Stories from Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Oleta Love, age 94, former resident of Redfield, Kan., died Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011, at the Guest Home Estates in Fort Scott. She was born July 27, 1916, the daughter of Vernon McElmurry and Rose Siegler McElmurry. She married Sam F. Love on Feb. 10, 1940, in Fort Scott. He preceded her in death on Dec. 8, 2002...

LUTTRELL -- Chance and Ashley Luttrell, Iola, and big sister Aubrey, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter and sister, Zoey Isabella Luttrell. Zoey was born at 1 p.m., Feb. 3, 2011, at Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott. She weighed 6 pounds, 15 1/2 ounces at birth...

ROSE -- Shirley and Alfred Rose, and siblings Emily, Eva, and Alexis, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter and sister, Sophia Grace Rose. Sophia was born at 4:52 p.m., Feb. 5, 2011 at Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott. Paternal grandparents are Al and Cassandra Rose, Arcadia...

The Tigers forensics team kept up their winning ways this past weekend, Feb. 12, by doubling up on overall sweepstakes honors. At Coffeyville, Fort Scott overwhelmed the competition, placing 27 events into finals. This individual success, allowed the team to win the tournament by a margin of nearly 60 points...

I received the following e-mail last week and found it very informative, interesting and helpful. So thought you all might enjoy it too. This was written by Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio. "To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me, it is the most requested column I've ever written."...

The latest winter storm has caused blood drive cancellations across Kansas and other parts of the United States, the American Red Cross reports. The Red Cross has issued a nationwide appeal for blood donors to boost the dwindling supply. Recent winter weather caused thousands of blood and platelet donations to go uncollected throughout the eastern half of the country. ...

Organizers of a fundraiser created last year to help local cancer patients and their families are ready to serve the public once again. Volunteers who work with the Care to Share cancer support group, which helps area cancer patients, survivors and caregivers, and The Sharing Bucket, a related nonprofit organization that provides emotional and financial assistance to cancer patients and their families, will conduct their second annual chili and chicken noodle fundraiser from 11 a.m. ...

A Fort Scott man was sentenced to a minimum of 50 years in state prison on various sexual abuse charges on Tuesday in Bourbon County District Court. Judge Mark Ward sentenced Douglas Page to a minimum of 25 years to life on charges of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and aiding and abetting aggravated indecent liberties with a child. Those sentences will run consecutively...

New equipment and a possible future location for the Fort Scott Police Department were discussed at Tuesday's Fort Scott City Commission. FSPD Chief Ron Puterbaugh approached the commission with a request to purchase three new patrol vehicles. Two bids were received from Shepherd Team Auto Plaza of Fort Scott and Shawnee Mission Ford of Shawnee. ...

UNIONTOWN -- Uniontown's girls won for the second time in their last three outings as the Eagles took a 57-29 victory over Altoona-Midway in Three Rivers League play here Tuesday night. Hope Jurgensen connected on 6 of 7 field-goal attempts as she finished with 13 points. Breanna Esslinger was 4 for 4 from behind the 3-point line in scoring 12 points. Jennifer Ulrey added 10 points and led the Eagles (2-2 TRL, 7-8 overall) with 7 rebounds...

A Pittsburg State University graduate student and assistant women's basketball coach, Tisharria Huggins, was killed in a recent accident in Cherokee County. The accident occurred at 7:55 p.m. Monday on Kansas Highway 171 and 260th Road, a half-mile west of Opolis, the Kansas Highway Patrol crash logs said...