Crime

Man faces charges of sex crimes (04/26/08)
Fort Scott, Kan. -- A Bourbon County man was bound over for trial Friday, on two counts of sex-related charges. Sixth Judicial Magistrate Judge Rebecca Stephan ruled there was enough probable cause to bind over Randall K. Glover, 55, for jury trial, if the case reaches that point. In fact, no rape case in Bourbon County District Court filed since 2005 has gone to jury trial...

Police warn of Spanish lottery scam (03/25/08)
"If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is." Nevada Public Safety Director Gary Herstein says he repeats that line quite often, at least every three to four weeks. Scams are an ever-present problem and many keep repeating with little changes for years...

Arson suspect faces additional charges in Cedar County (03/20/08)
A Stockton man accused of setting a fire inside a Nevada woman's home was released today from the Vernon County jail on his own recognizance so he could be transferred to Stockton Court and face nine other criminal charges. Patrick Ellis, 30, was granted a release from his $50,000 cash-only bond Thursday afternoon during a pre-trial hearing by 28th Circuit Judge Neal Quitno, only to be transferred across the Cedar County line, where a $100,000 bond awaited him...

Armed robber locks clerk in storage room at local convenience store (03/19/08)
Vernon County Sheriff's deputies were dispatched to a rural gas station at 9:52 Monday night to investigate a reported robbery. When deputies arrived at Fisca Oil gas station near Deerfield on the Kansas-Missouri state line they found an employee, Rachel Moore, who had been locked inside a storage room behind the store's register. ...