cut for two years. Today she signed a bill to cut the state's to...
Missouri lawmakers have passed a nearly $25 billion budget that could force Gov. Jay Nixon to choose between aiding child...
The Oklahoma House has approved a $7.1 billion bill to fund state government for the upcoming fiscal year, despite object...
Missouri lawmakers have given final approval to an income tax cut for businesses and individuals that could reduce state reve...
Governor Jay Nixon is warning of layoffs if legislators pass a budget that reduces money for Missouri's motor vehicle div...
Governor Sam Brownback and the Kansas Legislature's top GOP leaders are negotiating over additional cuts in income taxes ...
A $7.1 billion general appropriations bill to fund state government for the upcoming fiscal year has cleared its first hu...
A 52-year-old Barton County man is facing child pornography charges after being indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday. T...
They'd been told all their lives they couldn't play, but last night, 47 people from the ages of 5 to 20 did just that...
Missouri lawmakers have until Friday to finalize the state's roughly $25 billion operating budget. The House and Sena...
Two people are in custody for an assault and robbery that happened in Joplin back on April 17th. The victim said she drove to...
The Missouri House has passed a plan to increase funding for the state mental hospital, the Capitol and the park system.Democ...
People fired for missing work and not following company rules could have a harder time claiming unemployment benefits in Miss...
Three men are in custody after a reported kidnapping and robbery in Reeds Monday night. Captain Derek Walrod of the Jasper Co...
Neosho School District officials held an active school shooter safety drill last week. Staff participated in hands-on demonst...
There's been a great deal of talk about requiring states to collect sales taxes when you buy something online. Missouri S...
If you've got old prescription medicines around the house, you can safely get rid of them Saturday. There will be drug ta...
A bill passed by the Missouri Senate to grant $15-million to Joplin for road and curb repair after the May 2011 tornado i...
A Joplin 8th grade teacher who's on administrative leave is saying more about his situation. Randy Turner was placed on l...
The Joplin Humane Society's teaming up with a national group dedicated to saving the lives of animals. Tianna Fisher of t...
The Missouri House has passed legislation that would trim the state's income tax and raise the sales tax as part of an ec...
Gov. Mary Fallin and Republican legislative leaders have announced a plan to cut Oklahoma's top personal income tax rate ...
Last month, bullying got in the face of Carl Junction residents. Luke Nugent, an 8th grader, took his own life after apparent...
Plans for Joplin's redevelopment after the May 2011 tornado continue moving along. David Wallace with the city's mast...
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has signed a bill into law to block tax breaks for abortion providers and ban abortions perform...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon continues to campaign for expanding Medicaid coverage. At a rally at the State Capitol Tuesday, N...
Missouri lawmakers are looking to renew an economic development program that has provided about $120 million of tax credi...
An 8-month girl from Grove is now in a Tulsa hospital after an Amber Alert was issued for her Friday. The alert was issued fo...
The Social Security Administration says one of its fraud investigators received a readable list of Missourians who have conce...
The Missouri House speaker says lawmakers will take action if Governor Nixon fails to order the release of records in recent ...
Attorney General Chris Koster says he won't appeal a federal court ruling striking down a Missouri law that exempted mora...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon was in Carthage Wednesday to continue his push to expand Medicaid. Nixon wants to make another 30...
A group of abortion rights activists delivered about 1,600 signed petitions to Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's office urging ...
A bill Kansas Governor Sam Brownback signed into law last week was inspired by a Cherokee County case. The law, which takes e...
The Kansas Senate has approved a sweeping anti-abortion bill that blocks tax breaks for providers and outlaws abortions solel...
Legislation authorizing $1.5 billion in bonds to bolster the Kansas pension system for teachers and government workers ha...
A Republican-led House committee has approved legislation that would expand Missouri's Medicaid program but not as greatl...
The man accused of plotting to blow up churches in Miami isn't mentally fit to stand trial..at least not now. A judge in ...
Kansas Senators have sent a bill to Governor Sam Brownback that would require residents who receive welfare and unemployment ...
A Pittsburg couple is in custody after they were arrested on drug charges this morning. 41-year-old Arturo Archuleta and 44-y...
A State Senator from Joplin says the Missouri Senate will hold up a budget for the state Revenue Department until it gets ans...
For the first time in over four years, both the US House and Senate have each presented a federal budget. Missouri Congressma...
You've heard of baby showers. Saturday, the Joplin Humane Society is having a shower for puppies and kittens. Tianna Fish...
The Kansas Senate has given final approval to a $14 billion budget for the next fiscal year that starts July 1.Thursday&#...
The Kansas House has given first-round approval to bill cutting sales and income taxes after rejecting a diversion of highway...
How big ofa problem is teen suicide? Debbie Fitzgerald of the Ozark Center in Joplin tells News Talk KZRG it's bigger tha...
The Kansas House has given first-round approval to a proposed $14 billion state budget for the fiscal year that starts Ju...
Kansas House members are preparing to debate a proposed $14 billion state budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1. ...
Missouri House Speaker Tim Jones was in Joplin this morning meeting with business leaders. One big topic was a bill passed in...
Joplin is getting its own Salvation Army emergency response vehicle. Callie Hudson with the Salvation Army tells News Talk KZ...
Republican Governor Sam Brownback's plan to cancel a scheduled decline in the state sales tax has survived a vote in the ...
Missouri's Republican-led Legislature has repeatedly defeated a plan to expand Medicaid under President Barack Obama'...
Missouri senators have passed legislation that would cut income taxes for residents and businesses but raise the state sales ...
An animal rights group held a protest outside a Joplin Walmart this morning. Mercy For Animals doesn't like the way pork ...
A Kansas House committee has approved a sweeping anti-abortion bill that prevents groups providing abortion services from bei...
The Missouri House has endorsed the creation of several new tax breaks intended to lure high-tech businesses and foreign trad...
NewsTalk KZRG is excited about the continued growth and opportunity presented by social media such as Facebook, Twitter, YouT...
It won't be long before kids with disabilities will be playing baseball at Will Norton Miracle Field at the Joplin Athlet...
Missouri House Republicans have given a resounding `no' to Democratic plans to expand Medicaid.Two separate House committ...
An Oklahoma Senate committee has approved a bill calling for an investigation into the state's care of people who are eli...
President Obama's suggestion to raise the minimum wage to $9 an hour isn't supported by Missouri Senator Roy Blun...
Republican leaders in the Kansas House say there's very little support in their chamber for Governor Sam Brownback's ...
A coalition of Oklahoma chambers of commerce this week released an eleven point plan to create more jobs in the state. One pa...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon was in Joplin this afternoon to push his plan to expand Medicaid by making another 300,000 Missou...
Governor Sam Brownback is meeting resistance to his tax plan because it promises to reduce individual income taxes in the fut...
Barton County has gotten a "poor" rating from Missouri State Auditor Tom Schweich. He says there were inadequate an...
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says it received a record number of initial gun license applications last month.OS...
A Facebook page has been set up to remember Monica Webb, the Joplin woman who was killed by her estranged husband last Novemb...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon was a guest on the KZRG Morning News Watch this morning, talking about proposals made in his Stat...
Researchers for the Kansas Legislature are projecting that Governor Sam Brownback's plan for more income tax cuts would c...
Kansas Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan is telling legislators that Kansas must further reduce individual income tax rates to re...
Missouri first-graders would have to take a gun safety course under a bill being considered by a state Senate committee.Sen. ...
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is vowing to back a ballot initiative to restore limits on campaign contribution if lawmakers refuse ...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon is calling on lawmakers to expand Medicaid coverage for low-income adults and authorize hundreds ...
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback is proposing to eliminate an income tax deduction for the property taxes paid by home owners.Le...
Kansas officials are gauging public opinion about opportunities for bicycling and walking around the state.The Kansas Departm...
Governor Sam Brownback has urged abortion opponents outside the Kansas Statehouse to ``keep marching'' and ``keep mov...
A Missouri House bill aims to restrict the use of cash welfare benefits at casinos and liquor stores. The bill's sponsor,...
A Kansas Senate leader is preparing legislation to require drug testing for people who receive cash assistance from the state...
About 200Barton County Electric Co-op customers in Barton County and northern Jasper County lost power late this afternoon af...
The 2013 session of the Kansas Legislature began today with a protest. About 100 people protested outside theStatehouseagains...
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback is proposing a $10 million initiative to boost mental health services to targeted populatio...
The Oklahoma Attorney General's Office is urging a Delaware County judge to dismiss the latest appeal of a man sentenced ...
Racism. That's how Atlanta-based Urban Metropolitan Development explains the criminal charges against them for work done ...
A national survey ranks Kansas at the bottom among states in being prepared for public health emergencies, terrorism incident...
A Galena man has been sentenced to just over three and a half years in federal prison for possesison of child porn and traffi...
Authorities say at least 26 people, including 18 children, were killed Friday when a gunman opened fire inside a Connecticut ...
A 17-year-old being charged with first degree murder for a Joplin man's death is being challenged. Attorneys for Daniel H...
The number of people who are homeless in Missouri is on the rise. Theresa Porter of the federal Housing agency tells News Tal...
The company that manages a southwest Missouri apartment building where five people died in a Thanksgiving Day fire had disabl...
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback says federal officials have granted the state permission to overhaul its Medicaid program.The d...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon yesterday announced his support for expanding Medicaid eligibility for 300,000 Missourians as par...
The Oklahoma Insurance Department has spent more than $180,000 on high-tech shotguns, bulletproof vests and seven police-...
Missouri House Republicans plan to sponsor campaign finance legislation designed to make it easier to track political spendin...
Governor Jay Nixon says expanding Medicaid eligibility in Missouri is both ``the smart thing'' and ``the right thing ...
The Joplin Humane Society is getting into the holiday spirit. Tianna Fisher with the Humane Society tells News Talk KZRG thei...
The Community Foundation of Southwest Missouri has donated $20,000 toward construction of a baseball field and playground...
A Joplin home for developmentally-disabled adults will start their physical rebuilding process tomorrow with a groundbreaking...
More Missourians die by suicide than by DWI or homicide. A statewide coalition of universities is now making a suicide preven...
A 29-year-old former Carl Junction police officer is facing up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to possessing ch...
A southwest Missouri man admits that he collected thousands of photos and videos of child pornography in the last 10 to 15 ye...
Northeast Oklahoma's new Congressman is a Republican. Markwayne Mullin defeated Democrat Rob Wallace in Tuesday's ele...
Missouri voters have rejected a measure that would have sharply increased the state's lowest-in-the-nation tobacco tax.Tu...
Mercy Joplin held an open house and ribbon cutting for their newly-reopened Orthopedic Clinic Wednesday afternoon. Mercy Spok...
A local animal boarding business is holding an open house this weekend for their new animal rescue division. Mary Ann Schlau,...
The Joplin Humane Society is holding its first ever Pit Bull Awareness Day on Saturday. Lysa Buehler of the Humane Society te...
An eighth person has pleaded guilty in a Medicaid fraud scheme involving home health care billings in southeast Kansas.Thirty...
Businesses affiliated with the husband of Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill received almost $40 million of federal subsidies...
A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder's lawsuit challenging the federal heal...
A faith-based group dedicated to helping abused and sexually exploited women is holding their first 5K next week. Leandria Ni...
The Joplin Humane Society's holding an "offsite" adoption event today. Outreach Coordinator Tianna Fisher tells...
If you've got any unused prescription medicines in your home, you can get rid of them safely on Saturday. Cherokee County...
A Joplin center that treats traumatized children has received a federal grant that will help it expand. Governor Jay Nixon an...
Two people are in custody after a traffic stop in Galena. Cherokee County Sheriff David Groves tells News Talk KZRG what went...
Experts say Oklahoma is leading the nation in prescription drug abuse and that the problem will continue to get worse unless ...
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt has amended a federal lawsuit that challenges the nation's health care overhaul la...
Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin is gaining support from some women who think he's getting a bad deal. About 300 peo...
The Joplin City Council is going to start work this week on its 2013 budget. Work sessions are scheduled Wednesday through Fr...
Three women have accused a Joplin man of sexually assaulting them. 21-year-old Jacob Blackburn will go on trial for two count...
Missouri lawmakers have overridden Governor Jay Nixon's veto of a bill expanding religious exceptions for insurance cover...
Governor Jay Nixon says tax credit reform will be a priority issue when the Missouri Legislature convenes next year. Nixon sp...
Joplin's City Manager wants to boost the pension fund for public safety employees by $1-million.Mark Rohrtells News T...
A Joplin lawmaker is amonga newlegislative committeestudying child abuse and neglect in Missouri. State Representative BillLa...
Four Joplin-area drug stores are being closed by Walgreens. A spokesman tells News Talk KZRG in an email that the Vista Pharm...
Four Joplin-area drug stores are being closed by Walgreens. A spokesman tells News Talk KZRG in an email that the Vista Pharm...
A Cole County judge has revised the wording that Missouri voters will see in November on a health care ballot measure. Judge ...
A Cole County judge has revised the wording that Missouri voters will see in November on a health care ballot measure. Judge ...
A Cole County judge has revised the wording that Missouri voters will see in November on a health care ballot measure. Judge ...
The Mayor of Sheldon was arrested Friday. Vernon County Sheriff Ron Peckman tells News Talk KZRG what Robert Sewell is accuse...
The Mayor of Sheldon was arrested Friday. Vernon County Sheriff Ron Peckman tells News Talk KZRG what Robert Sewell is accuse...
Five people are in custody after law enforcement searched a Galena home Friday and found signs of a meth lab. Cherokee County...
The Missouri Supreme Court has declined to set execution dates for six condemned killers, saying doing so is "premature&...
A former Joplin public defender is now suing the city. Tom Mann says his reputation was damaged and business suffered after t...
A former Joplin public defender is now suing the city. Tom Mann says his reputation was damaged and business suffered after t...
A Pittsburg clinic is getting a much needed shot of growth hormone. The Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas has begun...
A Pittsburg clinic is getting a much needed shot of growth hormone. The Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas has begun...
The mother of an 18-month-old girl who was severely abused has now been charged in the child's assault. 22-year-old Gina ...
The mother of an 18-month-old girl who was severely abused has now been charged in the child's assault. 22-year-old Gina ...
Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder is forging ahead with his lawsuit against President Obama's federal health care...
Hundreds, if not thousands, turned out to the two Chick-Fil-A restaurants in Joplin to show their support for the businesses....
Hundreds, if not thousands, turned out to the two Chick-Fil-A restaurants in Joplin to show their support for the businesses....
Missouri Senator Roy Blunt was in Joplin this afternoon to meet with civic and business leaders to hear their concerns. One t...
Missouri Senator Roy Blunt was in Joplin this afternoon to meet with civic and business leaders to hear their concerns. One t...
The intense heat the Four States has been dealing with means your AC is running more, which means higher power bills. Julie M...
The intense heat the Four States has been dealing with means your AC is running more, which means higher power bills. Julie M...
Missouri Southern State University has unveiled a master plan for changing the campus over the next 25 years. University Pres...
Missouri Southern State University has unveiled a master plan for changing the campus over the next 25 years. University Pres...
She pleads guilty to money laundering and conspiring to deal more than a million and a half dollars worth of prescription dru...
An adoption case that's gone on for five years has a happy ending for a Carthage couple. In 2007, Seth and Melinda Moser ...
Drought usually leads to fewer crops, which usually leads to higher food prices. Ed Browning of the Jasper County Extension O...
Joplin Police have a man in custody in connection with a shooting Sunday afternoon. Police tell News Talk KZRG they were call...
Joplin Police are currently seeking a missing child. Jack Woolever, age 10, has been missing from the 800 block of South Serg...
Joplin Police are currently seeking a missing child. Jack Woolever, age 10, has been missing from the 800 block of South Serg...
Missouri Governor Nixon has vetoed legislation that would have allowed employers to decline to provide coverage for abortion,...
Executions will continue in Oklahoma. Attorney General Scott Pruitt tells News Talk KZRG the Sooner state has secured 20 new ...
Jasper County Sheriff Archie Dunn says he's getting special treatment..but not in a good way. Dunn tells News Talk KZRG t...
Webb City officials are trying to get part of the town placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Parts of Webb City...
Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill continues to stick up for President Obama's health care law. During an appearance in Jo...
The company that owns May's Drug and Drug Warehouse is being purchased by Walgreen's. USA Drug, which has 144 stores ...
The company that owns May's Drug and Drug Warehouse is being purchased by Walgreen's. USA Drug, which has 144 stores ...
One of the talking points in this election year is that the US Senate hasn't passed a budget in over three years, yet Mis...
One of the talking points in this election year is that the US Senate hasn't passed a budget in over three years, yet Mis...
A mosque in Joplin was saved from destruction after a passerby noticed it was on fire early Wednesday morning. The Jasper Cou...
Two people are facing drug charges after they were arrested Tuesday afternoon in Pittsburg. The Southeast Kansas Drug Enforce...
Two people are facing drug charges after they were arrested Tuesday afternoon in Pittsburg. The Southeast Kansas Drug Enforce...
This is the time for small businesses in Missouri to create jobs and grow. That was Governor Jay Nixon's message Wednesda...
Two men from Carl Junction are in custody after meth was found during a search at their home. The Jasper County Drug Task For...
This is the time for small businesses in Missouri to create jobs and grow. That was Governor Jay Nixon's message Wednesda...
Missouri Congressman Todd Akin says Monday's US Supreme Court ruling on Arizona's immigration law is "a mixed ba...
Secretary of State Kris Kobach says a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Arizona's immigration law gives Kansas legislators a g...
Police say she was passing around funny money in Grove. 42-year-old Marilee Henderson of Noel is in custody in the McDonald C...
Police say she was passing around funny money in Grove. 42-year-old Marilee Henderson of Noel is in custody in the McDonald C...
Missouri's public colleges and universities will be taking a state budget cut for the third straight year. Governor Jay N...
A dental college in Kansas? That's the suggestion from a task force appointed by the Kansas Board of Regents. The task fo...
Joplin police are investigating a possible child abuse case that has an 18-month-old child hospitalized. Corporal Chuck Niess...
Joplin police are investigating a possible child abuse case that has an 18-month-old child hospitalized. Corporal Chuck Niess...
A pastor from Duenweg has been sentenced to three years and ten months in federal prison for having child pornography. 53-yea...
Joplin Police have arrested a suspect for Monday's robbery of the UMB Bank at 21st and Maiden Lane. 35-year-old Wesley Os...
A Missouri sheriff says his department responded to its first "domestic texting'' call after two people carried ...
A Missouri sheriff says his department responded to its first "domestic texting'' call after two people carried ...
There's going to be something unusual this morning at 7th and Main in Joplin. An animal rights group called Mercy For Ani...
There's going to be something unusual this morning at 7th and Main in Joplin. An animal rights group called Mercy For Ani...
Kansas officials will hold two public hearings this month on the governor's plan to overhaul the state's $2.9 bil...
The Kansas attorney general's office paid outside lawyers more than $644,000 to defend anti-abortion laws enacted las...
A rally at the Missouri Capitol has drawn about 200 people opposing a federal mandate requiring employers to provide health i...
Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich is beginning a review of the state Senate. The last audit of the Legislature was completed in 2...
An incorrect name on a press release has upset a Joplin family. Lisa Dentis tells News Talk KZRG a press release sent out by ...
An incorrect name on a press release has upset a Joplin family. Lisa Dentis tells News Talk KZRG a press release sent out by ...
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt says he's appealing a judge's ruling that struck down a state law restricting ...
A press release issued by the Jasper County Sheriff's Office about the child sex predator program's compliance check ...
Women who have been abused, sexually assaulted or involved in prostitution are invited to attend a support group meeting toni...
Three people were arrested in a prostitution sting set up by the Joplin Police Department late last week. Arrested Thursday w...
Three people were arrested in a prostitution sting set up by the Joplin Police Department late last week. Arrested Thursday w...
Governor Mary Fallin says her plan to cut and eventually eliminate Oklahoma's personal income tax was doomed by intense l...
Kansas House Speaker Mike O'Neal is retiring from office.The Hutchinson Republican announced his retirement Friday as leg...
Governor Mary Fallin has signed into law a $6.8 billion budget bill to fund Oklahoma state government for the fiscal year...
Joplin residents on public assistance or low incomes can get their dogs and cats spayed, neutered and vaccinated for low cost...
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin is acknowledging a deal to cut the state's income tax won't be reached before lawmakers...
A contractor who was hired to demolish three tornado-damaged schools in Joplin is now accusing the school district of racial ...
Joplin Police are investigating the death of a three month old child. They were called to the Northpark Apartments on Newman ...
The anesthetic that caused the overdose death of pop star Michael Jackson is now the drug for executions in Missouri. That...
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin is acknowledging a deal to cut the state's income tax won't be reached before lawmakers...
A former employee of a YMCA camp in Lawrence County has pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of children. 29-year-old Matthe...
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin yesterday signed legislation that bans registered sex offenders from living with minor children...
Governor Mary Fallin and leaders of the Oklahoma Legislature are nearing an agreement on a $6.6 billion for state spendin...
Kansas legislators have given final approval to a $14.3 billion budget, allowing them to close out a contentious annual s...
The Kansas Legislature has given final approval to a bill aimed at bolstering the long-term financial health of the state'...
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin and the Republican-controlled Legislature have reached an agreement on a nearly one-half of 1 p...
The Kansas Legislature has given final approval to a bill aimed at bolstering the long-term financial health of the state'...
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin and the Republican-controlled Legislature have reached an agreement on a nearly one-half of 1 p...
If your home was damaged by last May's Joplin tornado and you haven't filed an insurance claim yet, you'd better ...
The Joplin Area Catholic Schools are holding a memorial concert this Saturday to remember last year's deadly EF-5 tornado...
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will be holding a low-cost spay and neuter clinic in Joplin. Ti...
Negotiators from the Kansas House and Senate are back at work on a new state budget. Talks resumed today after the conferees ...
Secretary of State Kris Kobach is asking a federal court to settle political redistricting issues for the Kansas Legislature....
Legislation allowing Missouri school districts to sell advertising space on buses has been stopped by a Senate committee.The ...
Legislation allowing Missouri school districts to sell advertising space on buses has been stopped by a Senate committee.The ...
Senate leaders are unveiling a revenue-neutral plan to slash the income tax by one-half of 1 percent over the next two years ...
Legislative negotiators in Kansas have suspended talks on a new state budget with major issues still unresolved.House and Sen...
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is conceding that state legislators have effectively killed his proposal to require fir...
The Kansas House has rejected an effort to repeal a 2004 law allowing some illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition at publ...
Governor Sam Brownback says Kansas legislators should keep working on tax issues even though they've already sent him a b...
Missouri budget negotiators have agreed to keep a program that providescoverage for the blind, but they've also attempted...
Two grants were handed outthis morning from the Joplin Recovery Fund. The Community Foundation of Southwest Missouri'sMic...
A Carl Junction man has admitted to authorities that not only does he download child pornography, but he's also been sexu...
A Carl Junction man has admitted to authorities that not only does he download child pornography, but he's also been sexu...
Most Missouri employees could get a pay raise under a deal reached by legislative budget negotiators. House and Senate budget...
The Joplin Recovery Fund will award two grants on Tuesday. Lafayette House will receive $100,000 for a domestic violence ...
Most Missouri employees could get a pay raise under a deal reached by legislative budget negotiators. House and Senate budget...
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is looking into the suspicious death of an 8-month-old boy in Commerce. Police ask...
Two people from Riverton are in custody after a narcotics search at their home this morning. Cherokee County Sheriff David Gr...
Two people from Riverton are in custody after a narcotics search at their home this morning. Cherokee County Sheriff David Gr...
Two men from Joplin were chargd in separate cases in federal court for receiving kiddie porn on the internet. They were arres...
Two men from Joplin were chargd in separate cases in federal court for receiving kiddie porn on the internet. They were arres...
Missouri lawmakers have delayed formal negotiations on the state budget until at least Thursday. A budget conference committe...
The Oklahoma House has given final approval to House Speaker Kris Steele's sweeping criminal justice overhaul bill.The Ho...
The Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas will receive 4-point-7 million dollars from the Department of Health and Huma...
Convicted arsonists would be banned from working as firefighters under legislation that Governor Mary Fallin signed yesterday...
An Anderson man will spend 17 and a half years in jail for getting child pornography over the internet. 31-year-old Jason Far...
Two inmates at the Newton County Jail tried to hang themselves Monday night. Captain Richard Leavins tells News Talk KZRG qui...
Two inmates at the Newton County Jail tried to hang themselves Monday night. Captain Richard Leavins tells News Talk KZRG qui...
Missouri teens would need their parents' permission to use tanning facilities under a bill endorsed by the state House. T...
It's been 11 months since the deadly EF-5 tornado that wiped out thousands of homes and hundreds of businesses in Joplin ...
It's been 11 months since the deadly EF-5 tornado that wiped out thousands of homes and hundreds of businesses in Joplin ...
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt has told Gov. Sam Brownback and legislative leaders that failing to agree on a congress...
A man from Golden has pleaded guilty in federal court to producing child pornography. 34-year-old Timothy Stringer admitted u...
A prostitution sting held by Joplin Police officers led to five women being arrested earlier this month. Lieutenant Brian Lew...
A prostitution sting held by Joplin Police officers led to five women being arrested earlier this month. Lieutenant Brian Lew...
It's the start of road construction season in Missouri, and the folks at the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT...
If you've got old, expired medications in your home, you can get rid of them this coming Saturday. Pittsburg Police, the ...
Abortion was a big topic this week at the Missouri Capitol. State Representative Charlie Davis tells News Talk KZRG debate on...
A Joplin man has been charged with scond degree statutory rape and incest. The Jasper County Sheriff's Office received a ...
A Joplin man has been charged with scond degree statutory rape and incest. The Jasper County Sheriff's Office received a ...
Area business leaders and broadband stakeholders met at the Joplin Public Library today to discuss plans to make broadband in...
Eighteen dogs ranging from American bulldogs to poodles have been removed from a now shuttered commercial breeding facility i...
Eighteen dogs ranging from American bulldogs to poodles have been removed from a now shuttered commercial breeding facility i...
Missouri lawmakers are still trying to fine-tune the next fiscal year's budget. State Representative Charlie Davis says t...
If you were affected by last May's deadly tornado in Joplin and Duquesne, the Salvation Army has something for you. They&...
If you were affected by last May's deadly tornado in Joplin and Duquesne, the Salvation Army has something for you. They&...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon is restoring about $6.8 million that he previously cut from the state's public education ...
A Joplin man is accused of trying to get a prescription pain-killer with a forged prescription. 53-year-old Charles Miller br...
Missouri Lawmakers are talking about a plan to give veterans accused of relatively minor crimes an alternative to jail or pri...
Missouri Lawmakers are talking about a plan to give veterans accused of relatively minor crimes an alternative to jail or pri...
The Vernon County Republican party is having a fundraiser tonight (April 6) in Nevada. Jerry Wadel, chairman of the County Re...
A Missouri Senate committee wants to seek federal stimulus money to help unemployed workers finish their college education. T...
A Missouri Senate committee wants to seek federal stimulus money to help unemployed workers finish their college education. T...
Delaware County residents will be paying an extra half cent sales tax after voting overwhelmingly for the tax Tuesday. More t...
Voters in Columbus, Frontenac and Carl Junction all passed issues on the ballot related to taxes yesterday. In Carl Junction,...
Sweeping proposals by the governor and other GOP leaders to dramatically slash, and ultimately eliminate, the state's inc...
The Joplin Humane Society's pretty happy with this past weekend's Pet-a-Palooza event. Outreach Coordinator Tianna Fi...
Fewer abortions were performed in Kansas in 2011, marking the fifth consecutive year the numbers have dropped. The Kansas Dep...
An agreement among Kansas legislators over a proposed $14.1 billion state budget has unraveled.House negotiators backed a...
Women's rights groups say they've delivered petitions bearing 35,000 signatures to the speaker of the Missouri House ...
An Oklahoma judge has struck down a state law that requires women seeking abortions to have an ultrasound and listen to a det...
The Ozark Center in Joplin spent some time earlier this week with Joplin school district students to help them know how to de...
This Friday and Saturday are going to be busy at the Joplin Humane Society. Tianna Fisher tells News Talk KZRG they're te...
This Friday and Saturday are going to be busy at the Joplin Humane Society. Tianna Fisher tells News Talk KZRG they're te...
The Joplin Humane Society's hoping you can help them win $100,000. The animal shelter's one of 108 competing in t...
Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill is relying heavily on money from out-of-state donors to counteract a barrage of ads by out-of-...
Negotiators for the Kansas House and Senate are working on the final version of a $14.1 billion state budget. Three senat...
May 11th. That's when Christopher Collings will find out what his sentence will be for killing 9-year-old Rowan Ford in N...
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback's proposal for reducing income tax rates cleared a House committee, but it's unclear if...
A jury has recommended the death penalty for a southwest Missouri man who confessed to raping and killing a friend's 9-ye...
A jury has recommended the death penalty for a southwest Missouri man who confessed to raping and killing a friend's 9-ye...
Christopher Collings' biological father and some of his siblings testified Thursday in the penalty phase of his murder tr...
The Missouri House has passed a $24 billion state budget for fiscal 2013 that holds funding steady for education but cuts...
The Delaware County prosecutor filed paperwork this week to bring a Kansas inmate to Oklahoma to stand trial for the death of...
The Delaware County prosecutor filed paperwork this week to bring a Kansas inmate to Oklahoma to stand trial for the death of...
The Kansas Senate's decision to reverse course and pass a bill cutting taxes came after Governor Sam Brownback and his st...
The Kansas Senate's decision to reverse course and pass a bill cutting taxes came after Governor Sam Brownback and his st...
The sentencing phase of Christopher Collings' murder trial is finished for today. After finding him guilty of first degre...
Christopher Collings was found guilty yesterday of the 2007 rape and murder of 9-year-old Rowan Ford of Stella. Now jurors mu...
A jury in Rolla has foundChristopher Collings guilty of first degree murderfor the strangulation of 9-year-old Rowan Ford in ...
The Kansas Senate has given first-round approval to a bill cutting taxes after rejecting proposals from Governor Sam Brownbac...
The Missouri House has defeated an attempt to boost funding for the blind by cutting money that would provide treatment to we...
The Kansas House has approved a $14.1 billion state budget that cuts overall spending by about $600 million, or 4 per...
For the second straight year, Governor Jay Nixon has vetoed legislation changing the rules for lawsuits alleging workplace di...
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback's proposal for reducing income tax rates cleared a House committee, but it's unclear if...
Former Missouri running back Derrick Washington will have to wait to resolve a cluster of criminal charges that led to his di...
Bill Barker's been charged with voluntary manslaughter for a Monday night shooting in Galena. Barker is accused of shooti...
Bill Barker's been charged with voluntary manslaughter for a Monday night shooting in Galena. Barker is accused of shooti...
Opponents of redrawn Missouri Senate districts have dropped their federal lawsuit, bringing some clarity to an otherwise chao...
Missouri House budget committee chairman Ryan Silvey says it appears Governor Nixon is going overboard in his criticism of th...
Kansas House members have given first-round approval legislation cutting state income tax rates and abolishing the sales tax ...
Three people were arrested in Pittsburg Friday night after Police executed a narcotics search warrant. A home on South Pine w...
The Kansas House has delayed debate on a bill that would cut the state's sales and income taxes in what supporters see as...
Three people were arrested in Pittsburg Friday night after Police executed a narcotics search warrant. A home on South Pine w...
Oklahoma legislative leaders are shelving a plan to comply with the new federal health care law and set up a state health ins...
Jury selection in Platte Countyhas wrapped up for aMcDonald County man accused in the 2007rape and murder of a Stella girl. C...
Jury selection in Platte Countyhas wrapped up for aMcDonald County man accused in the 2007rape and murder of a Stella girl. C...
A bipartisan group of Kansas legislators wants Governor Sam Brownback to delay his proposed changes in the state's Medica...
Missouri House budget writers have endorsed a spending plan that reverses Gov. Jay Nixon's proposed cuts to public colleg...
A Democrat in the Kansas House faces an investigation into whether he intentionally misled colleagues during a debate last mo...
Last Monday, a student at an Ohio school shot and killed three people. Joplin almost had a similar incident on its hands in 2...
Three people are in custody after Cherokee County authorities investigated illegal drug activity in Galena. Sheriff David Gro...
Three people are in custody after Cherokee County authorities investigated illegal drug activity in Galena. Sheriff David Gro...
Debate rages on over a proposal that would make all Missouri drivers exams be only available in English. Adolpho Castillo, a ...
Debate rages on over a proposal that would make all Missouri drivers exams be only available in English. Adolpho Castillo, a ...
A deadly school shooting in Ohio has News Talk KZRG asking Public School Superintendents in the Four States: are our children...
A deadly school shooting in Ohio has News Talk KZRG asking Public School Superintendents in the Four States: are our children...
A prosecutor has asked the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation to expand its inquest into alleged sexual misconduct involv...
"We have unmet needs of over $860,000."Valerie Searcy with the United Way of Southwest Missouri and Southeast K...
The City of Joplin's launching a program to give you some relief from the high cost of prescription medicine. Health Dire...
The City of Joplin's launching a program to give you some relief from the high cost of prescription medicine. Health Dire...
The City of Joplin's getting involved with helping you afford prescription medicine. City officials will hold a press con...
The City of Joplin's getting involved with helping you afford prescription medicine. City officials will hold a press con...
A Goodman man has pleaded guilty to receiving and distributing child pornography over the internet. Under a plea agreement, 2...
The Oklahoma state's Medical Examiner's office has ruled the death of a 17-month-old toddler from Quapaw a homicide. ...
A Goodman man has pleaded guilty to receiving and distributing child pornography over the internet. Under a plea agreement, 2...
There have been more meth lab busts in Kansas. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, the state had 172 meth lab b...
They're full again. The Joplin Humane Society took in 374 animals since February 1st, according to Outreach Coordinator T...
They're full again. The Joplin Humane Society took in 374 animals since February 1st, according to Outreach Coordinator T...
An Oklahoma House committee has narrowly rejected a bill that would require a prescription to purchase certain cold medicines...
Kansas isn't the only state looking at drug testing for some welfare recipients. A similar bill passed today in an Oklaho...
Over-the-counter sales of cold medicines that contain a key ingredient in making meth will continue after Oklahoma lawmakers ...
The Oklahoma Senate has overwhelmingly approved an anti-abortion ``personhood'' bill that declares life begins at con...
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin is laying out more details of her plan to cut the personal income tax for all Oklahomans and st...
Former Missouri running back Derrick Washington has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of domestic assault against an ex-...
A Kansas City bail bondsman has been found guilty in federal court of using a 12-year-old girl to make child pornography in N...
A bill to gradually increase the legal age to purchase tobacco in Oklahoma from 18 to 21 has passed out of a House committee....
Former Missouri running back Derrick Washington has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of domestic assault against an ex-...
A bill to gradually increase the legal age to purchase tobacco in Oklahoma from 18 to 21 has passed out of a House committee....
A Kansas City bail bondsman has been found guilty in federal court of using a 12-year-old girl to make child pornography in N...
A Kansas City bail bondsman has been found guilty in federal court of using a 12-year-old girl to make child pornography in N...
A Kansas City bail bondsman has been found guilty in federal court of using a 12-year-old girl to make child pornography in N...
The Joplin Humane Society's gearing up for a big event next month. Outreach Coordinator Tianna Fisher tells News Talk KZR...
Six Northeast Oklahoma Indian tribes are among 31 that will share in over 90 million dollars in Indian Housing Block Grants. ...
Six Northeast Oklahoma Indian tribes are among 31 that will share in over 90 million dollars in Indian Housing Block Grants. ...
The Joplin Humane Society is still packed, some 8-and-a-half months since the May 22nd tornado. Outreach Coordinator Tianna F...
The Joplin Humane Society is still packed, some 8-and-a-half months since the May 22nd tornado. Outreach Coordinator Tianna F...
The pastor of a Barton County church isn't seeking charges against two teens accused of writing a racial slur aimed at Hi...
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin is laying out more details of her plan to cut the personal income tax for all Oklahomans and st...
A state representative from Joplin is sponsoring a bill that would give a tax break for people who want to put in a storm she...
A state representative from Joplin is sponsoring a bill that would give a tax break for people who want to put in a storm she...
Southwest Missouri's Catholic Bishop is still unsure whether or not Joplin's St. Mary's Elementary School will be...
Southwest Missouri's Catholic Bishop is still unsure whether or not Joplin's St. Mary's Elementary School will be...
The University of Missouri system wants to increase tuition next year by 7.5 percent at its Columbia campus and even more at ...
The Grove postmaster was arrested over the weekend on sexual assault and domestic violence charges. Rogers County Sheriff Sco...
The Grove postmaster was arrested over the weekend on sexual assault and domestic violence charges. Rogers County Sheriff Sco...
A Missouri state lawmaker wants to make sure humans have more legal rights than animals. House Republican Ward Franz, of West...
The Joplin Family YMCA will partner with several local groups to build what's called a human services campus at the Offic...
Missouri Capitol Police are investigating the discovery of orange gun-target stickers found outside the offices of several st...
The Joplin Family YMCA will partner with several local groups to build what's called a human services campus at the Offic...
Another legal challenge over Missouri's redistricting process seeks to block new districts for the 163-member state House...
A Joplin woman is accused of taking drugs from a senior living center. Sharon Rhine of the Jasper County Sheriff's Office...
Two men from the KZRG listening area have been indicted for receiving and having child pornography. 19-year-old Christopher M...
The Joplin Humane Society has launched a new program that lets you become a foster parent of sorts to a four-legged friend. ...
The Joplin Humane Society has launched a new program that lets you become a foster parent of sorts to a four-legged friend. ...
Repeal 51 state laws. That's what Kansas Governor Sam Brownback is proposing. Last year Brownback created the Office of the R...
Joplin's Humane Society is using a new program to get more pets out the door and into homes. Outreach Coordinator Tianna Fis...
Joplin's Humane Society is using a new program to get more pets out the door and into homes. Outreach Coordinator Tianna Fis...
The Missouri House has passed a proposed constitutional amendment that would limit the amount the state budget can grow in o...
Four more years. That's what Cherokee County Sheriff David Groves wants, as he's filed papers to run for re-election. Groves ...
Around 150 people turned out for a roundtable discussion at Fairview Christian Church in Carthage concerningMercy McCune Broo...
Around 150 people turned out for a roundtable discussion at Fairview Christian Church in Carthage concerningMercy McCune Broo...
He'll balance Missouri's budget by making cuts. In his State of the State speech Tuesday, Governor Jay Nixon proposed a nearl...
He'll balance Missouri's budget by making cuts. In his State of the State speech Tuesday, Governor Jay Nixon proposed a nearl...
The Missouri Supreme Court has struck down new state Senate districts and ordered a further legal review of new U.S. House di...
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is expected to stress his job-creation efforts as he delivers his annual State of the State address ...
A 17 year old from Avilla is facing sexual misconduct charges after being arrested last week. The Jasper County Prosecutor's...
A 17 year old from Avilla is facing sexual misconduct charges after being arrested last week. The Jasper County Prosecutor's...
An Afton woman who stabbed her boyfriend to death last month isn't going to be charged. The District Attorney has dropped al...
An Afton woman who stabbed her boyfriend to death last month isn't going to be charged. The District Attorney has dropped al...
Kansas Corrections officials want to move some prisoners to Oswego. They want to renovate the old Labette Correctional Conser...
Kansas Corrections officials want to move some prisoners to Oswego. They want to renovate the old Labette Correctional Conser...
If you need shelter from the cold temperatures tonight, the City of Joplin won't be providing one. City Health Director Dan P...
If you need shelter from the cold temperatures tonight, the City of Joplin won't be providing one. City Health Director Dan P...
Three Guatemalan nationals from Carthage are among 14 people indicted in a scheme to make more than 3500 fake IDs for illegal...
Three Guatemalan nationals from Carthage are among 14 people indicted in a scheme to make more than 3500 fake IDs for illegal...
Lawmakers have brought an early `end' to the 2011 legislative session, but left open the possibility of returning next week t...
U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran says changes to the nation's health care system have to focus more than just on reducing costs to provi...
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback makes his State of the State address tonight in Topeka. The highlight is expected to be Brownba...
A man from Welch will spend the rest of his life behind bars. 48-year-old Michael Rice was sentenced Monday to life in priso...
A man from Welch will spend the rest of his life behind bars. 48-year-old Michael Rice was sentenced Monday to life in priso...
There was a full house for Monday night's Duquesne City Council meeting. The focus was on a proposed low income housing proje...
The City Council meeting in Duquesne tonight will prove to be interesting for people watching the rebuilding effort. A devel...
The City Council meeting in Duquesne tonight will prove to be interesting for people watching the rebuilding effort. A devel...
A bipartisan group of Kansas state senators wants to create a so-called rainy day fund for the state budget.The proposal woul...
The Humane Society of Missouri is taking temporary custody of 18 horses and donkeys found starving at a property in Vernon Co...
The Humane Society of Missouri is taking temporary custody of 18 horses and donkeys found starving at a property in Vernon Co...
A bipartisan group of Kansas state senators wants to create a so-called rainy day fund for the state budget.The proposal woul...
A former Jasper County public administrator has pleaded innocent to 12 counts of fraud and misuse of public funds. Rita Hunt...
A former Jasper County public administrator has pleaded innocent to 12 counts of fraud and misuse of public funds. Rita Hunt...
Halfway through Missouri's budget year, state revenues are sluggish.The state budget office reported Thursday that Missouri's...
Kansas officials are discussing ways to respond to overcrowded prisons in a time of tight state budgets. Kansas Corrections S...
Kansas lawmakerswon't be able toavoid a debate on illegal immigration after they open their annual session on January 9th. K...
A special ballot measure will let Delaware County voters choose how much of a tax increase they'll get to help pay off a sex...
Missouri officials are predicting a 3.9 increase in state revenue in the next fiscal year.The so-called consensus estimate of...
Access Family Care in Joplinreceived $57,415 in grant money this week from AmeriCares,an agency that deals with relief e...
The Jasper County Sheriff's Office could be facing some layoffs in the coming year. Sheriff Archie Dunn believes it's due to...
The Jasper County Sheriff's Office could be facing some layoffs in the coming year. Sheriff Archie Dunn believes it's due to...
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback says his administration has started studing proposals for overhauling the state's tax code, and...
While some places are running low on holiday gifts, the Joplin Humane Society doesn't have that problem. They've had almost ...
While some places are running low on holiday gifts, the Joplin Humane Society doesn't have that problem. They've had almost ...
A severe shortage of affordable rental housing in Joplin after the May 22nd tornado is complicating efforts by some domestic ...
Pittsburg officials have a new idea for a storm shelter in town. Last month, a proposal for a shelter that would hold five th...
A severe shortage of affordable rental housing in Joplin after the May 22nd tornado is complicating efforts by some domestic ...
Missouri officials are predicting a 3.9 increase in state revenue in the next fiscal year.The so-called consensus estimate of...
An Oklahoma death row inmate from Miami who is to be executed January 5 has been returned to prison after receiving treatmen...
An Oklahoma death row inmate from Miami who is to be executed January 5 has been returned to prison after receiving treatmen...
A member of the Joplin Salvation Army's trying to set a new world record today. Lt. James Curry tells News Talk KZRG he's go...
A member of the Joplin Salvation Army's trying to set a new world record today. Lt. James Curry tells News Talk KZRG he's go...
A Mexican citizen living in Monett has been charged with making kiddie porn. US Attorney Beth Phillips says 30 year old Jose ...
Oklahoma election officials say new voting machines being installed in the state will provide faster results and more data. T...
Oklahoma election officials say new voting machines being installed in the state will provide faster results and more data. T...
A Mexican citizen living in Monett has been charged with making kiddie porn. US Attorney Beth Phillips says 30 year old Jose ...
A former Jasper County officialwas indicted by a federal grand jury today for medicaid and social security fraud. US Attorne...
A former Jasper County officialwas indicted by a federal grand jury today for medicaid and social security fraud. US Attorne...
The Joplin Humane Society is hoping you'll spend part of your Saturday with them. Spokeswoman Tianna Fischer says if you'd l...
Kansas officials have agreed to have the state pay $350,000 to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit against former Attorn...
A tea party group in Kansas says its depiction of President Barack Obama as a skunk is satire, not racism as the leader of a...
A generous secret Santa returned again this year and dropped $50,000 in anonymous checks in a Salvation Army kettle in Jo...
A generous secret Santa returned again this year and dropped $50,000 in anonymous checks in a Salvation Army kettle in Jo...
About 780 families in need will be getting some help from a couple of groups in Pittsburg tomorrow and Friday. Ellie Foster i...
The Missouri labor department says it has discovered several people who received unemployment benefits while in prison. The ...
The Missouri labor department says it has discovered several people who received unemployment benefits while in prison. The ...
A tea party group in Kansas says its depiction of President Barack Obama as a skunk is satire, not racism as the leader of a...
It's not every day you hear the word "free" attached to something like legal services, but that's what a law firm'...
A special panel of judges has revised its new boundaries for the Missouri Senate after concerns were raised about a proposed...
A special panel of judges has revised its new boundaries for the Missouri Senate after concerns were raised about a proposed...
It's not every day you hear the word "free" attached to something like legal services, but that's what a law firm'...
The Joplin Humane Society is hoping you'll spend part of your Saturday with them. Spokeswoman Tianna Fischer says if you'd l...
The Delaware County Commission has figured out how it's going to pay $13.5 million it owes 15 former jail inmates in a s...
Drug task forces in Jasper and Vernon Counties will receive over 240-thousand dollars in grants to help them do their jobs. T...
The pastor of the First Baptist Church in Duenweg has admitted downloading child pornography from a website. Federal authorit...
They were just days away from a death sentence, but instead, 34 dogs rescued from a Missouri puppy mill have a chance at lif...
They were just days away from a death sentence, but instead, 34 dogs rescued from a Missouri puppy mill have a chance at lif...
There's another public meeting tonight about proposed low-income housing units being built in Joplin. The Joplin City Counci...
Part of a bill in the Missouri Senate designed to overhaul tax credits and business incentives has a local representative con...
No limits. That's what the Missouri Department of Insurance is saying to insurance companies that are putting time limits on...
No limits. That's what the Missouri Department of Insurance is saying to insurance companies that are putting time limits on...
About 150 people crowded into Joplin City Hall Monday night for a public hearing on proposed low-income housing units for the...
About 150 people crowded into Joplin City Hall Monday night for a public hearing on proposed low-income housing units for the...
The tornado that tore through Joplin just over 6 months ago not only changed the city's landscape, but also the way its poli...
The tornado that tore through Joplin just over 6 months ago not only changed the city's landscape, but also the way its poli...
The Missouri Housing Development Commission is having a second public hearing tonight in Joplin about proposed low-income an...
If the Super Committee in Washington fails to pass $1.2-trillion in budget cuts, automatic deductions will be taking effe...
If the Super Committee in Washington fails to pass $1.2-trillion in budget cuts, automatic deductions will be taking effe...
Missouri House Speaker Steven Tilley is dropping out of the 2012 lieutenant governor's race.The Republican from Perryville sa...
He was a fugitive from the law, hiding in plain sight. Deputies in Barry County arrested 64 year old James Brown near Cassvi...
He was a fugitive from the law, hiding in plain sight. Deputies in Barry County arrested 64 year old James Brown near Cassvi...
It can be incredibly hard to take care of a loved one, and that's a position many found themselves in after the May 22nd tor...
He's not scheduled to say anything about running for Governor. But Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder will be in Jopl...
Joplin Police say 18-month-old Emjay Corn's death last month is a homicide. Back on October 29th, Police found Emjay's body a...
Joplin Police say 18-month-old Emjay Corn's death last month is a homicide. Back on October 29th, Police found Emjay's body a...
Almost a hundred people came to a public hearing in Joplin Wednesday night about low-income housing. Many of those attending ...
Missouri House Speaker Steven Tilley is dropping out of the 2012 lieutenant governor's race.The Republican from Perryville sa...
You may get to decide soon whether lighting up a joint is legal in Missouri. A proposed state law could appear on the ballot...
You may get to decide soon whether lighting up a joint is legal in Missouri. A proposed state law could appear on the ballot...
Almost a hundred people came to a public hearing in Joplin Wednesday night about low-income housing. Many of those attending ...
If you do a lot of shopping online, including for Christmas, it could end up costing you more soon if a proposal supported b...
If you do a lot of shopping online, including for Christmas, it could end up costing you more soon if a proposal supported b...
It's on a technicality, but a Joplin man accused of sexually abusing students while he taught band in Neosho is free. 40 yea...
It's on a technicality, but a Joplin man accused of sexually abusing students while he taught band in Neosho is free. 40 yea...
Delaware County could be needing a new sheriff. A Tulsa TV station reports Sheriff Jay Blackfox will give the County Commiss...
Delaware County could be needing a new sheriff. A Tulsa TV station reports Sheriff Jay Blackfox will give the County Commiss...
Legislation offering new tax incentives for Missouri businesses officially died Tuesday as the Missouri Senate ended a specia...
Here's an update to a story News Talk KZRG has been following. Mark Lindquist of Joplin was a social worker who was badly inj...
Here's an update to a story News Talk KZRG has been following. Mark Lindquist of Joplin was a social worker who was badly inj...
A man from Exeter has been sentenced to 15 years without parole in federal prison on child pornography charges. 34-year-old S...
Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder says he is ``cautiously optimistic'' after a federal appeals court panel heard arguments in a ...
Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder says he is ``cautiously optimistic'' after a federal appeals court panel heard arguments in a ...
A man from Exeter has been sentenced to 15 years without parole in federal prison on child pornography charges. 34-year-old S...
It appears Missouri lawmakers will end their special session without passing an economic development bill that had been their...
About 20 people that live in Jasper County met Tuesday to talk about problems facing the County Jail. It was the second meet...
People suspected in domestic violence cases in the capital of Kansas are leaving jail without being charged as the city and ...
The Missouri attorney general's office contends a lawsuit challenging new congressional districts should be dismissed.Some De...
A missing Joplin child is safe and sound."Marianna was recovered in Greenville, South Carolina earlier today."Jopli...
An Anderson man has been sentenced to five years without parole in federal prison on kiddie porn charges. 25-year-old Christ...
A missing Joplin child is safe and sound."Marianna was recovered in Greenville, South Carolina earlier today."Jopli...
People suspected in domestic violence cases in the capital of Kansas are leaving jail without being charged as the city and ...
About 20 people that live in Jasper County met Tuesday to talk about problems facing the County Jail. It was the second meet...
A federal grand jury has indicted two men from southwest Missouri in unrelated cases of child exploitation. 31-year-old Jason...
The Missouri attorney general's office contends a lawsuit challenging new congressional districts should be dismissed.Some De...
It looks like the rain hascaused some inconveniences for some people in the four states today. Power went out for Joplin, We...
It looks like the rain hascaused some inconveniences for some people in the four states today. Power went out for Joplin, We...
Immigration agents arrested 17 people in Missouri as part of a nationwide crackdown on convicted criminal immigrants. Immigra...
A federal appeals court has ruled against a Missouri town's funeral protest ordinance, saying peaceful picketing is protected...
A Missouri House committee has advanced legislation offering new incentives for some businesses and international exporters.T...
A federal appeals court has ruled against a Missouri town's funeral protest ordinance, saying peaceful picketing is protected...
The City of Joplin's making it easier to dispose of unwantedprescription or over-the-counter drugs. A new drug drop-off box ...
The City of Joplin's making it easier to dispose of unwantedprescription or over-the-counter drugs. A new drug drop-off box ...
The Joplin Humane Society's filled to the brim again. Tana Fisher of the Humane Society says stray pets from all over the are...
The Joplin Humane Society's filled to the brim again. Tana Fisher of the Humane Society says stray pets from all over the are...
Oklahoma health officials estimate an additional 140,000 people will become enrolled in Medicaid once the new federal health...
Joplin Police responded to a report of domestic assault Tuesday morning and ended up taking the couple into custody."A h...
Joplin Police responded to a report of domestic assault Tuesday morning and ended up taking the couple into custody."A h...
A federal grand jury has indicted two men from southwest Missouri in unrelated cases of child exploitation. 31-year-old Jason...
Immigration agents arrested 17 people in Missouri as part of a nationwide crackdown on convicted criminal immigrants. Immigra...
Property Taxes in Joplin will go up, except they won't. That's the story from Joplin Finance Director Leslie Jones, who tell...
The Community Foundation of Southwest Missouri will award the first Joplin Recovery Fund grants to 18 organizations involved ...
A Missouri House committee has adjourned without voting on an economic development that has been the centerpiece of a special...
The Joplin Humane Society'sanimal shelteris now without an Executive Director. Karen Aquino's position was eliminated by a u...
A plan to set up a health insurance exchange in Missouri is stalled in the State Senate after the House passed the bill. Stat...
Insurance payouts have now topped $1 billion for the tornado that hit Joplin earlier this year. And that number is expect...
The Joplin Police department is declaring a child abuse case "closed" after their only suspect was found dead Frid...
Oklahoma health officials estimate an additional 140,000 people will become enrolled in Medicaid once the new federal health...
The Missouri House has approved a tax amnesty period for delinquent taxpayers.The state would waive interest and penalties fo...
Insurance payouts have now topped $1 billion for the tornado that hit Joplin earlier this year. And that number is expect...
The Community Foundation of Southwest Missouri will award the first Joplin Recovery Fund grants to 18 organizations involved ...
A bill that would fix Missouri's so-called Facebook law has passed its first hurdle in the state Senate and could move on to ...
The Missouri House has approved a tax amnesty period for delinquent taxpayers.The state would waive interest and penalties fo...
The ACLU is challenging a law in Florida that requires state welfare recipients to pass a drug test, which is similar to one...
A former Joplin Boys and Girls Club employee accused of sexual abuse has pled "not guilty" in court. 27 year old C...
A former Joplin Boys and Girls Club employee accused of sexual abuse has pled "not guilty" in court. 27 year old C...
The ACLU is challenging a law in Florida that requires state welfare recipients to pass a drug test, which is similar to one...
Part of a bill in the Missouri Senate designed to overhaul tax credits and business incentives has a local representative con...
Property Taxes in Joplin will go up, except they won't. That's the story from Joplin Finance Director Leslie Jones, who tell...
The Neosho City Council will be holding a budget work session next Tuesday, as the deadline to approve next year's budget lo...
A fellow Democrat is critical of Governor Nixon’s handling of money set aside for disaster relief from the state budge...
They said they were victims of the May 22nd Joplin tornado. They were also giving up their unborn baby for adoption and wante...
They said they were victims of the May 22nd Joplin tornado. They were also giving up their unborn baby for adoption and wante...
A man from Anderson will be spending the next 17 and a half years in federal prison for receiving and distributing child por...
The Neosho City Council will be holding a budget work session next Tuesday, as the deadline to approve next year's budget lo...
A man from Anderson will be spending the next 17 and a half years in federal prison for receiving and distributing child por...
A top lawmaker responsible for Missouri's budget is irate that Gov. Jay Nixon has moved three office staffers who work on gub...
A fellow Democrat is critical of Governor Nixon’s handling of money set aside for disaster relief from the state budge...
A Joplin man already charged with exploiting a 4-year-old to make kiddie porn is facing more charges. A federal grand jury in...
Two people are in custody after the Jasper County Drug Task Force served a search warrant on a home on South Connecticut in J...
Two people are in custody after the Jasper County Drug Task Force served a search warrant on a home on South Connecticut in J...
Using a four-year-old to make kiddie porn. That's what a Joplin man's being accused of in federal court. 29-year-old Jason De...
A plea deal didn't pan out for a Joplin man facing child porn charges Monday, as the judge threw out the deal and sentenced ...
Jasper County Sheriff's Deputies had a rough night Friday. Officers called to a domestic abuse case in Duenweg took some abus...
A plea deal didn't pan out for a Joplin man facing child porn charges Monday, as the judge threw out the deal and sentenced ...
Monday night, the Joplin City Council approved its budget for the 2012 fiscal year. Most budget items are unchanged from last...
State health officials couldn't agree on whether to issue a statewide alert when a deadly fungus was discovered after the May...
Jasper County Sheriff's Deputies had a rough night Friday. Officers called to a domestic abuse case in Duenweg took some abus...
$91,000. That's now the bill that Jasper County Commissioners are refusing to pay for housing prisoners in outside jails...
$91,000. That's now the bill that Jasper County Commissioners are refusing to pay for housing prisoners in outside jails...
A state commission charged with drawing new Missouri House districts can't agree on a new map.The 18-member commission today ...
One of the Senate's staunchest budget-cutters has unveiled a massive plan to reduce the deficit by $9 trillion over the c...
A state commission charged with drawing new Missouri House districts can't agree on a new map.The 18-member commission today ...
Students in Joplin's school district will need a little more than just education this coming school year. Laine Young-Walker,...
Students in Joplin's school district will need a little more than just education this coming school year. Laine Young-Walker,...
A Lawrence County dog breeder is in the doghouse after being found guilty of judging the Missouri Animal Care Facilities Act...
A Lawrence County dog breeder is in the doghouse after being found guilty of judging the Missouri Animal Care Facilities Act...
A Joplin man was arrested this week for possessing and distributing child pornography. The Joplin Cyber Crimes Unit teamed up...
Missouri's Attorney General is suing a Mount Vernon dentist and his wife for Medicaid fraud. The suit claims Doctor Thomas Al...
Missouri's Attorney General is suing a Mount Vernon dentist and his wife for Medicaid fraud. The suit claims Doctor Thomas Al...
Drug task forces in Jasper and Vernon Counties will receive over 240-thousand dollars in grants to help them do their jobs. T...
A disabled Firefighter will be suing the City of Joplin over how they calculate disability benefits. Tom Robertson and his a...
An estimated 1,200 people have sought unemployment benefits in Joplin after their workplaces were damaged or destroyed by th...
An estimated 1,200 people have sought unemployment benefits in Joplin after their workplaces were damaged or destroyed by th...
A Joplin man was arrested this week for possessing and distributing child pornography. The Joplin Cyber Crimes Unit teamed up...
A tip about child pornography could lead to federal charges. Lawrence County Sheriff Brad DeLay tells News Talk KZRG detectiv...
The first round of temporary housing units from FEMA for victims of last month's tornado will arrive in Joplin this weekend....
Jasper and Newton County officials tell News Talk KZRG they've officially accounted for each and every sex offender that los...
Springfield police arrested a Neosho man over the weekend in a child porn sting operation. 36-year-old Kevin Patrick Dobbs i...
Springfield police arrested a Neosho man over the weekend in a child porn sting operation. 36-year-old Kevin Patrick Dobbs i...
Jasper and Newton County officials tell News Talk KZRG they've officially accounted for each and every sex offender that los...
The pastor of the First Baptist Church in Duenweg has admitted downloading child pornography from a website. Federal authorit...
The Humane Society of the United States has contributed nearly $93,000 toward a Missouri initiative that would make it ha...
Officials from 21 states have filed a court document supporting a lawsuit by Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder challenging the n...
The Humane Society of the United States has contributed nearly $93,000 toward a Missouri initiative that would make it ha...
One of the Senate's staunchest budget-cutters has unveiled a massive plan to reduce the deficit by $9 trillion over the c...
State government made a mistake, and now McDonald County has to pay for it. McDonald County Presiding Commissioner Keith Lin...
State government made a mistake, and now McDonald County has to pay for it. McDonald County Presiding Commissioner Keith Lin...
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has signed legislation requiring drug screens for some individuals receiving or applying for certain ...
The mental health of Joplin is seeming stressed following May's deadly tornado. Psychologists from the area are reporting in...
The mental health of Joplin is seeming stressed following May's deadly tornado. Psychologists from the area are reporting in...
The number of Kansans who are obese is getting bigger. A new report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Trust for Ameri...
Missouri marijuana advocates want to ask voters next year to legalize the drug and regulate its medical use.A group called Sh...
Gov. Jay Nixon has vetoed legislation that would have given facilities for the elderly and disabled more time to install fire...
A federal court document shows Kansas already has diverted some family planning dollars from Planned Parenthood. Attorneys fo...
Insurance companies already have paid out more than $500 million in claims for the May 22 tornado that struck Joplin. But...
The state of Washington is getting a shipment of cats from Joplin today. Austin Gates of the ASPCA says 52 cats and kittens ...
Three men were arrested Thursday in a drug bust in Pittsburg. Accordig to the Pittsburg Police Department and Crawford County...
Three men were arrested Thursday in a drug bust in Pittsburg. Accordig to the Pittsburg Police Department and Crawford County...
The state of Washington is getting a shipment of cats from Joplin today. Austin Gates of the ASPCA says 52 cats and kittens ...
Insurance companies already have paid out more than $500 million in claims for the May 22 tornado that struck Joplin. But...
Veterans in Joplin in need after the May 22nd tornado can get some help from the VFW. Post Commander Jerry Wiseman tells News...
A national media personality gave a home to two pets displaced by the May 22nd tornado in Joplin today. Mike Bettes from the ...
A national media personality gave a home to two pets displaced by the May 22nd tornado in Joplin today. Mike Bettes from the ...
U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran says changes to the nation's health care system have to focus more than just on reducing costs to provi...
Former Missouri running back Derrick Washington will have to wait to resolve a cluster of criminal charges that led to his di...
The Joplin Humane Society's absolutely stuffed with pets right now, many of whom are still unclaimed by their owners followi...
State leaders say Oklahoma has been chosen for an intensive study of its criminal justice system with the intention of reduci...
The Joplin Humane Society's absolutely stuffed with pets right now, many of whom are still unclaimed by their owners followi...
There's been some question as to how permanent - or temporary - the housing units being brought into Joplin for tornado surv...
There's been some question as to how permanent - or temporary - the housing units being brought into Joplin for tornado surv...
The death toll in Joplin has risen to 154 people with the death of a man injured in last month's tornado. A city spokeswoman...
The death toll in Joplin has risen to 154 people with the death of a man injured in last month's tornado. A city spokeswoman...
Gov. Jay Nixon has vetoed legislation that could have required voters to show photo identification and created an early-votin...
With Governor Jay Nixon cutting money to colleges to pay for disaster relief, including the tornado recovery efforts in Jopli...
The Joplin Humane Society has been overflowing with cats and dogs since the tornado that tore through the city last month. It...
There's an open house Friday for people looking for work. David Kerr, Missouri's Director of Economic Development, tells News...
Governor Mary Fallin says her long-term goal is to do away with the state income tax and alter Oklahoma's tax structure to pa...
Missouri is opening a children's trauma center in Joplin to aid youth suffering from mental health issues following a devasta...
There's help available for military vets impacted by last month's tornado. Daryl Ostrom, Commander of Joplin's Disabled Ameri...
Two men from the KZRG listening area have been indicted for receiving and having child pornography. 19-year-old Christopher M...
Joplin's Humane Society has been quite busy following the May 22nd tornado. Humane Society Executive Director Karen Aquinoyel...
Joplin's Humane Society has been quite busy following the May 22nd tornado. Humane Society Executive Director Karen Aquinoyel...
An army of volunteers is teaming with government workers to speed the removal of debris in Joplin.City manager Mark Rohr told...
The first round of temporary housing units from FEMA for victims of last month's tornado will arrive in Joplin this weekend....
Empire District Electric is indeed looking at raising customers' electric rates in the wake of the May 22nd tornado to pay f...
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will be visiting Joplin this morning to survey the damage cause by last month&rs...
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder and several others challenging th...
The city of Columbus, KS is getting a boost from the department of commerce. The city's one of four getting a share of $58-t...
Missouri education officials say a Kansas City charter high school misspent more than $256,000 in federal money.The state...
Lawmakers have brought an early `end' to the 2011 legislative session, but left open the possibility of returning next week t...
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback says his administration has started studing proposals for overhauling the state's tax code, and...
A disabled Firefighter will be suing the City of Joplin over how they calculate disability benefits. Tom Robertson and his a...
A health care organization based in Neosho is starting construction on a new clinic today. Ground is being broken in Cassvil...
A Joplin man will be in prison for over a decade for receiving over a hundred kiddie porn movies over the internet. 58-year-o...
A Joplin man will be in prison for over a decade for receiving over a hundred kiddie porn movies over the internet. 58-year-o...
The Missouri Foundation for Health will be in Joplin tonight to host a town hall meeting about the federal health care law. ...
Missouri education officials say a Kansas City charter high school misspent more than $256,000 in federal money.The state...
Here's an update to a story News Talk KZRG told you Monday. A kidnapped 12-year-old boy from Purcell is safe and his father i...
A Joplin man will spend 17 years in prison for sexually abusing a 5-year-old girl. A judge handed down the sentence for 19-y...
A Joplin man will spend 17 years in prison for sexually abusing a 5-year-old girl. A judge handed down the sentence for 19-y...
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a bill enacting health and safety regulations specifically for abortion clinics.The gove...
Do you have questions about the new federal health care law? You can get answers Thursday night at a town hall meeting in Jop...
Missouri Lawmakers are leaving a proposed law that would make voters show an ID to be able to vote up to the public. Voters ...
The Missouri legislature has some unfinished business that might be important enough to call it back into session before nex...
Oklahoma residents needing a safe place to get rid of their old medications have an option in Miami now. State Law Enforceme...
Missouri Lawmakers are leaving a proposed law that would make voters show an ID to be able to vote up to the public. Voters ...
Oklahoma residents needing a safe place to get rid of their old medications have an option in Miami now. State Law Enforceme...
Help could be on the way for people in McDonald County working on recovering from last month's flooding. State and Federal E...
Oklahoma leaders reached an agreement on a $6.5 billion state budget for the upcoming fiscal year that uses a combination...
The Missouri House has given final approval to a bill outlawing synthetic marijuana and hallucinogenic drugs marketed as ``ba...
Missouri lawmakers have given final approval to a bill allowing drug testing of welfare recipients if the state suspects they...
Kansas legislators who are negotiating over a $14 billion state budget appear to be moving a little closer to an agreemen...
Kansas legislators are planning to resume their negotiations over a $14 billion state budget after a frustrating week of ...
Republican attorney Ed Martin is dropping out of the U.S. Senate race to run for a newly-redrawn 2nd Congressional district r...
Kansas lawmakers have broken off their negotiations over a $14 billion state budget. Three senators and three House membe...
Missouri lawmakers have given final approval to what supporters call the first overhaul of the state's domestic violence law...
Two former Seneca High School cheerleaders are calling off their lawsuit against the school district. Court documents filed ...
Missouri's Republican-led Legislature hopes to send Governor Jay Nixon a bill this week to redraw congressional districts ba...
Missouri's basic aid for public schools will remain flat but decline for colleges under a budget plan given final approval by...
Missouri House and Senate negotiators have reached an agreement on the state's roughly $23 billion operating budget.Budge...
The Missouri House has approved legislation that would require voters to show government-issued photo ID to cast ballots.The ...
The Republican-led Missouri Legislature has overridden Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon's veto of a congressional redistricting prop...
Two life sentences. That's what Darren Winans will serve for killing an elderly Carthage couple in 2008. Winans was sentenced...
The Missouri Senate has passed a stimulus bill following an all-night filibuster. The proposal voted on this morning would re...
Legislation that recently went into effect in Joplin could become a statewide law. Missouri House members narrowly endorsed l...
At the Missouri state capitol, budget talks are at a standstill. Four Republican senators are blocking a vote on a bill auth...
The Oklahoma House has voted to reprimand a lawmaker for her comments about blacks and women during a debate on affirmative ...
Legislators have resumed negotiations on a $14 billion Kansas budget. The year's business can't be wrapped up until the spen...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has vetoed a bill that would have changed the state's workplace discrimination laws. Nixon said t...
The city of Columbus, KS is getting a boost from the department of commerce. The city's one of four getting a share of $58-t...
The Missouri House has passed legislation making it illegal to send a text message while driving, regardless of how old you ...
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder and several others challenging th...
Missouri Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler will be in Vernon and Cedar Counties tomorrow. Steve Walsh from Hartzler's staff says ...
There's going to be a tea party rally Tuesday in Neosho. Dave Miller, coordinator for the event set to take place at Daddy Ji...
Missouri Lawmakers could reinstate water fees that help pay for a big amount of the state's water programs. The fees expired...
Two area dentists gave back to the community for Good Friday. Doctors Dwaine Cales and William Herrington held a free dental...
A mistrial has been declared in the case of one of two men accused in the 2007 murder of Rowan Ford. Christopher Collings was...
A mistrial has been declared in the case of one of two men accused in the 2007 murder of Rowan Ford. Christopher Collings was...
Two area dentists gave back to the community for Good Friday. Doctors Dwaine Cales and William Herrington held a free dental...
Missouri Lawmakers think they've found a middle ground with dog breeders over Proposition B. State Rep Charlie Davis tells N...
A former Carthage doctor's insurance company stopped sending him disability payments once he was put in prison. Now, he's su...
The good part of a statewide ban on over-the-counter sales of pseudoephedrine would be less methamphetamine production in Mi...
The state Senate has voted to trim the number of potential election days in Missouri. A measure passed by the Senate would a...
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback is predicting that his state will move toward having a 401(k)-style pension plan for new teache...
Legislation overhauling Missouri's domestic violence laws for the first time since the 1970s has won unanimous approval in th...
A Missouri House member wants to ask voters to raise the state cigarette tax by 81 cents a pack.Democrat Chris Kelly, of Colu...
The Missouri Senate has passed a $23 billion budget plan that cuts funding to higher education while holding basic aid to pub...
A woman and two children died and four others were injured Wednesday when fire destroyed a south-central Missouri home where ...
Jasper County Sheriff Archie Dunn has threatened to sue the County Commission over money coming from the county's law enforc...
A judge sentenced a Joplin man to 10 years in prison yesterday for having child porn on his video game console. 24 year old ...
Prosecutors reached a plea deal with a Joplin man accused of sexual abuse Monday that got him five years of supervised proba...
A judge sentenced a Joplin man to 10 years in prison yesterday for having child porn on his video game console. 24 year old ...
Despite strident objections from a number of its members, the state Senate approved a $189 million supplemental budget for M...
Many of Missouri's top Republicans from the state and U.S. capitols are meeting in Jefferson City to try to settle a stalemat...
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin has signed legislation into law that adds restrictions on members of a Kansas church who protes...
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has signed a bill requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls. Many Republicans ...
Former Crawford County Attorney Barry Disney is the new Assistant U.S. Attorney in Kansas. Disney was the Crawford County Att...
Missouri's proposed budget could get an airing this week in the state Senate.At issue are funding decisions both for the curr...
Missouri's Republican-led Legislature hopes to send Governor Jay Nixon a bill this week to redraw congressional districts ba...
Four people were arrested Friday after a drug bust in Weir, Kansas. While searching a home on West Main, Cherokee County Sher...
Four people were arrested Friday after a drug bust in Weir, Kansas. While searching a home on West Main, Cherokee County Sher...
Joplin Public Schools are cutting jobs to make ends meet. Superintendent CJ Huff says the cuts - custodial and administrativ...
Joplin Public Schools are cutting jobs to make ends meet. Superintendent CJ Huff says the cuts - custodial and administrativ...
Students in Oklahoma who do not learn to read by the end of third grade would not advance to fourth grade under a bill approv...
The battle to re-draw Missouri's congressional districts continues. House leaders say the Senate failed to act on a request t...
The Missouri Senate has approved a map that redraws the state's congressional districts based on the 2010 Census. But it's a...
A Joplin couple who ran five long-term care facilities has been sentenced for health care fraud. 66-year-old Robert Dupont Ju...
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach says Kansas has become both a destination and passage state for illegal immigration.Kob...
A Missouri House committee has dealt a setback to Gov. Jay Nixon's quest for $1 billion in federal high-speed rail money.The ...
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed legislation requiring doctors to get written permission from parents before performing a...
Missouri lawmakers have given final approval to a bill renewing federally funded jobless payments for thousands of people who...
A bill heading to the governor's desk gives Oklahoma prison officials the broad authority to change the lethal drugs used to ...
The Missouri Senate has passed legislation extending federally funded jobless benefits to thousands of people who were cut of...
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster says Congress overstepped its constitutional powers under the commerce clause when it ...
Two people are in custody after the Crawford County Drug Task Force searched a Pittsburg home Thursday afternoon. Pitsburg Po...
The Neosho Police Department will be getting a shot in the arm thanks for some state grant money. They'll be getting $40,000....
Missouri's Senate has embraced a plan to extend federally funded jobless benefits while cutting eligibility for state-funded ...
A Missouri House committee has rejected a proposal to downsize its own chamber.The proposed constitutional amendment would ha...
Missouri lawmakers have given final approval to legislation gradually repealing a state tax on company assets such as buildin...
A Missouri state senator has agreed to stop blocking a vote on whether to extend federally-funded jobless benefits that expir...
People living in a southeast Kansas city will now need a doctor's note to buy medicine containing pseudoephedrine. The Parso...
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is calling on the state Senate to pass legislation allowing hundreds of millions of federal dollars t...
In Neosho, three propositions were overwhelmingly approved in Tuesday's election. Proposition 2, the whistle-blower act, requ...
A Newton County man accused of raping and murdering a 9-year-old girl is asking a judge to save him from the death penalty. ...
A Missouri Senate committee has endorsed its proposal for new congressional districts in the state.Missouri is losing one of ...
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin has signed a bill designed to lure more aerospace companies to the state. Fallin was joined tod...
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is calling on the state Senate to pass legislation allowing hundreds of millions of federal dollars t...
The Kansas Senate has approved a bill containing Secretary of State Kris Kobach's proposal to require voters to show photo id...
The Missouri House has endorsed legislation that attempts to expand the state's control over national health care policy. The...
The Kansas Senate has approved a $14 billion state budget bill for the fiscal year that starts July 1.Tuesday's 36-3 vote sen...
Missouri House members have endorsed a more than $23 billion budget that keeps aid to school districts flat and cuts funding ...
The Kansas Legislature has sent Governor Sam Brownback a bill requiring doctors to obtain the consent of both parents before ...
A man accused of murdering the baby of his girlfriend in Southeast Kansas is no stranger to the law. In an update to a story ...
Missouri drivers who kill someone while driving drunk would face more prison time if they have previous DWI convictions under...
A Grove, Oklahoma man has been found guilty of second-degree rape and child sexual abuse for raping and impregnating a 14-yea...
A 70 percent increase in the number of whooping cough cases is prompting Oklahoma health officials to require students enteri...
Another Oklahoman has died from the flu, bringing this season's death toll from the virus to 20. Oklahoma public health offic...
A national initiative started in Oklahoma is targeting prostitution at truck stops across the country.Truckers Against Traffi...
Legislative leaders say cuts to stage agency budgets likely will be deeper than the mostly 3 to 5 percent cuts proposed by Go...
Missouri Auditor Tom Schweichsays some state agencies have been lacking in their oversight of federal economic stimulus funds...
A Delaware County man is going to prison for 15 years after pleading no contest on charges of lewd molestation, forcible sodo...
If you're a veteran, you might not know about benefits you're entitled to. Saturday in Carthage, VA officials will answer you...
The Kansas Senate has approved a bill containing Secretary of State Kris Kobach's proposal to require voters to show photo id...
A House budget committee has endorsed at 2012 Kansas budget after weeks of deliberation, producing a bill that would cut spen...
The man accused of killing 6 and injuring 13 people at a Tuscon Supermarket in January will be headed to Southwest Missouri f...
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster says the federal health care law's legal fate is still uncertain.Koster's statement co...
A Kansas House committee has added a provision to cut state employees' pay to its proposed state budget plan. The Appropriati...
Governor Jay Nixon has appointed the members of two bipartisan commissions that will redraw Missouri's legislative districts ...
Two bills that would cut taxes have failed to advance in the Kansas House.One of the measures would speed up the rollback of ...
The Missouri Senate has passed legislation that would prevent employees from suing co-workers for on-the-job injuries.The mea...
A 42-year-old southwest Missouri man has been charged with abusing two sisters who said they both married the man in a religi...
A Kansas Senate committee has modified a proposal from Secretary of State Kris Kobach requiring people who register to vote f...
Gov. Sam Brownback is making $56.5 million cuts in the Kansas budget, taking the biggest chunk from aid to the state's 289 pu...
A sweeping anti-illegal immigration bill that allows police to arrest people they suspect are in the country illegally and se...
Texting while driving would be illegal in Oklahoma under a bill approved in the state Senate.The Senate voted 32-9 on Wednesd...
A second attempt to cut the 2011 Kansas budget has cleared the House, but it's uncertain if the measure will be debated in th...
A Kansas Senate committee has rewritten a bill banning deductions from union members' paychecks to finance labor groups' poli...
The Missouri House has endorsed a proposed constitutional amendment creating a new lottery game to benefit veterans.Revenues ...
A Missouri House committee has approved a state budget that would hold funding steady for public K-12 schools while following...
An audiologist from Jasper County will be on probation for five years and have to pay over 30-thousand dollars restitution fo...
The Kansas Senate's top leader has outlined a plan for addressing the long-term funding problems facing the pension system fo...
About 300 Oklahoma teachers accompanied by various unions that include the Teamsters and United Auto Workers have gathered at...
The Missouri Senate has set aside legislation that would prohibit closed-union shops in which all of a company's employees mu...
Entertainer and activist Bill Cosby is coming to a Kansas City high school to take part in a panel discussion on bullying, co...
The Missouri Senate is debating legislation that would prohibit closed-union shops in which all of a company's employees must...
The Missouri House has endorsed legislation imposing new limits on late-term abortions and criminal penalties on doctors who ...
Supporters of a bill making it illegal to practice medicine while intoxicated in Missouri say the law could save patients fro...
Kansas House leaders have cut short debate on a bill that could provide additional savings in the current state budget.Monday...
Empire Electric is asking Missouri lawmakers for tougher laws to help keep their workers safe. The Co-op wants employees prot...
Gov. Sam Brownback is making $56.5 million cuts in the Kansas budget, taking the biggest chunk from aid to the state's 289 pu...
Legislative negotiators have resumed their discussions over finding a compromise to reduce the 2011 Kansas budget.Negotiators...
The chairman of the Kansas House Judiciary Committee expects the panel to vote next week on an immigration bill containing pr...
A teenager from Riverton, Kansas has been arrested by Cherokee County authorities twice in two weeks for similar offenses. 19...
The Oklahoma House has voted to suspend a state law that requires tax dollars to be spent on art projects. The bill's author,...
Last fall, Missouri voters passed Proposition B to put in reforms for the dog-breeding industry. Now legislation that repeals...
It's too big and has to be cut. That's the message Missouri Senator Roy Blunt made today on the Senate Floor. "And the i...
The Missouri House has endorsed legislation to require that drivers' license tests in the state be administered in English.Th...
A Missouri House committee is taking up a bill that would require a doctor's prescription for certain cold medicines that can...
The Kansas House will consider a bill that would repeal a 1-cent sales tax increase approved last year.The House tax committe...
Kansas legislative negotiators are making no progress on a bill cutting the current state budget.Three senators and three Hou...
A third-grade public school teacher in Springfield has been placed on leave after being arrested in a prostitution sting. The...
The Oklahoma House's top budget negotiator says a budget hole of up to $500 million next year is the biggest obstacle to meet...
The City of Joplin is thinking about challenging the U-S Census Bureau. According to the 2010 Census, Joplin's population is ...
Two men are arrested in Joplin on Thursday after the Jasper County Drug Task Force raided an apartment in Joplin. Kyle Dowd a...
The Oklahoma Senate has approved a Democrat-sponsored amendment that would abolish the state's income tax.Democratic Sen. Tom...
A common cold medication that contains the key ingredient for making methamphetamine would be available only by prescription ...
Missouri lawmakers are trying again to restrict protests at funerals after the state's previous ban was ruled unconstitutiona...
Nine retired U.S. Air Force generals want Kansas regulators to disbar ten lawyers who belong to a church that protests at mil...
An Oklahoma House committee has approved anti-illegal immigrant legislation that would give Oklahoma law enforcement official...
Missouri House members have endorsed legislation that would repeal a state tax on business assets over five years.The House m...
A guilty plea in a 2008 murder case. Darren Winans of Jasper pleaded guilty Monday to killing Robert and Ellen Sheldon in the...
Some Missouri lawmakers are pushing for the state to collect sales tax on Internet purchases. Democratic Reps. Margo McNeil a...
Two men from Kansas are in custody for drug charges. Law enforcement from Cherokee County, Baxter Springs and the Southeast K...
Democrat Robin Carnahan plans to seek a third term as Missouri's secretary of state. That news today after Republican state S...
The Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry is supporting legislation prohibiting union fees as condition of employment.Sen...
New U.S. Census Bureau figures show Missouri's population grew the fastest in southwest Missouri and parts of suburban St. Lo...
A state House committee has narrowly approved legislation that would repeal collective bargaining rights for municipal employ...
A House committee has voted along partisan lines to advance a proposal eliminating Missouri's income taxes and replacing them...
Two people are in custody after a search of a Joplin home Thursday. Police from Joplin, Webb City, Carl Junction and the Jasp...
The Kansas House has advanced a bill that would repeal a 2004 state law allowing some illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuit...
Prosecutors are pushing for the death penalty in the case of Rowan Ford, a 9 year old girl raped and killed in McDonald Count...
The Kansas House has advanced a bill that would repeal a 2004 state law allowing some illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuit...
Two men from Kansas are in custody for drug charges. Law enforcement from Cherokee County, Baxter Springs and the Southeast K...
Lawmakers in the Kansas House are set to take up a bill today that would repeal a controversial 2004 law that allows some ill...
The Kansas Senate has approved a bill to cut spending and save the state about $3.6 million in the current fiscal year.Tuesda...
A Cherokee County jury finds a Baxter Springs man guilty of shaken baby syndrome. William Barber Jr. was found guilty of chil...
Two people are in custody after a search of a Joplin home Thursday. Police from Joplin, Webb City, Carl Junction and the Jasp...
A Cherokee County jury finds a Baxter Springs man guilty of shaken baby syndrome. William Barber Jr. was found guilty of chil...
Prosecutors are pushing for the death penalty in the case of Rowan Ford, a 9 year old girl raped and killed in McDonald Count...
Missouri education officials say more than $70,000 from the federal government will help provide free lunches to low-income s...
12 are dead so far in Oklahoma as the flu claims more lives. The State Department of Health tells News Talk KZRG four more in...
Smoking in Missouri prisons could soon be banned. Senator Jim Lembke (lemky) tells News Talk KZRG that cardiac care and cance...
Gov. Jay Nixon says proposed legislation that is designed to make Missouri a ``right-to-work'' state is a step backward.A Sen...
A key aide says Kansas Governor Sam Brownback is ruling out higher contributions for government workers or changes in benefit...
A Missouri House committee has endorsed a bill banning abortions of viable fetuses older than 20 weeks except to save the lif...
A House committee has advanced a bill requiring all driving tests in Missouri to be given in English only. The 8-3 vote by th...
The Kansas Senate has approved a bill to cut spending and save the state about $3.6 million in the current fiscal year.Tuesda...
The Kansas Senate has advanced a bill cutting state spending in the fiscal year that ends June 30.Monday's tentative approval...
Kansas lawmakers are considering a bill that would stop sex offenders whose victims were younger than 16 from living within 2...
Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder was one of the dignitaries who spoke at Saturday night's Lincoln Day for the Jasper...
Voters in Carthage have renewed the city’s half-cent sales tax for capital projects. In a special election yesterday, t...
Gov. Jay Nixon says proposed legislation that is designed to make Missouri a ``right-to-work'' state is a step backward.A Sen...
Missouri has executed someone for the first time in nearly two years.Early Wednesday, Martin Link was put to death for the ki...
Kansas House members have given first-round approval to a proposed amendment to the state constitution aimed at keeping a key...
A sweeping abortion measure has cleared its first hurdle in the Kansas House, winning a committee's endorsement to advance it...
Missouri has executed someone for the first time in nearly two years.Early Wednesday, Martin Link was put to death for the ki...
Voters in Carthage have renewed the city’s half-cent sales tax for capital projects. In a special election yesterday, t...
The Kansas House has approved a bill sought by Governor Sam Brownback to trim spending from the current budget. The bill adop...
Governor Mary Fallin says her agenda to create jobs and grow Oklahoma's economy is a forward thinking plan of action that lay...
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster is warning lawmakers that a state fund for injured workers is rapidly running out of m...
A Missouri lawmaker wants the federal government to be required to balance its budget.St. Louis Republican Dwight Scharnhorst...
A Kansas Department of Education official says the state has delayed a contribution to educators' pensions and postponed half...
A Kansas Department of Education official says the state has delayed a contribution to educators' pensions and postponed half...
A Kansas House committee endorsed two bills yesterday aimed at keeping parts of the new federal health care law from taking e...
A Missouri judge has rejected a lawsuit challenging a state law targeting sexually oriented businesses. Among the law's restr...
The Oklahoma State Department of Health says a child younger than 5 years old is the fifth person to die from the flu or comp...
Three Republican officials want Missouri's attorney general to weigh in on whether the new federal health care law applies in...
A former Cherokee County sheriff's deputy was found dead near Wichita. 41-year-old Sean Putnam's body was found buried behind...
Three Republican officials want Missouri's attorney general to weigh in on whether the new federal health care law applies in...
A former Cherokee County sheriff's deputy was found dead near Wichita. 41-year-old Sean Putnam's body was found buried behind...
Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder is happy with a Florida judge's ruling that federal health care reform does overste...
Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder is happy with a Florida judge's ruling that federal health care reform does overste...
Oklahoma health officials say another death associated with influenza has been reported.The Oklahoma State Health Department ...
Kansas officials are marking the 150th anniversary of the state's admission to the union with a brief Statehouse ceremony a d...
A Missouri Senate panel has given its approval to a bill changing the state law for dog breeders.The Senate agriculture commi...
Joe Lancello Reportingjoe@zrgmail.com Three toddlers, meth and marijuana. That's what the Crawford County Drug Task Force f...