Stories from Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Nevada Daily Mail RICH HILL, Mo. -- Sacred Heart High School (Sedalia, Mo.) outlasted a 3 1/2-hour lightning delay and defeated the Rich Hill Tigers, 39-18, Friday night, spoiling the Tigers' Senior Night. Rich Hill quarterback Jason Thompson scored the game's first touchdown on a 17-yard run late in the first quarter, only to see the Gremlins take control on a 22-yard touchdown run late in the first quarter and a 65-yard score by Malik Hackett midway through the second period...

Nevada Daily Mail PARSONS, Kan. -- The Cottey College Comets volleyball team added another victory to its record in a road match at Labette County Community College Friday night. The Comets did drop the second set of the night, but ultimately held on to take the victory by the final scores of 25-19, 25-23, 25-13 and 26-24...

Nevada Daily Mail A young Nevada golfer has been selected for competition next weekend in St. Louis. Eighth grader John Quitno was named by the Kansas City Golf Association to its four-player Mid-America Junior Cup team that is scheduled to play a St. Louis-area team on Oct. 20-21, at the Bellerive Country Club. Quitno won the Kansas City Junior Tour at the Lawrence Country Club in Lawrence, Kan., and his teammates will be Zac Dittmer, Tanner Owen and Nick Rehmer...

Nevada Daily Mail The girls' division of the Nevada High School youth basketball program is set to begin on Saturday, Oct. 27. Lady Tigers varsity basketball coach Brent Bartlett, along with assistant coaches Jenny Allard and Clay Wheeler will be heading up the program. They will be assisted by members of the Nevada Lady Tigers basketball team...

Nevada Daily Mail HARRISONVILLE, Mo. -- The Nevada Lady Tigers varsity volleyball team finished third in the Harrisonville Tournament Saturday with a 3-2-1 record. "It was a long day of volleyball and the girls really had to pull together and work hard to come out with some of the wins that we did and to get the third-place finish," Lady Tigers head coach Ashley Thoreson said. ...

Nevada Daily Mail NEW BLOOMFIELD, MO. -- The 38th annual Missouri State High School Activities Association Girls' Golf Championships got started Monday with one local athlete in the mix, competing for a state championship. Nevada High School sophomore Hannah Householder worked her way through both the Class 1, District 4 and the Class 1, Sectional 2 tournaments, just making the cut for this year's state tournament by tying for the highest score that moved on from the first girls' Sectional tournament ever played at Frank E. ...

Betty Ann Alkire, 87, passed away at her home in Nevada, on Friday, Oct. 12, 2012, following an illness of several months. She was born on Oct. 27, 1924, in Overland Park, Kan., to Wiley Clifton Langdon and Elsie Gertrude Stephens Langdon. She married Joseph Edward Alkire and he preceded her in death June 20, 1981...

Katherine "Kathy" Marie Hart, 58, Sheldon, Mo., died Oct. 12, 2012, at the residence of a daughter, in Sheldon, following a brief illness. She was born April 7, 1954, in Modesto, Calif., to Leonard and Marjorie Costa. A memorial service was held at 7 p.m., today, at the Sheldon Baptist Church in Sheldon with the Rev. Jerod Lamb officiating. A dinner was served, prior to the memorial service...

October 7 216 N. Lynn St., ambulance assist. October 8 400 W. Lee St., public service. 520 E. Lee St., smoke removal. October 9 901 N. Olive St., fire safety presentation. 500 W. Highland Ave., fire safety presentation. 901 N. Olive St., fire safety presentation...

By James R. Campbell Herald-Tribune Republican Everett Wolfe and Democrat Jill Couch both feel they would be the better Vernon County southern commissioner, but that doesn't mean they dislike each other or feel tempted to run a roughshod campaign. In fact, the opposite is true...

By Lynn A. Wade Nevada Daily Mail After months of research and preparation, the Healthy Nevada project is officially launching with a kick-off event at Walton Park, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday, at Izaak Walton Park. Many activities are planned -- and it's nearly all free to participants...