Stories from Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Carole Marie Niles, 46, of Moundville, Mo., passed on to be with the Lord on April 19, 2015, at her home. She was born Dec. 23, 1968, in Maywood, Calif., the daughter of Ronald Eugene and Mildred Janette (Burris) Niles. Carol attended school in California, then moved as a teenager to Galena, Mo. ...

Nevada Daily Mail With the recent resignation of Beth Swopes as the secretary/treasurer for Vernon County's Local Emergency Planning Committee, the committee decided to make changes to the bylaws concerning those positions of leadership. The LEPC voted to separate the responsibilities of secretary and treasurer into two positions, naming Emergency Management Director Dennis Kimrey as the treasurer, since he already has to approve the committees expenditures and tracks their finances...

Nevada Daily Mail For the 18th year, the Vernon County Domestic Violence Task Force organized a ceremony and walk in honor of National Crime Victims' Rights Week, April 19-25, and the millions of people who become victims of crime in the United States annually...

Nevada Daily Mail For the third week of the Nevada Police Department's Citizens' Police Academy, we were given the opportunity to play the police officer in a traffic stop scenario. Officers Brian Hanson and Josh Westerhold, along with Det. Sgt. Steve Bastow, first showed us the gear a police officer is armed with on a daily basis, including weapons such as a gun, Taser, pepper spray and collapsible baton, as well as other equipment such as their radio, flashlight and handcuffs...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada City Council voted 5-0, to approve the first reading of an agreement with Quantum Racing LLC to organize and provide all the services for the third annual Tour of Nevada Cycling Race on July 11 and 13. This is a sanctioned race that brought 276 cyclists to Nevada last summer for the two days of racing...

Nevada Daily Mail Nevada Tigers senior Tanner Handly, signed a national letter-of-intent to play baseball and attend Lincoln University, Monday afternoon in the Nevada High School Media Center. Handly, a speedy center fielder, bats atop the Tigers order...