Stories from Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Elton Gary Light, 71, Kansas City, Mo., passed away on Monday, June 24, 2013, at North Kansas City Hospital, North Kansas City, Mo. He was born April 28, 1942, in Nevada, to Elton Ellis Light and Mildred Frances Oyler Light. He married Rebecca L. Norris on March 17, 1979, in Kansas City, Mo., and she survives of the home...

Dorothy "Jeannie" Brooks, 70, of Hume, Mo., passed away Monday, June 24, 2013, at St. Luke's East Hospital in Lee's Summit, Mo. She was born Jan. 5, 1943, in Fort Scott, Kan., to Arthur Lee McConnaughey and Dorothy Mae Blake McConnaughey. She was married in Miami, Okla., in 1977 to Tom Brooks and he preceded her in death in 2003...

The Sheldon Community Betterment Committee plans to spruce up Sheldon before the Old Settlers picnic. The committee decided to make displays, plant flowers in the park and on Main Street, print a newsletter, make a Facebook page, set up benches in a lot on Main Street, post banners down Main Street, and clean up yards neighboring the park in the meeting on Monday...

The Vernon County Commission met with representatives of the M.J. Survey LLC on Tuesday to discuss the county's need for a surveyor. Commissioners Bonnie McCord, Neal Gerster and Everett Wolfe spent nearly an hour with Butch Hunt and Eric Miller from the Joplin based surveying firm...

A Nevada man was arrested on felony drug charges Monday night in the Fast Trip parking lot on West Austin Boulevard, said Vernon County Sheriff Jason Mosher. Jamie Boykin, 38, of Nevada, was charged with manufacturing or distributing a controlled substance. Boykin is being held in the Vernon County Jail on a $25,000 bond...

Two local law enforcement officers have completed an intensive week of training and have become the most recent members of the Nevada/ Vernon County Crises Intervention Team. Nevada Police Sgt. Jimmie Dye was joined by Lt. Jacob Crahan of the Vernon County Sheriff's Office in a week-long training session in Kansas City, Mo. ...

"It'd be great to have $8 million, but we only have $4.1 million," Nevada City Manager JD Kehrman told the Nevada City Council during a work session Tuesday afternoon concerning construction of the city's new fire station, public safety building and municipal courts and council chambers facility...

The Nevada Regional Medical Center board of directors approved a fiscal year 2014 budget of $92,515,791 Tuesday, with the bottom line for the year expected to be approximately $38,272,812. Directors passed the proposed budget during the regular monthly meeting, held in the second floor mezzanine conference room of the hospital at 800 S. Ash St...