Stories from Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Nevada Daily Mail BOLIVAR, Mo. -- In its last three games, the Nevada Griffons baseball team went on an undefeated tear in which it scored an average of five runs per game and held the opposition to just two per game, on average to edge closer to the .500 mark in MINK League play and attempt to stay in touch with the top teams in the South Division...

Donald Leon Capps, of El Dorado Springs, Mo., died on Thursday, June 19, 2014, at his home. He was born Jan. 7, 1929, to Benjamin Harrison Capps and Jesse Adamson Capps, in Vernon County, Mo. Don was the fifth of six brothers born to the Capps family. ...

George Wallis Graham, 89, of Nevada, Mo., died June 24, 2014, after a short battle with acute leukemia. He died at home with loving family gathered near. George was born Sept. 6, 1924, at the farm home in Fair Grove, Mo., the son of George Badge Graham and Wilma Lena Bryant Graham. They preceded him in death. Also preceding him were daughter, Linda Louise Graham; sister, Bernice A. Bryant; brother, Franklin A. Graham; and grandchildren, Jess and Haley Graham...

Rosalie Dahmer, 90, died Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014, at Mercy Medical Center, in Durango, Colo. She was born in Fort Scott, Kan., on April 7, 1923, to Elsie Golden Thompson and John Franklin Kramer. The memorial service for Rosalie was held at Hood Mortuary on Saturday, March 8. A graveside service will be held Friday, June 27, at 2:30 p.m., at the Fort Scott National Cemetery...

Nevada Daily Mail Kansas City woman Santina Poore appeared in court for sentencing for her involvement in a first-degree tampering with a motor vehicle incident. Poore pleaded guilty to taking an Ellis Furniture moving van in May, though sentencing was delayed due to a sentencing assessment report. ...

Nevada Daily Mail Two Nevada residents were involved in afternoon car accident Monday. Eastbound drivers Larry Cauthon, 44, and Luke Rainey, 28, collided around 4:50 p.m. on west U.S. Highway 54, near the Nevada city limits. According to Missouri Highway Patrol Corporal Jeffrey Baird, the accident occurred when Cauthon changed lanes and hit Rainey's car with a trailer...

Nevada Daily Mail Vernon County residents will have the chance Saturday to pick up a pie and help combat violence in the area, and still make it to the annual fireworks display. The Council on Families in Crisis is set to host its second annual "Pie in the Sky" event, which features a meal, pie auction and entertainment at the Vernon County Centennial Fairgrounds to benefit Moss House...

Nevada Daily Mail A Nevada man was arrested in relation to a storage unit burglary in the 1300 block of East Austin. Nevada Police Sergeant Steve Bastow said Tuesday that 27-year-old Christopher H. Jones was charged with second-degree burglary and stealing...

Nevada Daily Mail Johnny Preston was born 100 years too late. Dressed in buckskins and carrying a homemade shotgun, Preston, 73, looks like he stepped out of the 1840s. "I've been involved with black powder muzzleloading for 35 years," he said. "There's no telling how many tomahawks, throwing knifes and ramrods (for muzzleloading) I've made over the years."...