Stories from Friday, April 15, 2011

Zadik Thorne Hit a hole -in-one on Monday, April 11, at Frank E. Peters Municipal Golf Course, Nevada, The hole-in-one was on hole No. 11, with a Hybred iron, at 163 yards. The hole-in-one was witnessed by Zane Thorne. Even for professional golfers, a feat such as a hole-in-one is a rare accomplishment. ...

Two members of Nevada's junior varsity track team won place first in their events Tuesday at a junior varsity meet in Joplin. Nevada's Nikiya Feezell cleared 4-10 to win the high jump and Anthony Mauder threw the shot 40-4 to win that event. Feezell also placed fourth in the pole vault, with a vault of 6...

Bronaugh's fifth and sixth grade basketball teams both conquered the conference this year with very good records of 11-1. The girls team was undefeated coming into the Bronaugh Scholarship tournament. They faced a tough Lamar team and lost their final game. ...

Anna Veda (Dziadula) Rourk, 92, a resident of Presbyterian Village, Fort Scott, Kan., died April 13, 2011, at her home. She enjoyed being cared for by family members, including a very special nephew, Gary Dziadula and his wife, Erma, of Girard, Kan., and the loving staff of both the Fort Scott Presbyterian Village and the Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice...

Cody Alexander Jenkins, 20, Moundville, Mo., passed away Wednesday, April 13, 2011, as a result of a motorcycle accident. He was born July 11, 1990, in Fort Scott, Kan., to Russell Dean Jenkins and Pamela A. Connelly Jenkins. Cody was raised in this area and spent all his life here in Vernon County. ...

The Vernon County Sheriff's Office executed a search warrant on a home in the north central area of the county on Tuesday, April 12, that netted several thousand dollars worth of stolen property, according to Vernon County Sheriff Ron Peckman. The items recovered filled a large stock trailer. ...

JEFFERSON CITY -- The Missouri Department of Revenue has advice for Missourians who have not yet filed their returns. The state's traditional filing deadline of April 15 is extended for three days this year. The new deadline is Monday, April 18, to be consistent with the deadline change for filing federal tax returns. The federal deadline was changed for the District of Columbia's observation of Emancipation Day...

A 20-year-old Moundville man was killed in a crash that took place at 1:20 p.m, April 13, on Highway 43, one mile north of Airport Drive in Jasper County. According to a report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Cody A. Jenkins was riding a 2007 Kawasaki motorcycle northbound on Highway 43 and came upon a 1995 Ford dump truck, driven by a 39-year-old Webb city man. The report said the dump truck slowed to make a left turn and was struck in the rear by the motorcycle...

The tragic injustices of the ending of 42 lives, from the unborn to the elderly, were sketched on painful lines during Thursday's Annual National Crime Victims' Rights Ceremony at Vernon County Courthouse. More than 60 people took up posters and banners in the 600 block of South Ash Street at 5:45 p.m. and with a red and blue flashing Nevada police car leading the way, they marched north to the courthouse and 28th Circuit Courtroom...

Fort Scott police are investigating a report that some Nevada High School students drank alcohol during the annual NHS Junior-Senior Prom last Saturday night in Fort Scott. FSPD Lt. Shaun West confirmed that his department "has had an allegation" that some students obtained alcohol at the Buffalo Grill, whose manager and co-owner emphatically denied Thursday that any improprieties were committed by the company or its employees...