Stories from Tuesday, March 11, 2014

By Eric Wade Daily Mail Sports Editor CARL JUNCTION, Mo. -- For the 12th time in his 17-year tenure at the helm of the Nevada Lady Tigers basketball program and the fourth time in the last six seasons, head coach Brent Bartlett found himself and his squad playing for a district championship Saturday, at Carl Junction High School. This year, however, was a little bit different from some of the Lady Tigers' past trips to the title game...

The Cottey College Comets softball team opened its spring schedule with a doubleheader Friday, against North Arkansas, on the diamond at Vanek Family Memorial Field. The Lady Pioneers won both games, taking the first by a final score of 12-0, in five innings, and completing the sweep with an 11-1 win in the second, in six innings...

The El Dorado Christian varsity boys' basketball team scored big at the 2013-14 Inter-School Athletic and Academic Competition Tournament. The Buffalos started the tournament with Dayton Robison scoring his 1,000th career point in the second quarter against Indy. In that contest, ECS fell by eight points...

Herman Eugene Vandenburg, 72, Nevada, Mo., passed away due to complications from surgery on Friday, March 7, 2014, at Freeman Hospital West, in Joplin, Mo. He was born April 7, 1941, in Nevada, to Herman Vandenburg and Mary Etta (Leer) Vandenburg. Herman was a 1960 graduate of Nevada High School. ...

Karrie M. Caruthers, 66, resident of Bronaugh, Mo., died Saturday, March 8, 2014, at her home following a cancer illness. She was born Dec. 22, 1947, at Kansas City, Kan., the daughter of Elmer William Bias and Lula Jean Kesterson Bias. Karrie first married Larry David Coleman on Sept. ...

Nevada Daily Mail The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announced on Monday that it could not confirm a link between hog feeds containing blood plasma and PEDv cases in Canada. These feed-testing results have been shared by the American Association of Swine Veterinarians and other U.S. swine organizations...

r Nevada Daily Mail A woman president, a bookstore owner, an Australian outback explorer and a great dad are just a few of the dreams of sixth graders in the Bronaugh school district's Dreambooks program. "It's just my desire to have these kids see a bigger world than the small towns they live in," Mary Mitchell, instructor for Nevada and Bronaugh schools, said...

Nevada Daily Mail Hume Science Olympiad A-Division team, 10th through 12th grade, will head to State at the University of Missouri on April 12 after placing third at regionals in Warrensburg on Feb. 15. The B-Division team, sixth through ninth grade, placed fifth, and missed qualifying for State...

A single-car accident Friday night sent three minor passengers to the hospital with serious injuries. According to a crash report by the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the wreck occurred at 10:45 p.m. on Minie Ball Road, approximately one mile west of Nevada. Trevor Taylor, 17, of Nevada, was driving a truck with three minor passengers when the vehicle ran off the right side of the road and overturned...

Vernon County Sheriff Jason Mosher said Monday that Curt L. Bowman, 42, of Nevada, is expected to be transferred into federal custody this week. Mosher said Bowman was arrested at his home just outside of Nevada Friday morning after the Sheriff's Office and members of the Southwest Missouri Cyber Crimes Task Force served a federal search warrant at Bowman's house...