Stories from Friday, August 31, 2007

HARRISONVILLE -- Nevada High School's Lindsay Rice started the wave Thursday night in volleyball action with host Harrisonville. No, not the type of wave where fans jump to their feet in a domino-effect and raise their arms in the air throughout a stadium or gymnasium...

JOPLIN -- The Nevada High School girls' tennis team came up with some impressive wins -- most notably No. 1 singles players Molly Ferree and No. 2 player Whitley delRosario -- on Thursday in a dual at Thomas Jefferson. Feree defeated Thomas Jefferson's Martha Falls, 8-4, while delRosario won by the same score over Kristina Kory...

LAMAR -- After three straight losses to open the season, the Nevada High School Lady Tigers finally put together a complete softball game in a 5-1 victory over host Lamar on Thursday. "The biggest thing for us wasn't hits," NHS head coach Brandi Thomsen said of her team's nine singles and four-run third inning that did in Lamar...

Mark Loomer has been taking Precision Aero Services on the road to make repairs on some of Net Jets 500 plus planes and now he tells the airport board there is a possibility that work could come to Nevada when the runway and the new terminal is finished...

"I thought the turn-out was more than we expected," Dr. Judy Rogers, Cottey College president, told the IMPACT Nevada tourism board Tuesday night. Cottey is growing, so there are more students and more parents and annual Welcome Picnic helps to show the parents that Cottey is a good place for their students, she said...

BUFFALO -- Heather Klingaman found herself at the top of the final leaderboard after the conclusion of the Buffalo triangular on Thursday. Klingaman, a senior, overcame a rough start, righted her ship and finished with a 45, beating Sarah Coppock of Willard by one stroke at Dream Valley Golf Course...

LEETON -- Righthander Ryan Austin ushered in the fall baseball season in grand style on Thursday. The junior from Hume High School struck out 14 batters in a 4-3 victory over Leeton on Thursday. Sophomore Zack Austin drove in a pair of runs, and juniors Cody Franklin and Ryan Austin each drove in one apiece...

A judge ruled Thursday that the family of a man killed in August 2003 can file a suit for wrongful death despite the argument by the defendant's attorney that the time frame for such a suit had passed under the state's statutes of limitations. A motions hearing was held in the Vernon County Circuit Court before Judge James Bickel Thursday afternoon on a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the estate of Walter Jeremy Hayes. ...

By Lynn A. Wade Nevada Daily Mail Walnut caterpillars have devastated most of what was left of this year's pecan and walnut crops in Vernon County, devouring all the leaves from the trees in a matter of just a few days. Local pecan producers were not expecting a good harvest this year -- groves had already been traumatized by a late spring freeze that had diminished the crop by as much as 95 percent, Kimmell said. ...