Stories from Thursday, October 2, 2008

Long-time Marshall school board member Jeanette Klinge has tendered her resignation. The board met Thursday evening, Oct. 2, to accept her resignation and discuss how to fill what's left of her term. More information to follow.

Like many of you, I believe that one of the greatest gifts God has given me is my children. I have four -- three girls and one boy -- and each are very special to me. As those of you who are parents know, raising children can be a rather humbling -- and tiring -- task. ...

Two juveniles were taken to Fitzgibbon Hospital as the result of an apparent auto accident Sunday morning, Sept. 28, according to Marshall Police Chief Mike Donnell. Officers found a red Explorer lying on the passenger's side at around 4 a.m. on the 1500 block of E. Eastwood...

Two 15-year-old male juveniles and an 18 year-old male, on the run from Butterfield Youth Services, were arrested in St. Louis Sunday, Sept. 21, and are in the custody of St. Louis police, according to a report from Saline County Sheriff's Department...

By GEOFF RANDS Staff Writer Cats, dogs, fish, numerous rabbits, a snake, a rat, some goats and a steer gathered in the St. Peter School parking lot along with students and their parents who call the animals "theirs" for the annual Blessing of Pets on Thursday Oct. 2...

A 9-year-old Marshall girl was injured on East Arrow Street shortly before 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 1. She apparently ran into the street and collided with a car, according to police. The girl was taken by ambulance to Fitzgibbon Hospital, where she was treated and released...

Willie Harlow of Marshall was sitting in the audience of the CBS game show "The Price is Right" last July 22, taking it all in and thinking about where he was going to have dinner that night when they called his name. "Willie Harlow, c'mon down!" He and his friend, Hunter Lewis, in Los Angeles for a short vacation, had spent most of the day waiting to hear those words...

As the jury foreman's refrain of "not guilty" continued Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 30, family and supporters of Lyndale D. Henderson could not contain a few sobs of joy. They complied with Judge Robert L. Koffman's admonition about outbursts, but outside the courtroom, their joy was evident...

MEXICO -- "Revenge is a dish best served cold," goes the proverb, and it's one the Marshall softball team regrettably understands. Mexico did to the Lady Owls what was done to it earlier in the season, coming from behind with a walk-off hit in the bottom of the seventh Wednesday for a 4-3 NCMC home win. Marshall began the season by beating the Lady Bulldogs, also 4-3 on its last at-bat...

SLATER -- Slater's 56-40 loss at Concordia last week allowed head coach Chris Ferri to point to a simple, yet necessary, lesson: "We definitely have to work on our tackling and pursuit drills." So that's what the Wildcats spent Wednesday working on in preparation for Friday's home tilt against Marceline, one of the Lewis and Clark Conference's toughest teams...