Stories from Saturday, February 18, 2012

Gilbert Douglass ("Doug") Sweetser, of Frontenac, Kan., died unexpectedly on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. He was 72. Doug was born at home in rural Walnut Township, Crawford County, Kan., on Aug. 2, 1939, to Glenn and Mildred (Huber) Sweetser. He attended primary schools in Walnut and Hepler and graduated from Girard High School in 1957. ...

Floyd Wilford Rich, 76, Nevada, passed away Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012, at the Nevada Regional Medical Center in Nevada. He was born June 24, 1935, in Nevada, to Floyd Jasper Rich and Mabel Elizabeth Kauffman Rich. He was married Nov. 27, 1955, in Nevada, to Sue Scott and she survives of the home...

Sue Bailey, 85, Nevada, passed away Friday, Feb. 17, at the Barone Alzheimer's Care Center in Nevada, following a lengthy illness. She was born Aug. 21, 1926, in Cotter, Ark., to Jonathan Calloway Beavers and Bertha Lena Bullen Beavers. She was married Feb. 6, 1946, in Harrison, Ark., to John Bailey and he preceded her in death Nov. 30, 1999...

A road repair project in Bourbon County is on a list of state highway construction and maintenance ventures recently approved by the Kansas Department of Transportation. KDOT announced this week it had approved bids for several statewide highway construction and maintenance projects. Bids were let Jan. 18 in Topeka...

Rural Vernon County resident Thomas Reardon has been issued a summons to appear in the 28th Circuit Court for arraignment on 18 class D felony counts of animal abuse/torture/mutilation while animal was still alive-persistent offender and seven misdemeanor counts of violating provisions regarding disposal of dead animals, court documents say...

Unidentified residents on horseback helped round up three cows at the Windy Acres Ranch on East First Street in Fort Scott on Friday afternoon. A total of seven cows found their way out after reportedly escaping their trailer via the open gate. Tom Harper, one of many Fort Scott police officers called to the scene, said traffic was stopped to prevent the cattle getting hurt...

CCPA to revive 'Of Mice and Men' for its third presentation in Nevada.

ARMA, Kan. -- Northeast claimed its first Three Rivers League boys' basketball championship by defeating Uniontown, 43-31, in a defensive contest. The Eagles had won their last six games and came into the game a half-game ahead of Northeast, which moved over from the CNC League prior to last season, has one league game remaining Tuesday versus Altoona-Midway, which hasn't won a game this season...

FORT SCOTT -- Five members of the Fort Scott High School wrestling already know they're going to next weekend's Class 4A State Tournament at Salina, Kan. Six others will be looking to join them when the Fort Scott Class 4A Regional Tournament resumes late this morning at the FSHS gymnasium...