Stories from Thursday, January 12, 2012

NHS notebook

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail The Missouri Department of Transportation is looking at adding a new access road on East Austin Boulevard that will impact traffic flow in the area. Darin Hamelink, MoDOT's area engineer, told the Nevada Planning Commission Tuesday that they are looking at a change that will allow eastbound traffic to turn right, or south, at a new entrance point located about halfway between Burger King and the newly remodeled Pilot Travel Center...

Nevada Fire Department personnel and Vernon County Ambulance District crews work to stabilize an injured patient for transport following a three-vehicle crash on U.S. 54 Highway just west of Nevada on Wednesday afternoon. All westbound traffic was diverted while those emergency workers and others from the Vernon County Sheriff's Office, the Nevada Police Department and the Missouri State Highway Patrol worked the scene. ...

By Lynn A. Wade Nevada Daily Mail Seven places to call home, rising up from the devastation of the May 22 tornado in Joplin. Thirteen thousand people coming together to help others. One dream wedding. Yep. A dream wedding. "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," ABC's award-winning reality show came to Joplin in October to build seven homes for seven families. ...