Stories from Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Sheena, Travis, Ashlynd, Nathaniel, and Destiny Taylor, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter and baby sister, Hayley Morgan Taylor. Hayley was born at 10:31 p.m., on Nov. 18, 2007, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. She weighed 6 pounds, 4 ounces. and measured 18 inches...

I saw a disturbing headline the other day: "Passengers revolt after being told to fly on jet with its wing tip missing." Look, people: If you're going to fly off the handle (Ha!) about every little plane problem that crops up, maybe you should be traveling by train -- or ox cart...

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: Nov. 15 Detroit Free Press, on state bottle deposit laws: Michigan water that leaves the state in bottles gets a fair amount of debate. Unfortunately, the bottles themselves do not. For a state that led the nation in bottle deposits a few decades back, Michigan has proved awfully lackadaisical ever since...

On Friday, Nov. 16, while on patrol in the extreme southwest corner of Vernon County, Missouri Conservation agent Justin Fogle crashed a conservation truck while pursuing vehicle driven by someone who was illegally spotlighting. According to Fogle the speed of the other vehicle caused a dust cloud making it very difficult to see. Fogle said that the road they were driving had a 90-degree turn that he could not see due to the dust...

The Hume R-8 School Board voted to set the filing dates for the seats that will be up for grabs in the April election. The seats currently held by Stacy Swickhamer, Matt Brooks and Jeff Thompson will be filled by the candidates who file Dec. 18 through Jan. 22...

No injuries were reported in a fire at a Nevada home on Saturday that caused minor damage in an apartment laundry facility. According to a report from the Nevada Fire Department, firefighters responded to a call at about 12:45 a.m., in a laundry room at an apartment building in the 1200 block of North Elm Street, Nevada...

More than four years after his death, the estate of Walter Jeremy Hayes' lawsuit for wrongful death has ended in a dismissal. On Tuesday, Oct. 20, at Nevada Courthouse, Swischer Law Firm, representing Sandra Hayes, named representative of Hayes' estate, fought to continue a lawsuit filed in February 2007. The suit names Vernon County, Walker Township, Railamer-ica, Missouri Pacific Railroad, Missouri & Northern Arkansas Railroad, and the Union Pacific Corporation as defendants...

At approximately 11:45 Monday morning, a grain elevator struck a primary utility line in the parking lot of Producers Grain. The elevator was being moved by a front end loader, when it apparently came in contact with the 7,200 volt power line. The incident left about 1,000 customers without power for about an hour. According to Gary Ashby, Aquila's projects manager, there were several damaged fuses from the event which were fixed by around 12:45 p.m...