Stories from Tuesday, September 25, 2018

John S. Baughman, 51, of Milo, Mo., passed away suddenly on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018. John was born July 16, 1967, in Thornton, Colo., to Ed and Dorothy Baughman. He was employed at Cardinal Trucking in Fort Scott, Kan. John was a fun and loving man. He loved his family time with all. He will be dearly missed by all that knew him...

Monday afternoon, the board of directors for the Long-Term Care Unit (Moore-Few and Barone Alzheimer Care Centers) learned of a significant delay in receiving an increase in per patient payments by Missouri Medicaid as passed by the Missouri General Assembly...

A 13-0 non-conference loss to visiting Carthage High School on Monday extended the Nevada Lady Tiger softball team’s losing skid to four games. After opening the season 4-3, the Lady Tigers have now dropped six of their past eight contests. At Bushwhacker Field Monday evening, Carthage came out red-hot, plating a trio of runs in the first. Carthage then tacked on a run in the second, before pushing across three more in third to go in front 7-0...

It was a tough day on the tennis courts Monday for the Nevada Lady Tigers, falling to Springfield Catholic in a Big 8 Conference cross-division home match, 9-0. The loss moves Nevada to 4-3 overall. • At No. 1 singles, Nevada’s Erika Watanabe fell to Erin Jarvis, 2-8...

Trey Moore will go down in Nevada Tiger football lore. Banged up from a hand injury suffered in the first half, and having also absorbed a mammoth hit while playing in the defensive backfield on the previous series — ­the sophomore tailback took a handoff, gained the left edge, and scampered 18-yards to paydirt as time expired in regulation, propelling the Nevada Tiger junior varsity football team to a 34-32 walk-off victory over Big 8 Conference arch-nemesis McDonald County Mustangs on Monday night.. ...

Marshfield — With their season quickly winding down, the Nevada Lady Tiger golf team hit the links for Monday’s Big 8 Conference Tournament, placing seventh at the nine-team event held at Marshfield Golf Course. Springfield Catholic dominated, carding a team-total 295, and winning by 47 strokes. Rounding out the top three were Logan-Rogersville and McDonald County...