Stories from Thursday, January 14, 2010

IOLA -- Fort Scott High's freshmen boys' team defeated Iola Tuesday night by a score of 62-53. Marques Floyd and Straton Hunziker each scored 10 points to lead the Tigers and Anthony Sercer added 8. The Tigers will face Girard at 6 p.m. Tonight at Fort Scott Middle School and Parsons at the same time and location Monday night...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Fort Scott High School senior Torie Simons and junior Hali Eads were part of a 260-member halftime show performance at the Alamo Bowl on January 2. Simons and Eads were both invited to participate in the show and traveled to San Antonio on December 31. The game itself pitted Michigan State and Texas A&M universites, both of which had been embroiled in controversies prior to the game...

IOLA -- Fort Scott Community College's men shot over 60 percent from the field here Wed-nesday night but Allen County cap-itzlized on its free-throw opp-ortunities as the homestanding Red Devils took an 84-68 victory in Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division play...

A number of current Kansas City Royals players, announcers and front office officials, as well as Royals legends, will take part in the annual Caravan event with trips to Midwestern towns throughout January. This Caravan trip will take place Sunday and Monday, making stops in six communities throughout parts of Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri. ...

Two lucky sports fans may just have the time of their life at the Big 12 basketball game this year. The Retired Senior Volunteer Program, sponsored by Tri-Valley Developmental Services, is sponsoring a drawing to give two people lower level seats at all of the men's games, corporate party passes, and parking passes during the tournament, which is scheduled for March 10-13 at the Sprint Center in Kansas City...

Area residents are showing a willingness to help out following a devastating earthquake that struck the country of Haiti on Tuesday. Whendi Martin, the executive director of the Bourbon County Chapter of the American Red Cross, said she spent much of her time the last couple of days answering telephone calls from local residents who are asking how to make donations to help after the disastrous 7.0-magnitude quake hit the impoverished nation late Tuesday afternoon...

The finish line was crossed Thursday evening as the community was given the final presentation of the U.S. Highway 69 Corridor Study. In a process which began in Sept. 2006 when the City of Fort Scott asked the Kansas Department of Transportation to perform a corridor study, there is now a plan for the future of U.S. Hwy. 69 in Fort Scott and Bourbon County as it gains more attention across the state...