It was a good year for a breakthrough. Just ask some of the Valley's top teams and two of its former football stars.

From media pioneer Gary Rust to sports icon Carl Ritter, we remember the Southeast Missouri business, athletic and civic ...

Starting today and continuing through New Year’s Day, the Standard-Speaker is presenting a series of articles and photographs ...

HANOVER, Md. — Stripes & Strikes Post 76 stuck to a familiar formula for its next step to a possible berth in the American Legion World Series on Wednesday: dominant pitching, timely hitting and ...

Hello everyone, I’m Dan Lucy on the Ozarks First digital desk. The Missouri Sports Hall of Fame named its induction class for ...

A new — and yet to be named — summer collegiate league baseball team that will be playing in Joplin starting in May announced Monday that it had hired Octavio Sanchez as manager. Sanchez, a new ...

Mo'ne Davis, a Little League World Series standout, was selected 10th overall in the inaugural Women's Pro Baseball League draft, continuing her journey in America's pastime and marking a major ...

Membership in the New Ulm American Legion Baseball Hall of Fame will increase to 111 on Saturday, Dec. 27, as four new members will join the group. The induction ceremony will be held at 2 p.m. at New ...

The event will take place on Jan. 16 at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, California. By Beatrice Verhoeven Awards Editor Tribute to the Crafts “honors those who are at the very heart of filmmaking ...

Jeremiah Smith and the Ohio State Buckeyes won’t be the school’s first back-to-back national champions, and the College Football Playoff still doesn’t have a winner from teams with the first-round ...

Jed Miller scored a career-high 24 points in the men's home victory, and Issy Bunyan scored 21 points to lead the women in a win on the road.

A 21-year-old man from Texas has died after a car crash on I-44 in Phelps County early Saturday morning. Good Saturday morning. Most folks in the Ozarks are starting out with a little bit of light ...