Stories from Tuesday, July 13, 2010

By Eric Wade Nevada Daily Mail For the second night in a row, rain threatened to put a stop to the Nevada Griffons' attempts to get back into action at home as they took on the Ozark Generals for the third time this season on Monday. After seeing their last attempt to get the season back under way taken out by extended periods of heavy rainfall Sunday night, Griffons general manager Jeff Post and head coach Ryan Mansfield both came into the night hoping to defy the weather forecast and get both of the night's scheduled games in. ...

By Eric Wade Nevada Daily Mail JOPLIN, Mo. -- Timely hitting. It's often been a struggle for the Nevada Red Sox AA and AAA baseball squads this season to string together the hits when they needed them. One of baseball's biggest game-changing factors proved to be a major detriment to the Red Sox AA squad in district tournament play in a slightly different way at Joplin High School Saturday...

By Rep. Barney Fisher Missouri 125th District In a recent Herald-Tribune op-ed piece, Ms. Katheryne Staeger-Wilson, of Missouri Protection & Advocacy Services, gave her brand of social justice and was less than forthcoming about the Americans with Disabilities Act and the U. S. Supreme Court's Olmstead Decision of 1999...

Nevada Daily Mail Missouri Army National Guard Sgt. Robert Wayne Crow, 42, of Kansas City, Mo., died July 10 in Paktika, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his vehicle with an improvised explosive device. He was a combat engineer with the 203rd Engineer Battalion headquartered in Joplin, Mo...

Nevada Daily Mail The city of Nevada, the Nevada/Vernon County Chamber of Commerce and Tourism Department and Kansas City Power and Light will host a special "going-away party" for crime and drugs in Nevada, on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 8-10 p.m. at the Nevada Aquatic Center located at the intersection of Atlantic Street and Ash Street...

Beatrice "Bea" Marie Malott Clark, 78, Nevada, Mo., died Monday, July 12, 2010, at Moore-Few Care Center in Nevada of complications from an extended illness. She was born April 28, 1932 in Kansas City, Mo., to Lon Edward Malott Sr. and Emma Beatrice Emmett Malott...