Randee Kaiser News Today

An Oklahoma man accused of firing shots and ramming a deputy’s patrol car in a stolen vehicle pursuit two years ago in Carthage watched a succession of officers testify against

JASPER COUNTY, Mo. (KOAM) — About 9:44 a.m. Monday, Jasper County Deputies received a call of a disturbance with shots fired on Pump Lane, near Zora and Schifferdecker in Joplin.

ANDERSON, Mo. — A southwest Missouri man is arrested after authorities say he committed child sex crimes, again. Rusty Little, of Anderson, was arrested at his workplace in Joplin on Monday. Sheriff Randee Kaiser says it’s the culmination of an investigation his agency launched earlier this month. Little is alleged to have performed sexual acts […]

DUENWEG, Mo. — Sheriff Randee Kaiser releases more images of the suspect from the January 11, Felony Assault stabbing, at the Joplin Bus Station, 6607 East 7th.

Two Joplin residents were taken into custody early Thursday after a car chase involving the Jasper County Sheriffs Department and the Joplin Police Department.

CARTHAGE, Mo. — A rural Sarcoxie couple who rescued a neighbor from a house fire were among those honored at the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office’s semiannual awards and recognition ceremony

WEBB CITY, Mo. — There’s another area bridge naming project in the works, this one in Webb City. “In the line of duty, people like that help transform what was the Wild West into what we enjoy today as Webb City,” said Lynn Ragsdale, Mayor of Webb City. Webb City Mayor Lynn Ragsdale is talking […]

CARTHAGE, Mo. — The Jasper County Jail celebrates a year of new beginnings. It’s the one-year anniversary of the “Jasper County Jail Treatment Program’s” first graduating class. Officers with the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office and the program’s two newest graduates were in attendance. The program gives inmates struggling with addiction a system called “Moral Reconation […]

Joplin, Mo. - The Jasper County Jail Treatment Program celebrated the one-year anniversary of its inaugural graduating class.

CARTHAGE, Mo. — Authorities in southwest Missouri are encountering an older type of theft only with a new twist, so to speak. Ever since the cost of copper started going up a few years ago, the theft of that type of metal has become more and more common. Jasper County Sheriff Randee Kaiser says it’s […]