Stories from Thursday, September 23, 2004

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada City Council made a difficult decision Tuesday night when they voted unanimously -- over the objections of several neighbors -- to rezone the Milster Funeral Home property at the southwest corner of Austin Boulevard and Ash Street to allow Family Video to build a new store there...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail Two Nevada youths are in custody following a spree of thefts from vehicles in Cottey College's Robertson Hall parking lot Sept. 16. Derrek Shane Bennett, 18, Nevada, and Terry Joe Deeser, 17, Nevada. are each charged with six counts of vehicle tampering and remain in custody in lieu of $50,000 bond...

Editor's note. This is the first in a six-part, weekly series examining key issues in the Missouri governor's race. Future stories will evaluate issues of transportation, civil litigation reform, public education funding, higher education affordability. and taxation...

n Couple plans to share model railroad with community through special tour Sept. 24-25. By Ben Holman Nevada Daily Mail "You've got to have something that you enjoy doing together to make a marriage last." Those are the words of Dixie Bandy, a Nevada resident who discovered that she and her husband had a common interest quite by accident...

Obituaries Lee R. Mahan Lee R. Mahan, 76, Nevada, died Sept. 20, 2004, at Freeman Hospital in Joplin. He was born on April 22, 1928, in Henderson, Iowa, to Leonard Alvin and Bertha E. Dobbs Mahan. He was a veteran of World War II. He was a self-employed contractor, and he retired in 1992. He spent most of his professional career in Stockton...

Thinking about unknown disasters isn't much fun. Neither is being a disaster victim without preparation. Gov. Bob Holden has proclaimed September as National Preparedness Month in Missouri. The special designation coincides with the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks...

100 years ago: Republican rally not well attended The Republican's rally held here today was not attended by a very large crowd of people from the county. There were several disappointing features, first the weather looked threatening early this morning and second Hon. Cyrus P. Walbridge, candidate for Governor and Hon. Pat Dyer of St. Louis were detained at Clinton on account of the M.K.&T. wreck at Lewis and did not arrive...

By Doug Tucker AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Their All-Pro running back is wearing an ankle brace and their best defensive back just got arrested. That's the latest from the winless Kansas City Chiefs, a team that's opened the year 0-2 by missing tackles, dropping passes and looking nothing like the savvy collection of skilled veterans -- fresh off a 13-3 campaign -- that many fans expected would end their season in the Super Bowl...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail It was the final home tournament of the season for the Nevada Lady Tigers golf team. They were hosting Girard and Uniontown, a couple of Kansas schools, at the Frank E. Peters Municipal Golf Course. The Lady Tigers defended their home course, shooting a nine-hole total of 204 to defeat second-place Uniontown by 18 strokes Tuesday...

The Mo-Kan Twins fastpitch softball team placed first recently in the NAFA World Series in Hutchinson, Kan., out of 36 teams. Their record was 7-1. Team members are from Nevada and Fort Scott, Kan. They are: Jason Young, Jared Brown, Danny Brown, Jason Eaton, Deric Eaton, Don Doherty, Chris Mitchell, Alvin Metcalf, Travis Eaton, Doug Sanderson, James Hoffman and Chad Cosens. The trophy in the foreground was awarded to the Twins for winning the series...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Lady Tigers finished second out of five teams at the Monett tournament Friday. Nevada scored 24 points as Lisa Pendrak and Emily Teepe were consolation co-winners in singles and the doubles team of Jessica Ferree and Meredith Hoberock finished first overall...