Stories from Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Mary Ann Hastings, age 86, a former resident of rural Bronaugh and more recently of Nevada, passed away early Saturday, June 24, at the Barone Alzheimer’s Care Center in Nevada. She was born May 24, 1931, in Chicopee, Kan., the daughter of Edward and Lula Mae Curnutt Stumfoll. ...

Wilma Elizabeth Wallis Dark died June 25, in Olney, Texas, at the age of 96. She was born July 5, 1920, in Albany County, Wyo., to Helen Elizabeth Sander and William Nickolas Wallis. She married Clarence Victor Dark on Nov. 27, 1937, in Glenwood Springs, Colo. They moved to Missouri and purchased a farm in Vernon County where they raised four children: Rosalee, Carol Ann, Mary Ellen and James William. In 1976, they retired to El Dorado Springs. Wilma moved to Olney, Texas, in 2004...

A large field comprised of 91 cars hit the dirt track Saturday evening at Nevada Speedway, as a pair of local racers, Scott Johnson and Morgan Campbell were among those who found victory lane. –– Street Stocks –– After being idle for the past couple weeks, Johnson made his return to Nevada Speedway in grand fashion, as the Nevada native flew the checkers in the Street Stock division. Johnson also excelled in the heat race, earning outside pole position for the feature event...

After dropping the series opener on Saturday night, the Nevada Griffons rebounded to take the final two games of a three-game MINK League South division series with the Joplin Outlaws. The back-to-back victories improve Nevada to 9-14 overall (9-12 MINK) while the Outlaws fall to 6-12 in league play...

For the past several years, the Nevada High school marching band, Crimson Sound, has used a borrowed semitrailer to haul their uniforms and instruments to competitions and concerts — something they will no longer have to endure as the band’s booster club recently purchased a used trailer and the band is racing the clock to have it ready for marching season this fall...

On Tuesday afternoon, presiding commissioner, Joe Hardin; northern district commissioner, Cynthia Thompson; and southern commissioner, Everette Wolfe took time to provide a mid-year review of the various areas dealt with the commission. The dozen topics ranged from bridges and culverts to handicap accessibility to courthouse restoration and development of Katy Allen Lake...

On Tuesday morning, in Vernon County Circuit Court – appearing with his attorney, Dustin W. Dunfield – Eric S. Davis entered a plea of guilty to an amended single class B felony count of financial exploitation of the elderly. Appearing before Judge David Munton, presiding judge of the 28th circuit, Davis was sentenced to the custody of the Missouri Department of Corrections for a period of 10 years plus he was ordered to make restitution to Richardson in the amount of $1,181,5000...

Tuesday morning, Judge David Munton, presiding judge of the 28th circuit, accepted the Alford plea of Lavern S. Hill, Jr. to the third amended felony charge filing of three counts of Class C felony charges of second-degree assault and a fourth count of a class C felony of possession of a controlled substance...

The Fourth of July is coming up shortly and many folks will be celebrating this weekend with lots of loud outdoor fun. But these kinds of events may not be so much fun for the four-legged members of our families warns a press release from the Humane Society of Missouri...