Stories from Saturday, September 3, 2011

Andrew and Kenda Warner of Nevada, Mo., and older sibling Kadence are proud to announce the birth of their daughter and baby sister, Briley Marie Warner. Briley was born at 12:06 a.m., Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. She weighed 8 pounds, 2 ounces, and measured 20 inches...

Jimmy "Jim" Dean Carr, 65, of Blue Mound, Kan., died Friday, Sept. 2, 2011, at his home. Services will be held at 2 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 7, at the Coffel-Schneider Funeral Home Pleasanton, Kan. Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. ...

August 16 Michael I. Cook, Nevada, expired license plate. August 19 Roberta C. Bailey, Nevada, expired license plate. Jaynee D. McNeely, Nevada, speeding 32/15. Christine R. Nessle, Nevada, speeding 30/15. Jacquelin S. Spratt, Nevada, speeding 27/15...

FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- A Bourbon County District Court judge on Friday granted a continuance in the case of a male juvenile charged with second-degree murder in May. During a motion hearing Friday morning, Judge Rebecca Stephan granted a request from Gil Gregory, the defense attorney for the juvenile, for a continuance of a motion filed by Bourbon County Attorney Terri Johnson's office June 6 to prosecute the defendant as an adult...

Nevada, Mo. -- City and county officers were on the lookout Friday for a 22-year-old Nevada man who had reportedly run from the Missouri Department of Probation and Parole office and escaped in a Jeep to the Rolling Acres neighborhood of west Nevada...

Editor's note: This is the second of five weekly articles reflecting on Mercy's health care ministry in southeast Kansas In 1886, Fort Scott's Mercy Hospital opened, staffed by two Sisters and two lay women. Today, 125 years later, Mercy is the largest employer in Bourbon County. The hospital averages 2,000 admissions per year, sees more than 7,000 emergency room visits and employs more than 400 co-workers who consider health care their calling...

Bourbon County attorney requests independent investigation into allegations involving treasurer's office.

Students at Truman Elementary have been preparing a special surprise -- heartfelt messages from home for a soldier who was once a student at Truman himself. Sgt. Jeff Fanning wasn't the best student, art teacher Lisa Melton confides. Nicknamed Buck, the now 25-year-old was sometimes a handful, but all that changed as he grew older. ...

Courtney Jo Darnold and Brach Anthony Pisciotta were married Saturday, March 12, 2011. The candlelight ceremony took place at 4:30 in the afternoon at the First Baptist Church of Kansas City, Mo. Dr. William C. Cox of Nevada solemnized the vows before an altar enhanced with two 15-branch candelabra decorated with bouquets of green hydrangeas, white fuji mums, ivory roses and dendrobium orchids...

Leesa Michelle Peel, daughter of Suzanne and Bradley Peel, Fort Scott, Kan., will be married to Charles Ivan Dickey, son of Joyce and John Dickey, Bronaugh, Mo., on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011, at the Free Will Baptist Church, 1030 South Clay St., Nevada, Mo. A nursery will be provided during the wedding...

Eustrus Barnes, Prescott, Kan., will celebrate his 90th birthday on Sept. 15. A carry-in lunch will be held in his honor at Hume Christian Church at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 11. Family and friends are welcome. Birthday wishes may be sent to Barnes at Prescott Country View, 301 E. Miller, Prescott, KS 66767...

Lawrence and Kay (Baynes) Coiner, of Neosho, Mo., will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011, with a reception from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Neosho Church of the Nazarene. They were married Sept. 1, 1961, at the United Methodist Church, Golden City, Mo...

Julie Sue Jones and John Andrew Laflen exchanged wedding vows on July 30, 2011, at Memorial Auditorium, Pittsburg, Kan. Phillip Shannon solemnized the vows of the ceremony. Susan Laushman provided music. Parents of the bride are Ted and Sarah Jones, and Dean and Carla LeLaCheur, Coffeyville, Kan. Parents of the groom are Jerry and Betty Jo Laflen, of Moundville, Mo...

Herald-Tribune The Nevada High School volleyball team fell just short at Harrisonville on Thursday, as the hosts topped the Tigers 25-21, 19-25, 25-22. "It was a tough night for us," Nevada Coach Ashley Thoreson said. "We lost our libero in the first set due to a concussion and we had a few bad calls that took the momentum from us late in the third game. ...

BY JASON PEAKE Herald-Tribune NEVADA -- Wes Beachler hoped to see his Nevada Tigers take a big step forward. It didn't happen. Seneca's offense proved tough to contain and the Indians also took advantage of three Nevada turnovers in a 40-0 win over the Tigers on a warm Friday night at Logan Field...