Stories from Friday, January 11, 2013

Fueled by media alarms, the flu season of 2012 - '13 has been so intense that the Vernon County Health Department ran out of vaccine just after Jan. 1 and is sending everyone to their doctors or to Wilkinson's Pharmacy at 105 S. Oak St., where the pharmacists are giving injections...

The Nevada R-5 Board of Education voted unanimously to name the new performing arts center at the high school the Ella Maxwell Center for the Performing Arts, after a benefactor of the district. In 2003 the R-5 district was the recipient of $730,000 from her estate...

Representatives of two of the more important agricultural companies in Southwest Missouri, Producers Grain and MFA Inc., held an informational meeting Thursday night to say Producers is facing bankruptcy and MFA stands ready to take over, assume all the debt and run Producers' operations in Walker, Bronaugh, Nevada and El Dorado Springs, where a similar meeting was held Tuesday...

Nevada High's wrestling team gave up seven weight classes but still left Coach Devin White smiling afterward, despite dropping the school's dual match with Carthage 58-21 Thursday night. Tallying up the actual contested weights, counting the earlier junior varsity matches, NHS had a 39-30 edge...