Stories from Friday, October 10, 2008

Circulation of materials and the number of card holders at the Marshall Public Library have both been steadily increasing, according to library Director Amy Crump. Crump reported on the numbers at the Board of Trustees meeting Wednesday evening, Oct. 8, in the library meeting room...

"One man's trash is another one's treasure." We've heard that before, but for Julie Davenport, the director of Sweet Springs' I-70 Medical Center, the old adage definitely rings true. Davenport, who grew up in Blackburn and now lives near Higginsville, has had a large charcoal drawing of an unknown gentleman in her home for many years. Her mother had originally purchased the portrait 39 years ago at a garage sale...

Saline County 9-1-1 Commission voted Thursday, Oct. 8, to extend the deadline for building construction bids to noon Friday, Oct. 17, according to unofficial minutes of a special meeting. The commission also moved the date of its next regular meeting to account for the deadline change...

Marshall High School science teacher David Meyer left a school assembly Friday morning, Oct. 10, a little lighter than when he arrived. Meyer made good on a promise to have his head shaved in front of the student body if the students managed to raise at least $750 in the Pennies from Heaven fundraising project to benefit the Fitzgibbon Hospital Community Cancer Center...

Five unlocked trucks, five CB radios stolen by a person or persons unknown. Saline County Sheriff's deputies were called to Betty's Truck Stop early Thursday morning, Oct. 2, to investigate the disappearance of CB radios and other items stolen from five truckers parked at the truck stop...

A Grand Pass farmer reported what he believed was an attempt to steal a loaded grain truck Thursday, Oct. 9. According to an incident report from Saline County Sheriff's Department, Fred W. Utlaut said he'd last seen the truck, with a full load of corn, parked in a field in the Grand Pass bottoms on Wednesday evening, Oct. 8. When he returned Thursday morning, Utlaut said, someone had moved the truck in an attempt to steal it and had gotten it high-centered on the levy...

Gina A. Ardito, 25, of Raytown, has been charged with the class D felony of leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident in connection with an incident that occurred in the late evening hours of Tuesday, Oct. 7, in Marshall. According to the probable cause statement filed in the case, Ardito was party to an accident that caused more than $1,000 in damage to a vehicle at or near the 1600 block of West College Avenue, and left the scene of the accident...

Marshall wins 28-13 over Moberly.

Local martial arts students returned with medals from the Show-Me State Showdown in Columbia Saturday, Sept. 27. Front row, from left: Courtney Holland, Simeon Buie and Alexia Bowlen. Back from, from left: Rebecca Buie, Gary Bowlen and Rhiannon Bowlen.

Joshua C. Walden, 28, will stand trial in early December in connection with the death of Steve A. Ford of Marshall. Ford was found shot to death in his home Saturday, Oct. 14, 2006, after friends and family were unable to contact him and asked police to check on his well-being. Walden was apprehended four days later in Madison County, Ohio...