Stories from Wednesday, June 1, 2005

Nevada Daily Mail Attorney General Jay Nixon released the 2004 report on traffic stops in Missouri, on Tuesday. The report, mandated by a 2000 state law on racial profiling, documents 1,365,575 traffic stops, 106,430 searches and 74,484 arrests made by 603 law enforcement agencies across the state, providing information for several different racial and ethnic groups...

Retiring principal of Truman School, Patty Hallam received a quilt that bears the signatures of each student at the school, approximately 540 of them, during a recent assembly at the school. "Do you know how hard it is to keep that many kids from talking about something?" School Resource Officer Pat McCarty asked. "They were really excited about this." Teacher Julie Clark and students Bailey Jones and Rilyn Phillips presented the quilt to Hallam...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail The sesquicentennial celebration of Bushwhacker Days is just around the corner, and with it will come the dedication of a new mural marking the occasion. This mural is nearly ready to be erected in Nevada and the muralist, Wendie Lemay, is excited about having her work displayed in Nevada and is thankful for all the help she's received...

More than 230 friends and family were at the St. Paul Lutheran Church Wednesday night to watch 40 Primary Learning Place Preschool graduates accept their diplomas from instructor Connie McHugh. Dressed in red, white and blue, graduates performed several patriotic songs, said the "Pledge of Allegience" to the flag, recited their alphabet, counted to 20 Spanish and counted to 100 in English. ...

Jeffrey Dean Uttinger, 39, Nevada, died Tuesday, May 31, 2005, in Bates County, Mo. He was born Nov. 23, 1965, in Fort Scott, Kan., to Raymond Lee Uttinger and Lenita Ellen Tucker Uttinger. He married Tana Colvin on May 1, 1999, at the Calvary Baptist Church in Nevada. She survives of the home...

LeRoy H. Visser, Milo, died Monday, May 31, 2005, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. Family information and funeral arrangements will be announced later by Ferry Funeral Home.

John Clark "Pete" Lawson, 67, Sheldon, died Sunday, May 29, 2005, at his home in Sheldon, following a lengthy illness. He was born on Nov. 26, 1937, in Joplin, to Howard Calvin Lawson and Margaret Josephine Bollinger Lawson. He married Shirley Joann Greer on May 26, 1956, in Nevada, and she survives of the home...

Seeking unity, not denying heritage Dear editor: I certainly hope my first article about "bushwhacker" didn't come across as strident or "offensive" to most people as it did to Mr. Frank Carlton. My goal is peace and growing unity to an area that has been nursed through it's infancy on the tainted milk of disunity. ...

Last week, I visited with you about, "Wheat harvest was work and fun -- but filled with embarrassing incidents." Today, I will continue to tell of some things about me going to the wheat harvest in Oklahoma and Kansas. I told you about one-waying for my Uncle near Henessey, Okla. ...

100 years ago: The Cottey College Commencement marks banner year of growing institution The annual grand concert at Cottey College was given last night by the faculty. Notwithstanding the inclement weather a very large and appreciative audience was present. The program was a classical music and literary one and it was rendered superbly...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail Just completing her first year of school and tennis at Cowley College in Arkansas City, Kan., Gina Pendrak recently looked back on the spring season and her life growing up. Pendrak had a great year on the court. She went three-for-three against heated rival Johnson County's Jenna Murphy. That included a hard-fought 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 win over Murphy in the championship match of the NJCAA Region VI tournament...

Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Kansas City Royals got the Buddy Bell era off to a good start with a rare victory. Hours after hiring Bell as their new manager, the Royals snapped a six-game losing streak and beat the New York Yankees for just the second time in 10 tries with a 5-3 win Tuesday night. Zack Greinke also went five innings for his first win in 15 starts...

Associated Press ST. LOUIS -- Almost every appearance, Matt Morris puts distance between an injury-plagued year and the shoulder injury that forced a late beginning to his season. Morris, who won 15 games with a career-worst 4.72 ERA last year, began this year as the fifth starter. Instead, with a 5-0 record and rotation-best 3.38 ERA heading into Wednesday's start at Colorado, he's been closer to the staff ace who totaled 39 victories in 2001-02...