Stories from Thursday, October 31, 2013

Both Hume and Bronaugh fell in the Class 1, District 11 volleyball tournament. Hume advanced to the tournament's final round, dispatching Northeast Vernon County in two sets, then besting Rich Hill in a best-of-three series to advance to the championship match, taking on the Liberal Lady Bulldogs...

The Nevada Tiger Pit Youth Wrestling Club signups are scheduled for Nov. 4, in the lobby at Nevada High School, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. The preseason runs Nov. 11, to the Christmas break. This includes a Tiger Pit T-shirt and a tournament. The regular season starts Jan. 6, and goes through state tournaments...

The Nevada Tiger Youth Basketball program, conducted by the Tigers basketball coaches and players, is for boys grades 3-6. Sessions are Saturdays, Nov. 9, Nov. 16, and Nov. 23 from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m., at Nevada Middle School, and Dec. 7, from 9 to 10:30 a.m., at the high school...

The Nevada Middle School eighth-grade football team finished up with a 4-2 record, with the team's only losses coming to Carl Junction and Carthage. "Our team's progress was big," said coach Blake Howarth. "The boys always showed up to play and loved practicing and learning how to play the game of football...

Pittsburg State University has announced the 2013 induction class into the Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame. The seven-person Class of 2013 -- which is comprised of five men and two women -- will be formally inducted during ceremonies on campus, on Nov. 2...

Joyce M. Roché, Ph.D., is the second speaker in the 2013-'14 Distinguished Speaker Series sponsored by Cottey College's Institute for Women's Leadership and Social Responsibility. She will speak on "Women's Leadership: Overcoming the Imposter Syndrome" on Tuesday, Nov. 12, at 7 p.m. in the Missouri Recital Hall inside the Haidee and Allen Wild Center for the Arts. A reception will follow the address...

Two Nevada residents were injured during a Tuesday evening accident that happened around 6:50 p.m. about two miles west of Nevada on U.S. 54 Highway. According to Missouri State Highway Patrol Cpl. Jim Wilde, David L. Martin, 51, of Nevada, received serious injuries, and a passenger in his vehicle, Jennifer A. ...

The Nevada Parks and Recreation Department director, Dana Redburn, recently announced the first light has been placed on the Community Happiness Tree in recognition of Cottey College students and faculty for their random acts of kindness in assisting the parks and recreation staff plan and execute the Happiness Project...

Nevada Daily Mail 2014 will be a transition year for the city of Nevada's finances, City Manager JD Kehrman told the Nevada City Council during a budget work session Tuesday evening. At the end of 2014 the parks sales tax will change to allow that money to be used to pay the operating expenses of that department, instead of going for specified capital improvement projects. ...

According to Nevada Fire Chief William Thornton the Nevada Fire Department the Missouri State Fire Marshall Office and the Nevada Fire Department have determined the cause of the fire this morning at Hardee's, 200 West Austin Boulevard, was of "an accidental nature."...