Stories from Friday, January 22, 2016

John Nolan Jr., 78, Nevada, Mo., passed from this life on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016, at Breezy Meadow Nursing Home, in Butler, Mo., following a brief illness. John was born on Jan. 10, 1938, in Kansas City, Mo., to Jack and Fern (Fuqua) Nolan. On May 18, 1981, he was united in marriage to Dusti Ann Bradley in El Paso, Texas, and she survives of the home...

Florence Geraldine Warren, 89, of Nevada, Mo., died on Dec. 31, 2015, at Nevada Nursing and Rehab, in Nevada. She was born on June 5, 1926, in Chicago, Ill., to Frank George Atherton and Pauline Anna (Friedel) Atherton. A private memorial service is being planned for the spring...

I was surprised during this past Monday's Martin Luther King birthday holiday, when the Lifetime Network, aired a new mini series version, of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel, "War and Peace." This timeless story is considered by many, to be the most famous novel ever written in any language...

When I was a child there were very few Saturday afternoons that I didn't go to the old Star Theater to watch a movie. I very seldom went to the Arbo, but sometimes also went there. With the money left over from the ticket and the snack I shared in the theater I tried to have enough to go buy an ice cream cone across the street. ...

Nevada Daily Mail Since it's opening in 2015, the Christ Church of Nevada food pantry has joined the fight against hunger in Nevada. Bear Henson, owner of the food pantry located in his house, said he needs help feeding the hungry in Vernon County. "The poverty level is up there, and they don't get enough to make it through the month, especially families with children," Henson said. "We hate seeing children hungry."...

Nevada Daily Mail The former owner of Ziggies restaurants in Springfield, Nevada and Fort Scott, and elsewhere pleaded guilty in federal court to failing to pay more than $1.3 million in federal payroll taxes. Agim Zendeli, 43, of Springfield, waived his right to a grand jury and pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge David P. Rush on charges of failure to pay the IRS the payroll taxes he collected from his employees...

Nevada Daily Mail Taxis were the primary item of discussion during Thursday night's city council meeting that was postponed from Tuesday due to icy weather. Although the city announced earlier this week it would begin operating a public transportation system, action by the city council was required to make the program more than a short-term operation...