Stories from Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Nevada Daily Mail CARTHAGE -- The Nevada High School softball team wrapped up the regular season by going 2-1 on Saturday at the Carthage Invitational. Nevada beat Carl Junction 9-1, topped Fort Osage 11-7 and dropped an 8-7 decision to McDonald County...

Nevada Daily Mail JOPLIN -- The Nevada High School girls tennis team finished fifth at the Thomas Jefferson Invitational on Friday. Leah Creasy and Regan Kimbrough finished fourth at number-one doubles, and Jessica DeCocq and Alexa Cubbage took third at number-two doubles...

Nevada Daily Mail NEVADA--The Cottey College women's volleyball team dropped two matches on Saturday. Fort Scott beat Cottey 25-23, 25-12, 25-16. "We led the entire way in game one, but started playing timid," Cottey Coach Marla Kannady Foreman said. "In game two, we just allowed too many mental errors and they pretty much had their way with us. In game three we had spurts in which we would come back and make a move aggressively, but the point rallies were short-lived."...

By Jason Peake Daily Mail Sports Editor NEVADA -- From the early moments of Monday's volleyball match at Wynn Gymnasium, it was clear the host Tigers simply had too much firepower for visiting Seneca. Nevada cruised to a quick two-set win over the Indians, winning 25-7, 25-12...

Robert Eugene Boyer, 81, Nevada, passed away Monday, Oct. 3, 2011, at Moran Manor Skilled Nursing Center in Moran, Kan., following an illness of several weeks. He was born June 26, 1930, in Liberal, Mo., to Arthur Ray Boyer and Myrtle Mae Anderson Boyer. He was married Jan. 5, 1952, to Bertha Ackerman, and later he married Judith Waulby on Nov. 14, 1987, and she preceded him in death June 7, 1997...

By Jason Peake Daily Mail Sports Editor INDEPENDENCE --Bubba Banes is known for wreaking havoc on defense. But it was Banes' offensive contribution that turned out to be a game-changer. A senior, Banes scored the go-ahead touchdown in the fourth quarter as the Nevada High School football team won its fourth-straight contest with a 29-22 come-from-behind victory over William Chrisman on a sunny Saturday afternoon at Norman James Field...

Cottey professor emeritus of theatre, Alfred Fenske, has an exhibit of his photography on display in the P.E.O. Foundation Art Gallery through Oct. 15. Titled "Pretty Pictures," the images feature a variety of notable sites around the world from the Eiffel Tower in Paris, to the Heidelberg Castle in Germany, to the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C...

On Sunday, Oct. 2, Vernon County sheriff's deputies arrested Mark E. Bishop, 42, of rural Moundville, Mo., on charges of one class A felony count of domestic assault, first degree, in connection with an incident at Bishop's home on Oct. 1. According to a press release from the Vernon County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to the Bishop residence after the Western Missouri 911 Dispatch Center received a call from the Fort Scott, Kan., police department "that a resident of Moundville had overdosed and expired.". ...

The Nevada City Council will be having the second readings during tonight's council meeting on six ordinances adding administrative search warrants to the city codes, and detailing the circumstances where it can be used. The council will also be holding the second reading of a special ordinance setting the dates for the 2012 city council election and a primary if needed...

The Child Advocacy Council of Vernon County and the Nevada Housing Authority will host the "Love and Logic" early childhood parenting classes at the Crawford House at 1117 N. West St. in Nevada, Mo., Oct. 10, through Nov. 14. The free classes will be held each Monday from 5:30 - 8:30 p.m...

Online training will nurture Missouri green thumbs.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Jasper County, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to a scheme to defraud more than 1,200 victims by selling forged celebrity memorabilia through eBay, as well as to illegally possessing a firearm when he was arrested after a police chase...

Interested in doing two good deeds in one day? Well,Bronaugh High School's club Future Business Leaders of America is offering that opportunity. On Wednesday, Oct. 12, FBLA will be hosting an American Red Cross blood drive, 2-7 p.m. Every blood donation can save up to three lives; therefore, good deed number one is to donate blood and help to save a life. ...

Members and friends of most of the active United Methodist Churches of Vernon County gathered on the front lawn of the Nevada United Methodist Church on Saturday night, Oct. 1, to celebrate 170 years of Methodism in the area with group singing, reading histories of the different churches and visiting...

Martha Sander, left, executive director of the Moss House, a shelter for victims of domestic violence, tells a group of crime victims' family members, law enforcement officers and community members gathered on the south side of the Nevada Square on Monday that every 90 seconds in the United States, a victim is battered. ...

Lee and Andrea Boyles of Nevada, and older siblings Shane and Lexi are proud to announce the birth of their son and baby brother, Lawrence Riley Laklyn Boyles. Lawrence was born at 8:22 a.m., Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. He weighed 8 pounds, 11 ounces, and measured 20 and 1/2 inches...