Stories from Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Katrina Lee Johnson, 51, went to be with the Lord on Monday, Aug. 4, 2014, in Butler, Mo., at Willow Lane Home Care Center. Her parents were Gordon Stephen Buttorff Jr. and Wanda June Buttorff (Pettigrew). She was born in Louisville, Ky., on Sept. 28, 1962, and lived there until age 1, when she with her family moved to Indiana and finally settled in the Dallas/Fort Worth area in Texas. ...

Gale Eugene (Gene) Gardner was born May 10, 1922, the eighth of eight children to John Warren and Nancy (Hamm) Gardner. He passed away at his home in rural Sheldon, Mo., on Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014. Gene was raised on a farm near Milford, Mo., and went to school in Milford. ...

Charles Ernest Hagan, 82, Nevada, Mo., passed away Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014, at Medicalodge, in Nevada. Charles was born June 25, 1932, in Excelsior Springs, Mo., to Ernest Everett Hagan and Jessie Maxine (Lucas) Hagan. He was united in marriage to his high school sweetheart, Rosemary Lou Rowland, on Sept. 27, 1952, in Nevada, and she survives of the home...

Jackie Keith Hendrix, 74, of Nevada, Mo., died on Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014, at Northcare Hospice at North Kansas City Hospital. He was born on March 6, 1940, in Nevada, the 17th of 20 children to William Henry Hendrix and Bessie (Koehler) Hendrix. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m., Friday, Aug. ...

Nevada Daily Mail A Sheldon man received minor injuries in an accident on Route DD, two miles west of Bellamy on Wednesday evening. Timothy Igou, 42, was driving westbound in a 2004 Ford Pickup when the truck ran off the road and overturned, according to the Highway Patrol report...

Nevada Daily Mail A Nevada woman received moderate injuries in an accident on Highway 54, one mile east of the state line on Monday morning. Corinne Bender, 64, was driving westbound in a 2010 Chevrolet Cobalt when the vehicle left the road, struck a stop sign, overturned and came to a rest in trees, according to the Highway Patrol report...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada City Council will hold a public hearing and then consider the first reading of a general ordinance setting the city and library property tax rates for 2014 during its regular meeting tonight at 7 in the council chambers in the Public Safety Building, 120 S. Ash Street. The rates, as approved by the state auditor's office will be 67.88 cents per $100 assessed valuation for the city and 20 cents per $100 assessed valuation for the library tax...

Nevada Daily Mail The five issues on the ballot in today's primary involve farming, arms, sales tax, veterans' lottery and privacy. Missouri Constitutional Amendment 1 asks "shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to ensure that the right of Missouri citizens to engage in agricultural production and ranching practices shall not be infringed?"...

Football, America's most popular sport, is dealing with a crisis: concussions. From the National Football League to youth leagues the impact of head trauma has shaken the foundation of the sport. Despite new rules enacted to minimize helmet to helmet hits, the NFL diagnosed 489 concussions over the past two seasons...