Stories from Thursday, November 10, 2011

Nevada Daily Mail Nevada High School senior Marisa Hughes has been selected to the Missouri High School Volleyball Coaches Association's Class 3 All-State Team for 2011. A libero for the Tigers, Hughes was listed on the honorable mention team. Hughes and a couple of her teammates were recognized as all-region performers. Hughes was a first team pick on the Class 3 Southwest All-Region team...

Nevada Daily Mail NEVADA -- The Cottey College softball team will now have a field of its own. The college has received a donation from Dorothy Dyer Vanek for the construction of a home softball field that will be located south of the Rubie Burton Academic Center...

Nevada High School senior Olivia Culbertson is planning to continue her softball career at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla. Culbertson signed a letter of intent on Wednesday at NHS. A second team all-state selection in Class 3, Culbertson was one of the team's top hitters, ending the season with a .321 batting average, 25 RBIs, and seven doubles. ...

Wilma Brewer, 90, of Nevada, passed away at Moore-Few Care Center on Nov. 9, 2011. Wilma was born April 9, 1921, in Parker, S.D., to John and Amelia Seffinga. She was married Aug. 16, 1944, in Lamar, Mo., to Schuyler Brewer, and he preceded her in death on July 1, 1973...

Iona Violet Capps, 90, Moundville, Mo., passed away Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011, at Christian Health Care in Nevada, following a brief illness. She was born April 10, 1921, in Moundville, Mo., to Artie Francis Taylor and Bertie Elizabeth May Taylor. She was married in 1940 to Ralph Capps in Moundville, Mo., and he preceded her in death in 1999...

William "Bill" Albert Wardin, 62, Arma, Kan., formerly of Nevada, died on Nov. 8, 2011, at his home in Arma. Family information and funeral arrangements will be announced later by Ferry Funeral Home, Nevada. View obituary and send condolences on line at www.ferryfuneralhome.com...

James Earl Compton, 96, of Camdenton, Mo., departed this life on Monday, Nov. 7, 2011, at Lake Regional Health System, Osage Beach, Mo. He was born Jan. 8, 1915, in Vernon County, Mo., the son of Frank Matthew and Anna (Boswell) Compton. Earl was united in marriage on May 29, 1937, in Mt. Vernon, Mo., to Willa Mae Ray and together they had shared the past 74 years of marriage until his death...

The Nevada Middle School seventh and eighth grade Science Fair will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 16 and 17. Students will set up their projects on Tuesday, Nov. 15, from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., in the NMS lobby. Judging will take place on Nov. ...

The Nevada Fire Department is an equipment-intensive department, City Manager JD Kehrman told the city council during a budget work session Tuesday evening. Kehrman told the council that the fire department is the third largest expenditure from the general fund and that he is projecting an increase of about 3.2 percent in their budget for 2012...

Filing for the 2012 city council election runs until 5 p.m., Nov. 22 and as of Wednesday there were two candidates for the two open seats, incumbents Seth Barrett, who filed Oct. 18, and Jayne Novak, who filed at 8:03 Wednesday morning. Myron Damon, who had filed earlier for the election, withdrew from the election on Tuesday...

It's been well over six decades since United States Marine Corps recruit Hazel Dickerson began boot camp at Camp LeJeune, N.C. She downplays the part she played in the historic effort of the "Greatest Generation," but she can still remember how she felt as she carried her suitcase into the training facility. ...

If a Columbia attorney specializing in the defense of marijuana cases gets his way, Missourians will vote on legalizing the controversial herb on Nov. 6, 2012. Having gotten two initiative petitions approved for statewide circulation by Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, Dan Viets has until May 6 to submit the required number of voters' signatures and get on the ballot...

Lori Layher, of Moundville, is scheduled to be arraigned in a Vernon County Court on Nov. 21. According to information provided by unofficial online court records, Layher was arrested Monday and faces charges of one count of second-degree statutory sodomy, one count of second degree statutory rape and four counts of sexual contact with a student by a teacher, student teacher, employee, contract employee, or school volunteer...