Stories from Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Betty Ruth McClain, 86, Nevada, died Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011 at Moore-Few Care Center in Nevada, following a lengthy illness. She was born April 6, 1924, in Harrisonville, Mo., to Phillip Scott Davis and Grace Mae Barr Davis. She was married Feb. 16, 1947, in Harrisonville, Mo., to John McClain and he survives of the home...

The Nevada City Council will have short agenda to consider when they meet at 7 tonight in the council chambers, 120 S. Ash St., in the Public Safety building. Among the items on tonight's agenda is the final reading of a special ordinance approving a quote for the purchase of a new pumper fire truck from General Safety Equipment LLC...

Three more candidates filed for the Nevada R-5 Board of Education Monday, bringing the total number of candidates to eight. Melissa Hendrix, Nevada R-5 board secretary, announced Monday that Chris Hendren, Rick Baker and Adam Dean are the latest candidates to file for the April 5 election...

The war on drugs continues to be fought in the United States. Though the damage is evident everywhere, it is not a raging, booming war being fought on a grand scale; it is a battle by skirmish conflict taking place in every state in the union. Just last week, meth-related arrests and seizure of a working lab in the city limits of Nevada showed the strife, especially against methamphetamine, persists Nevada and Vernon County...

SHELDON -- Fire Chief David May says the contemporary phenomenon of "chemical suicide" necessitates caution when one sees a person who appears unconscious or in distress inside a motor vehicle. The reason is that people who mix easily obtained chemicals to take their own lives may be sitting in an invisible cloud of poisonous gas that can be fatal if inhaled. ...

Northeast Vernon County High School students Erin Kitsmiller and Tiffany Scheer are ready for Spirit Week and Homecoming festivities. This week, students are encouraged to wear red on Tuesday, wear favorite college apparel or hats on Wednesday, wear a "fashion disaster" on Thursday, and show their Knight pride by dressing up on Friday. ...

The Nevada High School show choirs hosted their first junior show choir camp over the weekend, and 45 students in third through fifth grades participated, along with show choir members. Camp participants learned a new song with choreography that incorporated the use of props, then performed the song .in front of a crowd assembled at the Nevada High School auditorium...