Stories from Wednesday, May 4, 2005

Nevada Daily Mail By resolution, the Nevada City Council voted Tuesday night to approve the city's 2005-'06 development incentive schedule, delineating possible incentives that could be used to help spur new development in the area. The revised incentive schedule includes for residential developments, Neighborhood Improvement District financing for waterlines and sewer and the 2010 sewer line extension program which uses NID financing to pay for the extension of the utilities. ...

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail Last September, the city's infrastructure committee recommended that the city council purchase a new piece of equipment so the city could install new curbs and gutters rather than pay an outside contractor to do the work...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail The smallest of triplets, now an adult with adult children, finds herself facing a kidney transplant. It's been a long time coming but Carion Rumans has known for over a dozen years of the possibility she would one day need a new kidney...

By Laurie Wade Nevada Daily Mail Earlier this year, the village of Harwood obtained a state grant for various village improvements. The Kaysinger Basin Regional Planning Commission is managing the funds and overseeing the projects. Soon after the village received their $150,000 grant they also applied for a $12,000 USDA Rural Development Grant for an early warning system. The warning system has arrived recently and will be erected in the town park...

Brandon and Cara Johnson, Republic, Mo., are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Emma Riley Johnson. Emma was born at 9:38 p.m., on April 13, 2005, at St. John's hospital in Joplin. She weighed 6 pounds, 1 ounce, and measured 20.5 inches.

Timothy Dan Cooper, 23, Pleasant Hill, Mo., died Thursday, April 28, 2005. He was born Aug. 19, 1981, in Neosho, Mo., the son of Ron and Jo Brown Cooper. He grew up in Carthage until the third grade, then moved to West Plains. He graduated from West Plains High School in 2000. ...

Response to 'Pros and Cons' Dear editor: As a member of a faith-based coalition, i.e. a born again Christian who votes, I am compelled to respond to some of the points made by Richard Carpenter (Nevada Daily Mail, April 27). Terri Schiavo was a woman who was allowed to starve to death and her only crime was being disabled. ...

Recently, the Vernon County Youth Fair Board honored Wilbur Smith, a long-time fair supporter and worker, with a reception in his honor. It is much better to honor someone while they can share in the experience, rather than to memorialize them later...

100 years ago: Safe blowers were at Sheldon Sheldon seems to be a shining mark for robbers and safe blowers and about every six months thieves visit our neighboring town and always manage to get something for their trouble. No town in southwest Missouri the size of Sheldon has suffered more from such cowardly and villainous scoundrels...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Tigers had one of those games Tuesday where things go wrong and the other team takes advantage of your mistakes. Hosting Southwest Conference-leading Webb City at Lyons Stadium, Nevada put themselves in a 4-0 hole before collecting an out and were eventually beaten 9-1...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Tigers were unable to sneak someone onto the state qualifying list at the district boys golf tournament in Cassville Tuesday. Nevada shot a 390 as a team, 69 shots behind Republic, which won the team competition...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Middle School track teams hosted a meet on April 21, at Testman Field. The seventh-grade girls won two events with Kristen Kitsmiller taking first in the 100 meters and the 800-meter relay team also placing first. The relay team consisted of Melanie Messick, Taylor Beckett, Daven Smith and Kitsmiller...

Nevada Daily Mail The Calvary Eagles track team competed at the Blue Ridge Christian Invitational Saturday against 15 other schools. Scott Borders won the long jump, was second in the triple jump and took third in the 200 meters. Tyler Borders won the shot put, and was third in the discus...

Associated Press CHICAGO -- Tadahito Iguchi had the best night of his short major league career. The rookie went 4-for-4 with his first major league home run, and Carl Everett hit a go-ahead, two-run double in the eighth inning that led the Chicago White Sox over the Kansas City Royals 5-4 Tuesday night...