Nevada News

Editor's note: This is the final installment in a series delving into issues impacting the Missouri Public Defenders; prior stories in the Nov.

At a Nov. 13 ceremony for Kansas City AIA's Design Excellence Awards, SFS Architecture was awarded the top honor, the Honor Award, for the Osage Prairie YMCA pool addition in Nevada, Mo.

The lobby of the Osage Prairie YMCA is decorated in preparation for the annual holiday festival to be conducted in the facility's gymnasium at 5 p.m, Saturday.

Editor's note: This is the second in a series from the Nevada Daily Mail on the state of the Missouri Public Defender system.

Nevada Mayor Mike Hutchens told the Council that the annual Christmas Lighting Ceremony at Radio Springs Park will be held on Wednesday, Nov.

Nevada Mayor Mike Hutchens presents a proclamation recognizing the 25th anniversary of Nevada's Parents as Teacher orgainzation during a recent City Council meeting.

The annual holiday parade and Miss Merry Christmas pageant organizers have begun taking registrations for these holiday events, to be held on Friday, Dec.

Christ's Church of Nevada announced the launch of a new Church in Nevada. The New fellowship held their first public meeting on Sunday, September 6, 2009.

The Vernon County Sheriff's Office is investigating a home invasion late Monday during which a resident was shot in the hand with a shotgun.

A 22-year-old woman was injured in a single-vehicle accident at 9:40 p.m. Monday on Route B at Sheldon in Vernon County, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

Kansas City Power and Light is hosting an Energy Resource Fair in Nevada Friday, Nov.

Vernon County authorities located the body of a missing 20-year-old Nevada man about midday Monday.

A local Nevada group joined the fight against two global epidemics --hunger and obesity -- by participating in the Lose For Good campaign.

Kaleb Leonard, 24, Sheldon, will be arraigned in Vernon County Circuit Court Nov.

Voters in the Nevada R-5 School District will decide Tuesday on a proposed extension of the Proposition C rollback, first approved 10 years ago, but which sunsets this year.

Do you know of any reason you might not be able to serve the entire term if you are elected to fill one of the vacant seats on the City Council? I do not foresee any circumstances preventing me from serving the entire term.

Nevada Regional Medical Center is seeing an increased number of patients with flu-like symptoms in the Emergency Department.

Several local landlords gathered at the Crawford house Tuesday, Oct. 20, to participate in a Section 8 landlord training session hosted by the Nevada Public Housing Authority as part of the Housing America Campaign.

Stop - To come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window." Of all the things that tick me off in the world one of those things has really become an issue for me lately -- people who do not stop or go when it's not their turn at stop signs.

"We've had a lot of kids staying home with the flu and it got to the point we decided to close," a spokesperson for the district said.