Stories from Thursday, March 8, 2007

Ann Coulter, sweetheart of the Republican Party and firebrand columnist who has reigned on The New York Times Best Seller list with titles such as Godless: The Church of Liberalism (June 2006), How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)(October, 2004), Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism (June 2003); Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right (June 2002); and High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton (August 1998), has tumbled from the heights of Right Wing celebrity with an off-the-cuff comment about Democratic presidential contender John Edwards.. ...

Joseph L. Cunningham, 85, of Marshall, died Wednesday, March 7, 2007, at The Living Center in Marshall. Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, March 10, 2007, at Longwood Cemetery in Pettis County. Visitation will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Friday at Sweeney Reser Wills Funeral Home in Marshall...

Pizza Hut promotion to support Center for Human Services Pizza Hut in Marshall will be donating 20 percent of its proceeds on Tuesday, March 20, from 4 to 9 p.m. to the Center for Human Services Cooperative Workshop, according to CHS officials. The offer is good for dine-in or carry-out meals but is not valid with any other coupon...

The fourth public concert for the Marshall Philharmonic Orchestra's 44th season is its annual Chamber Music Concert which features individual talents of the orchestra. It will be held Saturday, March 10, at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church beginning at 7:30 p.m...

When the second half of the NIRA Ozark Region schedule begins today at the Mississippi State Rodeo, the Missouri Valley College men's team is in the thick of the race for the College National Finals. The Lady Vikings, though, have their work cut out for them...

ST. CHARLES -- Strong pitching performances helped the Missouri Valley College softball team win both ends of its opening Heart of America Conference doubleheader Wednesday at Lindenwood, 4-2 and 9-1. Sophomore Megan Davis and freshman Tatum Hathcock both went the distance without allowing an earned run for the Lady Vikings. Davis surrendered only three hits and pitched around six Valley errors and Hathcock scattered five hits over six innings, both improving to 2-1...

LAMONI, Iowa -- The Missouri Valley College men's volleyball team played its "best defensive game ... all year" Tuesday, according to head coach Joan Rickert, to ruin Senior Night at Graceland in a close three MAMVIC West games. The fourth-ranked Vikings came up with 71 total digs, with four players in double figures -- sophomore Jarrett Fujita (17), junior Adam Tuifagu (16) and seniors Christopher Kaneko (12) and Kapena Wong (11) -- during a 30-27, 30-26, 30-27 victory...

2007 All-NCMC Wrestling First Team Second Team All-state in italics (place)...

Gerald "Jiggs" Sandidge, who died in 2000, was remembered on March 3, when he was named to the National Pork Producers Hall of Fame. His four children, Roger, Connie, Penny and Brent were on hand to accept the award. Born in 1923, Jiggs was just 18 when his father passed away, and as the youngest son, with his brothers away in World War II, he was entrusted with the job of taking care of his mother and the farm...

It was in 1957, nearly 50 years ago, when the late Gerald "Jiggs" Sandidge built the first hog barn on his family's farm south of Marshall. "Environmental reasons is one the main reasons we started moving pigs in," said Brent Sandidge, Jigg's son, and now manager of Ham Hill Farms. ...