Stories from Wednesday, October 31, 2012

October 8 Kayla Ann Horton, Nevada, no valid operator's license, no proof of insurance. October 9 Jeffrey S. Morrow, Nevada, speeding 30/15. Shawn W. Pulliam, Nevada, speeding 30/15, expired license plate, no proof of insurance. October 10 Dustin E. Gladbach, Bevier, Mo., expired license plate...

October 24 There was a report of property damage in the 1400 block of North Osage Boulevard. A lock on a cattle trailer was damaged. Entrance was not gained. October 25 There was a report of a theft in the 1600 block of North Osage Boulevard. Copper tubing was reported stolen from an outside air conditioning unit...

Nevada Daily Mail Tuesday afternoon on U.S. 54, about 4 miles west of Nevada. According to a report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, at 12:40 p.m., a 2007 Dodge Caliber, driven by 83-year-old Gladys M. Halcomb, Nevada, was eastbound in the westbound lanes and struck a 2004 Chrysler Sebring, driven by 70-year-old Virginia A. Frazier, Nevada, head-on...

Nevada Daily Mail Cottey College will host its annual Multicultural Festival on Sunday, Nov. 4, from 4:30-6:30 p.m. in the Raney Dining Room. The Multicultural Festival will include a celebration of world cultures, food from around the world prepared by members of the Cottey community, and an international bazaar...

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail Nevada Parks and Recreation director Dana Redburn told parks board members during a work session last Wednesday that she expects work to begin on the clubhouse at the Frank E. Peters Municipal Golf Course during the first half of 2013...

Nevada Daily Mail Thomas Reardon, 58, of Milo, pleaded guilty in a Vernon County court Tuesday to four animal abuse charges under a plea agreement, in connection with the January 2012 incident in which the Vernon County Sheriff's Office and the Humane Society of Missouri rescued 16 horses and two mules from the Reardon farm east of Milo, Mo...

By Lynn A. Wade Nevada Daily Mail With the election just a week away, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster stopped by the White Grill in Nevada Tuesday morning to greet and rally local Democrats to support his cause and that of others running on the Democratic ticket...

Dear Editor: Once again Missourians are being asked to raise taxes on tobacco. We hear about Missouri's tax on a carton of cigarettes being $1.70. Never is it mentioned that Missouri collects another $4 per carton and has since November 1998. Missouri has used that windfall to prop up its general revenue fund and not as promised, which was to pay smokers' medical expenses and also to fund a campaign to prevent teens from smoking. ...

Dear Editor: Socialilsm has ruined every country where it has been experimented with. It is the government of secular humanism, which leads to a bottomless pit. I pray people vote for reasons of values and not reasons of handouts. Dan Quest Nevada