Stories from Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Dorothy M. Hampton, 93, of Schell City, Mo., passed away Feb. 15, 2013, at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Mo. Survivors are four sons, William Mesplay of Winslow, Ark., Ronald Mesplay of Debary, Fla., James Mesplay of Chicago, Ill., and Wayde Gaines of Schell City, Mo.; two daughters, Dorothy Armstrong of Tacoma, Wash., and Charmin Fanning of Independence, Mo.; 20 grandchildren; 45 great-grandchildren; and 21 great-great-grandchildren. ...

Kathryn Elizabeth Haupt, 88, Nevada, died Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013, at Moore-Few Care Center in Nevada. She was born on Feb. 23, 1924, in Macon, Mo., to Ernest Henry Haupt and Jennie Florence Skinner Haupt. No services are planned. Arrangements are under the direction of Ferry Funeral Home, Nevada...

By Eric Wade Nevada Daily Mail COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Though things didn't quite go as planned on the second day of the Missouri High School Activities Association State Wrestling Championships, the Nevada Tigers wrestling team entered the final day still with all four wrestlers alive in the tournament, guaranteed to come away with a medal...

Nevada Daily Mail ST. PETERS, Mo. -- Nevada junior Grace Reichard took fifth place in the Missouri State High School Activities Association Girls Swimming and Diving Championships Saturday. Reichard had qualified in seven different events for state this year. According to MSHSAA regulations, she could only choose to swim in two...

Nevada Daily Mail Bronaugh's boys took control from the tip-off and raced to a 78-43 victory over Hume Friday night. The Wildcats started hot, firing for 20 points in the first eight minutes and keeping that scoring pace up through the next two periods in putting the game out of reach...

Nevada Daily Mail Hume and Bronaugh stayed tight throughout most of the first three quarters as the Hornets could never quite pull away. But they finally did in the fourth period, holding Bronaugh's Lady Wildcats to just one point and earning a 46-29 victory Friday night...

Nevada Daily Mail EL DORADO SPRINGS, -- The Nevada Tigers varsity boys' basketball team raced to an early 19-0 lead and never looked back on the way to a 70-23 win at El Dorado Springs Friday night, spoiling the Bulldogs' Courtwarming night. Nevada led, 24-4, after the first 8 minutes and 45-10 at halftime on the way to improving to 16-7 for the season. El Dorado Springs is 4-19...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada High School junior varsity girls' basketball squad got back into action Monday night against the Lady Chiefs of Springfield's Kickapoo High School. Things looked good for Nevada as the contest began, as head coach Jenny Allard's squad held a tough Kickapoo team to just 10 first-quarter points. Kickapoo still had the edge, however, taking a 10-6 lead into the second period...

Nevada Daily Mail The Panthers of Sheldon won for the 18th time this season against just six defeats, rolling by Montrose, 50-31, Friday night. The Panthers led by just four at 13-9 at the first-quarter break, but steadily added to that advantage, taking a 28-17 lead at halftime and expanding that to 39-22 with one period remaining...

Nevada Daily Mail The Cottey Comets outlasted Wentworth Military, 58-50, Saturday afternoon in the gym at Hinkhouse Center on the Cottey campus. After 11 ties, the Comets used late free throws to pull away from a 49-49 tie for their 16th victory in 18 games this season. Wentworth is 5-21 after losses to North Arkansas in Kansas City Friday night and at Cottey Saturday...

By Eric Wade Nevada Daily Mail Senior Night is always a time for mixed emotions in any sport. Such was definitely the case Monday night as the Nevada Lady Tigers hosted the Lady Chiefs of Springfield's Kickapoo High School in the final home game of the season...

Nevada Daily Mail An El Dorado Springs, Mo., woman was injured in a single vehicle accident that occurred in the eastern part of Vernon County on Friday evening. According to Missouri State Highway Patrol Trooper Quenton Bland, Ruby L. Lane, 33, of El Dorado Springs, received moderate injuries when the southbound 2001 Dodge Durango she was driving on Route EE five miles west of El Dorado Springs ran off the right side of the road about 5:48 p.m., struck the ground and overturned...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Parks Board will be discussing the new clubhouse at the Frank E. Peters Municipal Golf Course during their monthly meeting at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday at the Franklin P. Norman City/County Community Center

The Nevada City Council will be looking at several bids and two new items of business when they meet at 7 tonight in the council chambers in the Public Safety Building, 120 S. Ash Street. Bids for a variety of items for the public works department head the agenda, with the council considering bids for concrete, fuel, rock slurry chat and pipe for the Jefferson Street project...

When 9-year-old C.J. Mitchell of Nevada, heard Steve Dean tell the congregation of the Nevada First Baptist Church about his Rose of Sharon: Home of Hope project, he thought, "the girls need a home" and I thought "we could sell some stuff and get some money for the girls."...