Nevada News

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.

Nevada Daily Mail Publisher Julie Righter, Editor Lynn A. Wade accept the Daily Mail's awards at an awards brunch hosted by the Missouri Press Association in Kansas City, Oct.

Auditor B. G. Wolfe gave the Nevada R-5 School District a clean bill of health on the annual audit at the Board of Education's monthly meeting Wednesday evening.

Nevada's Public Safety Building, which houses the Police and Fire departments as well as the City Council chambers, has a problem with water leaking into the basement and making it unusable.

Do you need to clean out a bunch of stuff that has accumulated over the summer? Well, Nevada and Vernon County will be holding their annual county-wide fall clean-up day, from 8 a.m. until noon on Oct.

Nevada veterans' service officer Bill Gillette recently announced that the Missouri Veterans Commission in partnership with AmVets, the Missouri National Guard, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will hold a Veterans Town Hall/Listening Post at Camp Clark's Building 475 , Nevada, Mo., on Monday, Oct.

The first superintendent of what was known at its inception as the Missouri Lunatic Asylum No.

Members of the Lighthouse Children's Theatre group and volunteers Dee Shouse and Joan McPeak work on acting skills Saturday morning under the direction of executive director Lynne Hedrick .

Several participants from around the area took part in last weekend's Nevada Area Multisport 5K and 10K fun run/walk, starting from the Osage Prairie YMCA.

Saturday's weather promises to be sunny and cool -- great weather for servin' up chili.

A Moldovan, one of 12 people charged in a massive racketeering scheme, pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to one count of forced labor trafficking and agreed to cooperate with the government.

The Nevada Police Department in cooperation with personnel from Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Joplin Police Department, Jasper County Sheriff's Office, Vernon County Sheriff's Office, and Missouri State Highway Patrol conducted a sobriety checkpoint on Sept.