Stories from Wednesday, September 8, 2004

City officials, the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the Vernon County Prosecutor's Office and the Missouri State Auditor's Office are conducting an investigation centered around a check that was discovered by the city's finance department on April 2. ...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Herald Bill Edmonds, superintendent of the Nevada Habilitation Center announced his retirement Thursday. "I wish to announce my intention to retire from the superintendent position. I have spoken with Mr. Jerry Clubbs, deputy director over the habilitation centers, and I have agreed to stay until Nov. 1, 2004," Edmonds said...

By Nancy Malcom Nevada Herald Stafford Agee has lived in Vernon County all of his life -- when he wasn't serving his country somewhere else. He joined the National Guard right out of high school while working with his father in the family air conditioning business. After his father passed away, he turned the business over to his brother and went to work for National Guard in Kansas City...

Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.-- Missouri House Speaker Catherine Hanaway is organizing a bipartisan legislative panel that early next year would present a proposal about possible early voting in Missouri. ''The issue is how do we make it easier for voters to cast ballots'' while ensuring that all voters have the same access, Hanaway, the Republican nominee for secretary of state, said Thursday...

By Ben Holman Nevada Herald The All Saints Episcopal Church, on East Cherry, has been a Nevada landmark for more than a century. In 1990, the entire inside of the church was renovated, but walls and windows remained essentially the same. With the inside of the church renovated, the parishioners' collective attention eventually turned its focus to the stained glass windows that adorn the church building. ...

Births Sarah Mae van Rooyen Mr. and Mrs. Kevin van Rooyen, Nevada, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Sarah Mae van Rooyen. Sarah was born at 7:13 p.m., on Sept. 1, 2004, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. She weighed 6 pounds, 10 ounces, and measured 20.5 inches. ...

Ah, September at last! Hi neighbors. The end of summer is here. Are you ready for the last big fling? Although autumn doesn't officially start until later this month, many of us seem to give up the thoughts of summer right after Labor Day. Already stores have fall flower arrangements for sale and little scarecrows to hang on the doors. These hints of Halloween and (good grief!) even Thanksgiving have appeared way too soon...

Diabetes: It won't go away (part two) Reading Leonard Ernsbarger's very fine article, in this past Wednesday's Daily Mail, on the scourge of diabetes, I wondered if any readers might profit from my 35-year tussle with it. (diabetes, not Leonard's article)...

100 years ago: J.M. Sommers transferred to Osawatomie division J.M. Sommers, division superintendent of the Missouri Pacific Railway at Nevada, was succeeded this morning by E.M. Hogle of Jefferson City. Sommers is transferred to Osawatomie. This is a more desirable position to Sommers; who has proven himself both active and proficient in his work on this division...

By Joe Warren Nevada Herald Oscar is coming home. The trophy that is given to the winner of the Silver Tiger game each year will reside in Nevada at least until next September, as the Nevada Tigers obliterated the Lamar Tigers, 42-6. Playing in front of the Lamar home crowd and plenty of Nevada fans who made the trip, Nevada scored the first touchdown on a defensive play during the first series of the game and never looked back...

By Joe Warren Nevada Herald In his first year as Nevada head coach, in the first game of the season against perhaps the most despised opponent, John Skeans led his team to victory. Not only was it a victory, but the game was not even close. Nevada had thrashed Lamar, 42-6...

Nevada Herald The Nevada Alumni Golf Tournament will take place Sept. 18, at the Frank E. Peters Municipal Golf Course, in Nevada. The tournament is a fund-raiser with all the proceeds going to help the Nevada Tiger football program. Anyone is encouraged to enter a team, the tournament is not limited to alumni alone...

By Joe Warren Nevada Herald The Nevada Tigers won the Uniontown tournament in Fort Scott, Kan. for the second consecutive year, but this time in dominating fashion. The six Nevada varsity golfers took the top six individual placings and they won the team competition by 53 shots...

Nevada Herald Senior tight end Ben Wilson, junior kicker Kyle Quick and sophomore lineman Kevin Lee were named Nevada Tiger football players of the week by the coaching staff. Wilson scored three touchdowns during Nevada's 42-6 win over Lamar on Friday to get the offensive player of the week...

By Doug Tucker AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Morten Andersen, the second-leading scorer in NFL history, was told Friday he has lost his job to a man 18 years younger. ''A tough decision. A risky decision,'' said Kansas City Chiefs coach Dick Vermeil...

Mysterious football lands at the hideout The hideout. It's funny how when sometimes you read something in the paper as I did one August morning that memories from more than 50 years ago come flooding back. Kansas City is getting a hockey team nicknamed the Outlaws, which I think is a pretty neat moniker when you consider the fact that Jesse James was from just up the road in Kearney and brother Frank, who I think died in Independence, was the best friend of Cole Younger, buried in Lee's Summit...

By Ben Holman Nevada Daily Mail On Sept. 11, Intervention Ministries will sponsor an event in Stockton to celebrate the recovery of the town over the past year-and-a-half. Stockton was almost completely destroyed in May of 2003 when an F-3 tornado cut across southwest Missouri...

Special to the Daily Mail A subject of national significance but with regional links will be featured at the monthly meeting of the Col. John T. Coffee Camp No. 1934 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, to be held at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 7, in the Bushwhacker Museum...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail A Sunday morning wreck on U.S. Highway 54 east of Nevada resulted in the death of an El Dorado Springs woman. Carrie Goodwin, 26, died after her car, a 1997 Chevrolet, ran off the road and overturned a mile and a half east of Nevada on Highway 54...

Nevada Daily Mail A request to purchase Tasers for the Nevada Police Department will be before the Nevada City Council for consideration during a regular meeting tonight, at 7, in council chambers at the Public Safety Building, at Ash and Austin streets in Nevada...

A rental home caught fire just after 10 o'clock this morning in the town of Dederick, in eastern Vernon County. The Walker Fire department responded and quickly put out the fire, which burned most of the interior of the house. The renter had only been away from home a short time when the fire broke out, and no one was home; however, two dogs that belonged to the renter were trapped in the house; one was found dead, the other was still missing at press time. ...

Obituaries Donald Eldon Welton Donald Eldon Welton, age 84, passed away on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2004. He was born Sept. 12, 1919, in Pawhuska, Okla., to the late Eldon Roswell Welton and Grace Lee Sheets Welton. After graduating from Purdue University with a Ph.D. ...

By Paul Kengor, Ph.D. It was quite telling that the strongest religious statement made at the Republican convention came not from a Republican but from a Democrat, Georgia Senator Zell Miller, who claimed, among other things, that the current President is the same person on Saturday that he is on Sunday morning...

100 years ago: Sheldon to improve streets City Civil Engineer Clack was at Sheldon today establishing a grade for new concrete pavements to be put in at that place. The enterprising property owners of that town will put in concrete pavements from the depot to the residence part of town...

100 years ago: Sheldon to improve streets City Civil Engineer Clack was at Sheldon today establishing a grade for new concrete pavements to be put in at that place. The enterprising property owners of that town will put in concrete pavements from the depot to the residence part of town...

By Michael Petre Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. -- With an evolving offensive attack, one point of emphasis for No. 19 Missouri appears answered, at least for now. The coaching staff, which wants to expand the passing game this season, saw positive results in the Tigers' season-opening 52-20 win against Arkansas State on Saturday...

The season championship races were held on Aug. 28. Track champions for this year are: (from left) Jack Simmons of Erie, Kan. in the Late Model division; Denny Chrisenbery of Bronaugh in the Street Stock division; Vince Barker of Nevada in the Factory Stock division; Kevin Morrow of Nevada in the Modified division and Melvin Baxter of Milo in the Mini-Stock division. Simmons, Chrisenbery and Morrow repeated their wins from last year...

By Doug Tucker AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Wide receiver Johnnie Morton, who practiced Monday for the first time since July, could be ready for Kansas City's season opener at Denver. It would be a huge lift for the Chiefs' injury-depleted receiver corps if Morton, who has been hobbled by a sore Achilles tendon, could contribute...

The 2004 team (front from left) Evan Irwin, Andrew Messick, Andrew Quitno, Emma Denman, Hunter Richmond. (second row) Connor Morrison, Nick Conner, Morgan Hold, Lucas Denman, Michele Forrester, Pierce Morrison, Beau Morrison, Shelby Thorns, Katie Kearbey, Megan Messick, Elizabeth Quitno, Caitlyn Cable (third row) Coach Jeremy Ruddick, Rachel Savage, Melanie Messick, Coach Daniel Conner, Lindsey Webb, Chenoa Morrison, Abby Ruddick. ...

Last year, I started a district-wide school visit program called "History Matters", concentrating on teaching young Missourians about the importance of history and civic education. As students, their families, and their teachers begin the school year, I want to share the news about another program designed to spark young people's interest in American values and ideals...