Stories from Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Saline County Commissioners approved plans made by Road and Bridge Supervisor Justin Cowart at the Tuesday, Sept. 24, meeting. Cowart and road workers plan to work this week on building roads north and southeast of Marshall around the Blue Lick area and roads out west...

Emily Braun, of Hale, was turning northbound onto U.S. Highway 65 in her 2011 Chevy Malibu from Fairground Road, when she was struck by an 18-wheeler, driven by Richard Doss, of Marshall, around 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 24. There were no reported injuries. Braun's vehicle was towed from the scene by Cadwell's Towing...

Lil Mr. and Miss Slater were announced on Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Slater Fall Festival.

The Missouri Valley College Division of Fine Arts will present the first instrumental music concert of the year at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26, in the Harold L. Lickey Memorial Auditorium at Bueker Middle School. The concert will feature the MVC Wind Ensemble, also known as the concert band, and MVC Jazz Ensemble...

The Country Patchwork Quilt Guild is celebrating its 26th annual Quilt Show at the Martin Community Center from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 29. The co-chairmen, Bobbie Jo Purta and Marty Webster, are promising another great show this year with the silent auction, bazaar, opportunity quilt, a hands-on quilt, fat quarter basket raffle and various vendors. There will also be a vendor to sharpen your scissors and rotary blades...

Quin Gresham and Daryl Vaughan have done it again in another performance about the town of Tuna, Texas, at the Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre. "Tuna Does Vegas" is the tale of Arles Struvie and Bertha Bumiller traveling to Las Vegas to renew their wedding vows, but during the planning process all of Tuna decides to make the trip as well...

Prep Round-up: Marshall cross country; Marshall, Slater softball; Santa Fe, Sweet Springs and Malta Bend volleyball

High school sports scores for Monday, Sept. 23

Albert Farold Dickson, 68, of Marshall, died Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013, at University Hospital in Columbia. A memorial service will be held at a later date. Memorials are suggested to be donated to his children to help with burial and headstone expenses...

Patricia "Pat" Plains, 79, of Marshall, died Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013, at University Hospital and Clinics in Columbia. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 27, 2013, at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Marshall, with Pastor William Voelker officiating. ...

Russell Allen Renfrow Jr., 19, of Marshall, has been charged with forcible rape, sexual intercourse by forcible compulsion, which is an unclassified felony. According to a probable cause statement from the Marshall Police Department, an officer was dispatched to Marshall High School at 8:14 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16, after an anonymous call informed central dispatch Renfrow was a the football game and had put his hands on a girl...

Monday, Sept. 16: Before noon, Saline County Ambulance District No. 3 treated and transported to a hospital three people experiencing a medical emergency requiring advanced life support. After noon, they treated and transported to a hospital one person experiencing a medical emergency requiring advanced life support and one person experiencing a medical non emergency requiring basic life support...