Stories from Saturday, April 25, 2015

Susan Lane Callahan passed away April 20, 2015. Susan was a long-time resident of Nevada and faculty member at Cottey College, where she had taught mathematics since 1980. Susan was born in Kansas City, Mo., and earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in mathematics from Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly the University of Missouri-Rolla). ...

Ellen Eda Mabry, 89, Nevada, Mo., passed from this life on Saturday, April 11, 2015, at Nevada Regional Medical Center, in Nevada, following a lengthy illness. Ellen was born Oct. 21, 1925, in Nevada, to Talmadge Dewitt and Eda Ethel (Lockwood) Crawford. She was united in marriage to Thomas Max Mabry on Sept. 24, 1954, in Nevada, Mo., and he preceded her in death in 1993...

Charles "Chuck" Miller, of Sheldon, Mo., born July 29, 1934, in rural Jerico Springs, Mo., passed away at Landmark Hospital on Friday, April 24, 2015, at the age of 80 years old. Chuck was born to Walter James and Minnie Belle ( Sharron) Miller. Chuck graduated from Liberal High School in 1952. ...

John William Chadd Jr., Milo, Mo., passed from this life on Thursday, April 23, 2015, at his home in Milo, following a lengthy illness. John was born Jan. 23, 1957, in Nevada, Mo., to John W. and Margaret Jane (Baker) Chadd. On Feb. 3, 1978, he was united in marriage to Toni M. Fanning, in Nevada, and she survives of the home...

\On July 15, 1912, a notorious gambler in New York City by the name of Herman Rosenthal walked out of the Metropole Café on West 43rd street and was shot to death by several men waiting just outside. This murder would later be referred to by some as the "trial of the century" and resulted in the trial, conviction, and execution of a New York Police Lieutenant by the name of Charles Becker, for his role in the death of Rosenthal. ...

Hi neighbors. I hope many of you got to see Jeremy Wiltse, You New Free, and Mood Ring Circus last Friday night right here in Nevada. The music was great and the crowd seemed to enjoy it a lot. My future daughter-in-law Amber, aka Fairy Sunflower, acted as MC and did a great job keeping the crowd eager for more music. All the band members and singers were pros and gave a really engaging performance...

Hi neighbors. I hope many of you got to see Jeremy Wiltse, You New Free, and Mood Ring Circus last Friday night right here in Nevada. The music was great and the crowd seemed to enjoy it a lot. My future daughter-in-law Amber, aka Fairy Sunflower, acted as MC and did a great job keeping the crowd eager for more music. All the band members and singers were pros and gave a really engaging performance...

ear Editor: As the current Nevada R-5 Community Teachers Association president, I would like to bring the attention of our community to the fabulous volunteer infrastructure we have at the Nevada R-5 School District. I was born and raised here, in Nevada, and am pleased to be active in the community heart by being part of our school district. ...

Nevada Daily Mail Celebrating the first anniversary of its founding this month, the Sacred Sons Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club of Vernon County continued its goal of helping communities and supporting other law enforcement agencies through a fundraiser in Springfield held April 18, to support a wounded officer and his family...

Nevada Daily Mail Preparation and awareness are crucial for surviving severe weather events. That was the message of Dennis Kimrey, Vernon County's emergency management director. Kimrey has been in his position 12 years. Previously, he worked for the state health department and enjoyed a long career at 3M, where he retired...

Members of the Nevada High School track and field team participated in Friday's Fort Scott High School Track Invitational. NHS Individual results Reagan Bradley, second-place girls 100 meter dash, 13.20; second-place 200 meter dash, 28.2 Mindy Hendren, second-place triple jump; 31-feet, 7 1/2 inches; sixth-place long jump, 15-feet, 0.5 inches...

Nevada Daily Mail On cop television shows, episodes often conclude with the officers slapping the handcuffs on a criminal and taking them to jail to serve a lengthy sentence, after an exciting investigation leads them to the culprit. But in the fourth session of the Nevada Police Department's Citizens' Police Academy Wednesday, we learned of the limitations police officers deal with when trying to make such an arrest and the lengthy journey to justice that begins with that arrest...

Nevada Daily Mail American Standard announced it will cease manufacturing operations at its Nevada facility effective June 30. The 133 employees affected were notified Friday that production will be relocated to other facilities within the company's operations network...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Tigers baseball team snapped a seven game losing streak, as they defeated El Dorado Springs 5-2 Thursday afternoon. "It was nice to get back in the win column," Nevada coach Danny Penn said. "That's not to say that we made it easy on ourselves. We still had too many mistakes defensively and were not sound situational-hitters when we needed to be."...

April 11, 2015 at 8 a.m., will be a date and time that 11 year-old Kooper Bay will never forget. For that was when he shot his first wild turkey gobbler. It wasn't just a turkey gobbler he shot, it was also a bird with 10 beards, scoring 179.25 by the National Wild Turkey Records, making it the third highest score in Missouri and ninth in the nation...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Tigers tennis team defeated the O'Hara Celtics 8-1 at home Friday, picking up their first ever West Central Conference win. With the victory, the Tigers improve to 5-5-1 (1-2 WCC). "We played great today," Nevada tennis coach Clayton Wheeler said. "It's a big improvement from our match (Thursday) at Monett, when we didn't really show up to play."...