Stories from Monday, January 26, 2009

The Cottey College Comets earned their fifth consecutive win and 12th of the year with a very solid performance against the Fury of St. Louis Community College-Florissant Valley Saturday afternoon. The Comets expected to have a tough contest ahead of them going into the day and the first half proved to be just that. "Flo Valley will always battle you and we knew that coming in," head coach Dave Ketterman said...

The Nevada High School wrestling team traveled to Platte County for their 37th annual two-day invitational tournament. The tournament pulls in teams that produced 96 state qualifiers and 46 medalists at the state level last year. This year, 12 teams participated, with most being Class 2 schools. Other schools in attendance were Seneca, Class 1, Jefferson City Helias, Class 3 and Omaha Skutt Catholic, Neb., who boast 11 straight Class B Championships in Nebraska...

The 10th annual Nevada Classic basketball tournament was set to begin Monday night with contests between Kansas City Renaissance's boys team and Kansas City Westport, as well as Kansas City Southeast and Stockton. However, due to inclement weather, those games have been postponed until further notice...

The Hume Hornets picked up their ninth win of the year as they hosted the Rich Hill Tigers Saturday. Ryan Austin led the Hornets with 22 points, followed by Cameron Hinton with 13 as the Hornets fought their way to a 51-41 victory. Austin had a team-high seven rebounds on the night as well, while Hinton led in assists with four. For Rich Hill, Rusty Thomas finished out the contest with a team-high 12 points and the Tigers shot 50 percent from the stripe as a team...

The 47 residents in Nevada Habilitation Center's Benton Hall are once more facing the prospect of having their building closed. Chris Baker, hab center superintendent, said that he was asked to prepare a scenario of what steps the hab center would take if it had to absorb cuts of up to 20 percent...

An enclosed hallway at Heartland Behavioral Services, Nevada, has been transformed into a room with a view -- a view of the Grand Tetons, to be exact, with the Snake River winding through. A handful of volunteers from Cottey College and Cottey art professor Rand Smith painted the mural with support from Heartland's own Larry Skinner, who penciled the mural on the wall beforehand to ensure the project could be completed in one day. ...

Icy precipitation that glazed the area Monday afternoon took a number of motorists by surprise. Roadways that looked simply wet were actually glazed over with a thin layer of ice -- enough to lead to a flurry of accidents as the afternoon wore on. By 4 p.m., there had been several reports of accidents on U.S. ...

Nevada Regional Medical Center has earned Quality Respiratory Care Recog-nition under a national program aimed at helping patients and families make informed decisions about the quality of the respiratory care services available in hospitals. About 700 hospitals or approximately 15 percent of hospitals in the United States have applied for and received this award. This is the third consecutive year that NRMC has received this recognition...