Stories from Thursday, March 1, 2012

Vivian Corine Burris, 92, died Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012, at Christian Health Care, Nevada. She was born June 16, 1919, to Walter Tyree Newland and Neva Ellen (Flagg) Newland. She was married April 14, 1946, to Harold "Vernon" Burris, and he preceded her in death Aug. 12, 2001...

Darlene A. Bass, 79, of Nevada, Mo., and formerly of Parsons, Kan., passed away on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012, at Nevada Regional Medical Center in Nevada. She was born on Sept. 30, 1932, in Galena, Kan., to Earl Stanley Holford and Edna Mildred Walters Holford. She married Perl M. Bass in Huntsville, Ark., on June 4, 1951, and he preceeded her in death on Jan. 22, 1997...

Hazel Leucille "Lucy" Jay, 89, of Altoona, Kan., formerly of Hume, Mo., died Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012, at Wilson Medical Center, Neodesha, Kan. She was born Oct.11, 1922, in Hume, Mo., the daughter of Harley and Willie Ruth Handly Kleitz. Lucille went to grade school in Hume, Mo., and junior high and high school in Kansas City, Mo...

More than a dozen Vernon County residents filed for election to local and state offices on Tuesday, Feb. 28, when the filing period started at the Vernon County Courthouse in Nevada and at the Missouri Secretary of State's office in Jefferson City. Incumbent Ron Peckman was first of five candidates to file for the office of county sheriff. ...

Nevada, Mo. -- Investigators from several law enforcement agencies are still investigating the Feb. 27, 1991, disappearance of Cheryl Ann Kenney from an Austin Boulevard convenience store. The "missing person" case turned cold many years ago, but on Monday, Jan. ...

Hume's 2012 Homecoming royalty are: Back row, left to right: Junior Jeremy Lewis, aenior Wylie Miller, Retiring Queen Lena Loyd, freshman Grant Swickhamer, sophomore Cain Crawford; escorts of the retiring queen were Bobby Berry and Zach Nicholas. Front row: Chase Querry, Brileigh Rogers, McCrae Rogers, Brecklen Morrison, junior Abigail Yarick, senior Sara Wikoff, freshman Madison Cannon, and sophomore Lacie Gooch. ...

JOPLIN -- A 2011 Nevada High School graduate won membership to the Missouri Southern State University Band Drum Line last summer just in time to play at eight Kansas City Royals games and see his group named the Royal Thunder Drum Line and agree to play 20 times in Kauffman Stadium this season, including on Opening Day April 13 and during Major League Baseball All Star Week, July 17-11...

Storms that raged across the Midwest overnight brought much damage and killed at least nine people in Kansas, Missouri and Illinois, according to Associated Press reports. In Missouri, one person was killed in a trailer park in the town of Buffalo, about 35 miles north of Springfield. ...

The National Weather Service is urging people in this region to consider postponing outdoor burning projects for today. "Increasingly gusty south winds and low humidity will combine to produce an elevated danger for wildfires across the region today. Humidity values in the 20 to 30 percent range and wind gusts of 20 to 30 mph will produce the conditions for the rapid spread of outdoor natural cover fires should they escape control," the NWS said in a special weather statement issued today...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada High School softball team had five athletes named to the 2011-12 Academic All-State team. Nikki O'Bryan, Christian Novak, and Tori Dahmer were first team selections and Olivia Culbertson and MacKenzie Pritchett were second team picks...