Stories from Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Hazardous weather was the contributing factor to several wrecks on Tuesday afternoon in the local area. With wind chills in the single digits and periods of freezing drizzle in addition to ice and snow packed roads, motorists must be very attentive when traveling both short and long distances, according to Fort Scott Police Lt. Travis Shelton...

FSCC's new Construction Trades Program will soon have a new facility to occupy. The Construction Trades Program, which began at FSCC this fall after the award of a nearly $2 million grant from the Labor Department in the spring of 2008, teaches students many different trades that coincide with the construction trades field. The program held classes this fall in Bourbon and Crawford County schools...

Two visitors from the Far East paid a visit to the Lowell Milken Center on Tuesday. Representatives of the Tokyo, Japan-based Fuji Television Network, Inc., were in town Tuesday at the educational center to interview center officials and founders of the student-driven "Life in a Jar" project, which tells the story of Polish heroine Irena Sendler, a social worker who saved more than 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II...

Above Merl Humphrey's office, 5 N. Main St., stands a woman in the window, rather a female mannequin. In the window is a woman dressed in a 1920s lawn dress and a floral hat while holding an electric candle. The mannequin, named Belva, is one of two mannequins that are watching over downtown. The other woman, named Downtown Dolly, is dressed in 1880s-style clothing and keeps an eye on downtown from above The Country Cupboard...

ST. PAUL -- Travis Aikins' 13 points helped lead Uniontown's boys to a 40-36 win over St. Paul in the first Three Rivers League doubleheader of the season here Tuesday night. The Eagles (1-0 TRL, 3-2 overall) trailed 14-6 after one period of play but outscored the Indians 20-8 over the next 16 minutes...

The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks will assist ten youth in experiencing part of the great outdoors by providing the opportunity to take part in a youth deer hunt. With private landowner cooperation and Department personnel assistance, youth deer hunts will be conducted from Jan. ...