Stories from Monday, December 17, 2007

DAVENPORT, Iowa -- The opportunity to avenge a one-point home loss to St. Ambrose (Iowa) went by the wayside for the Missouri Valley College men's basketball team Saturday. The Vikings, trying to catch up from a nine-point halftime deficit, missed all eight free-throw attempts during the second half -- while the hosts made 11 of 17...

HANNIBAL -- Anthony Thompson celebrated his return to the line-up following a three-game suspension Friday by leading the Marshall boys' basketball team to a 54-51 overtime win at NCMC rival Hannibal. The senior point guard tied the game on a lay-up with 20 seconds remaining, then tallied five points -- including the game-winning bucket -- during the extra frame. ...

SEDALIA -- The Santa Fe boys' basketball team used a 13-0 third-quarter spree to turn an eight-point halftime lead into an easy 58-22 victory Friday over Northwest of Hughesville during the State Fair Community College/W-K Chevrolet-Buick Holiday Shoot-out at Sedalia...

The Kansas City Southern Holiday Express, also known as "The Santa Train," is scheduled to stop in Slater at 4 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20. The six-car train includes a smiling tank car; a flat car carrying Santa's sleigh, reindeer and a miniature village; a ginger bread box car; the elves' workshop; the reindeer's stable; and a little red caboose...

A Marshall woman received minor injuries Saturday evening in a two-car accident on U.S. Highway 65, according to a report from Missouri State Highway Patrol. Judy K. Frakes, 43, of Marshall, was taken to Fitzgibbon Hospital in Marshall for treatment of minor injuries, according to troopers...

Annamarie J. Thibeault, 48, and Joseph E. Thibeault, 12, both of Gerome, refused treatment for minor injuries sustained late Saturday afternoon in a one-car accident on Interstate 70, according to a report from Missouri State Highway Patrol. Thibeault was traveling west on I-70 in a 2002 Chevrolet Camero at about 4:30 p.m. when she lost control on the snow-covered roadway at Blackwater River bridge and struck the bridge wall...

Most people, if they've done something, and done a bang-up job the first time, will look back admiringly and say, "Wow, that went great, didn't it?" That's what most people would do, but the people who brought you the Community Holiday Dinner last year are not "most people."...

Bueker Middle School students gave a special farewell to Mollie Keith, special education teacher, at an assembly Friday, Dec. 14. Keith will be taking a year- to year-and-a-half tour in Iraq starting this spring. She took command of the National Guard's 1175th Military Police Company on Sept. 17...

Four railroad cars of wheat went off the tracks and 350 railroad ties will be replaced as a result of a Union Pacific Railroad accident near Nelson Sunday, Dec. 16, about 9:30 p.m., but no one was injured. The cars were part of a 94-car train enroute from Colby, Kan., to E. St. Louis, Ill., when the accident occurred between Marshall and Smithton, according to Mark Davis, director of regional public affairs for Union Pacific...