Stories from Friday, January 19, 2007

Fort Scott resident Pennie Province will be honored Monday for her three-year association with Bourbon County Big Brothers Big Sisters, an organization that matches adults and 11th and 12th grade students with at-risk children and youth in the community...

A grand jury investigating allegations of misconduct by city officials has wrapped up deliberations and is expected to reveal its findings on Feb. 2, according to Attorney William Grimshaw, independent counsel for the grand jury. The Feb. 2 date could be pushed back, depending on whether Sixth Judicial Chief Judge Richard Smith is able to attend the hearing, Grimshaw said in a telephone interview Thursday from his law office in Olathe. ...

WEBSTER -- Faith Elizabeth Webster, a girl, was born Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007, at Bergen Mercy Hospital in Omaha, Neb., to parents Matthew and Chrissa Webster, Columbus, Neb. She weighed 7 pounds, 6.6 ounces at birth. She joins one sibling, Emily Estelle Webster. Maternal grandparents are Alan and Charla Hess, Alma, Kan. Paternal grandparents are Robert and Jackie Webster, Fort Scott...

HAYNES -- Khiana Alexandra Haynes, a girl, was born at 2:39 p.m. on Thursday, January 18, 2007 at Mercy Health Center to parents Ashley Shankland and Charles Haynes, Fort Scott. She weighed 5 pounds, 2 ounces at birth. She joins one sister, Braelyn Shankland. ...

The story is often told of how a personal tragedy can lead people to a stronger bond with God. It's a story that Redfield resident Jeff Feagins knows all too well. After the death of his grandfather in April 1997, a personal tragedy that Feagins said was "very tough on me," a friend invited him to the religious men's group Promise Keepers' event in Kansas City. It changed his life...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) The Tribune at 4 o'clock this afternoon says the weather bureau reports that the temperature will fall 20 degrees in the next 24 hours. It is not the American Salvation Army that is opening up a station in this city, as stated, but the original Booth Salvation Army. The last pseudo representative of the American Salvation Army, who opened a station here, proved to be an impostor. He left owing a lot of debts...

The girls' teams from Uniontown and Pleasanton each advanced in the Pleasanton Mid-Season Tournament here Thursday night while both school's boys lost. Uniontown's girls defeated Humboldt, 44-34, in an imperfect late outing while Pleasanton's girls defeated Olathe Berean Christian, 60-47...

BASEHOR -- In the 1990's, it seemed like Salina Central was the team that had Fort Scott's number. Whenever the Tigers and Mustangs met, no matter what sport or what the records were, Salina Central always came away with the win. Platte County's basketball team has replaced Salina Central as Fort Scott's "jinx" team, defeating the Tigers for the third time in as many meetings in the Basehor-Linwood Bobcat Classic, this time by a 67-54 score here Thursday night...