Readers' tips, information help Turner Report, update on Lost Angels, top Turner Report/Inside Joplin posts

After a lengthy period of working on the new book, going through the writing, editing and rewriting process a few times, following a lengthy research phase, it has been good to get back into the normal blogging routine the last few weeks.

While I have been able to keep up with the day-to-day blogging while working on Lost Angels, I now have more time to work on beefing up the content on all of the blogs.

I have also had help this week and in the past from you, as readers have continued to supply me with tips on stories that have not been covered in area media, angles that have been overlooked by the traditional media sources on stories that have been covered and suggestions on things that people would like to see on this blog or on Inside Joplin.

A number of times I have received tips on stories that would be absolutely great and need to be told, but at this point anyway, I do not have the means or the ability to do them. I regret those, but keep letting me know. When I receive tips, I am not always able to do something at that time, but often I can write about it later.






One such instance, and the story showed up again in this week's Turner Report Top 10, was the story on the embezzling Jasper R-5 Board of Education secretary. I was tipped off on that one long before I was able to do anything on it, but by continuing to watch court files and keeping up to date on what was going on in the school district, I was eventually able to start writing about it.

Often, readers give me tips on people who have been arrested and who hold positions of importance in Joplin and area communities or tell me of arrests that are in the works.

All of those things have helped me keep the Turner Report a blog where you can regularly find stories that have not been featured elsewhere or different angles and perspectives on stories that have been reported.

Thanks for your help.

Lost Angels

Amazon e-mailed me that the first copies of Lost Angels: The Murders of Rowan Ford and Doug Ringler, were shipped Thursday and should be here by Tuesday or Wednesday. I will have announcements on which retail outlets are carrying the books and about upcoming signings.

If you have a place of business and would like to sell Lost Angels, Newton County Memories, my Joplin Tornado books or any others, let me know.

For those who do not live in this area or who want to read the e-book version before the paperbacks arrive, Amazon links to the e-book and paperback versions of Lost Angels can be found below.

The top 10 posts for this week on the Turner Report, Inside Joplin and Inside Joplin Obituaries can be found below.




The Turner Report

1. Former Lamar Middle School student teacher charged with sexual misconduct, indecent exposure, enticement of a child

2. Joplin man who secretly recorded videos of three children in bathroom sentenced to 28 years in prison

3. Embezzling Jasper R-5 secretary wants sentenced tossed, says her lawyer did a bad job

4. "Bring Tori Home" Go Fund Me site created to help Joplin accident victim

5. Cleaver: For the one millionth time- illegal immigration is not a security crisis

6. Trial of former Joplin, Webb City policeman on child porn charges placed on May 6 docket

7. March trial date for former North MIddle School reading teacher in child sexual exploitation case

8. Joplin day care operator sentenced to six years in prison for adoption scheme

9. Billy Long: The last two years under Trump have been nothing short of a success

10. Appellate court dismisses Webb City man's appeal of 13-year sentence for having sex with 16-year-old






Inside Joplin

1. School closings for Thursday, February 7

2. School closings for Friday, February 8

3. Crawford County woman stabbed to death, husband arrested, dog killed

4. Lamar Police arrest Webb City, Carthage men on burglary charges

5. Jasper County Dissolution of Marriage Petitions

6. Jasper County Sheriff's Office Arrests

7. Driver arrested after admitting to Jasper Police he had "a little bit of meth"

8, Ozark Drug Enforcement Team raids net arrest of Joplin, Carthage residents, confiscation of meth, cocaine, oxycodone

9. Joplin Police Department Arrests February 7-8

10. Joplin Police Department Arrests February 4-5





Inside Joplin Obituaries

1. Randi Dayton

2. Payton Kanarr

3 Alicia Poe

4. Ron Howerton

5. Elizabeth Wilson

6. Richard Thurman

7. Robbie Neece

8. Paul McConnell

9. Joel Singletary

10. Karen Lane