Stories from Friday, July 15, 2011

Daroan Dean Sander, 50, Nevada, passed away on Wednesday, July 13, 2011, at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan., following a lengthy illness. He was born Feb. 7, 1961, in Omaha, Neb., to Darrel Dean Sander and Joan Evelyn Larimore Sander. He married Martha J. Brewer on Jan. 5, 1991, in Nevada, and she survives of the home...

Roland W. Bell, 90, of Rich Hill, died Wednesday, July 13, 2011. He was born on Aug. 22, 1920. Funeral services will be Saturday, July 16, at 10 a.m., at the Heuser Funeral Home, Rich Hill. Visitation will be Friday, July 15, from 7-8 p.m. Interment with military rites will be in Greenlawn Cemetery, Rich Hill, with Rich Hill American Legion Post No. 67...

Linda Eileen (Stewart) Sandoval, 48, died July 11, 2011, at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Mo. She was born Jan. 13, 1963, in Rich Hill, Mo., the daughter of Raymond and Lois (Foster) Stewart. Funeral services will be held Friday, July 15, at 2 p.m., at the Heuser Funeral Home with burial in the Greenlawn Cemetery, Rich Hill. The family will receive friends 1-2 p.m., Friday...

Dale and Kristi Nowak of Conroe, Texas, and older sister, Maci, are proud to announce the birth of their son and baby brother, Mason Graham Nowak. Mason was born at 10:04 p.m., Thursday, June 30, 2011, at Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Hospital, The Woodlands, Texas. He weighed 6 pounds, 10 ounces, and measured 20 inches...

June 24 Nicole Kalleck was arrested for hold. Bond is $79. Austin Denning was arrested for shock incarceration. No bond. Brian Barnett was released to the Department of Corrections. William Harger was released to the Department of Corrections. Jeremy Henderson was released on bond...

If the leaves of your roses, shrubs or soybeans look like swiss cheese, the culprit could be Japanese beetles. The population of the dime-sized insect continues to climb and will peak later in July. The green beetle with bronze wings and white tufts of hair around its shell is amid a multi-year population boom...

The worst day in Osceola history began with the clangorous approach of former U.S. Sen. Jim Lane of Kansas and 1,500 Union soldiers at 2 a.m. on Sept. 22, 1861. Two hundred men led by Missouri State Guard Capt. John Weidemeyer met them with rifle and shotgun fire at Cemetery Ridge southwest of town, but the Kansas Brigade's four cannons and numerical superiority scattered the opposition...