Stories from Saturday, January 30, 2016

A firefighter works to extinguish a vehicle on fire Friday afternoon, near Garland. Eleven firefighters from Garland, Hiatville, Devon fire departments and Scott Township Fire Department responded to a fire at 2:49 p.m. at 2598 Calvary Road, according to Delbert Mumbower, chief of Fire District No.3. ...

A meeting held Thursday to provide a progress report on the jail project was also an opportunity for the project manager to clarify an earlier statement that the project might go over budget. In April, voters barely approved a .4 percent retail sales tax increase to fund the $6.8 million project...

PARSONS -- Fort Scott Middle School's seventh-grade boys' basketball team swept Parsons here Thursday. The "A" Team won 34-32 in overtime as Teagan Southwell rebounded a missed shot and put it back as the buzzer went off. He finished with 10 points for the Tigers while Gavin Pytlowany led the team with 13. Ivan Witt had 8 rebounds...

FRONTENAC -- Fort Scott High School's wrestlers defeated Frontenac in a dual here Thursday night, 37-36, holding on after the host Raiders won the final four matches of the night. The teams to agree to draw what weight class would start the dual instead of beginning at 106 pounds. So the dual began at 195, then went back up to 106 after the heavyweight bout and ended at 182...

UNIONTOWN -- Uniontown's boys knocked Crest out of the top spot in the Three Rivers League here Friday night, beating the Lancers, 49-44, at the West Bourbon Elementary gymnasium. Garrett Elder led the Eagles (2-2 TRL, 8-6 overall) with 15 points while Jesse Kuns added 14. The Eagles led 35-30 after three quarters and held on...

COFFEYVILLE -- Fort Scott High's girls scored the first 13 points of Friday night's Southeast Kansas League match-up versus Coffeyville and never let up, going on to a 60-30 victory. it was the largest margin of victory for a Tiger team since a 65-27 rout of Riverton on Pittsburg State's court (38 points) on Jan. 28, 2014...

COFFEYVILLE --Although other teams were playing, the contest between Fort Scott High's boys and Coffeyville here Friday night was the only game between Southeast Kansas League teams that counted in the standings. But once that game was over, the standings became very, very interesting...