Stories from Monday, April 17, 2017

Zane “Randy” Potts of Raymore Mo., passed away April 8. He was born on July 24, 1948, to Clifton and Bernita Potts in Evansville, Ind. A Celebration of Life visitation will be 2-4 p.m., Sunday, April 23, at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in Raymore, Mo., followed by Military Honors at the church...

DeWayne Marvin Brockway, 77, Nevada, died Sunday, April 16. DeWayne was born March 1, 1940, in Muscatine, Iowa, to James Marvin Rema (Shellenbarger) Brockway. He was united in marriage to Kathleen M. Caviness on June 23, 1981, in Jackson, Minn., and she survives of the home...

Danny Thomas Sewell, 69, Osceola, Mo., died Saturday, April 15, in Osceola. Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 22, at Newton Burial Park in Nevada. The family will receive friends from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at Ferry Funeral Home prior to the service...

Three people were taken into custody Saturday afternoon thanks to the help of area citizens. According to a press release issued Monday morning, Vernon County Sheriff’s officials are saying a vehicle pursuit was called out when a deputy attempted to make a traffic stop on a pickup after he confirmed the tags did not come back to that vehicle. ...

Brenden M. Loveall, 18, of Nevada, who was wanted on a felony warrant for failure to appear on charges of Sexual Misconduct Or Attempt Involving A Child Under 15, was arrested by Sheriff’s Office personnel in a building near Truman Elementary Monday afternoon. According to Vernon County Sheriff Jason Mosher, his office received a tip of the location where Loveall was hiding. “Loveall tried giving us a fake name but he was identified by photo,” said Mosher...

The academic degree is properly called a Doctor of Nursing Practice. Last December, among the first cohort which graduated with that degree from Pittsburg State University were board certified nurse practitioners, Jama Bogart and Sonja Albright. A profile on Bogart will appear later while this article focuses on Albright...

Thursday evening’s meeting brought two new faces to the city of Sheldon board of aldermen. Robert Sewell was elected to fill the open mayor’s seat and Joshua Bean replaced alderman Robert Moran. Moran began his last mayor’s report, “I’ve been privileged to be in this position for less than a year but as I leave the position of pro tem and council I want to share some thoughts I have for the council.”...

Several members of the Nevada High School track-and-field team had quality showings at the 28th Annual Jock’s Nitch/PSU Gorilla Relays, held Friday on the campus of Pittsburg State University. Fifteen Nevada student-athletes made the trip, as this year’s version of the event, also known as the PSU Classic, was the largest ever with 37 schools and 1,100-plus entries...

The Nevada Tiger tennis team was derailed 8-1 by Bolivar in a non-conference tennis match Thursday in Bolivar. The Tigers were upended in five out of six singles matches, while also dropping all three of its doubles matches. Nevada’s lone victory came at No. 5 singles, as Gabe Barnes kept his perfect record intact, easily dispatching Braden Rothdiener 8-1. The victory improves Barnes to 4-0 on the season...

Sheldon Panthers’ sophomore Brett O’ Connor dazzled on the mound Friday evening, shutting down the Bronaugh Wildcats en route to a 12-0 conference road victory. The victory improves Sheldon to 5-2 overall and 4-0 in the Golden Valley Vernon County Conference, while Bronaugh falls to 0-5 overall (0-2 GVVC)...

The Bronaugh Lady Wildcats earned its second victory of the season, defeating the visiting Sheldon Lady Panthers 8-4 Friday evening. The contest was called after five innings due to darkness, as Bronaugh improves to 2-5 overall and 2-1 in Golden Valley Vernon County Conference-play. Sheldon is 0-3 overall...

A major fundraising effort brought in $23,500 for the construction of a new entrance to the Testman Track Complex on West Hickory Street, home of the Nevada High track-and field team. The fundraising effort, held in April of 2016, was under the direction of Martha Cubbage and Amy Ast, former co-directors of the Nevada R-5 Foundation, according to a press release from the foundation...