Stories from Friday, March 1, 2013

Wayne L. Race, 90, Nevada, passed away on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, at Moore-Few Care Center, in Nevada, following a brief illness. He was born Nov. 15, 1922, in Independence, Mo., to Albert Lee Race and Marvel Beatrice Emvrey Race. He was married to Elizabeth Hiatt. Later, he married Maxine Raney in 1974 in Kansas City, Mo., and she preceded him in death on Jan. 28, 2008...

Nevada Daily Mail All eyes were on the seniors Thursday afternoon at the annual district basketball tournament pep assembly, held inside Wynn Gymnasium at Nevada High School. Athletic director Kevin McKinley led the festivities that included a 3-point shooting contest between the seniors from the Tigers and Lady Tigers basketball squads, a boy-girl dance routine organized by the NHS dance team and Senior Night activities for both the dance team and head coach John McNeley's Tigers, since the game that was originally scheduled against Kansas City Northeast Law and Public Service to celebrate this year's senior class was snowed out on Feb. ...

By Eric Wade Nevada Daily Mail CARTHAGE -- Beating the same team three times in one season is something all coaches in every sport are far less than happy with being forced to try to do. That, however, was exactly what the Nevada Lady Tigers varsity basketball team came into action in the semifinal round of the Class 4, District 12 tournament at Carthage High School Thursday night trying to do...

Nevada Daily Mail Thursday night's second round of the Nevada Parks and Recreation's Corporate Challenge had the teams from the Nevadaa Regional Medical Center, Nevada R-5 School District and On My Own show their basketball skills at the Franklin P. Norman City/County Community Center...

Jennifer Eaton of Nevada has been hired as the new executive director of the Nevada/Vernon County Chamber of Commerce, according to an announcement by the chamber's board of directors Thursday. Eaton will replace current director Gina Ensor, who took the helm of the organization roughly two years ago. Wednesday will be Eaton's first day on the job and Ensor has agreed to stay on until March 15 to help make the transition smooth...

A Nevada man charged in the July 2009 shooting death of his wife will have a hearing April 5 to determine if he can be released on bond while awaiting trial. Asso-ciate Circuit Judge Neal Quitno set the bond hearing date for Bob Beisly II, 57, when Beisly and co-defendent Jeremy Maples, 33, of Nevada, appeared in circuit court Thursday in Nevada...