Stories from Friday, February 3, 2006

The Nevada Police Department released its annual report detailing numbers of various types of incidents for the past year. The department handled 45,945 calls during 2005, down slightly from 2004. About 10 percent of those calls were 911 calls and that number is also down slightly. Officers traveled 232,168 miles patrolling city streets in 2005 slightly more than they traveled in 2004...

Summer school, once viewed by students as the domain of doom, is now the hot choice. Last year, 38 percent of all Missouri public school students attended summer school, according to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education...

Wednesday the Ellis Domestic Science Club donated an audio tape copy of Ellen Gray Massey's book "The Burnt District" to the Nevada Public Library in honor of recently deceased club member Frances Klampe. Carolyn Gray Thornton explained that the club has always donated a book to the library to honor members who have died...

Hobby gardening enthusiasts, commercial growers and curiosity seekers alike gathered at the Bowman Building on Wednesday, Feb.1, to learn how to start a greenhouse from the experts. This is the first time such a workshop has been offered by the University Extension of Nevada...

James Irl Drake Sr., Kansas City, Mo., (formerly of Nevada, Mo.), passed away Friday, Dec. 30, 2005. Mr. Drake was born Feb. 26,1932, in Nevada. He worked for Cox Hide House in Butler, Mo., and at Rich Hill Rendering before he retired. He was a U.S. Army veteran...

Dear editor: My office has joined a group of federal, state and local government agencies and national consumer advocacy organizations to launch the eighth annual National Consumer Protection Week , Feb. 5-11. NCPW highlights the importance of consumer education in the fight against fraud...

Missouri's children must be protected. As Missouri's Governor, a parent and a member of a community it is my goal to sign tough legislation to increase the penalties for sexual predators, particularly those who commit crimes against children. I was very pleased to sign some of the most aggressive legislation in our nation last year to track sex offenders. ...

Most of us grew up in this land of democracy taking for granted the right to vote. It is imprinted upon us from an early age that when a decision is to be made, you vote on it. It can be major federal election, or something as basic and simple as a vote in your favorite club with an easy yea or nay voice vote. ...

Crawford Brothers minstrel show visits area Chief of Police James returned home on the early morning train from Webb City, where he visited his son who is with Crawford Brothers minstrels. Marshal James states the people at Carthage say the Crawford Brothers show is the best and cleanest show that has ever visited that town. ...

When the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame inducts its 2006 class on Feb. 12, a local legend will be honored. Chuck Shelton, the first football coach in Nevada High School history to lead the Tigers to a perfect season, will be among the 14 individuals and two teams enshrined...

Nevada Daily Mail The football districts for the 2006 and 2007 seasons was announced Thursday, by the Missouri State High School Activities Association. Nevada High School will remain in Class 3, but will be no longer playing Harrisonville, Kansas City's O'Hara and Carl Junction...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- Thornton Zenkins was an all-conference player at the University of Missouri, but his most famous night on the court came as a referee. Jenkins, now 82, officiated one of the most important college games ever, the March 19, 1966, NCAA championship game when Adolph Rupp's all-white Kentucky team was beaten by Texas Western, Don Haskins' team that featured an all-black starting lineup...