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Joplin Police Department achieves accreditation
City officials are planning a celebration Monday for the Joplin Police Department, which was awarded accreditation by a national organization on Saturday in Florida.

Rain keeps semifinal lineup unsettled in Premier tourney
The Columbia (Texas) Angels did all they could do on Saturday to secure a spot in the semifinals of the Premier Baseball Junior Championship.They slugged their way to a 9-4 win over the Indiana Bulls Black — who were previously 2-0 in championship pool play — but their fate was still up in the air late Saturday night after a rain storm delayed play at Joe Becker Stadium

Three-day show draws vehicles from seven states
CARTHAGE, Mo. — A 1958 Austin-Healey Sprite, once owned by Jonas Salk, was one of about 110 classic British cars on display Saturday around the Carthage square.

5 p.m. Police attribute elderly couple’s death to murder-suicide
AFTON, Okla. — Authorities are ruling the shooting death of an elderly couple in rural Afton on Friday night an apparent murder-suicide.

First-term state lawmaker facing challenge for GOP nod
MOUNT VERNON, Mo. — Don Ruzicka and Mark Peters, the candidates who want to be the Republican nominee for Missouri House District 132, have been hearing a lot of talk on the campaign trail of late in advance of the Aug. 5 primary.

Andy Ostmeyer: My ‘housing crisis’ will wait, go help Freddie and Fannie
I felt helpless in the first days of the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debacle, but now Uncle Sam will send me to their rescue. Thank you, President Bush and members of Congress. The new roof for my house can wait if my tax dollars are needed to bailout these institutions that are “too big to fail.”

Two Republicans to square off in primary for panel seat
For the first time in a long time, two of the three seats on the Oklahoma Corporation Commission are up for election. Republicans Rob Johnson and Dana Murphy will square off Tuesday for a short-term seat on the state commission.