Stories from Monday, January 22, 2007

About three hours after snow began flying on Saturday, slick road conditions triggered back-to-back injury accidents and numerous incidents of motor vehicles sliding off of Southeast Kansas roadways. Heavy snow pounded Bourbon County relentlessly for about six hours on Saturday, unloading around four inches of snow before ending late Saturday. It was the second consecutive weekend a winter snow has blanketed the area...

MESSER -- Brady Scott Messer, a boy, was born at 8:10 a.m. Thursday, January 18, 2007 at Mercy Health Center, to parents Josh and Kari Messer, Fort Scott. He weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces at birth. He joins one sister, Jadyn. Maternal grandparents are Bob and Karen Stewart, Fulton. ...

HUDSON -- Connor Joleen Hudson, a girl, was born at 1:21 p.m. on Friday, January 19, 2007 at Mercy Health Center, to parents Jeremiah and Dusti Hudson, Fort Scott. She weighed 8 pounds, 11 ounces at birth. She joins one brother, Tucker. Maternal grandparents are Greg and Jeanise Malone, Fort Scott. ...

STOCKTON -- Madison Elizabeth Stockton, a girl, was born at 5:56 p.m. on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 at Olathe Medical Center to parents Eric and Janet Stockton, Louisburg. She weighed 7 pounds, 14.7 ounces and was 20.5 inches long at birth. She joins two sisters Trisha and Tori. Maternal grandparents are David and Charlene Brennon, Prescott. Paternal grandparents are Larry and Carol Stockton, Fort Scott...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) For over two weeks now the police officials have been quietly at work on the case of the man W.C. Bryant, of Linn County, who some time ago was pounced upon and beaten within an inch of his life by some unknown ruffians. Bryant has been sleeping at the calaboose every night since the attack and spends most of the day loitering around there. He was beaten up until he was hardly strong enough to walk. He will carry marks of the encounter to the grave...

BASEHOR -- Fort Scott High's boys held a large enough lead and had played dominantly enough that one could not have thought that there would be any way host Basehor-Linwood would be able to come back and win the third-place game of the Bobcat Invitational here Saturday...

A news article in a recent issue of Newsweek magazine said Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, is expected to propose legislation that calls for the federal government to provide funding for a plan that would ultimately lead to longer school days for children...