Stories from Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Fourteen schools competed in the Fort Scott Invitational girls' golf tournament at Woodland Hills Golf Course Tuesday with nine of them represented among the 10 medalists in the meet. Uniontown's girls, playing their first varsity meet of the season, finished in fourth place with a four-woman, nine-hole score of 220. Fort Scott finished fifth with a 224 in its second varsity outing of the year, a four-stroke improvement over their first tournament at Oswego on Sept. 3...

As hard as this may be to believe, Fort Scott head soccer coach Andrew Cline felt his team's effort was better in Tuesday's 5-0 loss to Olathe Heritage Christian at Ellis Park than in Monday's 3-1 victory at Columbus. Senior Clark Campbell had a hand in all five Charger goals -- two scores and three assists -- as Heritage Christian controlled possession most of the day...

Pittsburg State University and Fort Scott Community College administrators are continuing discussions to expand the two higher education institutions' current partnership agreement. The new concept model is being called the Fort Scott Community College of Pittsburg State University...

The father of the defendant in a local arson and murder trial took the stand Tuesday afternoon and shed some light on his actions the night of a deadly house fire two years ago. Fort Scott Fire Department Capt. Dale Bollinger, the father of Brent Bollinger, who is standing trial for murder, arson and child endangerment for his alleged involvement in an Oct. ...

As the clock ticked closer to the end of his shift on Oct. 13, 2011, then Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper Brad Carpenter began making his way home towards Fort Scott, patrolling along the way. He'd just turned onto U.S. 69 from Highway 7 and was traveling north when he saw a southbound pickup traveling at a high rate of speed. He checked his radar and it was reading in the 90s...

Ruth Louise Read, age 79, resident of Fort Scott, died Monday, Sept. 9, 2013, at the Barone Alzheimer's Care Center in Nevada, Mo. She was born March 28, 1934, in St. Paul, Kan., the daughter of Charles "Bud" Groner and Vera Mudd Groner. She graduated from St. ...