Stories from Friday, November 7, 2014

Naomi Medearis, 96, of Ottawa, Kan., died Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014, at Ottawa Retirement Village. Family met with friends from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 1, at the First Baptist Church, Gardner, Kan. Graveside services followed at 3 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 1, at Green Lawn Cemetery, Schell City, Mo...

William Richard Manley, 78, of Joplin, formerly from Nevada, died Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. Services will be at 10 a.m., Monday, Nov. 10, at Mason-Woodard Mortuary, Joplin. Burial will be in Osborne Cemetery.

Tom, Sara, and Melissa Werner are plead to announce the birth of their daughter and sister, Laura Jane Werner. Laura was born at 6:02 a.m., Monday, Sept. 29, 2014, at St. Lukes Baptist Hospital, San Antonio, Texas. Laura weighed 7 pounds, 2 ounces, and measured 20 inches long...

This past weekend all of my senses reminded me that fall had finally arrived. It was a series of events and things that made me have feelings of ambivalence about this yearly change of seasons. On the one hand I relished the coming of the autumnal period, while at the same time experiencing some dread and apprehension...

When I was not even middle age plus I would look at some older person and wonder why they didn't hurry up and finish something they really wanted to get done. I reasoned that they knew that their time was limited and their abilities might lessen. So why didn't they go ahead and just do it. ...

Nevada Daily Mail Cottey College will sponsor a fashion show with local merchants, CATO Fashions, and the Shoe Department in the Missouri Recital Hall of the Haidee and Allen Wild Center for the Arts from 2-4 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 9. Thirty-six outfits will be highlighted during the show, providing those in attendance with ideas for coordinating this season's winter apparel. The fashion show is open to the public and the community is invited to attend...

Nevada Daily Mail Two suspects are in custody following a pursuit by Vernon and Bates County deputies. A Bates County deputy attempted to stop a white Chevrolet S10 pickup truck for an expired license plate Oct. 25. The vehicle failed to yield to the deputy and turned onto State Route M. The vehicle continued south on State Route M into Vernon County...

Nevada Daily Mail The Graveyard of Dreams and lots of "minions" traversing the halls of Nevada High School highlighted Red Ribbon Week. Student Hannah Householder and members of YES (Youth Enrichment Services) at NHS asked their fellow students for the dream ideas...

Nevada Daily Mail Two of the four state constitutional amendments on the ballot went down to defeat Tuesday. Vernon County's vote mirrored the statewide results, with Amendment 2 and Amendment 10 passing. Two of the amendments drew heavy interest locally...

Nevada Daily Mail Vicky Hartzler easily won re-election to Congress over her two challengers, Democrat Nate Irvin and Libertarian Herschel Young. Hartzler, a Republican, won the fourth district, which is comprised of 24 counties in the central and west central portion of the state, with 68 percent of the vote, totaling 119,995 in unofficial returns, with all 368 precincts reporting...

Nevada Daily Mail The 2014 West Central All-Conference football team has been announced, and six Nevada Tigers were selected to the team. Nevada kick returner and tailback, junior Chaden Brandt, was named All-League offense at both kick returner and running back...

Nevada Daily Mail Nevada Middle School's eighth-grade girls' basketball team will be a work in progress this season, as the team may be without its two leading scorers of a year ago and also welcomes several new players. Veteran Coach Gail Wilson has fewer numbers as well, compared to past years. She greeted 12 when practice started, with two newcomers...

The Nevada seventh grade basketball girls opened their season with a defeat of visiting Butler, 40-12, at NMS, Tuesday night. The hosts built a 10-2 first-quarter lead, and stayed even with the visitors for the most part in the second period for a 16-10 halftime advantage...

Nevada Daily Mail HUME ---- The Sheldon Panthers punched a ticket into the Hume Invitational junior high basketball championship game, after flattening the Northeast Vernon County Knights 40-20, in the semifinals of the tournament Wednesday night. The Panthers (13-0) have now defeated the Knights four times this season...