Stories from Wednesday, December 5, 2007

WARRENSBURG -- Warrensburg won eight of 10 bouts Tuesday to take a 48-18 non-conference win over the visiting Marshall wrestling team. The individual matches were generally closer than the final score indicated, with only half of the Tigers' wins by fall. The contest began with a dandy at 160 pounds, where Class 3 all-state junior Austin Gladbach edged Owls junior Jerrad Kelly, 7-4...

For the second night in a row, an opponent with no player over 6-foot-1 used its quickness to beat the Marshall boys' basketball team. Visiting Mexico went on a 15-5 third-quarter run Tuesday to defeat the Owls in their NCMC opener, 49-34. Senior Alex Gardner scored eight of his game-high 18 points during the decisive stretch for the Bulldogs...

A positive streak was stopped and a regrettable one extended during Missouri Valley College's non-conference basketball doubleheader Tuesday in the Burns Athletic Center. The Lady Vikings were seeking their fourth straight win, but were derailed by top-ranked College of the Ozarks, 102-86. Still, it wasn't easy for Hard Work U, an NAIA Division II finalist a year ago...

Kip Cullers, world record-holder for soybean production, will speak to the Santa Fe Agri-Leaders Monday, Dec. 10, at 7 p.m. in the Santa Fe High School commons. Cullers achieved the record with a yield of 154 bushels per acre in a Missouri Soybean Association yield contest...

The Marshall City Council heard from Mayor Connie Latimer about the airport runway expansion project at their meeting on Monday, Dec. 3. Latimer said, "The saga at the airport continues. The lights are partially in." She said if "Mother Nature cooperates they should be done in a couple of weeks."...

Where can you hear 150 of the most beautiful holiday voices at one time? Right here in Marshall, as the Marshall Community Chorus presents its annual concert, "The Glorious Sounds of the Season," this Saturday and Sunday, according to a news release from the chorus...

Scott Miller, author of "Until It's Gone, Ending Poverty in Our Nation, in Our Lifetime," went to college to study architecture and came out a social activist instead. Miller was at First Christian Church in Marshall on Tuesday, Dec. 4, to talk about his book and to work with community leaders on next steps for the "Circles" project in Marshall...

Officials of the Marshall school district and Salt Fork YMCA say they are close to working out the details on contracts for two school programs that use the YMCA, but one contract will likely be short-lived. The Marshall Board of Education met in open session briefly Tuesday, Dec. 4, to discuss contracts for the after-school program and the Marshall High School swim team's use of the YMCA pool...

Editor's note: The original version of this story, published late Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 5, did not include an explanation for the mistrial. The specific charge was inadvertently left out of an earlier version of this story. Revised at 6:45 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12.

I want to extend a thank-you to all of those who attended the book sale this past weekend. We raised $260, all to support the Summer Reading Program. For those of you who missed it, we will have another sale in May. (You can also go to the monthly sales at Missouri Valley College -- they will have the next one on the first weekend in February.)...