Stories from Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Gary Dean Shearburn, 67, Nevada, Mo., formerly of Bronaugh, Mo., passed away Friday, July 4, 2014, at Nevada Regional Medical Center, following a brief illness. He was born Jan. 27, 1947, at Nevada City Hospital, the fourth child of Melvin E. and Lee Earl Thompson Shearburn...

William R. (Bill) Smith, 84, of Oklahoma City, Okla., went to be with the Lord on July 4, 2014, in Oklahoma City. He was born July 26, 1929, in Arcadia, Kan., to Roy Lee Shifflet and Dorothy (Campbell) Shifflet. He was united in marriage to Cornelia Christine Rutledge and she survives of the home...

Fay Frances Besaw, 77, Nevada, Mo., died Thursday, July 3, 2014, in Nevada. Fay was born March 26, 1939, in Manitowoc, Wis., to Edwin Fredrick Schweigl and Lila Rose (Dax) Schweigl. No services are scheduled at this time. View obituary and send condolences online at www.ferryfuneralhome.com...

The Nevada R-5 School District enrollment for all new students in grades kindergarden through 12 is July 29-31 and Aug. 11-12 from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Nevada High School. Please bring a birth certificate, immunization record, and two proofs of residency...

Nevada Daily Mail Two Vernon County residents were hurt Saturday during an ATV accident. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol report, 43-year-old Teresa Hallam, of Moundville, and 9-year-old Christiana Revilla-Wagner, of Nevada, were hurt on east Stockade Road about a mile north of Moundville...

Nevada Daily Mail A 23-year-old Nevada man is a suspect in an assault investigation. Nevada Police reported Monday that Cameron Lee Cartwright was arrested for his alleged involvement in a July 4 assault at a business in the 700 block of north Osage Boulevard...

Nevada Daily Mail The Hume Board of Education approved spending of $14,190 more than is projected in revenues during the next school year at its budget hearing in June. "If the 3 percent increase in the basic formula comes through, it would make up for the deficit spending," superintendent David Quick said. "There are staff members not taking insurance equivalent to $14,000, which would also make up the difference."...

Nevada Daily Mail Corey Hurshman, a 21-year-old Nevada man, received minor injuries in an early Sunday accident in Hickory County. Hurshman was a passenger in a vehicle driven by 18-year-old Stockton woman Erica Luff, which wrecked around 3:35 a.m. four miles west of Wheatland...

Nevada Daily Mail Larry Berry, a Bates County Southern Commissioner and former Hume School District Superintendent died Thursday evening after his car was struck by on oncoming truck. According to a Missouri Highway Patrol crash report, Berry was traveling north along Route A in Bates County when a second driver, Wesley Hays, crossed the centerline of the roadway. Berry's car was struck head on by Hay's truck around 10:15 p.m...

Investigators have determined that three family members found in a home nearly three miles south of Nevada were victims of a double-homicide and suicide. Vernon County Sheriff Jason Mosher confirmed Monday that 52-year-old Charles Besaw shot and killed his brother, 54-year-old Harold Besaw, of California, and mother, 77-year-old Fay Besaw, of Nevada. Deputies have determined that the shooting took place sometime between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. July 3, and that family disagreements played a role...

Harold Thomas Besaw, 54, Nevada, Mo., died Thursday, July 3, 2014, in Nevada. He was born June 2, 1960, in Manitowac, Wis., to Emmanuel John Besaw and Fay Frances (Schweigl) Besaw. No services are planned at this time. View obituary and send condolences online at www.ferryfuneralhome.com...