Stories from Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Norma Day Shearburn, 92, Nevada, passed away Friday, July 10, 2009, at Christian Health Care in Nevada following a brief illness. She was born Feb. 7, 1917, in Cedar County, Mo., to Otto Renzie (O.R.) Bright and Daisy Alice Banker Bright. She married Merle H. Shearburn in 1939 in Nevada, and he preceded her in death in 1961...

Timothy Tyrone Smith, 46, Nevada, passed away Saturday, July 11, 2009, at his residence. He was born April 25, 1963 in Orange, Calif., to Leno Torres and Elladean Smith Bentley. Tim grew up in Orange, Calif., and attended school there. He lived and worked in California prior to coming to Nevada in 1992. He was a member of the Church of Christ in Nevada...

June 27 Keith D. Garrett-Bybee, Nevada, expired license plates. Gabriel W. Hinshaw, Olathe, Kan., expired license plates, and no proof of insurance. June 28 Edgar M. Box, El Dorado Springs, speeding 56/40. Cody S. Brantley, Pana, Fla., speeding 54/40, and driving while intoxicated...

June 30 An accident occurred at 2:03 p.m., on Main and Ashland, involving a SUV driven By Kayla M. Millman, of Bronaugh, and a parked SUV driven by Whitney L. Webb, of Nevada. No injuries were reported. An accident occurred at 7:14 p.m., at Dairy Queen's parking lot, involving a SUV driven by Bruce L. Karnes, of Nevada, and a car driven by Julie Lamb, of Nevada. No injuries were reported...

July 10 There were reports of a road hazard in the Moundville area, a 911 wrong number in the Nevada area, a traffic stop in the Harwood area, a vehicle repossession in the El Dorado Springs area, a burglary in the Nevada area, a burglary in the Harwood area, and a vehicle accident in the Milo area...

Two people were injured in a Friday night crash that took place on Highway E, 7 miles east of Milo. According to a report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the accident occurred when a 2007 Toyota Yaris, driven by 52-year-old Scott R. Smith, of Stockton, attempted to pass another vehicle and ran off the side of the roadway, overcorrected, ran off the left side of the road and struck a bridge rail, then travelled back across the roadway, struck another bridge rail and overturned in the roadway. ...

Nevada Daily Mail The State Emergency Management Agency announced today that Missourians will receive an additional $12 million in federal disaster assistance to help recovery efforts from natural disasters that hit the state during 2008. The money will assist families affected by tornadoes, flooding and severe weather by paying for home and foundation repairs, total home rebuilds, debris clean-up and other expenses that were a direct result of the disasters...

History has a way of catching up with us when we least expect it. That's what happened last week, as a small repair and remodeling project was under way at the Carnegie Building in Nevada. A portion of the wall was torn away for the project and Cindy Johnson of the Nevada/Vernon County Area Chamber of Commerce office noticed this page of a Kansas City Star newspaper protruding from within the wall on Wednesday, July 8...

After a week of livestock and non-livestock shows, plus a host of traditions from the coronation of the Vernon County Youth Fair royalty to a watermelon feed to behind-the-scenes fun like dunking a friend with water or seeing who takes home top honors in the Super Teen Contest, the 2009 Vernon County Youth Fair came to a close on Saturday...