Stories from Saturday, January 7, 2017

Pittsburg's girls took control in the second half Friday night as the Purple Dragons took a 44-28 win over Fort Scott High's girls in Southeast Kansas League play. Fort Scott held leads in the first quarter, scoring the game's first 4 points on baskets by Skyelar Brown and Kharsyn Dwyer. Dwyer scored from the left side with 2:35 to go to put the Tigers (1-2 SEK, 2-5 overall) ahead 6-5...

Francis Catherine Fursman, age 91, a former resident of Colony, Kansas, and more recently of Fort Scott, Kansas, passed away Thursday, January 5, 2017, at the Franklin House Assisted Living in Fort Scott. She was born December 26, 1925, in Bronson, the daughter of John Fletcher Harris and Maude Geyer Harris. ...

On a roll with a 7-point lead early in the second quarter, it might have made some sense if undefeated Pittsburg had pulled away and made Friday night's Southeast Kansas League battle a laugher on their rival's home floor. But Jesse Jones rallied the Tigers shortly into the period and Fort Scott High's boys fought back to give the Purple Dragons a fierce battle before falling, 78-70, in the highest-scoring game in the SEK this season...