Stories from Saturday, September 8, 2012

Brenda Joyce Welch, 62, a resident of Madison, Kan., died Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012, at the Via Christi Emergency Room in Pittsburg, Kan. She was born June 5, 1950, in Allen County, Kan., the daughter of Ray Hutton and Elsie King Hutton. She first married Kenneth Davis. ...

Horace Leon Gray, 69, Nevada, passed away on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012, at St. Luke's South Hospital, Overland Park, Kan., following a brief illness. He was born June 22, 1943, in Magnolia, Ark., to Elmer Nolan and Evelyn Bunch Gray. On March 11, 1962, he was married in El Dorado, Ark., to Mary Jane Hollensworth and she survives of the home...

Terry Wayne Page, 58, resident of Las Vegas, Nev., died Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012, at the Southern Hills Hospital in Las Vegas. Funeral services for Terry Page will be announced by the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main.

Strong winds from storms rolling through Bourbon County on Friday afternoon knocked down more than 45 transmission poles and left thousands of Westar Energy customers in the Fort Scott area without power. As of 8:30 p.m. Friday, 4,122 customers in Bourbon County were without power...

FORT SCOTT -- Fort Scott High School's volleyball team was swept in a non-league triangular at the FSHS gymnasium Thursday evening. The Tigers lost to Wellsvillle, 28-26, 25-23, and Paola, 25-13, 25-8. The Tigers fell to 3-6 on the season and are 0-4 at home...

INDEPENDENCE, Kan. -- Fort Scott High School's tennis team finished second at the first of two invitationals they will play here in the next few days. The Tigers earned second-place finishes from both singles entries and thirds from both doubles teams...

COLUMBUS, Kan. -- Straton Hunziker found himself wide open in the end zone to catch Johnathan Stark's 10-yard pass for the game-winning score on Fort Scott's possession of the second overtime period Friday night as Fort Scott High improved to 2-0 on the season with a 35-32 vicvory over Columbus...