Stories from Saturday, January 24, 2015

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt hit on topics such as the operations of his office, school finance and President Barack Obama's recent visit to Lawrence during the annual Southeast Kansas, Inc., meeting and dinner Thursday at the Liberty Theatre...

After Bourbon County Commissioners on Friday heard a summary of a community survey regarding the support of a jail project, Bourbon County Sheriff Bill Martin encouraged the commissioners move forward by contacting state legislators and signing an architectural contract...

Kenneth Keith Kerns, Sr., age 87, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, at the Guest Home Estates in Fort Scott. He was born Feb. 4, 1927, in Hutchinson, Kan., the son of Charles Alfred Kerns and Estella Pearl Lewis Kerns. He married Betty Gilchrist on Aug. ...

Uniontown Junior High's girls' basketball team has reported on the results of its games this week. On Monday, Eagle teams played at home against Jayhawk-Linn. Only the scores were reported. The eighth-grade team lost 42-9 and the seventh grade lost 23-8...

PLEASANTON -- Uniontown's boys finished in second place at the Pleasanton Mid-Season Tournament following an 81-38 loss to top-seeded Humboldt here Friday night. Humboldt improved to 9-2 on the season while Uniontown dropped to 5-7. No other information was available at press time...

FRONTENAC -- Despite holding Prairie View without a field goal in the fourth quarter, Fort Scott High's girls fell to the Buffalos, 38-34, in the consolation semifinals of the Frontenac Kansas Army National Guard Tournament here Friday afternoon. The Tigers (1-9) will play for seventh place today at 1 p.m. against Kansas City (Mo.) Hogan Prep, which lost to Frontenac in the other consolation semi by a 50-32 score...

Tournament schedule Girls Thursday's games (5) Webb City 63, (4) Prairie View 28 (2) Springfield-Kickapoo 89, (7) Kansas City, Mo.-Hogan Prep 10 (3) Blue Valley Southwest 48, (6) Frontenac 40 (1) Oklahoma City-Classen 77, (8) Fort Scott 42 Friday's games...

FRONTENAC -- Fifth-seeded Fort Scott's boys shot 58 percent from the field here Friday evening as they defeated eighth-seed Nevada, 71-57, in the semifinals of the Kansas Army National Guard Tournament. Fort Scott (7-3) will play No. 3 seed Pacific, Mo. in the championship game at 7 p.m. tonight. Nevada (4-9) will face Riverton for third place at 2:30 p.m. Both games will take place in the new gym at Frontenac High School...