Stories from Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Everett Periman, 94, Nevada, Mo., died Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011, at North Care Hospice and Rehabilitation Center, Kansas City, Mo. Funeral Services will be held at 11 a.m., Friday, Dec. 9, at the First Baptist Church in Nevada. The family will receive friends at the church Friday, between 10 and 11 a.m., prior to the funeral service...

Eunice Pauline Danley, 94, Nevada, formerly of Sheldon, Mo., passed away Monday, Dec. 5, 2011, at Barone Alzheimer's Care Center, Nevada, following a lengthy illness. She was born Oct. 19, 1917, in Kansas City, Mo., to George Reynolds and Pearl Meyers Reynolds. She was married Jan. 16, 1939, to Rockford Weste and he preceded her in death June I1, 1987. She then was married Feb. 14, 1992, to Ralph Danley and he preceded her in death Feb. 9, 2007...

Oct. 28 Aquinda Martinez was arrested for I.C.E. No bond. David Arduser was arrested for shock incarceration. No bond. Joseph Rowell was released on bond. Whitni Webb was released on bond. Oct. 29 Steven Stout was warrested for DWI. Bond is $350. Megahan Miranda was arrested for theft. Bond is $203...

The Nevada City Council OK'd the city's 2012 budget Tuesday night, including a 2-percent cost of living raise for all employees, and on two split votes reappointed three members of the Nevada Regional Medical Center Board of Directors. With Mayor Brian Leonard expressing relief that the $15,992,403 budget was done well before the Dec. 31 deadline, City Manager J.D. Kehrman said the process had been smoothed by work sessions and a great deal of groundwork...

The cash-strapped, pension-plagued U.S. Postal Service is making a lot of news and none of it is good. After putting hundreds of rural post offices on notice last summer that they could be shuttered in 2012, the agency said Monday that 252 mail processing centers around the country are "slated for closure," including those at Springfield and Cape Girardeau, Mo., as well as the one at Topeka, Kan...

Osawatomie, Kan --. Osawatomie High School seniors Ashley Deleon and Kristin Gray got the chance of a lifetime Tuesday when they were chosen to cover President Barack Obama's speech on the economy at their high school gym. Their teacher, Elizabeth Stout-Rhine, said a White House aide told her on Monday she could choose two students to cover the speech, and she selected Deleon and Gray because they often volunteer to shoot photos of events and have good attitudes...

By Jason Peake Daily Mail Sports Editor CARL JUNCTION -- Converting steals into points allowed the Nevada High School girls basketball team to pull away for good in a 54-46 victory over Carl Junction on Tuesday night. Fueled by its defense, the visiting Tigers used a big third quarter push to put the Bulldogs away...

Nevada boys have an off-night at Carl Junction

Carl Junction won the JV girls basketball game against Nevada 50-26 on Tuesday. Nevada also fell in the ninth grade girls game, 65-12. The Bulldogs won the JV boys game 53-42.

Nevada Daily Mail Sheldon split a basketball doubleheader with Golden City on Tuesday, winning the girls game 46-15 and falling in the boys game 66-59. Alesha Laning scored 15 for the Sheldon girls, while Tristan Hart scored 21 for the boys. Sheldon girls 46, G. City 15...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada High School basketball teams will compete at the Harrisonville Holiday Tournament from Dec. 17-21. The NHS girls open tourney play on Saturday, Dec. 17 against Butler at 4 p.m. at Harrisonville Middle School. The Tigers will play on Tuesday, Dec. ...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada High School wrestling team began the 2011-12 season at the Steve Leslie Invitational at Pleasant Hill last weekend. Tanner Charles (126) and Zach Shepherd (145) won individual titles for the Tigers. Nevada finished eighth in the team standings...