Links provided for top Turner Report/Inside Joplin posts this week

After a few weeks when the Joplin R-8 School District was not featured prominently, it surged back this week with the removal of Executive Director of Special Services Mark Barlass and the $2.5 million settlement of the P1 lawsuit leading the way.

The top Inside Joplin post this week, about a Joplin Police Department stop that resulted in the discovery of a handgun and methamphetamines, with more than 21,000 individual visitors, was also the most visited post of all time for the blog.

This week's top posts:

Turner Report

1. Life, 30 years for Joplin man, girlfriend who killed her husband and dropped him in well

2. Two administrators out in Joplin R-8 shakeup

3. Dankelson reduced, dropped charges against members of family that gave him $5,000

4. What the Joplin Globe failed to mention about the R-8 lawsuit settlement

5. Watch the Joplin R-8 Board of Education meeting live

6. R-8 agreement with Barless, insurance through December, won't oppose unemployment

7. Reader's message to Joplin R-8 parents: Demand change

8. Springfield prisoners to be housed in Joplin City Jail, city to receive $100,000

9. Joplin School District has to pay P1 Group $2.5 million by Tuesday

10. Lawsuit accusing Joplin police officer of punching woman, fondling her breasts, is dropped

Inside Joplin

1. JPD traffic stop nets handgun, meth

2. Do you know these people? Carthage Police need information

3. Joplin Police seek help identifying Northpark Mall burglary suspect

4. Six-year-old injured as Joplin man crashes into three parked cars

5. Large quantity of meth seized in Jasper

6. Joplin Police Department Arrests October 25-26

7. Joplin Police Department Arrests October 26-27

8. Jasper County Dissolution of Marriage Petitions

9. Do you know this man? Carthage Police asks for help

10. Do you know this man? Carthage Police want to know who he is

Inside Joplin Obituaries

1. Angie Wosel

2. Matthew Fisher

3. Tom Jones

4. Carolyn Brewer

5. Penny Moorehouse-Coates

6. Mary Walters

7. Paul Ritchhart

8. Mary Jennings

9. Joseph McNally

10. Steve Sell