Stories from Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Mary Ann Leer, 77, died Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015. Arrangements are by Midland Cremation Society of Joplin.

Nevada High School cross country runners Patience Lockhart, Amara Pippen, and Virginia Haverstic took home All-West Central Conference honors for their performances at Monday's WCC meet in Liberty at the William Jewell campus. Lockhart was named to the All-WCC first team, freshman Pippen made the second-team, and Haverstic honorable mention...

Nevada Daily Mail After returning from fall break the Cottey Comets fell to Ozark Christian College in three sets Friday at home ---- 23-25, 22-25, and 18-25. Cottey coach Marla Kannady-Foreman said her team's strengths Friday night included: More kills than hitting errors in all three games, resulting in a positive hitting percentage in each set; four different players with assists; and team totals that included four blocks and three aces...

Editor's note: Patricia Breckenridge, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, and a native of Nevada and three-time judge in Vernon County, delivered the following address during the opening luncheon of the joint annual meeting of The Missouri Bar and the Judicial Conference of Missouri Oct. 8, in St. Louis...

By Tammy Helms Fort Scott Tribune Wednesday, Sept. 23 was "a happy day" at Mercy Hospital Fort Scott. Within minutes, word spread among the employees that Mercy Hospital services would continue in Fort Scott. The Mercy Ministry Board in St. Louis made that announcement following a local task force recommendation to continue operation of Mercy Fort Scott to allow time for development of closer alignment with other regional providers, including Mercy Joplin, a Mercy press release stated...

Nevada Daily Mail During Alisha Jones' first year of teaching at Bronaugh R-7, she encountered a challenge. A seventh grade student had been struggling with math work. Jones noticed the student was often distracted during class time; often eyes wandered around the room and were not focused on the tasks at hand. Homework often was turned in late -- if at all...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada City Council held its first of three scheduled budget work sessions Monday evening at the Franklin P. Norman City/County Community Center. Monday's work session was devoted to the streets, water and sewer. City treasurer Kristie Modlin told the council that she is proposing the city needs to increase the water rates by 3 percent and the sewer rates by 1 percent in 2016. ...