Stories from Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Linda Dianne Matlock, 64, of Nevada, passed away Monday, Feb. 5, at Nevada Regional Hospital. Linda was born July 31, 1953, in Jacksonville, N.C., the daughter of Donald Alfred and Anne Mae (Oliver) Shaw. She was proud of being a military child and spoke frequently of the many places she lived around the country. Her family settled in the Kansas City, Mo., area where she graduated from Southwest High School in 1971...

Connie and DeVerne Denning met in 1959 and were married on Valentine’s Day two years later. “We met at church, at St Mary church,” Connie said. “He used to sit behind me in church. I wore a purple coat and he liked my coat.” She was an IBM keypunch operator at Farm and Home and he was a meat cutter at the Maxwell Grocery on Atlantic Street at the time...

Fresh off Monday’s first-round upset over Neosho, the No. 5 seed Nevada Tiger eighth-grade basketball team was turned back by top-seeded Carthage, 55-28, in the semifinals of the Tri-County Conference Tournament in Carl Junction Tuesday. Nevada (3-9) trailed 22-14 at halftime, but did not come out with the same level of energy in the second half, according to head coach, Neil Barnes...

There wasn’t much suspense in Tuesday night’s rivalry matchup between the Nevada Lady Tigers and El Dorado Springs Bulldogs. The non-conference hoops contest at Wynn Gym was all Nevada from start to finish, as the Lady Tigers built a 32-5 first quarter lead — en route to the convincing 47-point victory...

Running back tandem Zach Gardner and Shelby Trotter became the latest Nevada Tiger gridders to declare, signing national letters of intent with the Benedictine College (Kan.) Ravens Tuesday afternoon at the school Media Center. Gardner and Trotter join 2014 NHS grad Keegan Bell as recent Benedictine football commits...