Stories from Tuesday, January 3, 2006

By Afton Bugg Nevada Daily Mail Budget time is here for the County Commission. Every year the Commissioners meet with the Vernon County offices to discuss the budgets for next year. The first meeting was held on Wednesday, Dec. 28, at 3 p.m. At this meeting, Commissioners met with Judge James Bickel and David Heumader to discuss the 28th Circuit Court district's budget...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail Three El Dorado Springs teenagers were hurt in an accident Thursday at approximately 4:30 p.m. A 1995 Ford driven by Frank Brumfield, 16, El Dorado Springs, was headed south on County Road 2600 when it went off the west side of the road. The driver overcorrected and the car went across the road and off the other side, overturned and struck a tree...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada City Council plans further discussion of the 2006 budget during its regular meeting, slated for 7 o'clock tonight, in the city council chambers, located inside the public safety building at Ash and Austin. The council failed to pass the city's budget in a special meeting held on Dec. 22, after several questions were raised by citizens who attended the session...

Nevada Daily Mail IMPACT Nevada Tourism board plans to conduct a meeting tonight at 5:30, in city council chambers. located in the public safety building at the corner of Ash and Austin. Items on the agenda include discussion of the 2006 budget, the grant application process, discussion of a service agreement between the city and the board, and a travel budget for trips relating to tourism, including National Heritage Area meetings, Civil War Driving Trails meetings, and more...

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail Over the past 10 years or so the Nevada American Legion post has gotten the image of a strictly social organization with their bar as the primary reason for their existence. "We are not just a bar," Ronald Browne, information service officer for American Legion Leon Ogier Post No. 2, said...

John Randall Johnson, 61, Nevada, Mo., died Thursday, Dec. 29, 2005, at Christian Health Care in Nevada. He was born July 9, 1944, in Pittsburg, Kan., to John and Wynona E. Black Johnson. John was born in Pittsburg, and reared by his grandparents, Harold and Sarah Black. He has lived in Nevada the past year...

Eugene W. Williams, 90, Nevada, Mo., died Jan. 2, 2006, at Moore-Few Care Center, Nevada. Family information and funeral arrangements will be announced later by Ferry Funeral Home, Nevada. View obituary and send condolences online at www.ferryfuneralhome.com...

Thelma Grace Story Boyd, 95, Nevada, Mo., died Jan. 1, 2006, at Joe Clark Residential Care Home, Nevada, following a short illness. She was born Jan. 21, 1910, in Nevada, to John Gilbert Willson and Ada Mae Langford Willson. She married Condon Lee Story on Feb. 4, 1928, in Nevada, and he preceded her in death on March 4, 1976. She later married Curtis Boyd on March 30, 1981. They lived in Fort Scott, Kan., until his death in 2000...

Kevin and Jennifer Hallam, Kansas City, Mo., and Joshua and Dawson are proud to announce the birth of their daughter and sister, Micah Danielle Hallam. Micah was born Dec. 22, 2005, at North Kansas City Hospital. She weighed 8 pounds, 2 ounces, and measured 19.25 inches...

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: Whether it's helping a family displaced by a home fire or dispatching aid to those devastated by hurricanes in the Gulf Coast -- the American Red Cross is there. That's why the American public cannot be sidetracked by the negative publicity generated with the resignation earlier this month of the organization's president, Marsha Evans -- the second change at the top in three years...

Superintendent Dorman was asked to resign by board The Lamar School Board has asked Prof. Dorman, the superintendent of the Lamar Schools to resign. Sensational charges alleged that the superintendent talked improperly to some of the teachers and pupils. ...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail NEVADA, Mo. -- Slow start, big second half, and so the trend continues for the Nevada Tigers as they used an 18-3 run to pull away from the Butler Bears Monday, winning 53-35 in both teams' first game back from Winter Break...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- With a teary farewell Dick Vermeil's coaching career came to a close. Moments after Kansas City had defeated the playoff bound Cincinnati Bengals 37-3, finishing the season 10-6 and one game out of the final playoff spot, Vermeil addressed the media for the final time as a head coach of an NFL team...