Stories from Friday, February 5, 2016

No. 22 Benedictine gets easy victory in women's game

MVC Round-up: Football, Lacrosse (M/W), Track & Field, Volleyball (M)

Boyd, Boomer earn league honors

JEFFERSON CITY -- State Sen. David Pearce (R-Warrensburg) sponsored a Marshall resident for a state authority appointment before the Senate Gubernatorial Appointments Committee Wednesday, Feb. 3. The senator spoke on behalf of William R. Thiel as a member of the Missouri Agricultural and Small Business Development Authority (MASBDA)...

At approximately 1:19 p.m. Friday, Feb. 5, the Slater Fire Department responded to Slater High School after a reported explosion occurred in the science room. Slater Fire Chief Todd Jenkins said the explosion occurred as the teacher was mixing chemicals in a glass hood. ...

High school basketball scores for Friday, Feb. 5

While not here as soon as initial reports expected, a sunny endeavor remains on the horizon in the city of Marshall. In November 2015, solar panels began appearing at the site of MC Power's solar farm project in Marshall. Marshall City Administrator Connie Latimer described the rapid progress of the project as "going like gangbusters," at a city council meeting Monday, Nov. 16. However, less than a month later construction on the project was halted, pending a review of a glare study...

A goal he said he'd had for the past six or seven years came to fruition for Derek Lark in the Fall of 2015. Lark accepted the position of Superintendent at the Santa Fe R-10 School District after a 19-year career at Marshall Public Schools. Lark began his tenure with the Marshall district as a seventh grade science teacher and athletics coach while also coaching wrestling at Missouri Valley College. ...

Ila Bossaller, 96, of Olathe, Kan., formerly of Marshall, died Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016, at Villa St. Francis in Olathe. Funeral arrangements are pending at Campbell-Lewis Funeral Home in Marshall.