Stories from Thursday, March 17, 2005

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail Wednesday's Nevada R-5 Board of Education meeting had few items on the agenda in anticipation that the first item, the proposed tax levy increase measure, would take up considerable time. "We have a fairly short agenda," Chris Ellis, board president, said. "We thought we had much more to discuss but recent events, which some of you are aware of, changed that."...

Nevada Daily Mail The little-known but surprisingly large roles of black soldiers in the War Between The States, and of blacks and whites together in today's Confederate heritage activities, will be the subjects of the annual Heritage Dinner to be held April 9 in Osceola by the Col. John T. Coffee Camp No. 1934 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail The Missouri State Highway Patrol has located and charged the driver of the vehicle, a 1998 Dodge Ram 2500 that struck a Nevada police officer as he directed traffic on U.S. 71 just north of the Highland exit. Ryan Buck, 19, Richards, was located and charged with leaving the scene of an accident. Buck is free on $10,000 bond...

Editor's note: This is the last in a series from Cottey College Public Information Director Steve Reed, who is sharing the experience of second-year students in cultural education through a visit to Madrid, Spain, in the form of letters back home. By Steve Reed...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail It sits on the corner of Main and Arch, back to back with another church but the two edifices have little in common other than the purpose for which they are used. Constructed in Art Deco style, the Christian Science Society building has a unique architecture that sets it apart from other congregations' buildings...

David, Linda, Nathan and Noah McKinley, Lansdale, Pa., are proud to announce the birth of their daughter and sister, Grace Elizabeth McKinley. Grace was born at 11 a.m., on Feb. 3, 2005, at Grandview Hospital in Sellarsville, Pa. She weighed 7 pounds, 9 ounces, and measured 20.25 inches. Paternal grandparents are John and Diane McKinley, Nevada. Maternal grandparents are Bill George, Los Angeles, Calif., and Tina George, Independence, Mo...

Lois Mae Fritter, age 76, a resident of Richards, died Tuesday, March 15, 2005, at the Boone Hospital Center, Columbia, Mo. She had been staying with her daughter in Columbia since a recent illness. Lois was born in Deerfield, on May 11, 1928, to Hugh William Johnson and Mary Rebecca Neptune Johnson. She married Clayton Clyde Fitter on Aug. 14, 1949, in Fort Scott, Kan. He preceded her in death on Feb. 10, 2003...

Charles Edwin Holland, 64, Nevada, died suddenly, Tuesday, March 15, 2005, in Claremore, Okla. He was born on April 19, 1940, in Nevada, to Paul Edward Holland and Nora Alline Beshore Holland. He married Linda Lucille Stewart on April 22, 1975, in Miami, Okla., and she survives of the home...

How long has it been since you have skinned your knee? Or maybe got a bump on your head? Middle Age Plus people sometimes have these problems because of unsteadiness or weakness, but hopefully not too often. We have a 12-year-old living with us who has been mastering the art of riding a bicycle. At first whenever she got over-balanced and started to fall she depended on her helpers to keep her straight. That didn't always happen and she took a nosedive in the gravel road...

"The dead and injured in that Georgia courthouse shooting," said a friend, "are martyrs to political correctness." I hadn't gotten so far so soon myself. My first thought was just to wonder if that woman deputy, shot in the face and "critical," saw her "equality" as worth it...

By Lynn A. Wade Pat Brophy's column, appearing on today's opinion page, expresses the view that women and men are not equal because they're generally constructed differently with different abilities and natural tendencies and therefore, are not suited to similar roles...

***Boys 1st Team Tyler Judd, Bronaugh Steve Koshko, NEVC Andrew Leavell, Sheldon James Salters, Hume Cameron Hart, Montrose ***2nd Team Travis Munsterman, Montrose Justin Wehar, Hume Alex Gordon, Bronaugh Clayton Brooks, Hume John Schusler, Montrose...

It has become a tradition for me to take two days in March and chalk them up to wasted time. The first two days of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament you might as well not bother me, because I will not be getting much done anyway. That is because I get a condition called March Madness. I get it so bad it hurts...

Associated Press SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Mark Teahen was supposed to spend spring training learning from the major leaguers. Now, he could be on the fast track to being one on Opening Day. The Kansas City Royals had hoped to send the promising young third baseman, who has never played an inning in the majors, to Triple-A Omaha to begin the season. But with Chris Truby, the projected starter, sidelined by a chipped bone in his left wrist, Teahen's promotion could come sooner than expected...

Associated Press SURPRISE, Ariz. -- The Kansas City Royals got some encouraging signs on two fronts Wednesday in a 6-3 victory over the Chicago White Sox. Mike Sweeney, who missed the previous five games with soreness in his right oblique, returned to the lineup and went 1-for-4 with a double. and struck out...