Stories from Thursday, May 19, 2011

Earnest Standlee "Earnie" Earll, 72, Nevada, passed away on Wednesday, May 18, 2011, at Christian Health Care in Nevada, following a lengthy illness. He was born Aug. 29, 1938, in Nevada, to Earnest W. Earll and Jean Viola Perry Earll. He married Shirley Ann Koopmann on Feb. 28, 2004, in Nevada, and she survives of the home...

"We'd like to see the tax permanent ... Whatever decision you make the parks board is behind you and JD," Shirley Ann Bastow, park board member, told the Nevada City Council before they voted 5-0 to give final approval to setting an Aug. 2 date for an election to renew the 1/2-cent parks sales tax. ...

State Rep. Barney Fisher gave the just-adjourned 96th Missouri General Assembly an "A" in some subjects and an "F" in others Tuesday, lauding its congressional redistricting plan and revision of the Proposition B "puppy mill' amendment OK'd by statewide voters last fall...

The Nevada Police Department is warning area businesses to be on the lookout for counterfeit $100 bills that have surfaced in the area and the two men they believe may be responsible for passing them. According to a press release from the NPD, the bills are of high quality and are hard to detect. ...

Local American Red Cross caseworkers Valorie Mead and Joyce Wallace are helping with disaster efforts by doing casework for the recent flooding in the Poplar Bluff and Pineville area. They are doing the casework out of the local American Red Cross office in Nevada. ...

Tina Werner and Director James McKenzie of the Vernon County Ambulance District open the Automated External Defibrillator for presentation to commissioners, while Vernon County Northern Commissioner Neal Gerster steadies the device and Presiding Commissioner Bonnie McCord watches. ...

Hunter Balk takes home gold in the 2011 State Greco Roman Wrestling championships in Sedalia. This is the second time Hunter has won the Greco State championships in his career. Hunter, who wrestlers for the Victory Club out of Kansas City was also the runner up in the Freestyle state wrestling competition held the day before in Sedalia...