Stories from Friday, November 29, 2019

“Sometimes you may think that you’ve got the common cold/your throat is really itchy and you’ve got a runny nose/your skin you need to scratch, and your eyes may start to swell — it’s an allergic reaction, which is why you feel unwell,” belted out Nevada High School junior Brenton Floyd, before breaking into the high-pitched chorus during the beginning of his unique solo performance on Halloween night at the school’s annual Anti-Van talent show...

An excellent start to the season continued for the Nevada Tiger wrestling team, as the seventh and eighth-grade middle school grapplers competed in a pair of recent quadranuglars. Nevada held a home meet Nov. 21, playing host to Adrian, Girard, and Harrisonville. They then competed in a road quadrangular at Joplin South Middle School on Monday, with the meet also featuring Joplin North and Joplin East middle schools...