Stories from Friday, June 15, 2012

June 9 4:22 p.m.: An accident occurred at U.S. 54 Highway and Adams Street involving a pickup driven by Jonathan M. Forester, Richards, Mo., and a car driven by Randy L. Bley, Deerfield, Mo. Bley reported minor injuries. Karen L Bley, a passenger in the Bley vehicle, also reported minor injuries...

June 1 Gerald R. Weatherly, Branson, Mo., failure to stop at stop light. June 2 Eric R. Brinton, Milo, Mo., failure to maintain lane, driving while intoxicated. Lynieta L. Leisure, Nevada, speeding 47/30. June 3 Allison Engelbrecht, Nevada, speeding 47/30...

By James R. Campbell Nevada Daily Mail Two candidates in the state representative's race, Barbara York and Randy Pike, came to the Vernon County Republican Party Headquarters' opening Thursday with the candidates holding forth on financing rural schools and stopping interference in Missouri agriculture by groups outside the state...

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada R-5 Board of Education voted unanimously to approve a $22 million budget for the 2012-'13 school year during their regular monthly meeting Wednesday night. Dr. David Stephens, R-5 superintendent, told the board that budget has a deficit of $243,000, which is better than he had projected earlier. The deficit will be made up from their reserves...

By Rusty Murry Nevada Daily Mail People eat horses. It's that simple. They have been eating them for a long time. According to R. Lee Lyman, the chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Missouri in Columbia, there is "definitive evidence" that horses have "certainly been slaughtered as a food source" in parts of Europe for more than 10,000 years...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Police Department reports an increased number of vandalism incidents occurring in several of the city's parks. The vandalism consists of graffiti, cutting security chains with bolt cutters, tipping over portable toilets and general destruction of property. It appears that the crimes are occurring during the overnight hours...

Local women serve as mentors for visiting students.

The Knights of Columbus 11th annual golf tournament is scheduled to be played on Saturday, June 23, beginning at 8 a.m., at Frank E. Peters Municipal Golf Course, Nevada. The entry fee is $120; and the event is a three-person, 18-hole scramble with a senior flight...

Nevada Daily Mail Thanks to a big seventh-inning burst of batting energy, the MINK League South Division-leading Nevada Griffons, defeated the Clarinda A's 11-8 Thursday, in Clarinda, Iowa. The As were first to score in Thursday's outing, plating three in the first inning; but the Griffons got off to a sluggish start, remaining scoreless until the third, when a series of hits aided by stolen bases by Jesse Solar AJ Krist led the Griffons to score 2...

New opportunity for middle school weightlifting.

Hi neighbors. This Sunday is Father's Day and I hope you have your fathers still alive, well and nearby so you can show them firsthand how much you love them. For those whose fathers cannot be with them because they are far away, incapacitated or deceased; there are still ways to share the spirit of Father's Day with them...

Dear Editor: Tomorrow is Father's Day. I can't decide what to give my dad -- gift certificates from Kentucky Fried Chicken have been my "go to gift" in the past. My mom likes cards more than gifts, but those of you who have had me in class know that my writing is horrible so I decided to "pen" this on my laptop...

Dear Editor: I would like to invite the county commissioners and their families to the beautiful Katy Allen Lake, where their grandchildren can enjoy the trash and broken glass that surround the lake and sit on rotted picnic tables. There are no trash barrels, which I was told would be brought in more than a month ago...