Stories from Saturday, February 18, 2012

Rain water, leaves and reflections of the Saline County Courthouse tower make an autumn-like image of the decorative fountain on the northeast corner of the courthouse grounds recently. The fountain, and another at the southwest corner, had a light pole long ago, and county Buildings and Grounds Supervisor Bill Sleeper is seeking information about the whereabouts or fate of those poles. ...

Marshall police arrested five people Thursday evening, Feb. 16, after serving a search warrant at a residence on West Morgan Street, according to a news release from the department. The warrant was issued as part of an ongoing investigation into the distribution of cocaine and marijuana, police said. Additional arrests are expected...

The E911 Board of Directors celebrated the center's two-year anniversary at the Thursday, Feb. 16, board meeting. Director Stacie Smith announced the center received 14,323 calls in January, which is up from December's total of 13,804. This past month 21 percent of the calls were made from landlines, and 79 percent were made from cell phones. Also 3 percent of calls came from Voice over Internet Protocol devices...

In February 2011, Jeffris Heartland Fund, administered by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, awarded the Friends of Arrow Rock a $25,000 matching grant to fund historic structure reports for five 19th-century properties, according to a news release from the Arrow Rock organization...