Stories from Thursday, March 7, 2013

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Cameron Woodring, a former Fort Scott Tiger, led Ozark Christian College with 22 points and 7 assists Tuesday night to help the Ambassadors knock off Valley Forge Christian in the first round of the National Christian College Athletic Association Division II National Men's Basketball Tournament...

CHANUTE -- Fort Scott Community College's baseball team finally hit the field Tuesday following a three-day delay to the start of their four-game Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division series with Neosho County. Prior to Tuesday, the Greyhounds last played February 17, when they split a doubleheader against North Central Missouri at Pittsburg. Since then, they've had a four-game series with Muscatine (Iowa) cancelled and a home single game versus Crowder (Mo.) postponed twice...

About two and a half years after being badly burned in an accident at his home, Fort Scott resident Paul Studyvin and his family will try to get through another trying ordeal. Tuesday night, a fire at 1024 S. Judson St., the home of Studyvin, his wife, Trisha, and three young daughters, Cora, 7, Chloe, 11, and Carlee, 12, took down much of the structure, and took much of the family's belongings as well...

It will be a few months before a Bourbon County man accused of murdering his wife by setting their home on fire on Oct. 13, 2011 will be going to trial -- and when he does, it may be in another county. Brent Bollinger was arrested in January 2012 and charged with one count of first-degree murder, premeditated, an off-grid felony, or in the alternative, felony murder; one count of aggravated arson, a severity level three person felony; and one count of aggravated child endangerment, a severity level nine person felony.. ...

Fort Scott High School's girls will face Clearwater in the first round of the Kansas Class 4A State Tournament at 4:45 p.m. today in Salina's Bicentennial Center. The Tigers, with a record of 17-5, are the No. 4 seed in the tournament. Clearwater, which is southwest of Wichita, is the No. 5 seed at 16-6...

After eight weeks of rehearsing, 22 actors from the Fort Scott High School drama department are ready to present "Leaving Iowa" to the community. Show times are 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday at the high school auditorium. Written by Tim Clue and Spike Manton, the message has a serious undertone: take no day for granted, according to Patty LaRoche, FSHS drama instructor and play director...

Dorothy Adelaide Keeth, 86, died Feb. 24, 2013 in Orlando, Fla. She was born March 23, 1926 in Fort Lewis, Wash., the daughter of George John and Marguerite Josephine (Bell) Fossen. She married Robert E. Keeth May 1, 1948 at the McCord Air Force Base in Washington...

Ryan and Amber Lewis, Fort Scott, are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Hannah Joy Lewis, on February 4, 2013 at 1:26 p.m. at Mercy Hospital. Hannah weighed 7 lbs. 7 ozs. and is welcomed by siblings Micah Lewis and Owen Lewis. Maternal grandparents are Dr. ...