Stories from Friday, May 27, 2016

The defendant in a felony murder and child abuse case was among other witnesses to take the stand Wednesday as a jury trial continued in Bourbon County District Court. Anthony M. Anderson, who faced charges of first-degree felony murder and child abuse for his alleged involvement in the April 2015 death of 6-month-old Aiden J. Osborn, was the first witness called to testify by defense attorney Robert Myers after the state rested late Wednesday morning...

A jury found the defendant in a felony murder and child abuse case guilty on both charges late Thursday afternoon in Bourbon County District Court. After returning from deliberations that lasted about two-and-a-half hours, Bourbon County District Judge Mark Ward read the verdicts issued by the jury, which found Anthony M. Anderson, for his involvement in the death of 6-month-old Aiden J. Osborn in April 2015, guilty on one count of first-degree felony murder and one count of abuse of a child...

The 13th Annual Dave Regan Memorial Softball Tournament will take place July 9 at Ellis Park. This is a co-ed softball tournament with a three-to-four game guarantee based on the number of teams entered. The field is limited to the first 16 teams to sign up...

Fort Scott Community College's softball team did not have any players named to the Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division team this season. But the Greyhounds did get six posts on the All-Division II-District D Team. The conference team was chosen from players in the 12-team Eastern Division. The All-District team has players from the six teams that were in the District D post-season tournament...

Six members of Fort Scott Community College's baseball team received All-Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division honors in voting conducted by conference coaches last week. Every Greyhound honored is a sophomore. Outfielder Jedd Andrade was named to the First Team. Catcher Andrew Tanous was voted to the Second Team and second baseman Jacob Biller, third baseman Nick Banman and pitchers Ryan McCullough and Matt Hicks were named to the Honorable Mention list...

Three members of Uniontown's softball team earned sports on the All-Three Rivers League team as named by league coaches earlier this week. Uniontown senior Holly Shinn and junior Taylor Cooper were both named to the First Team, which had 20 members. Sophomore pitcher Keely Goodridge was named to the Honorable Mention list...

Pittsburg High School is the winner of the 2015-16 Martin Rohde Award, given each season to the Southeast Kansas League school that performs the best across the board in each sport the league sponsors. The award has been handed out since the 1976-77 school year...

Concerns that a lawsuit filed against Drywood and Scott Township trustees should prevent any agency from responding to emergencies in the District 2 Garland Fire District are unfounded, according to the attorney representing District 2. In the days that followed a May 17 Bourbon County Commission meeting, Charles Gentry, attorney for District 2, was unavailable for comment on statements and questions raised by emergency personnel concerning Scott Township fire fighters' lack of response to District 2 Garland Fire Department.. ...

This year is the 25th anniversary of Operation Desert Storm. During that war, Lila Sise Spurgeon, a Uniontown High School graduate, was stationed at Lajes Field in the Azorean Islands, Portugal. "I was a radio operator, high frequency communication," Spurgeon told the Tribune...

Margie McBride places a basket of flowers at the gravesite of her parents, Charles Patrick Brown and Mary Brown, Friday at Fort Scott National Cemetery. McBride said she and her husband recently moved back to Fort Scott from Texas and decided to place the flowers Friday in anticipation of rain, which is in the forecast this weekend...

WICHITA -- Fort Scott High School senior Josh Hudiburg won the Class 4A State javelin title on the very last throw of the competiton here Friday, the highlight of the Tigers' performances at the Kansas State Track and Field Championships at Wichita State University...