Stories from Friday, September 1, 2006

By Colette Lefebvre Nevada Daily Mail Should Vernon Countians be worried that agroterrisom could come to their door? According to Patrick Splichal of SES, Inc., yes, they should. There haven't been any documented cases in the United States yet, but he stresses "yet." However, when asked if he believes that it could happen soon, Splichal replied that, it will occur somewhere outside of the United States first. ...

By Colette Lefebvre Nevada Daily Mail The Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations' Crime Victims' compensation program assisted more than 2,000 individuals and paid out $10,975,430 in benefits since January 2005. The program is designed to compensate victims of violent crimes who have suffered physical or psychological injury as a direct result of the crime...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Fire Fighters Association, Local 3031 of the International Association of Fire Fighters is once again participating in the IAFF's annual Fill the Boot campaign, an effort to help the Muscular Dystrophy Association fight neuromuscular diseases...

Nevada Daily Mail JEFFERSON CITY, Mo -- Consumers are seeing some relief at the gas pumps, as prices slowly decline. On Aug. 21, the average retail price for regular gasoline in Missouri was $2.77 per gallon, according to a report from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. This is a decrease of nearly 20 cents within the last two weeks but still 27 cents higher than this time last year...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail They sit in the shade of a gazebo at Christian Health Care on a rare cool afternoon in August, Ben and Frieda Schmidt are celebrating their 64 years together. Married Aug. 30, 1942, they have moved around several times in their lives, living longest in Grain Valley, and have settled in Nevada, near two of their sons who live in Sheldon...

Mr. and Mrs. William Justin Good and Ashley Good, Nevada, are proud to announce the birth of their son, William Nathan Good. William was born at 6:27 p.m., Aug. 29, 2006, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. He weighed 6 pounds, 1 ounce, and measured 19.5 inches...

Richard Louis Thelander, 72, Nevada, Mo., passed away Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2006, at St. John's Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo., following a brief illness. He was born Dec. 3, 1933, in Elgin, Ill., to Earl Joseph Thelander and Helen Nellie Heine Thelander. He was married Jan. 8, 1994, in Grandview, Mo., to Dorothy Jean Coin and she survives of the home...

Thanks for making me feel welcome Dear editor: I, on behalf of the student body at Cottey, would like to send out my greatest appreciation for the picnic that you planned for first-year Cottey students. There's nothing like a warm welcome when some of us are so far away from home. Your continued support is helpful and heart-warming...

This is the last article about the 1966 Football Team. It will include mostly thoughts and stories about the coach and players from that team. More importantly, I think I speak for the whole team when I say that we hope this reunion and honor will set the tone for a football revival here in Tiger Land. ...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail When you think about the golden age of Nevada High School football you think about the Tiger teams from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. Twice in a seven year span the Tigers turned in perfect seasons, and two other times the year was marked with only a single defeat...

Nevada High School graduate (Class of 2006) and Allen County Community College freshman Mason Benn (left) competed in the first cross country meet of the season Saturday for the Red Devils. The meet was held in Iola, Kan., and featured a 5 kilometer race. ...

By Nancy Malcom Herald-Tribune Nevada, Mo --On Thursday, Terry Ramsey, coordinator for the Bushwhacker Museum, Nevada, joined in with a group of local experts, national and international historians investigating Civil War sites in eastern Kansas and western Missouri...

Merle Eugene Rouse, 80, Liberal, Mo., died Friday, Sept. 1, 2006, at 12:05 a.m., at Truman Healthcare Center, Lamar, Mo. He was born Jan. 15, 1926, in Liberal, to Charles Richard and Dora Viola (Robertson) Rouse. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m., Wednesday, Sept. 6, at Konantz-Warden Funeral Home Chapel, Lamar. Burial will be in Liberal City Cemetery, Liberal. Visitation will be at 6-8 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 5, at the funeral home...