Woman to be tried in kidnapping case

BUFFALO, Mo. -- A Fayetteville, Ark., woman was ordered to stand trial Thursday for her alleged role in the assault of a Campbell woman who was left for dead beside a Dallas County road in December. Misty Nicole Driskill, 21, appeared before Associate Circuit Judge James Anderton of Hickory County for a preliminary hearing Thursday afternoon on the class A felony of first-degree assault -- serious injury. Driskill is charged in connection with a Dec. 21 incident involving Carmen Joann Tibbs, 67.

Tibbs was allegedly abducted from her home and taken to a location in rural Dallas County where she was allegedly beaten and her throat slit before she was left for dead. Subsequently, Tibbs made her way to a house near Buffalo to summon help.