Stories from Wednesday, September 15, 2010

September 4 David Baldwin Jr. was arrested for third degree assault, unlawful use of a weapon, armed criminal action, and stealing by force. Bond amount is $51,000. Clay Conley was arrested for third degree assault. Bond amount is $1,500. Jail population: Total census, 56; state, 5; Vernon County Re-entry program, 2; Cedar County, 2; Bates County, 5; and Clay County, 1...

August 17 Rhannon D. Sampson, Kansas City, Mo., failure to stop at stop sign. August 22 Jessica L. Meadows, Pittsburg, Kan., failure to maintain lane, no proof of insurance, driving while intoxicated. August 24 Keith Garrett-Bybee, Moundville, Mo., no dog tag...

The Vernon County Historical Society will be holding their ninth annual Missouri History Day for fourth graders from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Thurs. in the Franklin P. Norman City/County Community Center, the Bushwhacker Jail and in the community room at the Nevada Public Library...

The 41st Annual McGennis Youth Center Barbecue will be held Sunday, Sept. 26. Good food, good music and good times are the order of the day on that Sunday with activities for all ages. Children's games will start at 12:30 p.m. Along with many of the classic country picnic events, this year a pumpkin roll has been added...

In a federal court room in Kansas City, Mo., suspended Nevada Postmaster Dennis Henry, Edward Bagley and James Noel each pleaded "not guilty" and waived their detention hearings. That means all three defendants will be held in federal detention without bond until their trial, which has been scheduled for Oct. 25, according to Don Ledford of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Kansas City...

A public hearing was held in the office of the Vernon County Commission on Tuesday to discuss an error in the Coal Township special road tax levy. The commissioners, county clerk Tammi Beach and county assessor Cherie Roberts were joined by nearly a dozen Coal Township officials and residents to discuss the options for correcting an error in adding the levy onto residents' assessments for the 2009 tax year...

Kala Wilson and Abigail Martin lead some of the 120 future Nevada High School cheerleaders taking part in a cheerleading clinic on Sept. 4 in a cheer prior to last Friday's football game.

The diagnostic imaging department at Nevada Regional Medical Center has a new machine, a fluoroscopy tomography machine, that the hospital began using Aug. 31. "Fluoroscopy is live imaging, you can watch the image of someone swallowing barium, you can see it live," Gary Headrick, head of Diagnostic Imaging, said. "Tomography is the same as computerized tomography, or CT, but it's just one sweep so you're just looking at one slice. With CT you get a much broader picture."...