Stories from Saturday, March 28, 2015

Zenial E. McPeak Hertzberg, 87, Nevada, Mo., passed away on Thursday, March 26, 2015, at the Nevada Regional Medical Center, in Nevada. Zenial was born Feb. 23, 1928, in El Dorado Springs, Mo., to Ray E. and Nellie (Green) McPeak. Zenial was raised in El Dorado Springs. She attended school there and graduated from El Dorado Springs High School Class of 1946. Following high school she attended college at the University of Kansas...

Cole and Traci Vap, of La Crosse, Kan., and older sibling, Danica, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter and baby sister, Cheyenne Lynn Vap. Cheyenne was born at 12:05 p.m., Friday, Jan. 2, 2015, at Hays Medical Center, in Hays, Kan. She weighed 10 pounds, one ounce, and measured 22 inches...

A few years ago I was able to hear Lt. Col. Dave Grossman speak at a seminar. He spoke a great deal about sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs. I had heard of cops being referred to as sheepdogs before, back when I was in the police academy. It was there that I began to understand the attitude that a law enforcement officer must have to perform the duties entrusted to him and the attitude that it takes to perform this job...

Hi neighbors. Flossie stopped by the other day to see if I would help her with building an herb garden. I thought that simple task couldn't be too demanding. I should have remembered it was Flossie that was going to make it. We spent most of the morning trying to design various gardens. She didn't like my favorite garden type, which was a stairway type. The picture on the Internet showed all the mature herbs complimenting each other by color, shape and height...

March Madness -- it turns normal people into zombies, with furrowed brows, wrinkled foreheads and grim facial expressions one moment and euphoric zealots jumping up and down the next. For true basketball fans, there's not much better. It's the time of year when college basketball reigns supreme, when teams from all across the country converge on a handful of locations and begin a playoff countdown for the national title...

University of Missouri Extension "In our modern world, with click-of- a- mouse speed, identity theft is a growing threat to you personally and financially," says Doug Scotten, family financial education specialist with University of Missouri Extension...

Nevada Daily Mail Investigators with the Vernon County Sheriff's Office found what they believe to be methamphetamines and drug paraphernalia during a search based on a search warrant that was served in the 200 block of East. Third Street in Bronaugh, late Thursday afternoon in a search for a parole absconder...

Nevada Daily Mail Twenty-one students of the Nevada Regional Technical Center Chapter of Missouri DECA, an association of marketing students, joined more than 2,000 high school marketing students at the annual state career development conference March 15-17, at the Lodge of the Four Seasons, Lake Ozark...

Nevada Daily Mail After the 2014 elections, several new faces joined the staff at the Vernon County courthouse, including prosecuting attorney Brandi McInroy. Having grown up in Kansas, McInroy moved back to her husband's hometown of Nevada in 2000, while still an undergraduate student at Pittsburg State University. McInroy then attended law school at the University of Missouri in Kansas City...

Nevada baseball suffered its first loss of the season, dropping a 9-6 road contest to Carthage, Thursday afternoon. Nevada head coach Danny Penn said his young Tigers squad needs to put in some additional time at the dish. "Offensively, I was very disappointed in the fact that we took six called third-strikes; some of them were in crucial situations where just putting the ball in play may have resulted in a run," he said. ...

Nevada Daily Mail Whether you call it paddlefish, spoonbill, or shevelnose-cat, the snagging season for this living fossil began in Missouri on March 15. One of North America's largest freshwater fish will not take bait or lures, but must be snagged or grabbed with a hook, if an angler wants to catch one...

Nevada Daily Mail Nevada Tigers baseball is off to a flying start this spring. The Tigers have plated 27 runs in their first three games of the 2015 season, with more than half of those runs coming Friday afternoon at Lyons Stadium, as Nevada blasted the St. Pius X Warriors 15-0 in a five inning run-rule...