The Joplin Recycling Center is encouraging residents to recycle Christmas lights instead of throwing them away, with the ...

The Downtown Joplin Alliance recognized five winners of the Downtown Joplin Holiday Decorating Competition, with Alchemist ...

The Salvation Army of Jasper and Newton County is providing Christmas gifts and food baskets to 450 families and toys to over ...

A group of volunteers serving free meals in front of Joplin City Hall continue to do so despite repeated warnings from the city.

Joplin residents involved in a grassroots initiative to help the homeless and others by passing out free lunches in front of ...

That sentence, or some variation, was repeated Wednesday by many of those who gathered at a Civil War battle site a few miles north of Joplin. A ceremony was held at the location — near the ...

Joplin High School's girls basketball team led most of its opening round game of the 29th annual Freeman Lady Eagle Classic against Blue Valley West High School on Thursday, but ...

Phil Burkybile III was charged with multiple offenses after leading Joplin police on a high-speed chase and crashing into a ditch, at which point he allegedly drove at an officer, causing him to ...

Janis Joplin endured heartbreaking loneliness before her tragic death. The soulful singer joined the so-called 27 Club -- a group of popular musicians who all died at age 27 -- in 1970 due to a heroin ...

Outside the home at 4330 32nd Street in Port Arthur, Texas is a metal placard erected by the Texas Historical Commission. It indicates that music legend Janis Joplin lived in the house for the ...

Janis Joplin's siblings reflect on growing up with a budding music legend, and why they've decided to share her personal archives in a revealing and enlightening new book The notion of overnight rock ...