Stories from Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Iva Lorene Spillman, 90, Nevada, Mo., passed from this life on Saturday, May 2, 2015, at her home in Nevada. She was born on July 1, 1924, in Bates County, Mo., to Bennie and Iva Adams. She married her high school sweetheart Lloyd Lee Spillman on June 21, 1943, in Fort Scott, Kan., and had together they one son, Robert Lee Spillman. They shared 70 years together...

Russell Reece Morerod, 61, of Schell City, Mo., was born Sunday, April 4, 1954, in Belen, N.M., the youngest child born to the union of Shurley Bewick and Etalka Mae (Reece) Morerod. He passed from this life Friday, May 1, 2015, at Freeman Health Systems, in Joplin, Mo...

Bess E. Sellens, 83, of LaCrosse, Kan., died on Saturday, May 2, 2015, at Locust Grove Village, of LaCrosse, Kan. Bess was born March 30, 1932, in Milo, Mo., the daughter of Allen and Mary (Brown) Laflen. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, May 6, at Nicholson-Ricke Funeral Home, Hoisington, Kan. ...

Mt. Vernon ---- The Nevada Tigers girls track and field team finished in first place at Friday's 10-school track and field meet in Mt. Vernon. In addition to Nevada and Mt. Vernon, other schools competing, were: Stratford, Crane, Clever, Aurora, Seneca, Monett, Reeds Spring, and Verona...

Nevada Daily Mail ADRIAN ---- The Hume Lady Hornets spring softball season came to a close Monday afternoon. Hume fell 10-0 in five innings to the Rich Hill Lady Tigers in the opening round of the Class 1 District 13 softball tournament. Rich Hill struck early, plating four runs off Hume pitcher Megan Sutcliffe in the bottom of the first inning...

Nevada Daily Mail GRANDVIEW ---- The Nevada Tigers golf team has punched its ticket to Monday's sectional tournament. Nevada earned its way there, finishing in second-place at Monday's nine-team Class 3 District 7 tournament at Grand Summit Golf and Country Club in Grandview. The top two teams earned automatic bids into the sectional tournament...

Nevada Daily Mail Nevada Regional Technical Center has been selected as a school site for the High School of Business program. The program is designed to challenge students through accelerated, project-based curriculum delivered in the context of business problems. Students completing the program will be positioned to excel in college-level business administration programs. Nevada Regional Technical Center is one of only six sites in the state to implement High School of Business...

Nevada Daily Mail About 40 inmates at the Vernon County Jail took advantage of the opportunity to write Mother's Day cards provided by an area chaplain. Gary Almquist, ordained minister, chaplain and part of the local Pentecostal church, has been involved in ministering to inmates for about six years after being inspired by assistant pastor Shelby Brandt, who started the jail ministry a decade ago...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada City Council has a short agenda to work through when it meets at 7 p.m., tonight in the council chambers in the Public Safety Building, 120 S. Ash St. Among the items under consideration will be the first readings of two ordinances to help pay for Bushwhacker Days entertainment with money from the city's tourism tax. ...

Fort Scott Tribune A Nevada man who allegedly led law enforcement authorities on a high-speed chase Friday night was apprehended Saturday. A chase that began about 7 p.m., Friday, took Fort Scott Police Department officers, Bourbon County Sheriff's Office deputies and Kansas Highway Patrol troopers through parts of Fort Scott, along part of U.S. Highway 69 and on various county roads, Bourbon County Sheriff Bill Martin said Monday...

New Jersey Herald SUPERIOR COURT, N.J. -- Arguments in the kidnapping trial of Douglas Stangeland are expected to end this week, with the jury anticipated to get the case on Wednesday. Before the jury deliberates, Stangeland will return to the stand Tuesday to finish giving his testimony...

Ethel Elizabeth Thurman, 92, Nevada, Mo., died Sunday, May 3, 2015, at her home in Nevada. Ethel was born on Dec. 18, 1922, in Breckenridge, Texas, to Lloyd Winfield and Ethel Mae (West) Vinyard. Graveside services will be held at 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 5, at Green Mound Cemetery, Harwood, Mo. Friends may call now and until the hour of service at Ferry Funeral Home, Nevada...