Stories from Sunday, December 7, 2003

Now that the November part of the firearm deer season has ended, archers are heading back into the deer woods until January 15 for the second part of their season and many like Bob Marshall, Blue Springs, Mo., will be looking for that big buck that they saw last month...

CARTHAGE, Mo. -- The Nevada Middle School eighth-grade girls basketball team successfully defended its Tri-County Tournament title on Thursday. The Tigers, trailing by three at the half, rallied to defeat Webb City 40-25 and remain undefeated at 11-0. They outscored the Cardinals 27-9 in the second half...

Cottey College competed well, however, the losing streak continues. The Comets lost their sixth straight 57-50 to St. Louis Community College at Forest Park on Friday. "We played hard," said Cottey coach Brenda Rose. "It's our third game this week and we may have been a little tired."...

SHELDON, Mo. -- Hume's boys never trailed in a 54-29 drubbing of host Sheldon at the Vernon County Conference Tournament on Thursday. The Hornets improved to 3-0 overall, 2-0 in the tournament, and advanced to the championship game against undefeated Bronaugh on Saturday at 9 p.m...

The latter part of November this year has been a 40-year reliving of those dark days of November, 1963, when America lost a president and as many have said, also lost its innocence. I'm inclined to agree. I'm sure there are probably millions of folks out there who watched the television memorial of the event for the first time. But those of us who lived it need no reminder because those occurrences become seared into our memories and remain with us as long as we own those faculties...

An ill-fated party in the 2000 block of Spring Street Nov. 29 ended with a law enforcement investigation that escalated into charges against two Nevada men after Missouri State Highway Patrol Cpl. M.C. Mason and Trooper K.J. Rutledge discovered that while they were investigating, someone slashed a tire on each of the two patrol cars at the scene...

Bronaugh R-7 schools recently released the school's annual report card -- which includes statistics on accreditation status, enrollment, tax rate, teacher-student ratios, salary data, and teacher qualifications. Patricia Phillips, superintendent, said that the mission of the Bronaugh Public Schools is to provide opportunities for the students by ensuring a quality education...

Enterprise zones are a benefit Missouri cities often use to attract new business and to encourage established ones to expand Nevada has one of 66 such zones in Missouri but complicated procedures and human error may have kept the benefits from some businesses who should have had them, and area agencies are trying to see if there is some way they can make the mistakes of the past right...

Gene and Dorothy "Dot" Cope have been in the shoe and saddle business together for 36 years. Gene started working at age 16, in a Missouri shoe factory. Later, in 1950, his father moved the family to Colorado and opened a shoe shop and Gene worked for him...

Salvation Army volunteers Florence Fritts, left, gets a helping hand from fellow volunteer Janet Gant as she wraps a gift purchased by a child whose holiday shopping was sponsored by the Vernon County Salvation Army during a shopping spree providing children in families facing financial hardship the opportunity to get gifts for their families. ...