Stories from Thursday, June 21, 2012

June 3 Gregory Barksdale was released on $2,500 bond. Samantha Stout was released to Jasper County. Trevor Miller was released for time served. Tevin Young was released for time served. June 4 Melinda Ringstrom was arrested for failure to appear. Bond is $120...

Arvilla Louise Hogan, 92, Nevada, passed away Tuesday, June 19, 2012, at Moore-Few Care Center in Nevada. She was born April 9, 1920, in Rich Hill, Mo., to Jesse Arrasmith and Iona Christopher Arrasmith. She was married May 27, 1938, in Nevada, to Emmett M. Hogan and he preceded her in death Nov. 11, 2006...

Nevada Daily Mail NEVADA -- Larry Testman recorded a hole-in-one on Tuesday on hole 16 at Frank E. Peters Municipal Golf Course in Nevada. Hole 16 is 256 yards and is a par 4. Testman's hole-in-one was witnessed by Marvin Buller, Alan Hoover, Dick Hacker, Lorel Watts and Richard Perkins...

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Cottey College has raised more than $22 million for A Defining Moment: The Campaign, which takes the school a little past the halfway point of the college's five-year, $35 million fundraising campaign that was launched in September 2009, Cottey president Dr. Judy Rogers announced Wednesday...

Theater instructor, Crowder College, Nevada Hopefully by now, you have seen one of the posters about town which feature a police lineup of the six actors involved in the community theater production of the comedy and murder mystery play, "It Could Be Any One of Us."...

A crowd numbering in the thousands lined U.S. 54 Highway, filled nearby gravel roads and fields and sat comfortably in lawn chairs and on blankets in the yard of Wilbur and Margaret Charbonneau while enjoying the biggest fireworks display Charbonneau has put on in 50 years in the business. ...

Two of my childhood homes had attics. Attics were my favorite place to play. Maybe it isn't too exact to use the word "play" because often I was snooping, dreaming, exploring or creating. Those were some of my favorite pastimes, and I guess you could say that they were my method of playing...

Nevada Daily Mail NEVADA -- The 43rd Annual Four-Ball Invitational Golf Tournament was held June 9-10 at the Nevada Country Club. The tournament was a two-day 36-hole stroke play event with two-man teams. Mike Thompson and Tyler Judd took first place in the Championship Flight with a two-day score of 129. Mark McBride and Neal Stafford took second, also with a 129. Thompson and Judd won a sudden death playoff to take first...

Nevada Daily Mail JOPLIN -- The Nevada Red Sox AAA American Legion baseball team split a doubleheader at Joplin on Wednesday night. Nevada trounced Joplin 22-3 in the first game, but the Miners beat the Red Sox 6-2 in game two. In game one, the Red Sox scored nine times in the first inning and then put up 10 more in the fourth inning. ...