Stories from Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Jury selection in Bourbon County District Court Tuesday resulted the creation of a 15-member grand jury to investigate accusations that Fort Scott city officials have committed a number of criminal acts. For more than three hours, Bourbon County Attorney Terri Johnson and Sixth Judicial Chief Judge Richard Smith questioned potential and actual jurors to weed out any conflicts of interest in an effort to ensure that they can be unbiased when investigating the allegations...

Member teachers of the Fort Scott Chapter of the Kansas National Education Association (KNEA) and the USD 234 Board of Education will hold one final salary negotiation session in an attempt to resolve the two sides' disagreements on pay raises for the district's teachers...

As of press time, the Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce, 231 E. Wall St., had 77 tickets remaining for the Taste of Home Cooking School to take place Tuesday, Oct. 3 at Memorial Hall. Also, the Nevada Daily Mail office, 131 S. Cedar St., Nevada, Mo., had 33 tickets available at press time. No tickets are left at The Fort Scott Tribune office. Tickets are $8 each...

UNIONTOWN -- USD 235 Superintendent Randy Rockhold said that an enrollment increase is good news for his small, rural district. Nearly 500 pre-school through 12th grade students are enrolled in two U-235 schools for the 2006-07 school year, an increase of almost 50 students since the 2004-05 school year, Rockhold said...