Thursday, February 6, 2014

Video- Jay Nixon press conference at Soaring Heights ribbon cutting

JFD responds to storage shed fire at 4001 Woodcrest Ct.

(From the Joplin Fire Department)

The Joplin Fire Department responded to a reported Structure Fire at 4001 Woodcrest Ct at 5:31 PM, Wednesday, 02 February, 2014.

 Fire crews arrived on the scene at 5:37 to find a small storage shed approximately 100’ from a residence with light smoke showing from the eaves. Crews used a preconnect line to extinguish a hay bale burning just inside a garage door. Crews remained on scene until 6:07 PM, Wednesday, 05 February. 

No injuries were reported to either fire personnel or others in the area. Six Joplin Fire units and 17 Joplin Fire personnel responded, however all but 1 fire unit were cancelled enroute due to the small size of the fire.

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Video: Kaiser: New sheriff's office is saving Jasper County money

A report from KODE's Christi Welter

MSSU Presidential Search Committee to meet Thursday

(From Southern News Service)

The Missouri Southern State University Presidential Search Committee will meet at 3 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6, in Room 356 of Billingsly Student Center.
In the event that the Missouri Southern campus is closed due to weather conditions, the meeting will take place at the Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce, 320 E. Fourth St.

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Jim Siedlecki signs off at Omaha, works with Malorie Maddox one last time

Former KODE anchor Jim Siedlecki, who has been at WOWT in Omaha since 2005, is leaving the station to take a job in Denver.

“Hard to believe it’s really over. It was an amazing crew to be a part of in America’s Best Kept Secret, Omaha,” Siedlecki wrote on Facebook last week. “…It was a great ride.”
Siedlecki said he is “heading to Denver for a great opportunity,” which the Omaha World-Herald reports is a government job as a media relations director.
Siedlecki, who spent time working at both KODE and KSN, anchored the evening news with Malorie Maddox for some time before both left for positions at WOWT, where Ms. Maddox is  anchoring the evening news.
Siedlecki has been the anchor of WOWT's Daybreak program since he arrived more than eight years ago and for a time worked with Ms. Maddox. The two co-anchored one last time during the Jan. 27 Daybreak program.


Is there corruption in Joplin?

Joplin City Council is meeting in closed session at this moment going over a report filed by Tom Loraine, the Osage Beach attorney who was hired November 11 to head the investigation into 
activities of council members Bill Scearce and Mike Woolston. Loraine, who at one time worked in the U. S. Attorney’s office, has considerable experience in this type of investigation.


The cost of the probe was put at $45,000, Any further expenses would have to come before the council for approval.

Report shows crime dropping in Jasper County

(From KOAM0 KOAM TV 7