Stories from Monday, February 20, 2006

Beulah Waisner, 91, of Marshall, died Monday, Feb. 20, 2006, at Boone Hospital Center in Columbia. Arrangements are pending at Campbell-Lewis Funeral Home in Marshall.

Marilyn Sue Portwood, 56, of Sweet Springs, died Sunday, Feb. 19, 2006, at Apple Ridge Care Center in Waverly. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2006, at Campbell-Lewis Chapel in Sweet Springs. William W. Harlow will officiate. ...

Sarah Elizabeth Harris LaGore, 94, of Marshall, died Saturday, Feb. 18, 2006, at The Living Center in Marshall. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2006, at Campbell-Lewis Chapel in Marshall. William W. Harlow will officiate. Visitation will be held from 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Ridge Park Cemetery in Marshall. Memorials may be made to the charity of the donor's choice...

ALMA -- Achieving redemption in loss was a theme plumbed by the late director Sam Peckinpah. That may make the Santa Fe boys "The Wild Bunch" of prep hoops. Even while losing 17 straight games, the young Chiefs have continued to battle. Such was the case Friday at Alma when they nearly upended more powerful I-70 Conference rival Concordia before coming up short, 68-62...

ALMA -- If the Santa Fe girls' basketball team was going to claim the undisputed I-70 Conference title, it was going to have to do so without leading scorer Michelle Aversman. The junior forward was lost for the season with a torn ACL sustained a week prior to Friday's tip-off against visiting Concordia, which entered with a five-game winning streak -- racking up 139 points in the last two contests -- and had beaten the Lady Chiefs by 22 points in early January...

The Missouri Valley College men's basketball team will go into the Heart of America Conference Post-season Tournament on a three-game win streak following Saturday's 84-63 romp over visiting league foe Avila. The Vikings forced 26 turnovers and feasted at the free-throw line, making 22 of 24 attempts -- including all four during the second half, which it entered with a seven-point lead...

Prior to a restart with two laps remaining in Sunday's Daytona 500, Darian Grubb -- the interim crew chief for race leader Jimmie Johnson's team -- was asked by NBC if he was nervous. "Why should I be?" he remarked. "I've got the best car and the best driver."...

COLUMBIA -- The knights errant met afterwards to display the effects of their joust. Marshall senior Alex McKinney had a knot on his head, which had scarred the nose of Seneca senior Joe Yust. The deepest wound, though, could not be seen externally -- the pain of an unfulfilled desire which left McKinney momentarily anguished...

A Marshall resident was injured in a one-vehicle crash early Saturday morning. According to the preliminary Missouri State Highway Patrol report, the crash occurred around 4:45 a.m. on Route YY almost three-quarters of a mile south of County Road 304. ...

Máire N' Chathasaigh and Chris Newman play a version of "Turkey in the Straw" that would make the turkey dizzy and set the straw to smoldering. Driving but precise, soaring without leaving the barn, unique but familiar. Much of their music is like that, according to Mike Brown, pastor of the First Christian Church in Marshall. ...

Even when the city of Marshall set a record for construction value in 2004, the first month of the year showed little activity in building permits issued. That was also the case in 2005. But the unseasonably warm start to this year also saw local building permits on an uncharacteristically hot pace. ...

State Sen. John Cauthorn, R-Mexico, concedes that a plan to mandate the use of ethanol in almost all gasoline sold in Missouri may appear to violate the conservative value of respecting free markets, but he said the measure will do much more good than harm...

If Malta Bend band director James Duncan set out to prove that size of a heart is more important than size in numbers, he may have succeeded. Duncan announced Friday that the Malta Bend School marching band, with only 24 members including the color guard, has been invited to perform at the AutoZone Liberty Bowl halftime show Dec. 30...

Aubrey W. Graves, 92, of Lincoln, died Sunday, Feb. 19, 2006 at Lincoln Community Nursing Home in Lincoln. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22, at Davis-Miller Funeral Home in Lincoln. Rev. Diana Loomis will officiate. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. ...

KIRKSVILLE -- The biggest run in a game of runs went the way of the Marshall girls' basketball team Friday during its 39-34 NCMC win at Kirksville. After giving up the game's first six points, the Lady Owls scored seven in a row -- and kept that one-point lead intact at halftime. However, it was during the third quarter that Marshall took off -- sophomore Amy Durham scoring nine points and senior Hannah Heuman draining a three-pointer during a 15-1 stretch which extended the margin to 12 points...