Stories from Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Fort Scott Community College has accepted a bid from the C.H.A.M.P.S. Heart of Texas Bowl and will face Southwest Junior College Football Conference runner-up Kilgore on Saturday, Dec. 2 in Copperas Cove, Texas. FSCC athletic director Bob Marshall confirmed the bid this morning. He noted that a former Greyhound head coach, Jack Welch, is the bowl game's director...

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High School's boys basketball team was picked to win the Southeast Kansas League championship in a coaches' poll at a media conference here Monday afternoon. Fort Scott's girls were tabbed for third place although they did receive a first-place vote...

By Michael Glover The Fort Scott Tribune Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is accepting comments from residents concerning which candidate they think should be named the next Bourbon County District Court judge. From now until Nov. 22, comments can be submitted to Sebelius' office, and those comments will be considered as factors in her decision, which is expected to be made by Nov. 22, spokeswoman Nicole Corcoran said...

This year there are a couple of changes in the recommendations for cooking turkey. The United States Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service has revised its recommendations for washing raw meat and poultry, as well as the cooked temperature of poultry...