Stories from Tuesday, June 6, 2017

The Ebola virus arrived in the United States in September 2014. News stories were filled with statistics and bits of information about the nine confirmed cases that had arrived in this country from elsewhere and the two healthcare workers who contracted it from them in this country...

Dear Editor: On May 26, in Portland Ore., a man aboard a train was insulting Muslim women and yelling racist slurs. When three passengers came to the women’s defense, the man pulled out a knife and stabbed them. Two of the men who tried to stop the attacker from harassing the women were killed and the other was seriously wounded. ...

Terry Wayne Caldwell, 66, Nevada, passed away on Saturday, June 3, at his home. Terry was born May 1, 1951, in Nevada, MO to Elton Earl and Ellen (Short) Caldwell. On July 18, 1970, he was united in marriage to Paula Sue “Susie” (Adams) and she preceded him in death on Nov. 2, 2013...

Glenda C. Perkins, 79, formerly of Nevada, died on Sunday, June 4, in Liberty, Mo. Graveside services will be held at 10 p.m. on Friday, June 9, at Antioch Cemetery, Nevada. Services are under the direction of Ferry Funeral Home, Nevada.

Betty Lee Spratt, age 94, of Nevada, died Friday, June 2, at Nevada Regional Medical Center in Nevada. She was born April 22, 1923, to Ray Edwin and Laura Jane Hamilton Bainter in Liberal, Mo. Betty, one of six children, grew up in Liberal where she graduated from high school. ...

On May 31, 2017, an indictment of former Vernon County Ambulance District employees James McKenzie and Tina Werner was made public. This is how we got here. McKenzie and Werner have been charged with eight and nine counts, respectively, of wire fraud stemming from a more than two-year period from 2013-15 in which they are alleged to have embezzled more than $260,000 from VCAD...

Nevada City Manager JD Kehrman told the city council Tuesday night that the Siegfried Reinhardt mural has been removed from the old Public Safety Building, cleaned, rolled up and stored in an office in the City Hall. He said he will recommend the city work with the company that removed the mural on options for displaying it, as well as the L.F. Richardson Foundation and the Vernon County Arts Council...

The Nevada Middle School Mythbusters class took to the water at Walton Family Aquatic Center for their 21st annual duct-tape boat race Monday morning. Instructor Julie West said she had almost 80 students this summer spread across a morning and afternoon session. They split off into 17 teams that each constructed a cardboard and duct-tape boat...

Eleven months ago he was a candidate, while on Tuesday, Jay Ashcroft, returned to Nevada as Missouri’s Secretary of State, speaking to 30 people, Tuesday afternoon at the Franklin P. Norman City/County Community Center. Ashcroft’s visit here was one of 50 stops the secretary will make on a multi-week tour of the state as he publicizes the new voter identification rules as adopted last fall by Missouri voters...