Stories from Wednesday, June 8, 2005

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail The state's budget woes are hitting Nevada and Vernon County in an unexpected way. Because of budget cuts the state does not have the money to provide investigation for liquor enforcement activities leaving those activities up to local law enforcement agencies...

By Marc Powers Nevada Daily Mail JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Saying the Missouri General Assembly has failed to fix serious flaws in how the state funds public education, a group of school districts announced Tuesday that it won't back off its lawsuit asking a court to declare the system unconstitutional...

Nevada Mayor Brian Leonard, Craig Hubler, city manager, newly appointed councilman Jim Stacy and Julie Stumpff, city clerk, look over the site plan for the Erwin Stonegate Addition on south Spring Street during a site visit Tuesday afternoon to Erwin's development...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail Monday InSite Support Services passed a significant milestone in its Nevada operation, the official launch of its technical support service for WildBlue Satellite to its customers. Until this time most of the calls the telecenter received have been from the National Rural Telecommunication Cooperative...

James Franklin Larson Sr., 64, Nevada, died June 4, 2005, at KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. He was born on July 12, 1940, in Albert Lee, Minn., to Phillip Northrup and Olive Irene (Oyer) Larson. He married Pearlette F. Scholes on Dec. 3, 1973...

Meaning of Bushwhacker Days Dear editor: I'm so thankful to Ms. Harwell for enlightening me on the "burning" issue of what bushwhacker truly means. I mistakenly thought Vernon County Bushwhackers were defending their homes and families against attackers (regardless of their position on slavery). Luckily for me, in the interest of peace and growing unity, Ms. Harwell has disabused me of this pro-slavery mythology...

It didn't take me long to figure out I can't afford a house and a house cleaner. Working my 60-hour-a-week job in Cape Girardeau, I quickly learned a house cleaner was the only way I could avoid total squalor at home, but it took a long time to get past the guilt. Then I found out virtually all of my older, professional girlfriends had help at home...

Next week we will be celebrating Bushwhacker Days, which will launch the Sesquicentennial Celebration for Vernon County and Nevada -- a 150th anniversary celebration. Another event for the special celebration will be the all school reunion to take place October 6-8. There will be other events announced as the year goes by...

100 years ago: Cattle and hogs killed The Clinton Democrat has the following report of the Katy wreck which occurred Tuesday morning: The heavy stock train was eastbound under full headway when the engine tender left the track, the forward trucks pulled out and the tender plunged into the earth, where it acted as a bumper for the rest of the train. ...

Nevada Daily Mail The Timber Run MotoCross Track held races again Saturday. Winning the Open Beginner Quad race was Ron Lovan. Jordan Snyder placed second. Brandon Pitts was in third. Cole Reed placed fourth and Austin Lawrence was fifth. In the Open Novice Quad division Brian Claypool took first and Michael Forst was second...

Nevada Daily Mail Ed Krall and Dick Staihr both placed first in the A-Flight of the senior tournament at Frank E. Peters Municipal Golf Course May 31. The format was blind doubles, where players had a teammate but they did not know who they were until after the tournament...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Griffons pushed their record to a perfect 5-0 with an 8-0 win over the Wichita Rattlers Tuesday, in Wichita, Kan. Chris Klick improved to 2-0 this season by going seven innings for Nevada. Klick allowed four hits and one walk while striking out six...

Front, from left, Perry Grizzle Agency Golf Tournament Championship Flight winners were Brian Smith, Brett Bailey and Scott Smith, all of Monett. Standing behind the winning team are tournament committee members Perry Grizzle and Duane Hall. The tournament was June 4-5 at Frank E. ...

By Doug Tucker AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The good news came to Alex Gordon via sign language. While still on the field during practice at Nebraska on Tuesday afternoon, he spotted his brother, who had a big smile and was holding up two fingers...

Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO -- D.J. Carrasco chose the perfect place to pitch his first career complete game. He grew up across San Francisco Bay in Hayward, and had some 30 friends and family members in the stands at SBC Park to help him celebrate an accomplishment that only a few months ago seemed impossible -- at least at the major league level...

Firemen stand in front of a home in the 1100 block of Douglas, called to the scene by a neighbor who observed what appeared to be smoke coming from the garage of the residence. But the heavy, hazy substance rising from the structure turned out to be steamlike fog rising from surfaces after a brief thunderstorm yesterday afternoon. ...