Stories from Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Performers in a professional touring theater company will bring some historic figures and events to life today at the Fort Scott National Historic Site. The Bright Star Touring Theatre will present an original play, "Lift Every Voice: The Black Experience in the Heartland," at 7 p.m. in the site's Grand Hall. Admission to the show is free...

TOPEKA -- Victor Hughes, a 2013 graduate of Fort Scott High School, won the national championship in his weight class at the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) National Wrestling Tournament here Saturday night. Hughes, a two-time State medalist for the Tigers, went 5-0 in the tournament to win the national title at 149 pounds...

KANSAS CITY, MO. --Fort Scott Community College softball came away with a split with Maple Woods in non-conference play here Saturday. The Greyhounds (8-9) won the opener, 8-6, but lost the second game, 9-1. Fort Scott scored 3 runs in each of the first 2 innings of the opener. But Maple Woods came back to take the lead with 5 in the bottom of the second...

ARKANSAS CITY -- After dropping the first two games of the series at Lions Field Thursday, Fort Scott Community College's baseball team gained a split against No. 4 Cowley here Saturday in Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division play. Cowley (3-1 East, 11-5 overall) won the opener in eight innings, 5-4. Then Fort Scott (1-3, 11-3) won the second game 4-0...

SEDAN --Three minutes. With three minutes remaining in Saturday's Sedan Class 2A Sub-State Basketball Tournament here Saturday night, Uniontown's girls held a one-point lead over Colgan in a game that looked as if it would come down to the wire. Colgan, the tournament's No. 4 seed which had knocked off top-seeded host Sedan two nights before, was having none of that. The Panthers (13-9) scored the game's last 8 points and earned their third consecutive trip to State with a 32-25 victory...

Saturday was caucus day for Kansas voters. Bourbon County Republicans met in Mound City and the highest votes received were in favor of Ted Cruz. Bourbon County Democrats met in Cherokee and they chose Bernie Sanders. Democratic caucus The 2016 Democratic Presidential Caucus for Senate District 13 was held at Southeast High School in Cherokee, and District 12 voters went to Linn County...

Wade Harriger, age 59, resident of Fort Scott, died early Monday, March 7, 2016, at Mercy Hospital. Funeral services for Wade Harriger will be announced by the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main.