Stories from Thursday, August 16, 2012

Doug and Shelly Scotten of Collins, Mo., and older brother Colt Douglas Scotten are proud to announce the birth of their son and baby brother, Weston Richard Scotten. Weston was born at 9:30 a.m., Monday, Aug. 13, 2012, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. He weighed 9 pounds, 8 ounces and measured 21 inches...

I was out of town last week when Dr. Mendenhall died and didn't have a chance to read the praises about his civic work here until the weekend. It was very fitting however that in my recent journeys I had been constantly searching for what was the difference between Nevada and many of the other county-seat towns I was passing through...

Editor's note: This is the first in a series of stories about the campaign contributions and expenditures of state and federal candidates in the recent primary elections. By James R. Campbell Nevada Daily Mail State Senate District 31 candidate Ed Emery of Lamar raised more than $300,000 and needed most of that to win his Aug. 7 Republican primary race against State Rep. Scott Largent of Clinton and car dealer Dave Morris of Peculiar...

The public presentation by professor and Dr. Raymond SO Wai Man of Hang Seng Management College in Hong Kong, will be conducted on Friday, Aug. 31, at 4 p.m., in Room 109 of the Rubie Burton Academic Center. A reception will follow immediately afterwards in the student lounge of RBAC...

Nevada Daily Mail With just a few short days until fall classes begin at Nevada's campus of Crowder College, incoming freshmen gathered Tuesday for Freshman Preview. More than 120 incoming first-time freshmen went through the informative sessions led by Nevada Campus Student Services Coordinator Amber Ogle. Ogle covered issues on financial aid, attendance, dress code, records, A+, parking, cell phone policy, and other topics new students need to know as their college experience begins...

Ashley Crabtree, of Nevada, always thought she wanted to be a nurse because when her little sister or brother was hurt, she would try and fix whatever problem they had. Later in life, though, it was a home health nurse -- whose name she cannot remember -- who was the deciding factor in her choice of profession...

By Rusty Murry Nevada Daily Mail There has been a lot of activity at Nevada High School in the past few weeks as teams and groups of all sorts prepare for the coming school year. One of those activities has been a choreography clinic, attended by the 38 members of this year's Treble Effects Show Choir...