Stories from Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Five Fort Scott police officers were commended Tuesday for their work on recent drug investigations. During the Fort Scott City Commission meeting, Fort Scott Police Chief Travis Shelton addressed commissioners regarding the work of officers on recent narcotics investigations. One includes an ongoing drug investigation being conducted by the FSPD, Kansas Bureau of Investigation Southeast Kansas Drug Task Force and the Bourbon County Sheriff's Office that to date has netted more than 50 arrests...

Local law enforcement authorities are trying to locate a suspect who led various agencies on a reported high-speed chase Monday evening. Fort Scott Police Department Capt. Shaun West said Tuesday the FSPD, Bourbon County Sheriff's Office and Kansas Highway Patrol were involved in a pursuit of a male suspect on a motorcycle that ended in the 10 block of North National Avenue. West said the original call involved a BCSO deputy contacting dispatch regarding the pursuit...

Douglas McArthur Brown, age 73, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Friday, July 3, 2015, at his home following a cancer illness. He was born May 1, 1942, in Eufaula, Okla., the son of Allen Brown and Arenita Gibbs Brown. He married Dorothy Jean Jones. ...

MARGUERITE GENEVIEVE CLEMENTS HOSLER Born Nov. 26, 1910 -- Passed March 2, 2015 -- age 104 Born in Fort Scott among five brothers and two sisters, Marguerite grew up, married Elmer Craig, bore a daughter and two sons, divorced eventually. It wasn't until a chance bus ride home to Fort Scott that engaged her in a conversation with a young soldier whom himself was returning home, but to Michigan. ...

Maurice Gene Bruns, 78, of Fort Scott, passed away at his home Monday, July 6, 2015. He was born March 28, 1937 in Wathena, Kan., the son of Howard Archibald and Vesta Hattie "Jackie" (Staines) Bruns. He married Charlene Cowan June 14, 1983 in Miami, Okla., and she survives of the home,...