Stories from Tuesday, December 3, 2013

By Eric Wade Daily Mail Sports Editor The Nevada High School wrestling team has found itself in the midst of a new set of problems head coach Devin White never encountered in his first five years at the helm of the program. With more than 20 total names on this year's roster, the Tigers will enter the season with a full lineup...

By Eric Wade Daily Mail Sports Editor BRONAUGH -- The Bronaugh High School boys' basketball team will enter the 2013-14 season Thursday with similar questions to those faced by a number of other local teams this season. Head coach Sean Crane's squad may have only lost three players to last year's graduation -- Josh Willis, Patrick Hallam and Blake Hudson -- but those three players accounted for approximately 90 percent of the Wildcats' offensive production throughout the year...

By Eric Wade Daily Mail Sports Editor BRONAUGH -- Bronaugh Lady Wildcats head basketball coach Sean Crane has found himself quite busy this winter, as he is heading up both the boys' and girls' basketball programs. Much like his boys' squad, Crane's Bronaugh Lady Wildcats team has taken its share of lumps recently and will be faced with a number of challenges as the 2013-14 season looms. ...

Doris Vivian Moberg, 86, Harrisonville, Mo., passed away on Saturday, Nov. 30, 2013, at St. Luke's Hospice House, Kansas City, Mo. She was born Nov. 19, 1927, in Nevada, Mo., to Homer W. Dennison and Mamie C. Pauley Dennison. She was married to Roy W. Moberg on Jan. 10, 1947...

Ethel Irene McCormick, Nevada, Mo., passed away on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013, at Nevada Regional Medical Center, the daughter of Raymond B. and Nancy Mabel (Melton) Estep. Ethel graduated from Spokane High School in 1943, and then attended college, receiving a teaching certificate. ...

Terry Wayne Wehmeyer, 68, Nevada, Mo., passed away Saturday, Nov. 30, 2013, at the VA Hospital in Kansas City, following a short illness. He was born Nov. 22, 1945, in Nevada, to Samuel Vernon Wehmeyer and Bettie Elizabeth Garfield Wehmeyer. Terry as we knew him lived around the Nevada area all his life. ...

Kenneth Eugene McCoy, 72, of Schell City, Mo., the son of Robert Thomas and Margaret Rose (Sambol) McCoy, was born April 24, 1941, in Kansas City, Kan., and passed from this life Thursday, Nov. 28, 2013, at the St. Joseph Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo...

Major Herbert Grant Gates, USAF (Ret.), 82, born in Kansas City, Mo., and raised in Nevada, Mo., passed peacefully Sunday, Nov. 24, 2013, in Springfield, Mo., with all his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren gathered, in love and honor, at his side...

Nevada Daily Mail Nine NEVC seniors traveled to Kearney, Mo., to participate for the school's second year in the FIRST (Federation for Inspiration and Recognition in Science and Technology) Lego League on Nov. 23. Competitors Mary Thoreson, Ciara Alexander, Logan Goodman, Hayden Harp, Corbin Goodwin, Clayton Bogardus, Emma Pritchett, Trey Pippin and Quinton Hays placed 14 out of 40 teams...

Nevada Daily Mail Nevada Police are continuing an investigation that resulted in the prompt arrest of a suspect in what is thought to be the city's first armed robbery in recent memory. Officers picked up a Nevada man within five minutes of receiving a call from Domino's Pizza, 200 S. Adams, Nevada...