Stories from Friday, December 6, 2013

Andrew and Stephanie Fritts, of Nevada, Mo., and older brothers, Cayden, Hunter, and Cayson, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter and baby sister, Bristol Rose Fritts. Bristol was born at 1:03 a.m., Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. She weighed 8 pounds, 5 ounces, and measured 22 inches...

Now that Thanksgiving's gatherings are over, many of us are looking forward to other gatherings of friends and relatives in the Christmas season. As the family spreads to two, three, four and even five generations it is sometimes hard to remember which generation a certain child belongs in. Sometimes the youngest of one generation is only a few years older, or maybe even younger than the first of the next generation...

There was a time before the Civil War when cotton was king and the major export of the states south of the Mason Dixon Line. It thrived as an agricultural product in the deep south and was a major export to the cotton mills of Great Britain and here at home in New England. ...

Dear Editor: It happened last week. You may have seen it on the news. It was probably not very important to you at the time, but you will look back in a couple of years and realize what happened. Did you ever see a snake swallow a frog? He doesn't do it all at one gulp. ...

Nevada Daily Mail The Vernon County Youth Task Force has been active since 1994, when then Gov. Mel Carnahan initiated the program. Denise Nelson, the coordinator of the R-5 School health program, took the initiative to start a local effort to bring agencies and schools together to provide better support services...

Nevada Daily Mail Eleven preschoolers flooded into the office of The Nevada Daily Mail to bestow a special honor on editor Ralph Pokorny on Thursday afternoon. The class from St. Mary's gave Pokorny his very own red cape with newsprint heart and designated him a fellow Superhero of Kindness...