Stories from Saturday, August 4, 2012

July 25 David Celaya was arrested for third-degree domestic assault. Bond is $5,000. Kevin Wiseman was arrested for failure to appear. Bond is $426.02. Ora Cogburn was released to Jasper County. Michael Fozzard was released on $5,000 bond. Zackory Gilman was released to Southwest Missouri Psychiatric Rehabilitation Center...

Robert Lee Walker, 80, Nevada, passed away on Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012, at Nevada Regional Medical Center, following a sudden illness. He was born March 20, 1932, in Rock Island, Ill., to Mr. and Mrs. M. Walker. Robert was born and raised in Rock Island, Ill. ...

Helen R. Metcalf, 92, Emporia, and formerly of Fort Scott, passed away Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012, at the Emporia Presbyterian Manor. Helen Rosella Elder, the daughter of Charles and Bessie (Kinion) Elder, was born in Woodson, Kan., on March 23, 1920. She married Otis Metcalf at Fort Scott on Dec. 22, 1941. He died in June of 1960...

Burl David Crawford Sr., 89, formerly of Nevada, passed away on July 30, 2012, at his home in Montgomery, Texas. He was born Oct. 27, 1922, in Nevada, to Rush Crawford and Ada Holland Crawford. He and Roena Mensendike were married on Aug. 29, 1948, in Peoria, Ill., and she survives of the home...

Gary Lee Coombs, 64, a resident of Fort Scott, died Thursday, Aug. 2, at his home. Funeral services for Gary Coombs will be announced by the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main, Fort Scott.

Hi neighbors. Do you remember "duck and cover"? Here is a quick history lesson for those born after the Baby Boomers. In the 1950s the world was living in fear of a nuclear catastrophe that would kill off all life on the planet. That is ALL life. No people, no plants, no animals, no water, no food, no nothing...

A couple of weeks ago my 9-year-old grandson went to spend a few days with his grandmother in Satanta, Kan. While he was there she was putting some medicine in a cupboard in the bathroom and she pulled over a chair to reach a high shelf. He was in the other room when she lost her balance and attempted to stop her fall by grabbing an open cupboard door. The next thing, she landed on the floor, hitting her shoulder and her head...

Thanks to a tip from residents, the Nevada Police Department has concluded an investigation into a burglary that resulted in the arrest of a 24-year-old Nevada resident. At about 9:20 p.m. Aug. 2, residents reported to the police that they saw a man force his way into a home in the 1500 block of West Walnut Street in Nevada. ...

A Uniontown, Kan., resident is trying to save the building she plans to put her cake decorating business in. Award-winning cake artist Rebecca Sutterby, owner of Sugar Creations Inc., was told in late July that the old cafe on the town square which she planned to renovate for her firm had to be fixed or torn down. She also received a letter to that effect...

Mercy Hospital spokeswoman Tina Rockhold gained the cooperation of Bourbon County commissioners on Friday for the second annual Mercy Day Run next month. Rockhold asked commissioners if they would block certain county roads the day of the race from 215th Street and the intersection of Indian Road, south to the intersection of Grand Road and Highway 39 -- about two and a half miles. ...

It may be a big "if," but if you like politics, the second biggest day of the year is nigh. With redistricting having played fruit basket turnover with legislative boundaries, Tuesday's party primaries in Southwest Missouri and Southeast Kansas boast enough state, regional and local candidates to please anyone who enjoys the jostling, at times vexatious but often entertaining competition in all its forms...

NEVADA. -- Players from both sides of the state line placed in a junior golf tournament held at the Frank E. Peters Golf Course Wednesday. Seventeen golfers participated in four age groups. Nevada golfers took the top three spots in the 8-and-9 year-old division. John Bloesser took first place followed by Owen Swearengen and Cody Larsen...

WICHITA, Kan. -- The Seattle Studs lived up to their name last night and handed the Nevada Griffons a 7-0 loss in their second game of the 78th annual National Baseball Congress World Series at Lawrence-DuMont Stadium. The Griffons, now 1-1 in the World Series, move into the losers bracket in the double-elimination tournament and are scheduled to play the Omaha Strike Zone at 8 a.m. today in an elimination game...