A Jasper County judge has ordered the assessment of a 25-year-old defendant charged with statutory rape as a candidate for possible release under a pretrial program.
A Jasper County judge decided this week that there is probable cause for a 58-year-old Carl Junction man to stand trial on a felony charge that he assaulted his wife.
A 32-year-old Joplin man waived a preliminary hearing Thursday on a charge of trafficking in the opioid fentanyl and was ordered bound over for trial in Jasper County Circuit Court.
An 18-year-old Joplin man waived a preliminary hearing Thursday on a charge that he and an accomplice robbed a 17-year-old boy of his cellphone, shoes and wallet containing $120.