Stories from Friday, January 3, 2020

Ralph E. Bradley, 83, died Jan. 1, 2020, at Newman Regional Health, Emporia. He was born May 27, 1936, on a farm near Prescott to Benjamin B. and Mabel E. (Self) Bradley. During the summers Ralph worked for O.E. Kaufman, a farmer in western Kansas. Ralph graduated from Mound City High School in 1954, Fort Scott Junior College in 1956, Emporia State University in 1959, and University of Kansas in 1967 with his Master’s Degree in Education. ...

Diane Lee Fryda, age 57, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2019, at the Via Christi Hospital Emergency Room in Fort Scott. She was born April 25, 1962, in Duluth, Minn., the daughter of Clifford Fryda and Rosemary Ruzinsky Fryda. ...

Two separate Bourbon County criminal cases are in the process of going through civil court as the convicted in each case challenge their sentences. During a pretrial motions hearing Thursday morning in Bourbon County District Court, Bourbon County District Judge Mark Ward set over the case of Brent Allan Bollinger vs. the State of Kansas, and the case of Anthony Michael Anderson vs. the State of Kansas for another hearing at 10 a.m. Friday, March 6...

Bourbon County election officials began the year with a little more jingle in their pockets. On Dec. 17, county commissioners voted to give each elected official a salary increase effective Dec. 15. It is the first increase issued for elected officials since Dec. 21, 2014...

It was looking more like fall than winter atGunn Park Friday afternoon. Temperatures were in the 50s, but are expected to be cooler today before rising again for Sunday.