Stories from Thursday, February 5, 2009

Darryl Leon Wise, age 58, resident of Fort Scott, died unexpectedly Tuesday evening, Feb. 3, 2009, at the Olathe Medical Center. He was born Dec. 16, 1950, in Oakdale, Calif., the son of Huber Leon Wise and Ruby Nelle Reavis Wise. Darryl married Alona Brown on July 1, 1972, at Fort Scott. He had worked for several years at Wood's Auto Body Repair in Nevada. At the time of his death, he was employed by Extrusions in Fort Scott. Darryl also played the bass guitar for the Better Daze Band...

Kyla Silva and Caleb Martin, of Nevada, are proud do announce the birth of their daughter, Braxtin Albrianna Mae Martin. Braxtin was born at 9:52 a.m., on Jan. 30, 2009, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. She weighed 8 pounds, 2 ounces, and measured 21 inches...

Jan. 21 9:11 a.m., medical, Nevada Regional Medical Center. 11:46 a.m., transfer, St. John's Hospital, Joplin. 2:34 p.m., transfer, Freeman, Joplin. 3:07 p.m., transfer, KU Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan. Jan. 22 6:39 a.m., lift assist, no transport...

Jan. 12 12:51 p.m., Austin and Ash, motor vehicle accident. 5:51 p.m., 428 S. Tucker, fire investigation. 9:33 p.m., 215 S. Clay, odor investigation. Jan. 13 6:52 a.m., 1210 W. Douglas, flue fire. 1:46 a.m., 3M, fire alarm. 3:29 a.m., 3M, fire alarm...

"Tough loss. Opens hurt us once again," Nevada Tigers head wrestling coach Devin White said of Tuesday night's dual meet at Carl Junction. The Tigers spotted Carl Junction 24 points right off the bat, simply because of open weight classes. That proved to be the difference maker on the night, as the Bulldogs took a 22-point victory...

The Cottey College Comets' home streak finally ended and they were on the road Tuesday evening to Trenton, Mo., where the Comets defeated North Central Missouri College 82-79. It was the seventh consecutive victory for the Comets. The Lady Pirates were looking for revenge as the Comets had defeated NCMC by 13 points on Jan. 20, in front of a home crowd in Hinkhouse Gymnasium. In fact, North Central had the Comets under control in the first half as they built a 43-35 lead at the break...

The Nevada Middle School seventh grade A team suffered their first loss of the season as they traveled to Seneca for a tough contest Tuesday night. The game was a fairly high-scoring affair that stayed reasonably close throughout the duration, but Seneca was eventually able to get the better of the exchange as they pulled out to a 46-37 victory. Grant Wolfe led the offensive effort for Nevada as he finished the night with 17 points...

"Crop Management Strategies in an Era of Uncertainty" is the theme of the 2009 Soils and Crops Conference in Barton County which is scheduled for 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 18, at Thiebaud Auditorium, 105 E. 11th, Lamar, Mo. According to Jay Chism, agronomy specialist with University of Missouri Extension in Lamar, several MU state specialists will present the latest crop information at this conference making this a "must-attend" type of event for area farmers...

Juxtapower, an African dance and performance ensemble, will bring their rhythmic performance to Cottey College's Haidee and Allen Wild Center for the Arts Auditorium on Friday, Feb. 6, at 8 p.m. This South-African production blends sketch humor and drama with the best of South-African song and dance. ...

The Internal Revenue Service announced that an early sampling of tax returns shows a large number of errors involving how to account for last year's Economic Stimulus Payments on 2008 tax returns. Those payments affect taxpayers' eligibility for the Recovery Rebate Credit, a special one-time benefit that nearly 119 million Americans received last year in the form of the Economic Stimulus Payment...

An El Dorado Springs man died from his injuries in a one-vehicle crash that occurred on U.S. 54 Highway, about six miles west of El Dorado Springs early Wednesday morning. According to a report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, 28-year-old Clarence W. Bartram was traveling east on U.S. 54 at about 4:30 a.m., when the 1996 Dodge Ram pickup he was driving went off the roadway, struck and embankment and overturned. The report did not speculate as to why the vehicle left the roadway...

The Vernon County Courthouse was closed Wednesday morning because of a problem with sewer gas escaping into the building that causes discomfort to some inside the structure. "There were some complaints about headaches yesterday and the commissioners decided to close the courthouse until the problem is taken care of," Tammi Beach, Vernon County Clerk, said...

We have had a house cat named Pumpkin for a little over a year. Our great-granddaughter, Marilyn, found him as a tiny kitten in a shed behind our house. He was cold, hungry and scared. That was probably the luckiest day of his life because since then he has been running our household very ably with only a personal maid and various other attentive humans...

Although Benton Hall is safe for the time being, plans are in the works, unrelated to now abandoned plans to close Benton Hall, to place some state residents in Individualized Supported Living units (ISLs). Chris Baker, Nevada Habilitation Center Superintendent, said that the plans actually predate Governor Nixon's short-lived plan to close Benton Hall by a month or more...