Stories from Saturday, March 9, 2013

Southeast Kansas Regional Correctional Facility Jail Administrator Dylan Marlow, Bourbon County Attorney Terri Johnson and Sheriff Ron Gray were on hand at Friday's regular county commission meeting to plead their case for either major remodeling of the SEKRCC or a new correctional facility in the county...

Bourbon County treasurer Susan Quick expressed discontent with both attorney Dan Meara and Bourbon County Commissioners after Commission Chairman Allen Warren listed the amounts of delinquent taxes owed to the county from 2006 to 2011 during the regular Friday county commission meeting...

A fire that tore through a house at 1024 S. Judson Street Tuesday night was not the only blaze to break out at a local residence that day. Fort Scott Fire Department personnel doused a kitchen fire at 202 Hill Street about 1 a.m. Tuesday, about 16 hours before a fire on Judson Street forced Paul Studyvin, his wife, Trisha, and their three daughters, Cora, Chloe and Carlee, out of their home...

Fort Scott High School's play, "Leaving Iowa" continues tonight. "The message has a serious undertone: take no day for granted," according to Patty LaRoche, FSHS's drama instructor and play director. Show times are 7 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday at the high school auditorium...

SALINA -- Wamego's girls showed they are much more of a team than just letting their 6' 2" post players, sisters Kaylee and Lanie Page, go inside and make easy plays in the semifinals of the Class 4A State Tournament here Friday afternoon. And every aspect of their game shined in a 63-46 victory over Fort Scott High...