Stories from Wednesday, April 9, 2014

CARTHAGE -- The Nevada Tigers baseball team suffered its first loss of the 2014 season in the opening game of the Bill O'Dell Tournament Monday, at Carl Lewton Stadium. That loss came at the hands of the Webb City Cardinals, who held the Tigers offense in check on their way to an 8-2 victory...

WEBB CITY -- The Nevada Middle School seventh- and eighth-grade boys' and girls' track teams competed in the Red Bird Relays track meet Friday, bringing home a number of strong individual finishes. Webb City won the eighth-grade girls' meet with 121 points, while Carthage took the seventh-grade girls' top score at 117. Carl Junction's boys took the eighth-grade team title with 121 points and Nixa won the seventh-grade boys' meet with 116...

BRONAUGH -- After a strong showing in which three athletes earned individual top-eight finishes in a total of six events at the Nevada Invitational track meet, the Bronaugh High School track team returned to action at the Archie Invitational last week, bringing home four more strong individual finishes...

Janet Lee (Pullin) Douglas, 54, was claimed in sleep by our heavenly father on April 7, 2014, after an extended illness. She spent her final weeks surrounded by the love of her family and children, all of whose lives she had touched in memorable ways...

In just over a week, many Americans will dress in their finest spring attire, for Easter Sunday. This is an old tradition that has waned a bit in recent years. Not too long ago, displaying your Easter threads might land you, as Irving Berlin wrote, "in the rotogravure!"...

Nevada Daily Mail In the 2014 municipal elections Tuesday, 977, or 8.54 percent, of Vernon County's 11,441 registered voters cast a vote for school board members, mayors, aldermen, town board members, council members, city marshals and water district board members...

Nevada Daily Mail Christmas Eve, three years ago, John Moss' landlord told him the rent was going up. "I had to get out," Moss said. Moss sought assistance for the rent, but none was available. "I kept applying for jobs and finally got a job at Christian Healthcare as a CNA," he said...

Nevada Daily Mail Advocacy for crime victims' rights has been a 30 year process, but speakers at Monday's Crime Victim's Rights Week ceremony said there's still more work to be done. In honor of the national week of observance, the Vernon County Domestic Violence Task Force hosted a walk and ceremony memorializing area crime victims. The memorial service featured the names and pictures of crime victims, some as young as infants and others having died decades ago...