Stories from Friday, November 23, 2007

Being the movie fanatic that I am, there are not many movies that truly disturb me. This one did. My husband, Josh, and I are history buffs. Take a historical movie and add a touch of the taboo, such as the thought process of a serial killer in 18th-century France, and we're in. Plus, we watch so many movies (we don't have cable or satellite), that we are always looking for a different plot line...

A greenhouse to benefit citizens who have developmental disabilities is being built by Tri-Valley Developmental Services, but ownership of the new structure belongs to many. "It's truly been a community effort," TVDS Horticultural Therapist Barbara McCord said. "I wouldn't even want to try to name everyone who's been involved, there are so many."...

Nearly 100 local residents gathered together Tuesday to worship God and offer thanks to Him for His many blessings. A community Thanksgiving service, organized by the Fort Scott Ministerial Alliance, was the focus for a crowd of area citizens. Fellowship began to take place as people from different area churches began to assemble in the Fort Scott Middle School commons area. ...

Kenna Rae Miles, a girl, was born at 9:33 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007, at Mt. Carmel Regional Medical Center in Pittsburg to parents Wes Miles and Leslie Godden, Fort Scott. She weighed 6 pounds, 15 1/2 ounces at birth. Maternal grandparents are Ronald Godden and Glenna Garnand, Fort Scott. Paternal grandparents are Les and Anna Miles, Fort Scott...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) Mapleton Press: The Mapleton Cement Plant is to be presided over by Dr. Guinn of Webb City, Mo. Dr. Guinn has been elected president of the Guthrie Mountain Portland Cement Company. He will take steps to increase the number of leases and will work this way along the pipe line. The drills are also being moved this way and we learn that a drill was set Thursday on B.F. Lanham's farm only six miles out...

After two years of planning and discussion, construction on the 33,000-square foot Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center at Fort Scott Community College is set to begin next week, FSCC officials said Monday. Plans for the $7.7 million facility were recently completed after college officials, on Nov. ...

Albert Richmond, a former Fort Scott resident convicted of first-degree murder in September by a Crawford County jury, learned Wednesday he'll spend the next 50 years in prison. Crawford County District Court Judge Donald Noland sentenced Richmond to the "hard 50" for shooting to death Tyrone Owens last October in Pittsburg...

When Kaleb DeLaTorre takes a trip to Kansas City, he takes the long way to get there. DeLaTorre, son of Jeff and Angie DeLaTorre of Fort Scott, will be in Kansas City Sunday morning to take part in a semifinal round of the NFL Punt, Pass & Kick competition. ...

MCCUNE -- A hunter on Thanksgiving morning found a backpack in the woods that authorities later said contained an active methamphetamine lab inside, according to the Crawford County Sheriff's Department. At 8:30 a.m., a hunter, who was not identified by officials, found the suspicious backpack in a wooded area off 180th Street about 1 3/4 miles south of Kansas Highway 126 in Crawford County...