Stories from Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Paula Sue "Susie" (Adams) Caldwell, 59 of Nevada, Mo., passed away on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013, at her home, surrounded by her family after her courageous battle with cancer. Born on Sept. 10, 1954, in Kansas City, Mo., she was the daughter of Kenneth Adams of Nevada, Mo., and the late Thelma Adams...

Michael Ray Jenkins, 55, Nevada, Mo., passed away on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013, at his home, following a lengthy illness. He was born on June 23, 1958, in Nevada, to Raymond John Jenkins and Shirley Ann Helums Jenkins. He married Amber Deanne Dahmer, in Nevada, on Sept. 9, 2000, and she survives of the home...

Thelma Mae Wolfe, 86, of rural Deerfield, Mo., died on the morning of Nov. 3, 2013. She was born on March 6, 1927, in Richards, Mo., to Charles E. and Jennie Victoria (Tucker) Higgins. She married Everett Wayne Wolfe on Aug. 12, 1946. Thelma was a graduate of Richards High School in 1945, where she was a proud member of the Richards girls basketball team. ...

When the Nevada City Council meets at 7 tonight in the council chambers in the Public Safety Building, 200 S. Ash Street, it will be considering an ordinance refunding certificates of participation that were sold to finance the construction of a new public safety building. ...

A 32-year-old Nevada man is facing additional charges as the result of a continuing investigation by Nevada Police detectives into a series of reported thefts from parked automobiles. Police earlier arrested Gabriel S. Goss, a prison parolee from Minnesota who reportedly moved to the Nevada area after his release from prison...