Stories from Saturday, January 2, 2016

Nevada 8-year-old Emree Cameron tees off on hole No. 2 at the PGA National Golf Course in Palm Beach, Fla., during the U.S. Kids Holiday Classic Invitational. The tournament took place Dec. 21-22. Competing against some of the top 8-year-old girls' golfers in the world, Cameron fired a first-day 37, leaving her two strokes out of the lead, trailing the world's No. ...

The Nevada Lady Tigers freshman basketball team is setting the bar high for the second half of its season. Nevada entered Christmas break 2-3 overall. "Our team had a slow start adjusting to the faster pace of high school basketball," first-year Lady Tigers head coach Anne Smoot said. "We have played a few very tough teams with deep benches. In addition, my girls are learning what it means to be a high school student-athlete, along with the commitment necessary to be successful."...

As we run out of time in 2015, a look back shows it was both good and bad for outdoorsmen and women. For me, it started out good and ended up the same. Quail hunting was nothing like back in the 50s, but I was able to find birds where the habitat was good for holding birds. I caught fish from Truman to Table Rock...

As the Times Square ball in New York gets closer to falling on the year 2016, many people begin to plan their New Year's resolutions. Of the endless possible resolutions one could choose to help make 2016 better than 2015, the most common are related to fitness...

Five southwest Missouri residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury, in three separate but related cases, for distributing methamphetamine in Vernon and Bates County, Mo., and for illegally possessing firearms, according to Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri...

The contract between the City of Nevada and MNOD Taxi and Shuttle's for 2016 has yet to be signed, leaving citizens worried about the future of Nevada's public transportation. After a city hall hearing was held in October 2015, the city adopted the necessary ordinances to apply for a transportation-matching grant for 2016...