Stories from Thursday, May 10, 2007

Note: This is part one in a two-part series on the recent legislative forum held at the Fort Scott Inn on Tuesday. Three area lawmakers weighed in on the outcome of the recent legislative session and discussed vital state issues during a special forum Tuesday evening...

A husband and wife from Redfield have been charged with manufacturing and possession of methamphetamine at their home on Jayhawk Road. The Bourbon County Attorney's Office on Monday filed high-level felony charges against Janet S. Clayton and her husband, Danny J. Clayton...

The Bourbon County Attorney's Office filed charges on Tuesday against a Fort Scott man for the alleged rape of a 13-year-old girl. Another man also potentially faces charges in the rape of a 14-year-old girl. Matt R. Sisney, 19, has been charged with three felony counts of rape. Court documents allege that he raped the 13-year-old on three separate occasions. The acts allegedly occurred on April 2; sometime between April 2 and April 27, and on April 28, according to court records...

Ty Clearwater, a freshman on the Fort Scott Community College Rodeo Team from LaCygne, competed in the bull riding last weekend at Durant, Okla., despite some rather challenging injuries this season.  Clearwater had a strong lead in the point standings of the Central Plains Region going into the Fort Scott Rodeo in mid March. With his great effort at the rodeo he dislocated his shoulder in the short round performance. ...

Elsie G. Headrick, age 82, Richards, Missouri, passed away Monday, May 7, 2007, at her home following a brief illness. She was born April 13, 1925, in Stotesbury, Missouri, to Roy Wagner and Lucy Ann Hair Wagner. She married Walter Roy Headrick on April 13, 1944, in Fort Scott, and he preceded her in death on December 7, 2004...

NEW -- Cameron Thomas New, a boy, was born at 1:17 a.m. on Wednesday, May 9, 2007, at Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott, to parents Holli and Thomas New, Pleasanton. He weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces. He joins one sibling, Kaleb New. Maternal grandparents are Jo Hansuld, Pleasanton, and the late Frank Hansuld. ...

Physicals conducted at FSHS May 18 Physicals for the 2007-08 school year will be conducted at Fort Scott High School May 18 in the gymnasium from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m. These physicals, required by the Kansas State High School Activities Association, will cover all activities for the 2007-08 year...

Thanks to the waiver of the 10-game minimum, Fort Scott High's baseball team drew the No. 2 seed in the Anderson County Class 4A Regional Tournament, which will get underway Monday at Dutch Brummell Field in Garnett. Meanwhile, a coin toss between Fort Scott and Iola gave the Tigers the No. 3 seed in the Louisburg Class 4A Regional Softball Tournament, which will be played here beginning Monday...

Revised Thursday, 7:20 p.m.

The Red Cross responds to needs in Greensburg On a typical Friday night after 8 o'clock, people are settling into their nightly routines. But on May 4, residents of Greensburg, Kan. were huddled in their basements for shelter and protection as a 205 m.p.h. tornado tore though their town. It was anything but a typical Friday night...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) Will Poe, a farmer living two miles south of Hiattville, this afternoon found in the timber on his place a leather wallet that was stolen from the Redfield Bank when it was robbed by dynamiters six weeks ago. The wallet contained some stock certificates and some notes, just as it was when taken from the bank...

With the weather warming up and the days getting longer, more and more Americans are enjoying great tasting beef entrees cooked on the grill. May has been declared "Beef Month" by every governor of Kansas for the past 24 years...