Stories from Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Sue Carrico Phillips, 57, of Joplin, formerly of Marshall, died Thursday, April 4, 2013. Services were held Monday, April 8, 2013, at Thornhill-Dillon Mortuary in Joplin. Memorials are suggested to American Cancer Society. She was the daughter of the late Richard Carrico and Charlotte Carrico, who survives. She graduated from Marshall High School. She married Stanley C. Phillips, who survives of the home...

Marshall High School senior art shows will begin Monday, April 15, and continue through Friday, May 17. Senior art projects will be on display at the administrative offices island. The schedule includes: --April 15-19: Huber Arana; --April 22-26: Caitlin OBrien;...

Monday, April 1: Before noon, Saline County Ambulance District No. 3 treated and transported to a hospital two people experiencing a medical emergency requiring advanced life support. After noon, they treated and transported to a hospital four people experiencing a medical emergency requiring advanced life support...

There will be a fundraising dinner for Bryce Malan from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, April 21, at Malta Bend School. Malan has been nominated to go to Washington, D.C., through the People to People Ambassadors Program, Youth in Government. The menu will include fried chicken or pulled pork, green beans, salad, rolls, dessert and tea, coffee or water...

High school sports scores for Monday, April 8

Della Mae Cramer will celebrate her 90th birthday with a reception held in her honor by her family from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 21, at The Living Center in the family room. The family requests no gifts.

Mach shoots 78 to pace Owls

Paulus, Tietz combine for 14 strikeouts

MHS athletes set 18 PRs

A rural Marshall couple brought a suspicious object to the Saline County Sheriff's Department Saturday, April 6. The couple said they saw the black object in a field. When they opened it, they suspected it might contain materials for producing methamphetamine...

Marshall-Saline Development Corporation is working with Missouri Valley College to develop new programs to support entrepreneurship, according to MSDC Executive Director Bill Riggins. MVC is currently hosting the annual Maastricht Institute of Entrepreneurship, an international entrepreneurship symposium...

The April Saline County sales tax report offered a grim picture in the general tax revenue but a considerable bump in use tax collected. Auditor Tara Vogelsmeier presented the April 2013 tax report to the Saline County Commission at its meeting Tuesday, April 9. ...

Miami R-1 School is hosting its annual screenings for children ages 6 months through kindergarten age, from 8 a.m. to noon, Tuesday, April 16, at the school. Students entering preschool or kindergarten will need to bring a birth certificate, immunization records and a social security card...

Three teenage boys who ran away from a Butterfield Youth Services ranch last week have all been located and returned to BYS, according to an organization spokesman. The boys left the premises late Thursday, April 5, and early Friday, April 6, according to Saline County Sheriff's Department reports...

The Marshall Planning and Zoning commission held a public hearing before its regular meeting Tuesday, April 9. The public hearing was scheduled for a rezoning request at 566 and 568 N. Miami Ave., from MH-P Mobile Home Park to C-2 Highway Business. James Miller, representing Home Savings and Loan of Norborne, says he intends to build a small mini storage unit on the property...

Bruce Hoyes with the Sweet Springs Festival Committee attended the Tuesday, April 9, meeting to speak with the board of aldermen about adding an Outlaw Tractor Pull Committee event to the schedule for the July 27 tractor pull.

The Marshall Public Library's local history and genealogy room, which has been closed for more than a month as library staff worked on an inventory, is set to reopen Monday, April 15, announced Mary Bays, administrative assistant, during the MPL's board of trustees meeting Tuesday, April 9...

Marshall School District came close to adding an archery program Tuesday, April 9. The motion to do so died for lack of a second but not for lack of interest. School board members said they were generally in favor of the idea but wanted to think about it further before voting, so the issue will be on the agenda for the regular meeting later this month...