Stories from Friday, April 27, 2012

Nevada Daily Mail The Cottey College softball team will begin play at the NJCAA Region 16 Division II Softball Tournament today at East Central College in Union. The Comets will play Mineral Area College at 10 a.m. in a first round contest. Mineral Area is the number-one seed, while Cottey is the four seed...

Tigers head to Monett today

Panthers run-rule Rich Hill on Thursday

Kevin Richard Clem, 55, of Nevada, Mo., passed away at Mercy Hospital, Springfield, Mo., on April 12, 2012. Kevin was cremated and a memorial service for friends and family will be scheduled at a later date. Cards and commemorative gifts may be sent to the family at their home...

Georgia D. Moburg, 61, Clinton, Mo., formerly of Nevada, passed away Tuesday, April 24, 2012, at Westwood Golden Living Center in Clinton, Mo. She was born July 10, 1950, in Clinton, Mo., to Calder D. Duke and Julia Mae Woods Duke. She was married Sept. 11, 1970, in Mesa, Ariz., to Mitchell "Mickey" Moburg and he preceded her in death March 18, 2007...

Brandi Braun and Tyler Millman of Sheldon, Mo., are proud to announce the birth of their son, Brexton Khaos Millman. Brexton was born at 3:05 p.m., Thursday, April 5, 2012, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. He weighed 8 pounds, 2 ounces, and measured 22 inches...

Charles M. Hickman, 86, of Schell City, died Wednesday, April 25, 2012, at his home in Schell City. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m., Monday, April 30, at the Schell City Baptist Church with the Rev. Doug Reynolds officiating. Visitation will be 2 to 4 p.m., Sunday, April 29, at the Lewis-Hoagland Funeral Home in Schell City. ...

Timara S. Beck, 30, of Nevada, has been charged with second degree robbery in connection with a reported robbery that occurred at the Wal-Mart Supercenter April 14. According to a press release from the Nevada Police Department, police were notified by Wal-Mart loss control staff that a theft had just occurred and the suspect had assaulted an employee while fleeing the store with stolen merchandise...

A Shawnee Kan. man was injured in an accident that occurred on U.S. 54 Highway 10 miles east of Nevada, on Tuesday. Jay D. Battenberg, 58, of Shawnee suffered moderate injuries during the collision, according to Missouri State Highway Patrol Corporal James E. Wilde...

From a surveillance video released to the media earlier this week, police have identified and arrested a suspect in connection with a theft of a package from a porch at a home in the 200 block of West Arch Street in Nevada. During the early morning hours of Saturday, April 14, Nevada Police were notified by a Nevada resident that a man had stolen a package off her front porch while she was out of town for the day. ...

Monday Music Nights on the Square continues when the Shane Moses Band tunes up and performs on April 30, at 6 p.m., on the south side of the Vernon County Courthouse. The Shane Moses Band has "been jammin" together for about six years, according to lead guitarist and singer David Byerly. Each member of the group has been into the music scene for several years and they were all playing for different bands when they decided to team up...

Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Tracy Droz Tragos has made three trips to Rich Hill and will return during the third week of May to continue filming in the Bates County town of 1,500 where she spent summers as a child. Droz Tragos told the Daily Mail Tuesday that she and her cousin, Andrew Droz Palermo of Columbia, Mo., were in Rich Hill three weeks ago with two film crew members, "spending time with a cross section of people...

Gripping its chest, Children's Center of Southwest Missouri Director Kathi Olson aggressively shakes a life-like doll fitted with lights indicating brain centers. As she shakes, portions of the brain light up when the shaking is likely to cause damage to that area of the brain in a child. ...

Four-month-old Kaiden Stevens, Lamar, died in February, three days after having been shaken, according to news accounts that say Jonathan David Rector confessed to police later that he'd shaken the child. Seven-month-old Adriana Bowers is in stable condition at a children's hospital, having suffered a life-threatening brain bleed after a shaking incident that led to first degree assault charges against Courtney Lindsey, a Joplin Globe report said Thursday...

Education is an important aspect of preventing shaken baby syndrome and other forms of child abuse. But when education and prevention measures don't work, the Children's Center is there to help. The Children's Center helps by providing a child-friendly setting for investigation into suspected child abuse...

The Nevada, Mo. Police Department reports that they received a report of an assault that occurred near the intersection of Austin Boulevard and Clay St. in Nevada at about 11 a.m. on April 26, 2012. A 17-year-old female Nevada resident was approached by a passing car with one man in it who offered the girl a ride, which she refused. The man reportedly grabbed the victim's arm, but she broke free and ran home...