Stories from Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Glenda Joan Rives, 65, Nevada, passed away on Monday, March 1, 2010, at Nevada Regional Medical Center in Nevada following a bout with cancer. She was born Dec. 7, 1944, in Fort Scott, Kan., to Walter Dale Butterfield and Mildred Elaine Stark Butterfield. She married John P. Rives on July 9, 1966, in Nevada, and he preceded her in death in 1997...

Jerry L. Bobbett, 63, Nevada, passed away on Monday, March 1, 2010, at St. John's Regional Medical Center, Joplin, Mo., following a lengthy illness. He was born May 25, 1946, in Nevada, to Frederick Buford Bobbett and Betty Jean Carroll Bobbett. He married Lielani M. Cox on June 20, 1965, in Nevada, and she survives of the home...

Feb. 17 A one vehicle accident occurred at 7:15 p.m., on Chestnut before Cherry, when a car driven by Christine R. McKillen, of Marysville, Ohio, struck a utility pole. No injuries were reported. Feb. 19 A petty theft was reported in the 100 block of north Commercial, made by Ron's Detail, in Nevada. Four tires, tube bumper and scrap steel were reported stolen...

With the Class 4, District 12 tournament completed and the Wildcats of Harrisonville, heading to the State Sectional game, the 2009-'10 boys' All District team selections have been announced. The district champion Wildcats and the Clinton Cardinals earned three spots, while the runner-up Webb City Cardinals earned two. Carl Junction occupied two All-District spots while the Tigers of Nevada earned one...

GOLDEN CITY, Mo. -- The Class 1 District 7 girls' basketball tournament began Monday night and proved to be a successful night for a number of area schools. The Hume Lady Hornets, Bronaugh Lady Wildcats, Rich Hill Lady Tigers and Sheldon Lady Panthers all advanced out of first-round action...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- Metropolitan Community College-Penn Valley made two free throws with two seconds to play and edged the Cottey College Comets by a final score of 62-60 Friday night in the NJCAA D-II Region XVI semifinals. This was another close battle, just as the first two games in the series were. In December, the Lady Scouts came to Hinkhouse and took a two-point victory and in January, the Comets took Penn Valley to double overtime before finally losing...

Students preparing for college are prime candidates for the ACT test, which is used by many colleges and universities to determine a students eligibility for admission. Now students at Northeast Vernon County High School don't have to travel to take the test as they have in the past, the school has become a testing site for the ACT...

Students at the Bronaugh School gathered in the gym on Thursday, Feb. 25, to hear information and see a slide show presented by Bronaugh graduate and professional hunter Teressa Hagerman, about what it's like to be a professional hunter in Africa...

Although the Meadow Lane development was annexed into the city in 1980, the city did not seriously look at bringing sanitary sewers to that area until 2006 when then council member Russ Kemm pushed the city to install sewers in that area and any other parts of Nevada without sewers before the city provided sewer service to anyone outside the city limits. Kemm owns Champion Diamonds, located just east of its intersection with Division Street...

"He and Jeanette Lee are two of the best showmen in the business." Frank Briscoe spoke high praise of the main attraction at Tuesday night's artistic pool exhibition at the Osage Prairie YMCA. Tom Rossman, better known in the artistic pool world as Dr. Cue, certainly didn't disappoint as he dazzled fans with his comedic performances, as well as a sensational showing of artistic pool prowess...