Stories from Friday, September 10, 2010

Steve Tucker, 43, El Dorado Springs, died on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010, in Schell City, Mo. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 11, at the Green Lawn Cemetery in Schell City. Friends may call after 1 p.m., Friday, at the Lewis-Hoagland Funeral Home in Schell City...

Membership in the Kaysinger Basin Regional Planning Commission costs the city of Nevada about $1,700 a year. What does that get the citizens of the community and how does that benefit them? Nevada City manager, JD Kehrman, believes in belonging to the commission, but he thinks the public might have confused membership in it with the city's comprehensive plan...

The days of a school nurse only having to deal with bloody noses and students with upset stomachs waiting for a parent to come and take them home are long gone. "Heathcare in schools has changed," Denise Nelson, coordinator of the Nevada R-5 Student Health Services program, told the R-5 School Board during their monthly meeting Wednesday night...

The Nevada Police Department, in cooperation with the Vernon County Sheriff's Office, conducted a sobriety checkpoint on Sept. 4. A total of 593 vehicles passed through the checkpoint, on U.S. 54 near Benton Street. A press release said that officers identified and took enforcement action on 26 violations, including three impaired drivers, four driver license violations and nine uninsured motorists...

The Nevada Fire Department will conduct a short ceremony of remembrance in honor of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. The ceremony will begin at 8:58 a.m., at the flag pole at fire headquarters on Austin Boulevard, Nevada...

Workers for Nowak Construction pack scaffolding and string up caution tape on Thursday in preparation for removing the remaining roof from the rear of the building at 104 East Cherry St. The crew hopes to have the roof off and the south wall of the structure down sometime today. ...

Editor's note: This report contains charges alleging sexually explicit behaviors readers may find disturbing. Nevada Daily Mail KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that four southern Missouri men and a St. ...

After two weeks on the road, the Nevada Tigers will finally make their first appearance at Logan Field of the 2010 season tonight as they take on the East Newton Patriots. The Patriots, like the Tigers, have struggled mightily in recent years under head coach Bobby Bishop. Last season, the Patriots went 1-9 and have started 2010 on much the same path, losing to Springfield Catholic, 42-20 in their season opener before falling to Strafford, 38-6 in week two...

Ordinarily, when searching for the toughest opponent of the season thus far for the Nevada Lady Tigers softball team, the place to look would be on the field. Not this season. The toughest opponent the Lady Tigers have found themselves at odds with so far in 2010 has come from the sky as they have already seen two games postponed due to weather in just the past week alone...

The Cottey College Comets played a tough three-game match in Miami, Okla., Wednesday night against Northeast Oklahoma A&M, but came up just short in all three games, 25-22, 26-24 and 25-23. "We let that one go," head coach Marla Kannady Foreman said. "Last year, there was no way we could have come close to beating NEO. However, this year's team could have done it, and we just didn't get the job done."...

Nevada senior Kelci Cliffman goes for one of her 12 kills during Thursday's 2-1 loss to Liberal in a game that was moved to the Osage Prairie YMCA because of a leaky roof at Wynn Gymnasium. The Liberal varsity outscored Nevada 25-19, 25-10, 26-24, only losing the second set for the second consecutive win over Nevada. The Nevada JV won their match 25-12, 25-13. Allie Irwin led Nevada in scoring with eight points, as well as 12 assists and Marisa Hughes had 11 digs...

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It has been half a century plus a decade since I went to Shady Nook School in the Ozarks over yonder for the first grade. I have so many good memories about Shady Nook and my first year of school, which started, as I recall, shortly after the Fourth of July and let out eight months later with time off for Christmas and, of course, deer season...