Stories from Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Margie Inez Simmons, age 82, of Nevada, died on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2005, at the Joe Clark Residential Care Home in Nevada. She was born on Feb. 4, 1923, in Nevada, to Larkin C. Howell and Grace Estelle Lentz Howell. On Aug. 12, 1944, she was married in Fort Scott, Kan., to Lloyd Thomas Simmons and he preceded her in death on Dec. 14, 1979...

Teresa Anne Croxdale, 69, Nevada, Mo., died Monday, Dec. 19, 2005, at Moore-Few Care Center, Nevada, following a lengthy illness. She was born March 11, 1936, in Nevada, to Francis D. Woodfill and Emma Bernice Jenkins Woodfill. Anne was born and reared in Nevada and graduated from Nevada High School. ...

Harland Davis "Jack" Hand, age 81, of Rockville, Mo., died on Saturday, Dec. 18, 2005, at the Cedar County Memorial Hospital after suffering complications from a heart attack. He was born on Dec. 8, 1924, in Taberville, Mo., to Frederick and Ella Davis Hand. The Hand family were fifth-generation residents of Missouri, having homesteaded the original farmland in the 1850s...

Robert L. Schultz, 82, of Denham Springs, La., died at 12:15 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 17, 2005, at his home with his family. Bob was born June 1, 1923, in Rich Hill, Mo., to Goldie and Lloyd Schultz. He died after a long struggle with rheumatoid arthritis...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail Nevada lost one of its most prominent and devoted citizens Monday morning when Franklin Norman died. Small in stature, Franklin was truly a giant presence. Norman, the grandson of the founder of W.F. Norman company, was constantly looking for ways to better his community and his fellow citizens' environment. Fellow coffee club member Barth Hinkle said Norman was a very detail oriented person...

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail For 60 years the 9 O'clock Coffee Club has been meeting in various Nevada restaurants and on Dec. 15, they celebrated that milestone with a dinner at the Corner Cafe on the Nevada Square. "I do not know of another club that has met five and lately six days a week for that many years," John Flynn, said...

By Afton Bugg Nevada Daily Mail Nevada Regional Technical Center's North Campus licensed practical nursing program held its 42nd annual capping ceremony on Thursday to show the hard work that this year's 21 students have achieved. They are transferring from the classroom to hands-on training...

Sgt. Tom and Angie Piper of San Jose, Ill., and Spencer and Tucker are proud to announce the birth of their daughter and sister, Sawyer Bray Piper. Sawyer was born at 7:06 a.m., Dec. 9, 2005, at St. Francis Hospital in Peoria, Ill. She weighed 5 pounds, 5 ouces, and measured 18 inches...

Editorials about current events from around the world Dec. 12 **Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, on resuming beef imports: Beef imports from the United States and Canada will resume for the first time in two years since the outbreak of mad cow disease in North America. .....

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Tigers wrestled in the Bank-of-Belton Invitational Friday and Saturday, their final event until January for the grapplers. Five Tigers placed at the tournament. Cole Bond, wrestling in the 152-pound class, brought home Nevada's only championship...

Nevada Daily Mail Will Daniels hit a 3-pointer while time expired to lift the Bronaugh Wildcats over the Hume Hornets Friday, 53-50. Playing in Hume, Daniels scored a team-high 23 points, including the game winner, after the game was tied at 50. Bronaugh threw the ball in from under their own basket with 0.8 seconds left, allowing only a catch and release by the senior, and the ball dropped...

By Ralph D. Russo AP Sports Writer NEW YORK -- Reggie Bush loves roller coasters -- and it makes perfect sense. Both bring thrills with breathtaking bursts of zigzag speed. ''I guess that's kind of how I am on the field all those twists and turns and stuff like that,'' Southern California's human thrill ride said...

By David Porter Associated Press Writer EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Tiki Barber had no worries about playing behind a patchwork offensive line. It showed. Big time. Barber ran for a team-record 220 yards on 29 carries and scored two touchdowns, helping the Giants beat up-and-coming runner Larry Johnson and the Kansas City Chiefs 27-17 Saturday. If the Giants (10-4) beat Washington next week, they will clinch the NFC East...

By Doug Tucker AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The illustrious coaching career of Dick Vermeil may have only two games to go. ''That decision will be made within the next three weeks,'' he said Monday. The 69-year-old Vermeil, who has taken both Philadelphia and St. Louis to the Super Bowl and been honored as coach of the year at four different levels, said last summer that he might put off retirement if the Kansas City Chiefs had a good year...

**100 years ago Inspector Chance at Garland to investigate robberies of Lybarger boy The government has not yet decided what it will do with Charlie Lybarger, the 9-year-old Indian half-breed boy, who was arrested last week and charges with robbing rural mail boxes in the Garland vicinity...