I don't know when the story about the fugitive pastor from Newton County was added to the newspaper's website, but it was definitely hours after that information had run as "breaking news" on the Joplin Globe website.
The only new information I saw was in the fifth paragraph of a seven-paragraph story:
The Newton County Sheriff's Department has taken four children into protective custody. The children are of age 5, 9, 13 and 15. They are of both male and female gender.
If that information had been moved to the lead and made the focal point of the story, perhaps the term "breaking news" would have been a bit more applicable, though not much.
Unfortunately, for the Neosho Daily News as far as the Grand Valley Independent Baptist Church story is concerned, reporter John Ford receiving a few well-deserved days of rest could not have come at a worse time.
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