Stories from Sunday, July 29, 2012

GREEN FOREST -- A drive-by shooting that nearly ended in tragedy Thursday when a man allegedly fired three shots at his estranged wife was the apparent escalation of a string of threats he had made against her, police reports show. No one was injured in the shooting Thursday. However, one of the bullets penetrated a car seat where a 5-year-old boy had been sitting only moments before...

More than 120 years ago this week, Vincent Van Gogh died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. In his short life, Van Gogh produced hundreds of watercolor paintings, sketches, and prints -- some of which are the most valued in the world -- now fetching tens of millions of dollars at auctions or private sales...

HOLIDAY ISLAND -- Holiday Island's search for new accounting software that will satisfy the concerns of auditors and staff about consistency of general ledger entries may be put on hold until mid-year 2013. Reporting to fellow commissioners at Monday's work session, committee member Linda Graves said the Ad Hoc Software Committee had met twice and come up with a scope and approach to pursuing new software...

GREEN FOREST -- An investigation into another matter led to the arrest of a Carroll County man on charges of manu-facturing marijuana. The Carroll County Sheriff's Office discovered a large marijuana grow operation in south Carroll County on Tuesday, July 24, while investigating the death of a woman who fell from Lover's Leap, authorities said. ...