Stories from Wednesday, September 29, 2004

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail Molly and the Boys have been around for a while -- in some cases for quite a while (although we're not naming names) -- and the small band of musicians enjoys playing for their contemporaries in senior centers from Fort Scott to El Dorado Springs...

By Ben Holman Nevada Daily Mail Bumper crops are rolling in all over Vernon County this harvest season. With much of the corn already in, Vernon County farmers are seeing yields that surpass any in memory. Doug Vantellman, Producers Grain manager, said that they aren't able to keep up with the amount coming in. ...

Unfamiliarity with a standard transmission apparently caused a 19-year-old Nevada woman, Ashley Hyder, to drive a pickup into a tree on the bank of Radio Springs Park lake and then slide sideways into the lake. A passenger, Kasey Anders, Nevada, was uninjured but Hyder was listed with evident, not disabling injuries...

Nevada Daily Mail Around 2,500 people attended the Four Rivers Sportsmen's RecFest over the weekend at the Vernon County fairgrounds in Centennial Park Star Messer, of the Nevada/Vernon County Area Chamber of Commerce, said. "We were hoping for around 3,000, so we feel like we did really well."...

Obituaries Lawrence Ray Defreese Lawrence Ray Defreese, 82, Sheldon, passed away Sunday evening, Sept. 26, 2004, at Moore-Few Care Center. He was born West of Sheldon on Nov. 13, 1921, to Leslie Robert Defreese and Lizzie Wolf Defreese. He was married Feb. 14, 1942, to Viola Fern Hornecker in Sheldon. She preceded him in death on July 4, 2001...

Group makes lying easy and fun If you're like most people -- and my great new spyware says you are -- then you often wonder, "Sure, cell phones are great, but when will modern technology empower me to be the big-time sleazeball I was always meant to be?"...

Textualism vs. fluidity When it comes to the Constitution of the United States of America, I'm a textualist. A lot of people claim that they are defenders of the Constitution, the American Civil Liberties Union for one, but what the ACLU defends isn't the Constitution, it is what judges have created out of thin air that the ACLU likes...

100 years ago: Fanning files suit against the M.K.&T railway Mrs. Mary Fanning, through Attorneys Scott and Bowker, has filed suit against the M.K.&T. railway company for $1,999 damages. In her petition she alleges she boarded an M.K.&T. passenger train to go to Fort Scott and that when the train was near Deerfield it left the track and she was bruised and greatly shocked...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Lady Tigers wanted to show that their loss in straight sets at home to College Heights to open the season was an aberration, and not a true measure of their abilities. What better way than to beat the same team on a neutral court to claim the championship of a tournament?...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail It was close but no cigar for the Nevada tennis team Monday as they were nipped by Neosho 5-4 in a match that was every bit as close as the score. Six matches were decided by three points or less and Neosho won five of them to slip past a Nevada team that appeared to be the more talented of the two...

Nevada Daily Mail The Cottey Comets volleyball team have come to life recently, after struggling for the better part of two weeks. Cottey won two out of three matches at a quadrangular in Parsons, Kan. on Saturday, then traveled to Ozark Christian College Monday and won again...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Middle School eighth-grade volleyball team beat Carl Junction in both the A-team and B-team matches in Nevada Monday. The A-team (6-2) came from behind after falling in the first game, 25-19. Nevada was able to wrestle the second game away from the visitors 27-25, before putting them away in the third game, 25-15. Kori Lowery and Taylor Means led the A-team with six points each...

Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Kansas City Chiefs are 0-3, and their next four opponents, beginning with Monday's match at the 2-1 Baltimore Ravens, are a combined 10-2. Unless the Chiefs get back on track immediately, they could be looking at their worst season since Carl Peterson arrived in 1989 and turned a loser into a winner. So far since Peterson became president and general manager, the worst year was 6-10 in Dick Vermeil's first season in 2001...