The Man of Steel was born not on Krypton, but in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood back in 1933, when two high school students, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, dreamed up the caped hero.

A statue commemorating the heritage of Joplin and the Tri-State Mining District commissioned by retired Joplin businessman Henry Robertson stands tall now in t Rotary Sculpture Garden at Mercy Park.

Daniel Heath and William Lawrence, a pair of 22-year-old members of the British Royal Air Force, apologized for stealing a ...