About 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, September 16, 2026, reports of a crash just west of Mo-171 on Mo-96 alerted E-911. Read More

About 7:45 p.m. Monday, August 31, 2026, reports of a crash involving a large box truck rollover near 56 MM on I-49 SB, north of ... Read More

Update: Jasper County Coroner James Harrison confirms to KOAM's Shannon Becker the motorcyclist, Gabriel Royer, 40, died in a Springfield hospital. Next of kin are notified. Read More

The McDonald County man charged in a deadly drunk driving crash last week in Carthage made his first court appearance Wednesday. Read More

Mark Mendez-Hernandez has been charged with DWI death of another, involuntary manslaughter, second-degree assault, and multiple other charges in the deadly crash. Mendez Hernandez is a repeat DWI ... Read More

More details have been released about a fatal DWI crash in Carthage, Missouri, Tuesday afternoon. Police say 22-year-old Mark Anthony Mendez-Hernandez, of South ... Read More

A fatal suspected DWI crash is under investigation in Carthage. It happened around 3 Tuesday afternoon at the intersection of Oak Street and McGregor Street. Po ... Read More

Medflight landed shortly afterwards, just yards away from the crash scene, at Memorial Hall and transported the individual. Lt. Eric Miller tells KOAM's Shannon Becker three vehicles were involved. Read More

Med Flight landed at Memorial Hall and transported one patient. Lt. Eric Miller tells KOAM's Shannon Becker on the scene three vehicles were involved. He updates us that one dri ... Read More

Governor Kehoe signs a new congressional map into law, authorities investigate a crash that happened near Carthage, and details about a fallen officer in Hays, Kansas. Read More

Troopers determined that a 41-year-old Bonner Springs man was driving north on Interstate 49 when he went off the left side of the road just north of Carthage. He hit a post and his Harley-Davidson ... Read More

A man from Bonner Springs Kansas has the dubious distinction of being the 100th traffic trash fatality in 2025 in southwest Missouri. The Missouri State Highway ... Read More

CARTHAGE, Mo. - The Carthage School District is remembering one of their own after a fatal car crash Thursday night. The district announced Friday that Carthage High School sophomore Brianna Morris ... Read More

The Carthage, Missouri, community is mourning the loss of a high school student. Sophomore Brianna Morris passed away in a car accident late Thursday night. The ... Read More

JASPER COUNTY, Mo. (KOAM) - Just after 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday reports of a two vehicle crash along I-49 SB near 55 mile marker (near Civil War Road) alerted E-911. Carthage Fire, Jasper County ... Read More

A Carthage area bridge will close to traffic for the next several weeks. Crews will begin a $2.8 million project to replace the Missouri Route 96 bridge over Route 171, just west of Carthage, ... Read More

About 5 p.m. Monday reports of a tractor-trailer overturned on Mo-96 ramp to westbound Mo-171 at Carthage, Mo. Oak Street exit alerted Jasper County E-911. Read More

The driver in a motorcycle crash where his female passenger was killed, Dedrian C. Bridgett, 43, of Carthage, Mo. September 25, 2024, South Main Street in ... Read More

A worker was killed in an industrial accident Tuesday afternoon at the Schreiber Foods plant in Carthage. Carthage police Chief Bill Hawkins said dispatchers received a call from the plant at 127 ... Read More

WENTZVILLE, Mo. - A Carthage, Ill., woman was involved in a Sunday morning crash in St. Charles County. Read More