Stories from Saturday, February 26, 2011

The 2011 city of Nevada Dog Registration and Vaccination Clinic will be held at the Franklin P. Norman City/County Community Center today, 1-3 p.m., with Dr. Brad Copeland from Nevada Veterinary Clinic. The veterinarians will be offering a variety of services including rabies vaccinations, parvo vaccinations and deworming. ...

FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- It took more than a year and multiple reschedulings, but a Fort Scott man's fate has finally been decided in the Bourbon County District Court. Robert L. Miller was sentenced Friday afternoon to a total of 47 months in state prison by 6th District Judge Mark Ward in connection with the December 2009 murder of local 37-year-old Tynce Joles...

Having a physical disability does not necessarily mean you must become less active in doing agriculture-related work. Continuing to work is often just a matter of learning how to make adjustments and getting special equipment you need. Representatives of local, state and federal agencies have scheduled a free AgrAbility seminar to show how to do those things Wednesday, March 9, at On My Own at 428 E. Highland St., which is taking reservations at (417) 667-7007 and (800) 362-8852...

FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- A Fort Scott High School sophomore has been chosen to perform with an acclaimed national performing organization this summer. Ackland Milton, a bass II singer with the Fort Scott High School choir, will join other select student musicians chosen from applicants representing nearly every state when The Sound of America Honor Band and Chorus begins its 2011 European Concert Tour in July...

Fueled by a building chocked with flammable substances, a rampaging Friday night conflagration leveled a venerable Nevada business, knocked off power for blocks and choked the downtown area with toxic fumes from a towering black and gray cloud of volcano-like smoke...

FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- The Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference recently released its Fall All-Academic selections for football and volleyball. Fifteen Fort Scott Community College athletes were named to the teams. Football saw 12 players honored: Quin Bruce, Dallas Buck, Garret Ericson, Shane Hammer, Jeff Johnson, Sam Patton, Sam Quilice, Kevin Richard, Dillon Roberts, Arthur Rucker, David Shank and Brenton Smith...

CHETOPA, Kan. -- Uniontown's girls concluded regular-season play by beating Chetopa, 56-38, in a Three Rivers League make-up game here Thursday night. Chetopa's boys defeated Uniontown, 51-46. No other information was provided about the game. Both Uniontown teams begin Kansas Class 3A Sub-State Tournament play Tuesday night with a doubleheader at Kansas City Christian in Prairie Village as, by coincidence, both the girls' and boys' teams happened to be seeded against each other. ...

All three of the Herald-Tribune area's junior college basketball teams will be in action this afternoon as post-season play gears up. Cottey College's women will host a first-round Region XVI Division II playoff game this afternoon at 2 p.m. at the Hinkhouse Center in Nevada against St. ...

A woman stood outside the Franklin P. Norman City/County Community Center with a friend Friday night, as a fire that had forced her evacuation from her home continued to burn. "I just want to go home," she said. It's a sentiment obviously held by several evacuees from Friday's fire, many of whom sat in the community center's lobby that night. ...

SALINA, Kan. -- Two Fort Scott High School wrestlers remain alive at the Kansas Class 4A State Wrestling Tournament going into today's action. Senior Drew Bryant (29-13) advanced to the semifinals at 285 pounds but was pinned there by Abilene's Matt Holt. Bryant drops into the consolation semifinals, where he has the luxury of watching his potential opponent wrestle twice before Bryant faces him...