Stories from Wednesday, January 4, 2006

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail The city of Nevada still does not a new budget for 2006. Tuesday night the Nevada City Council voted 4-0 to postpone consideration of the 2006 budget until the Jan. 17 meeting. Bill Edmonds was excused for medical reasons...

Nevada Daily Mail Vernon County commissioners are continuing to sort through the proposed budgets of county officials in the hope of finalizing a proposed budget by Jan. 17. Presiding Commissioner David Darnold said, "We'll meet with each one, and at the end we'll compare the numbers (proposed) to the revenue numbers -- then we'll have to do some work to make them match up."...

By Lynn A. Wade Nevada Daily Mail The cookies are coming! The cookies are coming! The annual Girl Scout Cookie Crunch-Off will kick off Girl Scout cookie sales again this year, and Joelle Mason, who's helping to coordinate the event, said this year's event promises to be "a lot of fun. People have so much fun with this." The event, to take place Jan. 7, in the Nevada Middle School gymnasium, begins at 6:30 p.m., with a carnival...

Margaret Nadine Wishon, a resident of Cortez, Colo., formerly of Nevada, Mo., passed away Dec. 24, 2005, at her residence. She was 53 years old. Margaret Nadine Wisbon was born on Dec. 2, 1953, in Chowchilla, Calif., to Harry E. and Florence Bean Seymour. She married Michael Wishon on Feb. 14, 1991, in Nevada...

We are now in the first week of a new year. It is exciting to start a new year with great anticipations and expectations. We will need to get use to writing a new date. In previous years I have suggested writing the year on a number of checks, to keep from dating the check a year ago...

By Marian Wright Edelman The criminalization of our children has reached a dangerous increase. Researchers and practitioners prefer mentoring, tutoring, gang prevention, substance abuse programs, dropout reduction, community service, nurse visitation initiatives, and quality after-school and summer programs, as well as jobs. ...

Vaughan indicted JEFFERSON CITY -- The special grand jury called by Judge Martin to investigate the attempted escape of convicts at the penitentiary Nov. 24, when Allison and Clay, guards were killed, returned indictments yesterday against Ryan Vaughn and Raymonds, convicts, charging them with murder in the first degree for killing these officers...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail NEVADA, Mo. -- It was matwarming for the Nevada Tiger wrestlers Tuesday, in more ways than one. The Tigers used six pins in a dominating performance over Carl Junction to win the dual easily, 54-12. Moments after Lisa Harris was crowned Matwarming Queen, the Tigers began the night with their only loss by pin as Nick Nelson fell with 0:59 left in the final period, in the 135-pound class...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail CARTHAGE, Mo. -- The Nevada Lady Tigers won their opening game of the Lady Tiger Classic in Carthage Tuesday, topping East Newton 48-22. Nevada, the top seed in the tournament they've won the past two seasons, was playing the seventh-seeded Lady Patriots...

By Doug Tucker AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Quick! Cue the Johnny Mathis music. Dick Vermeil is saying goodbye again. In what was billed as his last and final meeting with the media Tuesday, the retiring coach of the Kansas City Chiefs tried his best to play it straight, explaining at the beginning why he would not be mentioning many names...