Stories from Friday, January 12, 2007

Slick roads caused at least three vehicle accidents Friday morning as freezing rain fell on Bourbon County and much of southeast Kansas. Around 8 a.m. two Fulton residents were injured when their Chevrolet Tracker, a small sport utility vehicle, rolled over on Kansas Highway 7. ...

NICKELSON -- Patrick and Krystal Nickelson would like to announce the birth of their identical twin daughters, Paige Elizabeth and Keira Jaclyn, born December 21, 2006 at Overland Park Regional Medical Center in Overland Park. Paige weighed 6 pounds, 4 ounces and was 18 inches long. ...

Family members gathered at the home of Larry and Goldie Arndt on Christmas Eve to enjoy a soup and sandwich supper, and the opening of gifts. On Christmas Day all were present for the annual Christmas dinner with Larry and Goldie. Those attending were Goldie and Una Wells, Marshall Beerbower and Stephanie Jessica and Alex of Fort Scott, Chuck, Donna and Tony Weyant and Dale Overcash from Mapleton, David Elbrader and friend, Redfield, Jack and Laura Ripper and Levi, Bronson, along with Jacks mother, Joyce from Pittsburg; Matt Weyant, Brandon, and Regan , Alvin and Mary Beerbower and Melony, Dale and Mindy Carpenter and Dylan and Cheyenne, Josh and Mary Ann Binford and Aiden, Dawn Adams, and Dick Binford and Alex of Uniontown. ...

It's appropriate that this year's Kansas Shrine Bowl high-school football all-star game will be played at Fort Hays State University. Why? Because Uniontown senior Chad Hays was one of the 68 Kansas seniors selected to participate in the game, which will be played July 28...

BASEHOR -- Both of Fort Scott High School's basketball teams will play here Tuesday in the first round of the Basehor-Linwood Bobcat Invitational. Fort Scott's boys will play Bonner Springs at 4:30 while the girls will take on Holton at 6 p.m. The first round begins Monday afternoon. The girls' top seed St. Joseph-Benton (Mo.) will take on Bonner Springs at 3 p.m. with host Basehor-Linwood taking on St. Teresa's Academy of Kansas City, Mo. at 6:30...

PLEASANTON -- Crest's boys and Metro Academy's girls are the top seeds in the annual Pleasanton Mid-Season Tournament, which begins here Tuesday. Metro Academy, out of Kansas City, Mo., will help kick off the tournament when it's girls face Prairie View at 4 p.m. in the north gymnasium. At the same time, Crest's girls will play Northeast-Arma in the south gymnasium...

CHEROKEE -- Jayhawk-Linn's basketball teams will play Monday in the first round of the Southeast-Cherokee Lancer Classic. Jayhawk-Linn's girls. the No. 4 seed, will play Southeast at 4:30 in the east gymnasium. Jayhawk-Linn's boys, seeded fifth, will play St. Paul at 8 in the east gym...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) If any undertaker in Fort Scott fails to report to the city clerk the death of any person within five days after the decease, he is liable to a fine of not less than $5 in each case. During the year just closed neither of the undertaking establishments reported a single death to Clara Brown, though there were over 70 deaths in that period which should have received some sort of entry at the clerk's office. ...