David Cook – who made it to the final three on “American Idol” – will return home Friday to a day packed with appearances and shows all over the Kansas City area.

Neosho residents are primed to vote Aug. 5 on an $8.5 million bond issue proposal that would fund improvements to the city’s wastewater system.

Preliminary results from an autopsy performed on a body found in an eastern Newton County field Monday evening revealed the person had been shot in the head.

Unlike some, who feel that Neosho is safely enclosed in a bubble of sorts and largely unaffected by what many economists are defining as a recession, local restaurant owner Randy Collins testifies to the damage being done to his bottom line.

Authorities are hopeful someone has information about the owner of a gold necklace, recovered from skeletal remains discovered Monday evening in a field near Granby.

Storms on Wednesday and Thursday morning dumped heavy rains across the area, pushing streams and rivers toward flood stage.

A tour bus from St. Paul, Minn., carrying 19 tourists ran off the road about 10 a.m. today, injuring three people.

Three of the remaining members of the Neosho City Council officially accepted the resignation Tuesday of Councilman RoseMarie Carnes, who had announced her decision earlier that day in a press conference (See Tuesday’s edition of the Neosho Daily News).

Missy is a single mom working for minimum wage at a local convenience store. To her, coffee shop debates on whether or not the country is actually in a recession (though nearly four out of five Americans believe so, according to a recent CNN poll) don’t really matter a whole lot. To her, things are just “bad.” And that’s all she cares about.

As a way of saying “thanks,” Scholastic Inc. presented Crowder College on Tuesday with a $25,000 donation.

Authorities are hopeful someone has information about the owner of a gold necklace, recovered from skeletal remains discovered Monday evening in a field near Granby.

Michael Stockwell spends a lot of time in the lab and has come up with some interesting findings over the years. From looking for a way to kill mosquitoes to detecting the amount of germs living on a toothbrush, if it has to do with science, the 18-year-old Tuscumbia senior is hooked.

Authorities are trying to determine the identity of a man found dead in a field Monday evening.

Two men accused in the rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl in November may get the death penalty if convicted.

With gas prices going up and up, I think it is time to purchase a bicycle and start riding to work (on selected days of course).