Stories from Saturday, June 20, 2015

The Joplin Crusaders are set to face the Northwest Arkansas Battle in the Central Football League title game, Saturday night at Junge Stadium in Joplin. Kick off is slated for 6:30 p.m. The Crusaders are 12-0, and have defeated their last two opponents by a combined score of 79-8...

The Nevada Griffons have a number of upcoming events coinciding with home games, including: Sunday: Griffons youth baseball camp graduation. The festivities will take place at 6:15 p.m., prior to the Griffons 7 p.m. home contest against the Sedalia Bombers...

The Senior Men's Golf Scramble tournament took place June 11 at Frank E. Peters Municipal Golf Course, with Nevada residents Ray Crawford and John Klingaman shooting a low score of 58 ---- setting a new tournament record on the par 72 course. Over 100 contestants who traveled from cities such as Kansas City and Tulsa competed in the two-man scramble tournament, featuring three age divisions. The tournament was sponsored by the Senior Men's Golf Association...

Nevada Daily Mail What most people see when looking at a tree sapling is only a sapling. However when Lyle Shaulis looks at one, he sees a bow in the rough. Recently, Shaulis found a hickory sapling he thought would make a good longbow for hunting and fishing, so he took it home and started working it into a sturdy piece of hunting equipment...

Richard R. Hargrove, 82, of Queen Creek, Ariz., passed away March 15, 2015. He was born in Dederick, Mo., on Feb. 24, 1933, to Charley and Bertha Hawkins Hargrove. Richard was a star player for the 1951 Nevada High School Basketball Big 8 Champs. He attended Wichita State University on a basketball scholarship until he was drafted by the U.S. ...

Helen Christine Roberts, 76, of Nevada, Mo., was born April 15, 1939, in Atlantic City, N.J., the daughter of William and Helen C. (Murphy) Gallagher, born into a family of 15 children. She passed from this life on June 16, 2015, at her home. Helen attended school in New Jersey and worked for a time at Wheaton's Plastics. ...

Our pledge of allegiance contains the phrase, "One Nation under GOD with liberty and justice for all." Our money contains the phrase, "IN GOD WE TRUST" and our Declaration of Independence contains the phrase, "the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's GOD entitle them."...

Hi neighbors. I'm so happy and excited I can hardly control myself! My son Bill is getting married today to his long-term girlfriend Amber. They are so happy together and so in love; only marriage can increase their perfection. When they decided to marry, Bill and Amber went to Texas for Bill to meet her father. ...

Dear Editor: Once again, America mourns another senseless and horrific case of mass murder. The massacre of nine Black people in a Charleston, S.C., church marks one more tragedy in a succession of mass killings that have ravaged America in recent years...

Nevada Daily Mail On Friday, June 26, the newly formed Christ Reformed Church of Nevada will host a "Do Hard Things" event in the Moore-Few community room, invited members of the community to participate and learn how they can do hard things for God...

Nevada Daily Mail With the Flag Day celebrated last Sunday and the upcoming Independence Day just two weeks away, the sight of American flags around the community has become a common scene, but some of those flying the flag do not understand the responsibility of flying the nation's flag...

Nevada Daily Mail Two men have been arrested in connection with a Nevada Police investigation of an auto theft report from a local car dealership located in the 100 block of East Atlantic. Investigating officers determined that two suspects searched the lot for unlocked cars and located a set of car keys, which led to the theft of a 2006 Honda...

Nevada Daily Mail "I've been lied to," Nevada Police Chief Graham Burnley said good humoredly, after long-time friend and the chair of the Rotary's Citizen of the Year award, surprised Burnley with the announcement that he was the 2015 recipient during Thursday's Rotary Club meeting...