Stories from Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Mary Joyce Adams, 77, of Nevada, Mo., passed away Feb. 8, 2016, at the Barone Alzheimer's Care Center, in Nevada, Mo. She was born Sept. 12, 1938, the daughter of Lafayette and Mary Ellen (Story) Summers. Joyce, as she was known, graduated from high school in Goodman, Mo., with the Class of 1956. ...

Patricia Jeanette Hagemann, 68, Metz, Mo., was resurrected by Christ to heaven, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2016, at home. Born on Jan. 1, 1948, in Lawton, Okla., to Mary Elizabeth Calvert Borgelt, she was raised in Duncan, Okla., and Toledo, Okla. She delighted in being the mother of four wonderful children and the wife of Buddy Hagemann...

Wayne E. Vacca, 88, Liberal, Mo., died Monday, Feb. 8, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 11, with services being at 10 a.m., Friday, Feb. 12, all at Konantz Warden Funeral Home.

Missouri House Dist. No. 126 Building the 2017 budget bills are priority right now at the capitol as we are conducting hours of hearings from all Missouri government branches. The Appropriations Committee I serve on will soon hear testimony from the state offices ranging from the governor, attorney general, and treasurer to the judiciary. Following are summaries of some of the bills passed by the Mo. House to the Senate recently...

"Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do." Joe Sobran, journalist/author On Wednesday, Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court, the Honorable Patricia Breckenridge, presented her first State of the Judiciary report to a joint session of the Legislature. ...

Nevada Daily Mail The students, parents, and staff of Bryan Elementary School collected pennies during the week of Feb. 1-5 in observance of the 100th day of school, which was Feb. 4. All pennies collected each day were counted and sorted by the kindergarten and first grade students. At the end of each day, the pennies were deposited in the Bryan School Lucille Smith Scholarship Fund...

Nevada Daily Mail If you take a walk around downtown Nevada, you might come across a scarf or two tied to a pole. According to Kailee Byram and Mason Forkner, these scarves are not lost, and if you need one, please take one. Kailee and Mason spent the afternoon of Feb. 1, tying scarves to light poles in the downtown area of Nevada as a Step up to Leadership project for 4-H...

Nevada Daily Mail Nevada Middle School will host its first Family Science Night March 3, from 5:30-7 p.m. This is an opportunity for all middle school students and their families to participate in a night of hands-on experiments and activities based on scientific inquiry. Participants will travel to different stations throughout the building. Experiments will be supervised by teachers but led by eighth grade students in the Accelerated Science class...

Nevada Daily Mail Four people were taken into custody after a search warrant was served at a residence on the 300 block of South Pine Street in Nevada on Monday. According to Sheriff's Office officials, the VCSO fugitive task force served a search warrant looking for wanted fugitive Christopher L. Foster, 33, of Nevada...

The Nevada Sparks fourth-grade traveling basketball team took first-place Jan. 30 at the Drive5 Winter Madness basketball tournament in Overland Park, Kan. Pictured front row, from left to right: Katie Johnson, Lakyn Applegate, Lindey Wilson and Clara Swearingen. Back row: Lanie Jackson, coach Jason Irwin, Alli Balk, Bennett Irwin, Abbi Balk, Kara Phillips and coach Joe Swearingen. (Submitted photo)...

The Nevada wrestling team competed Saturday at the West Central Conference championships in Clinton. While there, Nevada senior Dayton Miller picked up his 177th career win, passing Slade Stiles atop the NHS career wins list, as Miller improves to 177-20 overall for his career. Miller notched the milestone victory with a first-round pin of Alex Niner...

The Golden Valley Vernon County Conference boys and girls basketball tournaments tipped-off opening-round play Monday evening at Sheldon High School. The first matchup of the night was in the girls tournament, featuring the second-seeded Hume Lady Hornets against the No. ...

The Nevada Lady Tigers swim team is again champions of the West Central Conference. Nevada, who began competing in the WCC in the fall of 2014, is now a two-time conference champion after taking the crown in its first season last year. The WCC championships took place Thursday at Sedalia Middle School, with a number of Lady Tigers placing first in individual events, as well as first-place finishes in the 200-yard medley relay, 200-yard freestyle relay, and 400-yard freestyle relay...