Stories from Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Deborah Yvonne Ledbetter, 54, of Nevada, Mo., passed from this life Saturday, March 21, 2015, at Truman Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center of Lamar. She was born Feb. 9, 1961, Kansas City, Mo., the daughter of Raymond Lloyd and Wanda Yvonne (Allen) Foster, both of whom survive. On July 8, 1998, she was united in marriage to Jon Patrick Ledbetter...

Robert James Tough, 87, of Metz, Mo., passed from this life Tuesday, March 31, 2015, at Nevada Nursing and Rehab, in Nevada. He was born Sept. 20, 1927, in Metz, the son of Roy Marvin and Ruth Helen (Walker) Tough. On Aug. 23, 1952, he was united in marriage to Freda Mae (Hoover) Tough and she survives of the home. Their union was blessed with two children, a son and a daughter...

Lester Lee Remington, 66, of Chetopa, and formerly of Nevada, Mo., passed away at his home unexpectedly on Friday, March 27, 2015. He was born July 29, 1948, in Oswego, Kan., to Irl L. and Wilda M. (Riddle) Remington. Lester graduated from Nevada High School in 1966 and later attended the University of Tulsa...

Nevada Daily Mail The Vernon County Sheriff's Office added a new face to their staff when Lt. Eric Terry joined the team as the jail administrator in January, after six weeks of training for the position. Born in Jacksonville, Fla., Terry's family moved to Joplin, where his parents' family lived, when he was a senior in high school. By that time, Terry said he had already developed a desire to become involved in law enforcement...

Nevada Daily Mail At the Western Missouri 911 Dispatch board meeting Tuesday, director Tonia Davis gave the board an update on a malfunction in the area storm sirens. On March 23, the dispatch attempted to test the sirens, but four of the sirens would not activate from dispatch. The dispatch contacted the company the law enforcement agencies use for radio maintenance, which thought the issue might be with the volume...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Police Department encourages members of the community to lock their vehicles after a rash of automotive burglaries struck areas of the city in the last week. Det. Sgt. Steve Bastow said the department received 12 reports Monday and Tuesday of items stolen from their vehicles, eight of those reports came just Tuesday morning from areas on the south side of Nevada...

"Almost, Maine" by John Cariani, directed by Johanna Beck, opens Thursday night at 7 and continues Friday and Saturday night at 7 at the Nevada High School Ella Maxwell Center for the Performing Arts. The spring play stars sophomore Grace McKenzie, senior Jacob Dunivan, senior Abbie Landoll, senior Jacob Jackson, junior Michael Geeding, senior Emma Denman, junior Jimi Parker, sophomore Regina Solidum, senior Landon Delgado, junior Chloe Bietsch, freshman Alyssa Meisenheimer, junior Jordan Sheey, sophomore Kendra Belcher, junior Rylinn Crews and senior Jen Mosbrucker. ...

The Nevada Tigers tennis team opened its 2015 season with an 8-1 loss to Clinton, Monday afternoon at Nevada High School. Single matches Nevada's lone victory of the day came from the team's No. 1, Skyler Laning, who defeated Clinton's Nicholas Valentino 8-6...

The Nevada Tigers boys golf team is off to a blazing start this season. Nevada captured the Bird Dog Invitational Golf Tournament, held Monday at the Briarbrook Country Club in Carl Junction. Nevada golfers combined to shoot a team score of 331 in the 14-team tournament, with Carthage finishing in second place after scoring a 335...

Nevada Daily Mail A fifth inning grand slam broke open a close softball contest Monday afternoon, as the Cottey Comets fell 11-6 to the North Arkansas Community College Lady Pioneers. Cottey dropped the second game of the double-header 23-7. Comets head coach Shelli Stanley said her squad is still too inconsistent...

The Nevada Tigers baseball team continued its perfect start in conference play, dealing the O'Hara Celtics a 7-3 defeat in Kansas City Monday afternoon. As the West Central Conference's newest member, Nevada sits atop the conference standings after storming out to a 3-0 start (3-1, overall)...

The Nevada Tigers finished runner-up to Lamar in both the men's and women's divisions at Saturday's 17th Annual Nevada Track and Field Invitational. In the women's division, second-place Nevada accumulated 142 points, while champion Lamar finished with 186. Finishing in third-place was Bronaugh with 55 points; New Covenant Academy in fourth-place with 30 points; El Dorado Springs in fifth-place with 29 points; and Purdy in sixth-place with two points...