Stories from Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Second of a three-part series A victim of a sexual assault has a lot to work through emotionally and mentally, Brooke Powell, victim advocate for the Safehouse Crisis Center in Pittsburg, said. Powell is also the Students for Violence Prevention coordinator at Pittsburg State University...

Much attention was given to Elm Creek Lake during the Bourbon County Commission meeting Monday. Discussion went from whether the county will solicit hay bids to when the county will drain the lake in an effort to repair the dam. "I think it would be June," Public Works Director Jim Harris said. "Get past the rainy season."...

Dalton Sweley appears to be going head-to-head with the bull he just dismounted during the senior boys' bull riding division of the Southeast Kansas Little Britches Rodeo Saturday at the Bourbon County Fairgrounds. Sweley was not injured during the ride...

Marjorie L. Thompson, 92, of Guest Home Estates, Fort Scott, Kan., passed away March 14, 2015. No services. Arrangements by Cremation Society of Kansas and Missouri (913) 383-9888.

Donna Lea McQueen, age 68, Pleasanton, Kan., passed away on Saturday, March 14, 2015. Funeral service will be held 2 p.m. Sunday, March 22, 2015 at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, Pleasanton Chapel. Burial will be in the Pleasanton Cemetery. ...

June Elizabeth Hemphill 89, passed on March 8, 2015 of natural causes in the home of her daughter in Round Rock, Texas. Graveside memorial service will be held 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at the Woodland Cemetery in Mound City, Kan. Visitation will be after the service from 2:30 p.m. until 4 p.m. at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, Mound City Chapel. On line condolences for the family can be left at www.schneiderfunerals.com...

L. Doreen (Peck-Sheperd) Christman, 92, of Kirksville, Mo. died March 12, 2015 at Kirksville Manor. She was born Jan. 30, 1923 at Louisa County, Iowa. Doreen was a graduate of Mediapolis High School in May, 1940. She married Floyd O. Sheperd on July 29, 1940. He died Dec. 19, 1980. Doreen married Harold Christman on Aug. 15, 1997. He died Sept. 8, 2014. She was an active life-long member of the Church of God Holiness...

Beverly Arlene Davis, age 80, a resident of Hiattville, Kan., passed away Saturday morning, March 14, 2015, at the Medicalodge of Fort Scott surrounded by family. She was born Jan. 9, 1935, at Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott, Kan., the daughter of Kenneth Thomas and Edna Farmer Thomas. ...

COFFEYVILLE -- Fort Scott Community College's baseball team suffered a sweep at the hands of Coffeyville in Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division play here Saturday. Coffeyville won the opener 3-1 and the second game 11-6 as they kept pace with division-leading Cowley. The Red Ravens improved to 10-2 in the East, two games behind Cowley, and 17-9 overall. Coffeyville has won six of its last seven games...

Fort Scott Community College's softball team won the opener of a non-conference doubleheader with Maple Woods at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex Saturday afternoon but managed just a split for the day. The Greyhounds won the opener, 5-4, scoring with two out in the bottom of the seventh inning. Maple Woods won the second game, 6-2, as Fort Scott committed 7 errors...