Stories from Thursday, December 9, 2004

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail The modernization of the Nevada Municipal Airport is on schedule and the new terminal building is expected to be finished in late 2005. Tuesday evening, Dave Hadell and Rich Wedell, who are the Burns and McDonald consultants working on the project, showed the airport board two alternative plans for renovating the airport and a third that would make no changes to upgrade the runway and add new facilities...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail Concerns over parental notification and student scheduling brought several parents to the Nevada R-5 Board of Education meeting at Benton Elementary Wednesday evening. The parents made it clear they weren't trying to confront the board but wished to resolve some issues...

By Ben Holman Nevada Daily Mail Tuesday night, a Vernon Countian passed a major hurdle in her struggle to put her old life of drug and alcohol abuse behind her. Tracy Davies was visibly elated to receive her certificate from Circuit Judge James Bickel at the Drug Court commencement ceremony...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Lions' Club held its annual Christmas dinner at the Nevada Country Club Tuesday. Members enjoyed the time they had before the dinner, taking the opportunity to mingle and enjoy the company of fellow members without the time constraints of normal meetings...

Members of the Nevada City Council gathered to officially turn on the lights at Radio Springs Park, which opened Wednesday night. The drive-through Christmas light display will open at dusk each night through the end of December.

Kathleen Rebecca Sumner, 81, Stockton, formerly of Vernon County, died Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2004, at Cox Medical Center South following a sudden illness. She was born Aug. 29, 1923, in El Dorado Springs, to Oscar Thomas and Ida Florence Hartman Thomas. She was married Dec. 20, 1941, in Lamar, to Harry E. Sumner who survives of the home...

Daina Jane (Luther) Ives, age 37, of Nevada passed away Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2004, at the Nevada Regional Medical Center following a lengthy illness. She was born July 26, 1967, in Clinton, Mo., to John and Betty Luther. She was married Dec. 6, 1986, in Nevada, to Robert E. Ives and he survives of the home...

Joseph Jacob Love, 85, Nevada, died Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2004, at Groves Nursing Home in Independence, Mo. Family information and funeral arrangements will be announced later by Evergreen Funeral Home.

There are days (or maybe even weeks) when whatever I had planned to do doesn't get done, but I am busy all day. It's not that I forget what I had intended to do. It is that something intrudes into my best-laid plans. For example, I was getting ready to put up our Christmas tree in our View Room. ...

Here are excerpts from recent editorials in Missouri newspapers: Dec. 7, The (Independence, Mo.) Examiner on America's borrowing and spending: Americans love to buy goods from overseas, far more than we sell overseas. Americans also demand services from their government, far more than they're willing to pay for up front. Those facts could, sooner or later, have some ugly consequences...

100 years ago: Petition to council asks that city police force not be reduced If largely signed petition a general protest has much influence with the City Council Officer Andy Sheppard will not be retired from the police force. A petition asking the city council not to reduce the police force was circulated by a large number of citizens. ...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail Even with Nevada's struggles on the field this past football season, there were some highlights. The play of senior Tyler Shouse was one of them. He played both ways for the Tigers, starting at both linebacker and guard...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Tiger grapplers beat Clinton Tuesday in a dual match at Clinton High School. The Tigers won 42-33, on the strength of six pins. Tommy Hagerman in the 102-pound class pinned Clinton's Matt Hedrick in 2:27. Nevada's Joe Roberts pinned Steve Hensley, a state qualifier from last season, in 3:14 in the 130-pound class...

Steroids, steroids and more steroids. This has become a never-ending saga in Major League Baseball. The latest news that Barry Bonds (gasp) used a steroid "unknowingly" has many people up in arms, including a plethora of sportswriters who feel that there should now be an asterisk placed next to the single-season home run record that Bonds set in 2001 and the career home run mark, if (when) Bonds breaks that...

Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. -- Five Indiana Pacers and seven fans were charged Wednesday in the melee that broke out at the end of a nationally televised game against the Detroit Pistons last month, one of the worst brawls in U.S. sports history...