Stories from Thursday, November 16, 2006

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail It's one of the most traumatic times in a person's life. A loved one is dead and they are confronted with a decision that they are emotionally ill-equipped to deal with, they are asked to donate the organs of that loved one...

Nevada Daily Mail Colder regional temperatures that required heating loads increased demand for natural gas, and likely influenced higher natural gas prices that settled at $7.82 per MMBtu on Nov. 8, according to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources Energy Center's bi-weekly Energy Bulletin. While the price of natural gas has increased $1.01 in the past two weeks and $1.83 in the past month, it is still well below last year's price of $11.67 per MMBtu, a difference of 33 percent...

By Colette Lefebvre-Davis Nevada Daily Mail Patrick Brophy, the director of the Bushwhacker Museum has written much on the Osage in Vernon County. That is why he was chosen to be interviewed on Tuesday afternoon. But, this wasn't just any interview, Brophy, his constituent Terry Ramsey and two educators met on M Highway, and caravaned out to Halley's Bluff which is on property owned by the Church of Israel, located near Schell City. ...

By Colette Lefebvre-Davis Nevada Daily Mail Patrick Brophy, the director of the Bushwhacker Museum has written much on the Osage in Vernon County. That is why he was chosen to be interviewed on Tuesday afternoon. But, this wasn't just any interview, Brophy, his constituent Terry Ramsey and two educators met on M Highway, and caravaned out to Halley's Bluff which is on property owned by the Church of Israel, located near Schell City. ...

By Colette Lefebvre-Davis Nevada Daily Mail Hannah Swopes is a senior at Nevada High School, and she is playing the part of the Cat in the Hat in the musical extravaganza Seussical the Musical, performed by Nevada High School students. Swopes doesn't have a show choir background and that is what makes this performance unique. The majority of the students are not in a show choir and have no theater background...

Nevada Daily Mail A Nevada man uncovered a $25,000 Missouri Lottery prize on a Missouri Lottery "Wild Cherries" scratchers ticket on Nov. 9. Henry Shumaker Jr., 42, said he plans to pay off bills with his prize money. Besides that, he's not sure what else he will do with his prize money...

Garfield is the cat in the comic strips as well as many other places. I didn't like him too well at first, because I am a cat lover and Garfield does not have the traits that I admire in a cat. Well, he does have independence. And he can certainly take care of himself. But he doesn't seem very cuddly, even though you can buy a stuffed version of him that could be cuddled...

100 years ago Banks robbed last week The approach of winter is always accompanied by robberies of various kinds, and these are not confined to any one section, for all communities suffer more or less from the depredations of criminals who seek a livelihood by stealing from good citizens instead of gaining their meat and bread by honest labor. ...

The start of the high school basketball seasons are less than two weeks away and that has me pumped up to say the least. While growing up my favorite sport to play was football, since I've started covering sports professionally, I've never enjoyed anything as much as high school basketball...