Stories from Friday, February 22, 2013

GIRARD -- Fort Scott High School's powerlifting teams participated in the 20th Annual Strength and Speed Meet here last weekend. Tiger girls took first place with Maddi Allen winning three events. The boys finished in seventh place with Seth Marshall winning four medals, including a second and two thirds...

Fort Scott High School will try to squeeze in its final basketball doubleheader of the regular season tonight at the FSHS gymnasium while the Class 4A State Wrestling Tournament will begin about six hours later this afternoon than originally scheduled due to the difficulty in travel caused by the so-called "Winter Storm Q."...

Feb. 11 Request ambulance, 200 block 23rd Traffic stop, 1800 block Main Check subject, 1900 block Main Check subject, 1000 block 260th Criminal damage, 1900 block Main Traffic stop, 6th Traffic stop, Hwy 69 Theft, 900 block Hwy 69 Alarm, 300 block Circle...

Korbin Riley Judd Tiffany Judd, Fort Scott, is pleased to announce the birth of her son, Korbin Riley Judd, on Feb. 19, 2013, at 5:45 p.m. at Mercy Hospital. Korbin weighed 6 lbs. 11 ozs. Maternal grandparents are Kyle and Angela Sprague, Fort Scott...

Connie Shoemaker, 63, of Fort Scott, died Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013 at Fort Scott Mercy Hospital. Funeral arrangements for Connie Shoemaker are incomplete and will be announced later by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home.

JoAnn Kenney, age 82, a resident of Fort Scott, Kansas, died Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, at the Guest Home Estates in Fort Scott. She was born Feb. 12, 1931, in Kansas City, Missouri, the daughter of Everette Cates and Iola Grace Stewart Cates. She married John Henry Morris. They later divorced. Jo Ann had worked as a supervisor in the Publishing Department of Southwestern Bell Telephone...

Glenn McKinnis Smith, age 92, resident of Uniontown, Kan., died Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, at Mercy Hospital. He was born August 19, 1920, in Stonington, Colo., the son of Charles Harrison Smith and Rena Ruth McKinnis Smith. Glenn was a 1938 graduate of Uniontown High School. ...

From November 2012 to January 31, 2013, members of the Bourbon County 4-H Shooting Sports Club spent more than 12 weeks taking donations for the cluab at two local businesses and entering those who donated money to the club in a free drawing for a CZ455 American .22 rifle...

State legislators representing Fort Scott and Bourbon County, as part of their larger districts, have confirmed their attendance at an upcoming Legislative Coffee organized by the Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce. The event is scheduled to take place from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday, March 9, at the Common Ground Coffee Company, 116 S. Main St...

MAPLETON -- The 2013 season for a local recreation park will kick off in typical fashion Saturday. Gates will open at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. for the Kanrocks Recreation Association's annual Frostbite event, an annual event that includes geocaching, guided trail rides, and other activities. The park, designed for off-road enthusiasts, is located at 2051 130th St...

Next fall, members of the Fort Scott Community College Rodeo team will have a new practice facility if construction goes as planned, said Gary Palmer, Director of Development and Alumni Relations at Fort Scott Community College. Ground has already been broken for the 40' X 72' building, which will be brick construction on a concrete slab. ...

Three adults and one juvenile were taken into custody after Fort Scott Police officers executed a search warrant Wednesday afternoon of a local residence. About 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Fort Scott Police Department officers arrived at 601 Heylman to serve a narcotics-related search warrant. Upon arrival, officers made contact with three adults and one juvenile, a news release said...

NEVADA -- A Fort Scott woman was injured in a single vehicle accident that occurred on Route K about two miles south of Nevada, Monday. According to Missouri State Highway Patrol Trooper Justin Leemasters, Shirley I. Greenway, 48, of Fort Scott, received moderate injuries when the 1997 Chevrolet Cavalier she was driving southbound ran off the roadway about 11:40 p.m. and struck an embankment...