Stories from Wednesday, December 29, 2004

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail The stockings that hung by the fire with care are now empty and bare. Jolly old St. Nick has come and gone, piles of wrapping paper now fill the trash bin awaiting its final trip -- to the dump. The garlands and Christmas tree lights are wound up -- some with care, some not so much. The proud evergreen that began the season with such promise is now dry and used up. So what do you do with a dry tree that sheds worse than a collie with the mange?...

Nevada Daily Mail Frigid temperatures, biting winds, ice and snow are causing quite a mess for much of the Midwest. The winter storm dumped more than a foot of snow in some areas, and nearly two feet in others, just at the time when people were beginning their Christmas holiday travel...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail Providing more than 410 quilts -- with the help of a host of other quilters, of course -- to service members in Iraq for the quilted hugs program wasn't enough for Keirin Hatch. She has now taken on the task of helping to provide quilts to injured military service members returning from the war zone. Hatch is participating in the Quilts of Valor program, which aims to provide a quilt to each wounded service member...

Nellie F. Broughton, 72, Nevada, died Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2004, at Moore-Few Care Center, Nevada, following a lengthy illness. She was born June 11, 1932, in Deerfield, to Robert Chrisenbery and Mina Shaw Chrisenbery. She married Charles Eugene Broughton Jr. on April 3, 1950, in Nevada. He preceded her in death on Nov. 21, 2002...

Frankie Lucille Fine, 87, died Dec. 25, 2004. Services were held at Evergreen Memorial Chapel today, Dec. 29, at 10 a.m., with Samuel Douglas Fine officiating. Musical selections were "Amazing Grace" and "I Know Who Holds Tomorrow." Pallbearers were Odie Braswell, Randy Fellows, Eric Fine, John Hagerty, Doug Hoy and Robert Laflen. Interment was in Newton Burial Park. Arrangements were by Evergreen Memorial Chapel...

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: Dec. 19 -- The Lima (Ohio) News, on problems with the Army's accounts of troop deaths: The Army last week provided a couple more examples of why it is becoming increasingly difficult to believe what one hears -- at least what one hears first -- from the military...

Last week, I discussed that our Christmas is under siege. A minority of folks in our country wants to destroy Christmas as we have known it for all of these years. They do not want it to be called Christmas. They do not want Christmas trees in a public place to be called a Christmas tree...

100 years ago: Fort Scott woman brings alienation of affection suit FORT SCOTT, KAN. -- Another chapter was added to the story of the life of Miss Kate Vandermuellen, the young girl who was wronged by Chas. Allen, and who is the complaining witness in a criminal proceeding instituted against him when she was sued today for $7,000...

Associated Press She won early and often, and often by overwhelming margins. She won on four continents -- in Australia, Sweden and Japan and in six of the 50 United States. She won a major, the most money and a remarkable 10 times in just 20 starts worldwide...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail With more than two weeks falling between games, the Nevada Lady Tigers have set out to take better care of the basketball. After playing their last game of 2004 on Dec. 17 against Harrisonville, the Lady Tigers only practiced twice the week before Christmas, giving players and coaches some time away from the court. ...

Associated Press SHREVEPORT, La. - Stevie Hicks burst through holes he had never seen before. Bret Meyer darted and weaved and completed just enough passes to keep the defense honest. Sometime between the end of the regular season and Tuesday night's Independence Bowl, Iowa State rediscovered its running game...