Stories from Saturday, June 15, 2013

Edgar E. Higgins, 52, a resident of Richards, Mo., died late Thursday, June 13, at the Nevada Regional Medical Center in Nevada. Funeral services for Edgar E. Higgins will be announced by the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main, Fort Scott, Kan.

Arthur H. Stephenson Jr., 77, formerly of Nevada, passed away Sunday, June 9, 2013, at Riverside Community Hospital in California, with his family at his side. Arthur was born Dec. 31, 1935, in Charleston, S.C., to Arthur Humphrey Stephenson Sr. and Lona Jane Breckenridge Stephenson...

Josephine Marie Rives, 81, passed away Wednesday, June 12, 2013, at her home in Moundville, Mo., following a brief illness. She was born Dec. 17, 1931, in Offerle, Kan., to Nicholas Snider and Barbara Stegman Snider. She was united in marriage to James C. Rives June 12, 1950, in Kinsley, Kan., and he survives of the home...

Lloyd and Lorene (Adams) Spillman will be celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary June 21, 2013. Lloyd and Lorene were wed at Fort Scott, Kan., in 1943. Of this union was born one son, the late Bob Spillman and wife Rosemary, of Columbia, Mo., and one granddaughter, Christine Catlett and husband Bryan of St. Louis...

Hi neighbors. This Sunday is Father's Day! Many people will gather their extended families together for a barbecue or other get-together. The nice thing about Father's Day (speaking as a mother) the Dad's have to cook! Now this is a big production one day a year for many dads. For most mothers it is every holiday -- sometimes including Mother's Day...

Kathy Girth of Pittsburg, Kan., on behalf of herself and the late Jim Girth announce the engagement and upcoming marriage of their daughter, Amanda Girth, to Robert Lefevre, son of Randy and Elaine Lefevre of Bronaugh, Mo. Amanda is a 1998 graduate of Frontenac High School, a 2000 graduate of Fort Scott Community College, and attended Kansas State University studying agriculture business. She is currently employed by the State of Kansas with The Department of Transportation in Pittsburg...

On Oct. 16, 1991, a pick-up truck drove through the front window of a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, and a man stepped out of the vehicle and began shooting people at point blank range. The restaurant had approximately 140 people in it that day and one of its customers, a lady by the name of Suzanna Grata Hupp, was having lunch with her parents. ...

Who doesn't love watching with awe a muscled, well-groomed horse, mane and tail flying, decked out in all colors of the rainbow, majestically soaring over the ground? Racing's Triple Crown just concluded for 2013 this past Saturday with the Belmont, the last leg that began with the Kentucky Derby and continued with the Preakness...

A general ordinance requiring dogs to be on a leash held by the owner while in the city parks will be on the Nevada City Council's agenda Tuesday night. The council will meet at 7 p.m. in the council chambers in the Public Safety Building, 120 S. Ash St...

By Gloria Tucker Nevada Daily Mail A decrease in expected revenue has led Hume school to face a daunting deficit. "We're going to have to make some cuts," Superintendent David Quick said at the school board meeting Wednesday. The school board had approved a deficit of $39,000 and operated as far as expenditures in that amount...

Spending Mondays with Dad is the favorite childhood memory of Megan Smith. "Monday was his day off, and I could always count on spending the day with my dad and doing something fun together," Smith said in an email describing her father. "Sometimes we would go to the park, sometimes we would go fishing, and sometimes we would even go out of town to do something fun. It didn't matter what it was though, I always looked forward to it."...

Bill Wynn had every reason to believe he would not be a father to his oldest child this long. From the time she was a baby, doctors told him and his wife, Cindi, their daughter, Kelly, would die by the time she reached her teens. Kelly Wynn is 40 years old...

A Stockton man is not guilty of raping a teen-age relative in August 2011, a Vernon County Circuit Court jury decided Friday afternoon. It only took the seven-woman and five-man jury an hour and 40 minutes to find Eli Lee McKeehan, 27, not guilty of statutory rape and sodomy. An alternate juror -- a man -- was dismissed before the jury began deliberations...