Stories from Friday, May 13, 2011

Blake and Courtney Baker of Nevada, Mo., are proud to announce to birth of their son, Elias Landon Baker. Elias was born at 11:28 p.m., Tuesday, April 26, 2011, at Fort Scott Mercy Hospital, Fort Scott, Kan. He weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces, and measured 21 inches...

Morgan and Leslie Sommers of Andover, Kan., are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Josie Fern Sommers. Josie was born at Wesley Hospital in Wichita, Kan., on April 22, 2011. She weighed 3 pounds, 11 ounces, and was 17 and 1/2 inches long...

April 7 Terah Lynn Leer, Sarcoxie, Mo., illegal left turn. April 19 Robert L. Barnard, Nevada, expired license plate. Mayte C. Campos-Augular, Nevada, no valid operator's license. April 20 Trevor Dean Brandt, Nevada, failure to register vehicle. Deanna Estes, Nevada, no license plates, no valid operator's license...

April 28 Teresa Kearns was arrested for hold. Bond is $500. Shannon Presley was arrested for failure to appear. No bond. Paul Johnson was arrested for keeping and maintaining a public nuisance, and possession of a controlled substance. Bond is $5,000...

A powerful storm that moved through the Nevada area on Wednesday evening left downed limbs in its wake, was the direct cause of a structure fire first reported in the Thursday edition of the Nevada Daily Mail and resulted in a number of KCP&L customers going without service...

The 3M Foundation has donated $500 to the Community Council on the Performing Arts, in recognition of commitment to the community from John Scarborough and Todd Weber. John Scarborough has donated 48 volunteer hours, and Todd Weber has donated 113 volunteer hours to the Community Council on the Performing Arts and the Fox Playhouse, 110 S. ...

City police and firefighters stabilized the 6 p.m. Thursday scene where an SUV had hit and knocked down a utility pole in the 300 block of Austin Boulevard. Van Skike, of Nevada, who had been driving the vehicle, was uninjured and no power outages were reported...

Vernon County Recovery Court Judge James R. Bickel accepts a certificate acknowledging 10 years of operation for the Vernon County Adult Recovery Court from the President of the Missouri Association of Drug Court Professionals Michael Nobel during the association's 13th annual conference held at the Tan-Tar-A Resort in Osage Beach, Mo. ...

Teenager from Germany spends a school year in Nevada.

In what has been called "one of the earliest land actions of the Civil War and the culmination of the war's first large-scale campaign" by authors David C. Hinze and Karen Farnham, Union troops and Confederate forces clashed on the field of battle near Carthage, Mo., on July 5, 1861...