Officials have recovered the body of a baby from the Spring River, east of Carthage. Jasper County Sheriff. Archie Dunn made the announcement at 3:30 p.m. to members of the media, camped out at a bridge over the Spring River on County Road 85.

More than 100 officers from a variety of law enforcement agencies were in Carthage working leads in the abduction of eight-month-old Eddie Salazar Jr., but officers didn’t have a good description of the suspects as of late Friday.

Drawing awards CPD $40,000 DWI patrol car 

The Carthage Police Department’s new patrol car is definitely turning heads.

Ninety-eight percent of goal — those words from Carthage Area United Way Volunteer Chairman Lora Phelps brought about a large round of applause during Thursday afternoon’s Award Banquet.

Dozens of police search for missing child

Mound Street from Meridian Street to Elm Street is blocked as of press time and dozens of police officers and Missouri Southern’s police academy students are searching for an eight-month-old boy, Eddie Alegandro Salazar, that police say was abducted from the home at 227 E. Mound St.

Carthage police say an eight-month-old child is missing after two men broke into a north Carthage home, assaulted the father of the child, ransacked the home and took the child.

When the CIA is mentioned, the first thing that comes to mind is the government agency that does special operations.

Water in both solid and liquid forms is predicted to fall on Carthage and the surrounding area on Thursday and Friday, according to the National Weather Service in Springfield.

The city will not be responsible for replacing mail boxes knocked over by snow tossed by a snow plow and snow removers will be prohibited from blocking storm drains when they pile up snow.

An imposing new sign telling drivers on Missouri Highway 96 they are driving by Kellogg Lake Park will be installed as soon as the park committee and the city decide where to put it.

A committee has begun interviewing candidates for Carthage Chamber President and Carthage Economic Development Director by telephone and they hope to have a list of finalists for in-person interviews soon.

The committee planning Carthage’s remembrance of the 150th anniversary of the battle that started the Civil War is thinking of holding a reenactment of the battle in Carthage and around the square instead of out in a rural field where reenactments are normally held.

The age gulf between Eleanor Smoak and some of the people who came to see her on her birthday on Tuesday was almost a century, but that didn’t dim the heartfelt emotions between Smoak and her friends.

If Punxstuawney Phil was right on Tuesday, winter is far from over, but Tom Short and Zeb Carney have one request of Old Man Winter — could we please see the remaining storms hit on Monday-Friday from 9 a.m.-noon?

Jasper County Records Center volunteers are assembling a book about the history of the rural school districts in the county and they need the public’s help.