Stories from Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Billy Allen Robinson, 60, Nevada, passed away on Saturday, March 30, 2013, at his home in Nevada, following a lengthy illness. He was born on March 18, 1953, Baxter Springs, Kan. He was raised the son of Herbert A. Robinson and Sarah "Gladys" Mundell Robinson. He married Cynthia A. Hoffman on Oct. 16, 1982, in Riverton, Kan., and she survives of the home...

Ida Lee Spencer, 85, Nevada, passed away on Tuesday, April 2, 2013, at Moore-Few Care Center in Nevada, following a lengthy illness. She was born Sept. 25, 1927, in Nevada, to Fred F. Roof and Ruby Clara Palmer Roof. She married Kendall Spencer on June 14, 1947, in Fort Scott, Kan., and he preceded her in death on Nov. 17, 2002...

Another Nevada High School senior has announced a desire to continue her athletic career in college. Cottey College head volleyball coach Marla Kannady Foreman announced Tuesday that Nevada High School senior Regan Kannady is scheduled to sign a letter of intent to play volleyball for Cottey College at 2:50 p.m., Monday, April 15, in the library/media center at Nevada High School...

CARL JUNCTION, Mo. -- The Nevada Tigers golf team got back into action Monday, heading back out on the road to play in the Bird Dog Invitational tournament. The Eagles of Joplin won the team title at the Briarbrook Country Club course with a team score of 340 -- 16 strokes fewer than the 356 turned in by runner-up Carthage. Nevada finished sixth at 379, just three strokes out of the top five...

CARTHAGE -- The Nevada Tigers defeated Webb City, 8-1, Monday in the first game of the 39th annual Bill O'Dell Baseball Tournament. Alex Payne was 1-for-4 and drove in three runs -- including two in the first inning with a double. Easton Mitchell was 2-for-3 and scored twice...

By Eric Wade Nevada Daily Mail Just one day after falling to Mount Vernon in a road game that was part of a JV/freshmen doubleheader on Monday, the Nevada Tigers freshman baseball team made its return to Lyons Stadium in the hope of finally cracking into the win column...

Vernon County commissioners Everett Wolfe, Bonnie McCord and Neal Gerster met with the Missouri Department of Transportation area engineer Darin Hamelink on Tuesday to visit and discuss a proposed bridge site on Stokes Road, about five miles southwest of Nevada...

Nevada Housing Authority director Carol Branham told the Nevada City Council Tuesday night that although the continuing sequestration of federal funds will affect its budget, the local agency is in better financial condition than some other housing agencies in the state...

Two incumbents were re-elected to seats on the Nevada R-5 School District Board during Tuesday's school board elections. Incumbent Amanda Fisher garnered the most votes with 440 (39.71 percent), followed closely by incumbent Joy Hawks, who received 438 votes (39.53 percent)...

Municipal elections for various seats were held in several Vernon County communities Tuesday. Turnout was light in most of the county. Of the 12,303 registered voters in the county, only 1,321 went to polling places to cast a ballot. The overall turnout for the entire county was 10.74 percent...

Talk about a freak accident. I'm sure most people have already heard by now about the injury suffered by Louisville Cardinals men's basketball player Kevin Ware during a game against Duke in the NCAA Tournament Elite 8 round. For those who don't know about it, honestly, you should probably be glad you don't. It was one of the most gruesome sports injuries I've ever seen, if not the most gruesome...

LAMAR, Mo. -- Nevada Tiger and Lady Tiger track and field athletes competed against athletes from Ash Grove, Liberal, Humansville and Lamar high schools Tuesday afternoon, bringing home a number of strong individual finishes in the process. Ashley Shumaker won gold medals in the long jump and the high jump and Connor West won a gold medal in the long jump. Dalton Hendren won the 200-meter dash and took second in the 100, while Morgan Hold won the high jump and took third in the triple jump...

As is expected every spring, Mother Nature has made life very difficult for Nevada High School officials when it comes to making sure all scheduled spring sports games can be played. The latest sport to join the list of those impacted directly by weather is tennis. Head coach Clay Wheeler's squad was scheduled to take on Thomas Jefferson Independent Day School, Tuesday, in Joplin, but that match was rained out...

HARRISON, Ark. -- Wednesday's softball doubleheader between the Cottey College Comets and North Arkansas Community College has been cancelled for a second time due to bad weather. Head coach Shelli Stanley's Comets are 2-4 on the season and will host Mineral Area Community College, at 2 p.m., Saturday in a doubleheader on the Vanek Family Memorial Field at Cottey. Mineral Area is 6-12 this season after a pair of losses to Jefferson College Tuesday, 6-0 and 10-2...