Stories from Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Thomas Edward Briscoe, age 45, of Sheldon, passed away Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009, at Nevada Regional Medical Center following an illness of four years. He was born Aug. 27, 1964, in Kansas City, Mo., to Marion Cecil Briscoe and Carolyn Kay Jackson Briscoe. He married Shelley DeAnne White on Nov. 22, 2002, and she survives of the home...

Derrel Waynon Maness, 76, Nevada, passed away on Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009, at his home in Nevada following a lengthy illness. He was born Feb. 23, 1933, in Searcy, Ark., to Andrew Maness and Gertrude Humble Maness. He married Martha "Maggie" Hedges Nicholson on Jan. 23, 1985, in Barling, Ark...

Gale Coak, 84, formerly of Schell City, died, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, at his home in Columbia, Mo. Visitation will be held from 7-8 p.m., Friday, Nov. 6, at Lewis Hoagland Funeral Home, in Schell City. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 7, at the Schell City United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Connie Locke officiating. Burial will be in Green Lawn Cemetery, in Schell City...

Ernest M. "Ernie" Madill, 85, Nevada, passed away on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, at Nevada Regional Medical Center in Nevada. Family information and funeral arrangements will be announced later by Ferry Funeral Home, Nevada.

Kaleb Wayne Brewer, age 20, Nevada, died as the result of an automobile accident in Nevada. He was born Nov. 11, 1988, in Nevada, to John Wayne Brewer and Sara Lou Peters Brewer. Kaleb grew up in Nevada and attended Nevada schools. He began working with his grandfather, Carl, in the auto body business at a young age. He also had previous employment with Keith's Body Shop in Nevada...

Oct. 22 An accident occurred at 8:45 p.m., on U.S. 71 Highway northbound exit and Austin, involving a car driven by a 12-year-old female, of Miami, Okla., and a van driven by Sherri J. Broughton, of Nevada. No injuries were reported. Oct. 24 An accident occurred 4:10 p.m., on Centennial and U.S. 71 Highway, involving a car driven by David W. Baum, of Lamar, and a car driven by Santana D. Fortney, of Nevada. No injuries were reported...

A local Nevada group joined the fight against two global epidemics --hunger and obesity -- by participating in the Lose For Good campaign. As local Weight Watchers members lose weight, they've also been collecting food to donate to Community Outreach to help their neighbors in need. Within seven weeks, the group lost 90 pounds, and collected more than 200 pounds of food...

In September, the Nevada Daily Mail garnered three awards in the Missouri Associated Press Managing Editors 2008 Photojournalism Contest in the statewide Division lll competition. Long-time Nevada Daily Mail reporter/photographer Ralph Pokorny won first place in sports photography for a photo featuring a play at home plate by the Nevada Griffons. ...

A wet and chilly October means farmers are now scrambling to get the harvest of soybeans and corn completed. According to Pat Guinan, University of Missouri Extension climatologist, statewide rainfall averaged more than 10 inches -- the wettest October in 68 years and the second wettest in history. This year's statewide average precipitation was about 10.17 inches, near the 10.47 inches recorded in 1941 and well above the second-wettest October. In 1919, 7.23 inches were recorded...

Brian Leonard and Sherry Steward have emerged as the tentative winners of two open seats on the Nevada City Council. Leonard received 523 votes, winning one seat; and Sherry Steward appears to have won the other open council seat with a total of 413 votes. Joe Kraft was close behind with 411 votes and Amyl Bishop garnered 349 total votes. Voter turnout for this election was 13.56 percent of registered voters...

Unofficial results of Tuesday's election released last night indicate the Nevada R -5 Proposition No. 1 passed by a wide margin. With 1, 353 yes votes and 382 no votes,7 7.98 percent of voters chose to continue the Proposition C rollback waiver, a tax provision that has been in place for the past 10 years. ...