Stories from Wednesday, January 31, 2007

A Fort Scott man has been charged with attempted second degree murder and numerous other charges in connection to a domestic-related incident that occurred on Friday. The Bourbon County Attorney's Office charged Danny M. Fewell, 41, with one felony count of attempted second degree murder, felony aggravated burglary, three counts of aggravated assault, aggravated battery, two counts of criminal threat, misdemeanor endangering a child, battery and criminal damage to property...

On Monday, the Fort Scott Community College Board of Trustees voted unanimously to enter into the design development phase of the $7 million Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center, the first academic building to be built on the FSCC campus in almost 20 years...

George Richard Thompson, age 73, formerly of Fort Scott, died Tuesday morning, January 30, 2007, at the home of his loving nephew, Jon Lawhead and wife Janice Lawhead, Willamsburg, Colorado. George was a retired roofer. He is survived by two sons, Rick Thompson of Florence, Colorado and Marty Thompson, and his wife, Dena, of Fort Scott; two sisters, Marjorie Lawhead, Canon City, Colorado, and Julie Elbrader and her husband, Robert, Fort Scott; two brothers, Douglas Thompson and his wife, Patty, Fort Scott, and Levi (Sam) Thompson and his wife, Barbara, Wrightwood, California; and numerous nieces and nephews.. ...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) Policeman McQuitty, who has lived over on Walnut Hill, on Euclid Avenue if you please, ever since he came to this city, is going to switch residences. He has traded his suburban home for a residence over in the Third Ward. Mac was about town today seeing if his moving would invalidate his voting at the spring election. ...

Fort Scott High's offense wasn't clicking for a while during its Southeast Kansas League game against Labette County at the FSHS gymnasium. So the Tigers turned to their defense and rode it until the offense broke out in the fourth quarter of a 62-44 victory...

Fort Scott High's girls were able to keep up with Labette County, the No. 2-ranked team in Class 4A, for about 10 minutes at the start of Tuesday night's Southeast Kansas League game at the FSHS gymnasium. But 6' 4" junior center Kendra Frazier refused to be contained for very long. After scoring just five points in the first quarter, Frazier went on to finish with 23 and 10 rebounds in the Grizzlies' 58-39 win over the Tigers...