Stories from Friday, April 4, 2014

MIAMI, Okla. -- The Nevada Tigers golf team finished third Monday, in the Miami Invitational on the Peoria Ridge Country Club course. Fort Gibson finished atop the team standings with a team score of 309 and Metro Christian was second at 324, six strokes fewer than Nevada's 330. Labette County (Kan.) finished fourth with a 336 and Hilldale rounded out the top five with a 344...

WALKER -- The Northeast Vernon County Knights baseball team found itself in a tough battle Monday, taking on the Blue Jays of Montrose High School, at Northeast Vernon County High School. In a game that needed an extra inning to be decided, however, the Knights came out on top by a final score of 6-5...

For the first time in the 2014 regular season, the Missouri State High School Baseball Coaches' Association has released its high school baseball rankings. In the preseason poll, the Nevada Tigers were ranked seventh and that has changed, but head coach Danny Penn's squad has still found itself inside the top 10 in Class 4. When the rankings were compiled and released Monday, the Tigers were ninth, right in front of Park Hills Central...

By Eric Wade Daily Mail Sports Editor SHELDON -- Fresh off of a 12-6 loss at Bronaugh Friday night, the Sheldon Lady Panthers softball team made its return home, hoping to get back on the winning track. Head coach Tyler Judd's squad did just that in an up-and-down contest against the Lady Hornets of Hume High School that ultimately went Sheldon's way, by a final score of 4-2...

By Eric Wade Daily Mail Sports Editor SHELDON -- Hoping to rebound from a game in which they didn't play well, but still pulled out an extra-inning victory over the Bronaugh Wildcats on the road, the Sheldon Panthers baseball team returned home Tuesday night to take on the Hornets of Hume High School...

JOPLIN -- After putting forth one of their best performances in recent memory in the season-opening tournament at Oak Grove, confidence has been very high for the Nevada Tigers golf team. That confidence got even higher Thursday, when the Tigers traveled to Twin Hills Country Club and won the Joplin Invitational tournament, which featured almost exclusively larger schools than Nevada...

Thanks to the latest round of stormy weather to move through Vernon County and the surrounding areas Thursday afternoon, several area high school sporting events were postponed to later dates. The Nevada Tigers tennis and baseball teams were both scheduled to make their home debut Thursday, but those contests were both postponed. ...

PITTSBURG, Kan. -- The Nevada Tigers baseball team improved to 2-0 on the season Wednesday, taking a 4-1 victory over the Panthers of St. Mary's Colgan High School, at JayCee Park. Senior Easton Mitchell worked out of a bases-loaded jam with only one out in the bottom of the first inning, with the help of a double play from third base, to the plate, to first. He allowed six hits, two walks and one first-inning run, with five strike outs, on the way to the complete-game victory...

By Eric Wade Daily Mail Sports Editor The Cottey College Comets softball team has spent the first month of the 2014 season struggling to get much of anything accomplished on the field. Those struggles continued Wednesday, as the Comets returned home to take on the Lady Cardinals of Mineral Area College...

William Kenneth Smith, 59, Nevada, Mo., passed away Tuesday, April 1, 2014, at St. Luke's Hospital, in Kansas City, Mo., after a brief illness. Kenny was born Dec. 13, 1955, in Nevada, to Henry Kenneth Smith and Hazed Irene Miler Smith. He was united in marriage to Violet R. Pilcher on Dec. 13, 1987, in Nevada, and she survives of the home...

Susan Diane Dighero, 57, Nevada, Mo., passed away on Thursday, April 3, 2014, at Moore-Few Care Center, in Nevada, following a lengthy battle with multiple sclerosis first diagnosed in 2004. She was born June 11, 1956, in Storm Lake, Iowa, to Noble Elroy Warner and Gladys Emma (Hallengren) Warner. She married Donald Raymond Dighero on May 11, 1973, in Nevada, and he survives of the home...

Dolores (Dodi) Ann Chew died on Monday, March 24, 2014, at Moore-Few Care Center. Dodi was born on April 1, 1921, in Carlisle, Pa., to Edith Braught Trimmer and John Trimmer. Dodi was preceded in death by her only sibling, John Trimmer Jr.; her husband, Harry Chew, in 1978; and her daughter, Carol Lynn Chew Dikeman, in 1987. ...

Two local law enforcement officers have completed an intensive week of training and have become the most recent members of the Nevada/ Vernon County Crisis Intervention Team. Nevada Police Officer Patrick Deao was joined by Deputy Evan Roux of the Vernon County Sheriff's Office in a weeklong training session in Kansas City. Both officers successfully completed the course of instruction on March 28 and graduated from the Mid-America Crisis Intervention Team training program...

Nevada Daily Mail Members of the Nevada Fireworks Committee, which puts on an Independence Day fireworks display, is seeking new individuals to help with the 2014 celebration. Committee member Vickie Erwin said that as the group prepares for this summer's celebration, it's extending an invitation for new individuals to get involved and help plan fundraising...

Nevada Daily Mail A Nevada man has been sentenced for his part in a fake grain delivery scheme resulting in the theft of $2 million from Cargill, Inc. Lyle Tourtillott, 68, was sentenced to three years and one month in federal prison on Tuesday. He is not eligible for parole, and is required to pay $1,012,000 in restitution...

A Nevada man faces a mandatory minimum of 15 years in federal prison for receiving and distributing child pornography. Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that David Lee Knowles, 55, pleaded guilty to receiving and distributing the pornographic images between May 31, 2012, and Jan. 3, 2013...

Two people were booked into the Vernon County Jail Tuesday afternoon on charges stemming from a search warrant that was served on north Oak Street in Nevada last month. Vernon County Sheriff Jason Mosher said James C. Sorden, 39, of Nevada, and Christy D Sorden, 30, of Nevada have been arrested on charges of possession of a controlled substance and keeping and maintaining a public nuisance...

When do you have the right to remain silent? "You have the right to remain silent, anything you say or do can and will be used against you in a court of law." This is the line you hear on TV any time someone is getting arrested. This sentence is referred to as the Miranda rights. ...

Most of us have seen the events such as the Pinewood Derby, the Eagle Scout ceremony, the food drives, and the church and individual service projects. Likely too, most of us have bought Girl Scout cookies, especially this time of year. Yet, what we may not see are the more subtle benefits of Scouting -- values such as hard work, teamwork, cooperation, and understanding of others...

Hi neighbors. As I write this thunderstorms are threatening. My daughter in Iowa said they had snow today. Sometimes, it's hard to know what we want isn't it. How many of us sit around for 60-plus years yammering that we can't wait to retire? But we just wait. April 1 was April Fool's Day and my birthday. As I get closer and closer to retirement age, it seems to get further away...

Dear Editor: This is in response to Jerry Wadel's March 12 letter. Jerry begins with the statement, "Religion and morality needed to govern." He assumes my appeal for freedom from religion is eliminating morality. Nothing can be further from the truth...

John Carlton, 80, of Kansas City, died April 4, 2014, at his home. Graveside services will be Sunday, April 6, at Green Lawn Cemetery in Schell City with Roger Beach, pastor, officiating. Visitation at Lewis-Hoagland Funeral Home in Schell City is from 2-4 p.m. Sunday prior to the graveside service...