Stories from Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Alice Mae Palmer, 82, of Nevada, Mo., died Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, at the Moore-Few Care Center in Nevada. Funeral services will be announced by the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main, Fort Scott.

Six to 8 inches of heavy wet snow blanketed Nevada and Vernon County in the latest winter storm to strike the area. Snow began falling Monday afternoon -- earlier than predicted -- and continued nearly for the next 24 hours before tapering off early Tuesday evening...

Nevada Daily Mail Sharon Kay Knight is the new editor of the Nevada Daily Mail. She joined the paper's staff Feb. 25. "I am honored to become a part of the Daily Mail team and am very happy to be returning to the Show Me State," said Knight, who lived in Southeast Missouri and the Bootheel years ago and graduated from high school in Cardwell, Mo...

Big 8 Average distance from Nevada: 77.7 miles COC Large Division Average distance from Nevada: 99.63 miles COC Small Division Average distance from Nevada: 107.1 miles West Central Average distance from Nevada: 89.5 miles...

With the recent revelation that Nevada will become a member of the West Central Conference, here's a look at the Nevada R-5 School District's conference affiliation history. 1920 The Southwest Missouri Inter-High League -- renamed later the Southwest Activities Association -- is formed which included 10 schools in the upper division:...