Stories from Friday, June 29, 2007

By Crystal D. Hancock Nevada Daily Mail The National Weather Service, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services and the State Emergency Management Agency have joined together to promote June 24-30 as Missouri Summer Safety Week. These organizations advise Missourians to take extra precautions this summer to prevent heat-related illnesses and deaths. Summer heat can take its toll on a person's health, especially the very young, the elderly and the chronically ill...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail Sometime between June 8 and June 11 Melissa Earll's pickup truck was broken into and she lost many valuable items. Earll also said that there has been a rash of thefts from cars around Nevada. What unsettles Earll is the way the matter is being handled by the Nevada Police Department. Public Safety Director Gary Herstein says he understands her point of view, but the facts of the case make it unusually difficult to investigate...

Nevada Daily Mail The Liston School Building on North Main Street is an historic place. Several generations of people in our community can recall attending grade school or kindergarten in this building. After the El Dorado Springs School District stopped using the Liston building for classes, they converted it to storage space. This year the school board voted to allow the property to revert to the heirs of the original donors of the property...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail Tuesday evening the Nevada Regional Medical Center board of directors approved a budget estimating more than $33 million total operating revenue, $32.4 million expenses and a net income of $1.5 million. The assumptions include a 2 percent increase in admissions in Medical/Surgical, ICU, and Behavioral Health Unit and no change in the Women's Health and swing bed usage. ...

David and Joni Klumpp, Bronaugh, Mo., are proud to announce the birth of their son, Caden Lee Klumpp. Caden was born at 5:06 a.m., April 13, 2007, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. He weighed 8 pounds, 15 ounces, and measured 22 inches. Paternal grandparents are Kenna Clements, Deerfield, and Rick Klumpp, Richards...

100 years ago Two killed by lightning SCHELL CITY, Mo. -- A telephone message received here this afternoon states that two farmers, James Long and William Mitts, were killed by lightning during a thunder storm while at work in a wheat field this after noon...