Stories from Thursday, February 24, 2011

Vera Jewell Barbour, 98, Nevada, died on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011, at Christian Health Care in Nevada. Family information and funeral arrangements will be announced later by Ferry Funeral Home, Nevada. View obituary and send condolences on line at www.ferryfuneralhome.com...

February 16 10:31 a.m.: An accident occurred at Washington and Walnut streets involving a pickup driven by Paul E. Adams, Greenfield, Mo., and an SUV driven by Stacy A. Hamilton, Stockton, Mo. No injuries were reported. 7:30 p.m.: An accident occurred in the YMCA parking lot involving a pickup driven by Glory D. Reichard, Nevada, and a car owned by Brianne C. Albright, Nevada. No injuries were reported...

JEFFERSON CITY - The numbers are still rough, but the Missouri Department of Transportation says the cost to clean up after the state's historic snow storm three weeks ago is estimated at $7.7 million. That figure includes labor, equipment and materials...

Leviathon Lee Dipman, 20, of Nevada was arraigned before Associate Circuit Judge Neal Quitno on two amended felony complaints of murder in the first degree in the Circuit Court of Vernon County on Tuesday. The original complaints were filed in the court clerk's office on Feb. 18 and the amended charges were filed on Feb. 22, to clear up the language and make the complaint more specific, according to Circuit Court Clerk Vickie Erwin...

The El Dorado Springs Picnic Committee want to get the word out, encouraging local entertainers to apply for the scheduled openings for the Picnic. The 130th annual picnic will be July 21-23. Picnic set-up and the street dance will be on Wednesday, July 20. Entertainment openings are 30-60 minutes...

A phlebotomist for the Community Blood Center of Kansas City inserts a needle into the arm of a Moore-Few Care Center employee during a blood drive held in the Moore-Few community room on Wednesday. With more than an hour left in the day the effort had already brought in more than 20 people and 16 units of blood. Pictured left to right: Victoria Roby, Rosemary Slaughter and Sherise Winklaar...

Kenneth Morrison's story, although there's no corroborating evidence of it, adds yet another thread to the long-enduring, twisting yarns surrounding the carving.