Stories from Thursday, May 24, 2007

Around three years removed from his year-long stint in Iraq, Fort Scott resident and former U.S. Army soldier Daniel Rowe still has trouble talking about some of the things he experienced during his time in the war. He knows he's not alone. So, to help people like himself, who have served in Iraq, Rowe is trying to start a Veterans of the Iraq War support group. ...

Liddia Juanita Marsh, age 76, a resident of 120 McCleverty, Fort Scott, died Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at the Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott. She was born January 14, 1931, in Fort Scott, the daughter of James Herbert Davis and Liddia Jane Babbitt Davis. She married Earl Marsh on March 5, 1950, in Fort Scott. Juanita worked in the toy department at Ben Franklin and also as a letter cutter for Bruce Marble and Granite Works...

WOODY -- Makayna Renae' Woody, a girl, was born at 5:22 p.m. on Wednesday, May 23, 2007, at Mercy Health Center, to parents Brad Woody and Lindsey Cown, Fort Scott. She weighed 6 pounds, 14 ounces at birth. Maternal grandparents are Edwin Eugene Cowan and Judith Eloise Davis, both of Fort Scott. Paternal grandparents are Bobby Ray Woody, Mansfield and Cynthia Diane Hamilton, Fort Scott...

A Fort Scott man will find out on Friday how much time he'll spend in prison for pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a 10 year-old girl. David E. Shockey, 37, is expected to be sentenced at 10 a.m. Friday at the Bourbon County Courthouse. Sixth Judicial District Judge Mark Ward will decide if Shockey spends five years or five to 11 years in prison, according to court documents...

Late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning, a large container holding gallons of used cooking oil from a local fast food restaurant capsized when grease collection workers attempted to empty the substance into a holding tank on their truck. The result of the mishap was a grease spill that blanketed the parking lot of the Sonic Drive-In and a portion of the 1700 block of south National Avenue. ...

Long-time Fort Scott resident Dola Cress might have never been promised a rose garden, as the popular 1970 country song said, but her name now graces one in Fort Scott. Staff and clients of Tri-Valley Developmental Services, representatives of the Bourbon County Master Gardeners organization, several members of the Fort Scott PRIDE program, and other friends of Cress surprised the 30-year PRIDE member and community volunteer on Wednesday by naming a rose garden in her honor at Heritage Park, on the corner of First and Main streets .. ...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) Dr. Bennie Davis, the veterinary surgeon who finished his education last year and came here to practice his profession, has been appointed to the position of veterinary surgeon at South Omaha by the government. The appointment was made by the Bureau of Animal Industry. The position carries with it a salary of $1,400 a year. It was only nine days ago that Dr. Davis applied for the appointment...

Records Police report Sheriff's report Drake, James E., 34, Oklahoma., was arrested at 6: 29 p. m. Monday by deputy sheriffs on a Bourbon County warrant for driving under the influence. KHP...

Farm Service Agency (FSA) Administrator Teresa Lasseter recently highlighted the results of two studies showing that the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is creating conditions which produce and sustain millions of ducks and grassland birds in the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) of North Dakota, South Dakota and northeastern Montana...

With haying season nearly upon us, this article will cover some key concepts to outside hay storage and feeding methods. These concepts are the main points of the publication, "Minimizing Losses in Hay Storage and Feeding."...

Kansas is getting the hang of this whole export thing. Data from a recent Kansas Department of Commerce study shows that Kansas businesses totaled an all-time high of $8.63 billion in exports in 2006, marking the second straight year the state has achieved record-setting export totals, a KDOC statement said...