Edwardsville: Police officer fired after suspected DUI

A police officer and member of the FBI drug task force was fired Monday following a weekend traffic accident that occurred when he was apparently driving while intoxicated, Edwardsville Police Chief John Ellison said.

He said that Sgt. Jim Marble was off-duty Friday night when his vehicle rear-ended a tractor-trailer that had stopped to make a turn on Kansas 32 just inside the Edwardsville city limits.

The truck driver was not injured. Marble was treated for minor injuries.

Ellison said Marble was driving a vehicle issued through the FBI drug task force.

Ellison said he did not know whether Marble was cited.

Garden City: Victim shot by deputy identified

Authorities have identified the man shot and killed by a Finney County Sheriff’s deputy last week.

Encarnacion Nevarez Sr., 53, of Garden City, was shot during an early Friday morning altercation between Nevarez, his sons and three sheriff’s deputies.

Sheriff Kevin Bascue has refused to say whether Nevarez was armed, and has declined to identify the deputy who shot him. The deputy has been placed on paid leave while the Kansas Bureau of Investigation probes the shooting.

Branson, Mo.: Concrete failure may have caused collapse

Concrete failure was suspected in the collapse of a 25-foot section of walkway at Silver Dollar City theme park that injured 21 people.

Structural engineers were trying to determine Tuesday whether a slight dip in the center of the walkway may have resulted in the collapse.

The accident happened Monday afternoon as about 50 people waited on the 40-foot walkway to ride the Lost River of the Ozarks. The walkway was suspended about 2 1/2 feet above the ride’s waterway.