Stories from Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Stella Lucille Fritter, age 99, former resident of Richards, Mo., died Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010, at the Christian Health Center in Nevada, Mo. She was born March 29, 1911, in Fort Scott, Kan., the daughter of Daniel Jacob and Bertha Alice Jones Gardner...

Eva Mae Moore, 86, of Chanute, passed away Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010 at the Stormont-Vail Regional Health Center in Topeka. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 12 at the Church of the Nazarene in Chanute. Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery...

Gone are the days of getting your fiber from only bran flakes and prunes. Now manufacturers are adding fiber to yogurt, ice cream, snack bars, muffin mixes, water and juice. But are all fibers equal? Experts recommend that consumers consider more than the amount of fiber listed on the Nutrition Facts panel and the words printed on the box...

On Sunday, Aug. 8, Howard and Louise Holland hosted a dinner party at Gebhardt's at noon in celebration of his mother's 85th birthday. She, Ruth Holland, enjoyed the 15 who were present including relatives and close friends. After dinner, they went to the Holland home, rural Liberal, Mo., where pictures were taken after Ruth received a lei and a tiara and blew out the candles on a special birthday cake. ...

I am sure a lot of you women out there (wives, gals, newlywed, and etc.) will be able to relate to the following story. I remember when Bob and I were first married, I was continually changing our furniture around. That must have been when I had more energy than I knew what to do with. ...

MOUND CITY -- Even the causal rodeo fan knows that a cowboy must stay on for eight seconds in bull or bronc riding to win any money at the rodeo. However, in the steer wrestling event, it is another story. A search of rodeo results on PRCA's web site, www.prorodeo.com, reveals that most steer wrestling events are won in four seconds or less. ...

TOPEKA -- Record recoveries on behalf of Kansas consumers and the Kansas Medicaid program are among the highlights in the 2010 Annual Report for the office of Kansas Attorney General Steve Six. Since Six took office in 2008, the Consumer Division has recovered more than was recovered in the previous 13 years combined while the Medicaid Fraud unit has recovered twice what was recovered in all other years combined. At the same time, Six has cut his taxpayer funded budget in half...

Seat belt use is on the rise in Kansas -- a fact that Gov. Mark Parkinson celebrated at a news conference Tuesday morning in Topeka where Kansas received nearly $11.2 million in connection with passage of the primary seat belt law. "It is an indisputable fact that using seat belts saves lives and reduces injuries in vehicle crashes," Parkinson said. ...

UNIONTOWN -- The members of the Uniontown USD 235 Board of Education met Monday night to discuss the budget and plans for the upcoming 2010-11 school year. Due to cuts in funding this year, Uniontown, like many other schools, must work to adjust and balance a budget with less assistance than in years past. ...

The murder trial for a Robert Miller is set to begin Monday morning. Miller will face a jury Monday morning at the Bourbon County Courthouse as he faces a charge of first degree murder for his alleged involvement in the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Tynce Joles in December 2009...

Dramatic scenes from the Civil War will be recreated during a tour at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Fort Scott National Historic Site. Throughout the war, Fort Scott was home to many important functions, including a supply depot, a training and recruitment center, an army general hospital, a refugee center, a military prison and a national cemetery. Staff will guide visitors during the one-hour tour, in which a group of local volunteers will reenact dramatic scenes from the Civil War...