Stories from Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Anna Lee (Gose) Levaugh, 100, Overland Park, Kan., went to be with the Lord on Friday, Aug. 31, 2012, at Sunrise of Overland Park Senior Living. She was born on May 25, 1912, on the family farm in Milo, Mo., the youngest of seven children to Edward Poe Gose and Cora Bell McMullen Gose...

Louise Ellen (Lock) Belcher, 88, died peacefully Sept. 2, 2012, in Nevada, Mo. She was born April 16, 1924, in Elsah Township, Grafton, Ill., to Louis H. and Margaret Jesamine (Scherrer) Lock. Louise was rasied on a large farm in Jersey County, Ill., and she often spoke of the long list of chores she and her siblings performed, and of the fun they had when those chores were done. ...

Standlee Palmore Hendrix, 86, of Neodesha, Kan., died Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012, at his home in Neodesha. Graveside services will be held at 10 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 6, at the Neodesha Cemetery with the Rev. Jim Bell officiating, under the direction of the Potts Chapel in Neodesha...

Nevada Daily Mail Nevada Regional Medical Center Foundation President Sue Quitno told the hospital board that her organization's Oct. 20 gala will raise money for a 4-D ultrasound with digital cardiac imaging capability. In her annual report, Quitno said the theme for the Elks Lodge Bingo Hall event will be "Moonlight Over Morocco" with the social hour at 6 p.m. and dinner at 7...

By James R. Campbell Nevada Daily Mail You won't need to watch late night TV to see "Clash of the Titans" this fall. You can see the political version in the dustup between Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon and Republican Dave Spence, who are logging big contributions and spending as furiously as Perseus and Calibos settled their differences in the 1981 movie...

By Eric Wade Nevada Daily Mail "We do have more talent than the last two years." Cottey College Comets head volleyball coach Marla Kannady Foreman knows from an intellectual standpoint what she has in her squad this year, but that added talent was nowhere to be found on the court at Hinkhouse Center against the Ambassadors of Ozark Christian College Tuesday night...

Nevada Daily Mail BOLIVAR, Mo. -- The Nevada Lady Tigers golf team posted a strong performance Thursday at Silo Ridge Golf Club as they competed in the Bolivar Tournament. Out of the 12 teams competing for the tournament title, the Lady Tigers finished fifth, with a combined score of 454. Mount Vernon's A squad took the tournament title with an overall team score of 386...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada High School boys' swim team got back into action Tuesday at Carthage High School with great success. Andrei Ziabchenko posted two individual victories for the Tigers, winning the 100-meter backstroke in 1 minute, 7.5 seconds and the 200 individual medley in 2:29.4. ...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Lady Tigers tennis team got back into action at home Tuesday night and gave head coach Sam Short far less than favorable results against Carthage. Short's top singles competitor, Regan Kimbrough, was the only member of the Nevada roster to pick up a win on the day as she took down Carthage's Morgan Guidie, 8-3. Carthage went on to take the rest of the singles matches by the final scores of 8-3, 8-2, 8-1, 8-3 and 8-4...

Nevada Daily Mail JOPLIN, Mo. -- The Nevada Middle School seventh grade football teams opened the 2012 season Tuesday night, taking on Joplin Northeast Middle School in two hard-fought contests. In the A game, Nevada fought its way to a 36-24 victory. The B squad wasn't quite as fortunate, ultimately playing to a 0-0 tie...

Everyone knows the Nevada High School football team got a significant boost when head coach Wes Beachler took over. The stats and record from last season speak for themselves on that. But when I came back to the Daily Mail last week, I saw something from him at practice that I think speaks volumes about not only his character, but just how good he is as a coach...

Nevada Daily Mail Christian Novak put on yet another stellar performance Tuesday as she pitched the Nevada Lady Tigers softball team to its seventh victory of the season in a 4-0 shutout of the Carl Junction Lady Bulldogs. Head coach Tammy Holcomb's Lady Tigers (7-3) got all the offensive help they needed in the top of the opening frame when she belted her third home run of the season to give the Lady Tigers a 1-0 lead. ...