Stories from Saturday, March 2, 2013

Caitlin Wagner and Ethen Weaver exchanged wedding vows on Jan. 5, 2013, in Radio Springs Park, in Nevada. Tom Hanes officiated the ceremony. Jason Weaver provided music. Emily Hogan attended the bride as maid of honor. Bridal attendants were Brandi Perrin and Caylan Marsh...

Drs. Ted and Candice Moore are pleased to announce the engagement of their son, Michael Ted Moore Jr., to Anne Scarlet Lemoine of New Orleans. Michael graduated from Nevada High School in 2003 and Tulane University in 2007. He worked for five years as an investigator of mitigating circumstances on capital punishment cases. He is presently attending Loyola Law School in New Orleans...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada boys' junior varsity basketball team ended its season last week with a one-point loss to Sedalia's Smith-Cotton High School. Nevada finished the season with a record of 12-9. Leading scorers this year for the team, with their points per game average for the season were:...

Nevada Daily Mail CARTHAGE -- A 21-point performance in Friday night's district tournament loss to Carthage moved Nevada senior Silas Smith to eighth on the Nevada High School all-time scoring list. Smith needed just two points to pass former Nevada Tigers assistant coach Andy Smith's career total of 1,098 and 26 to catch 1990 NHS graduate Matt Ketterman for seventh on the all-time list. ...

By Eric Wade Nevada Daily Mail CARTHAGE -- Much like their female counterparts Thursday night, the Nevada Tigers and head coach John McNeley had its bid for a spot in the Class 4, District 12 tournament championship game cut short at the hands of Carthage Friday night...

March madness doesn't just apply to basketball. It has a meaning all its own when it comes to trout fishing. Opening day at the trout parks is also March madness at its best. On Friday, March 1, thousands of trout anglers invaded the state's four trout parks at Bennett Spring, Roaring River, Montauk and Maramec, in the annual ritual that starts the unofficial opening of the spring fishing season. More than 8,000 anglers were expected to be in attendance for the opener, weather permitting...

The City of Nevada will participate in the upcoming statewide tornado drill at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday to mark Missouri Severe Weather Awareness Week. The drill is to encourage schools, businesses and families across the state to practice taking shelter, according to a news release from Nevada Fire Chief Bill Thorton...

The City of Nevada will participate in the upcoming statewide tornado drill at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday to mark Missouri Severe Weather Awareness Week. The drill is to encourage schools, businesses and families across the state to practice taking shelter, according to a news release from Nevada Fire Chief Bill Thorton...

The Children's Center in Nevada kicked off a new fundraising effort Thursday with a goal of raising $150,000 for a new home. The center, one of only four in Southwest Missouri, opened in 2004 at 600 W. Edwards Place in Nevada and moved to its current location when Crowder College needed the space for classes...

KANSAS CITY -- Vernon County Prosecutor Lynn M. Ewing III was not among the panel of nominees from which the vacancy on the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, will be filed according to an announcement by Richard B. Teitelman, chief justice of the Missouri Supreme Court of Missouri and chairman of the Appellate Judicial Commission...

"I'm confident we'll keep our 89 spots," Tera McFarland, Nevada Head Start director, said Friday afternoon of the possible impact of the 9 percent across the board federal funding cuts, called a sequester, that went into effect Friday. McFarland said that she had talked to officials with the West Central Missouri Community Action Agency, which oversees the Head Start operations in this area, and they were pretty sure Nevada Head Start would be able to keep providing services to local families and children.. ...

Seventeen members of P.E.O. Chapter DW met on the Cottey campus Feb. 21 to enjoy lunch. After their meal in Raney Dining Room, Chapter DW held its February meeting in a classroom in Hinkhouse Center. The women were thrilled to be joined at lunch by the recipient of the Virginia Alice Cottey Stockard Scholarship, Tsion Girmay...