Stories from Wednesday, September 13, 2006

The Fort Scott Police Department has recently added five officers to its force, with the majority of those officers already trained. Corey Richmeier, 26, formerly of Ellinwood (a central Kansas town about 257 miles from Fort Scott), graduated from the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center and has one year of experience with the Ellinwood Police Department. ...

Eating right and losing weight, lowering stress levels, battling depression -- these are just a few aspects of life that many people deal with on a daily basis and the main focus of "Dancing Through Life: Balancing Work and Personal Life," a community seminar conducted Tuesday evening at Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott...

Young students at West Bourbon Elementary School in Uniontown now have the chance to participate in a unique learning opportunity. A youth mentoring program in USD 235, in which about 87 seventh and eighth grade students at Uniontown Junior Senior High School are able to teach and guide more than 250 kindergarten through sixth grade students at West Bourbon Elementary School, has been very successful, USD 235 Superintendent Randy Rockhold said during the USD 235 Board of Education's regular meeting on Monday.. ...

Members of the Fort Scott Chapter of the Kansas National Education Association (KNEA) officially declared impasse Tuesday night after a final contract negotiation meeting with members of the USD 234 bargaining team. A federal mediator will now be brought in to attempt to help the two sides resolve the issue. ...

LUCAS -- Jenna Marie Lucas, a girl, was born at 10:37 a.m. on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott, to parents Christina and Eric Lucas, Redfield. She weighed 6 pounds, 11 ounces at birth. She joins siblings Lorenza, Kristal, Alex, Angelica, Christina and Destiny. Maternal grandparents are Patty Greenfield, Fort Scott and Steve Burris, Braman, Oklahoma. Paternal grandparents are Mandy and Eric Lucas, Sr., Fort Scott...

WHEELER -- Zoie Rochelle Wheeler, a girl, was born at 8:21 a.m. on Thursday, September 7, 2006, at Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott to parents J.R. and Rocky Wheeler, Fort Scott. She weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces at birth. She joins two siblings, Jailynn and Morgan Wheeler. Maternal grandparents are Alva and Vicki Thornhill, Butler, Mo. Paternal grandparents are Dale and Jean Wheeler, Fort Scott...

CONNER -- Macey Gail Conner, a girl, was born at 11:04 p.m. on Thursday, September 7, 2006, at Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott to parents Russell and Nicole Conner, Fort Scott. She weighed 7 pounds, 14.8 ounces at birth. She joins two siblings, Madilyn and Megan. Maternal grandparents are Rick and Carol Singmaster, Arcadia. Paternal grandparents are Alvin and Jean Conner, Fort Scott...

A nominating commission charged with naming candidates to fill a district judge vacancy in the Sixth Judicial District, which includes Bourbon, Linn and Miami counties, has issued a request for assistance from the public, according to the Office of Judicial Administration in Topeka...

A 29-year-old Fort Scott man died Tuesday when he lost control of a motorcycle on Broadway and slammed into a car parked on the side of the road. Around 12:30 p.m., Donnie E. Ragan, 410 W. Eighth St., was riding north on Broadway when he unexpectedly lost control of the 2004 Suzuki motorcycle north of the intersection of Broadway and Third Street, according a Kansas Highway Patrol crash report. ...