Stories from Tuesday, April 16, 2013

MOUND CITY -- Jayhawk-Linn swept a Three Rivers League doubleheader from Uniontown here Friday evening, winning the opener 2-1 and taking the nightcap 11-2. Eagle pitcher Taylor Wade (4-2) was hit by a line drive during the second game. "The game started out well," Uniontown head coach Paula Coyan said. "The team got down after the injury and didn't rebound well. We had some mental errors and it cost us the game."...

PITTSBURG -- Six Fort Scott High School athletes earned medals at the 24th Annual Jock's Nitch/PSU Gorilla Relays at Carnie Smith Stadium here Friday. Chris Allen won boys' javelin with a mark of 165 feet even, nearly 17 feet better than that of the runner-up, Riverton's Kevin Qualls (148 feet, 4 inches). Seth Marshall was fourth for the Tigers at 142' 11"...

PARSONS -- Gage Addington finished third in No. 1 singles here Friday as Fort Scott High School's tennis team competed in the Parsons Invitational. The Tigers will be at home this afternoon for the make-up of the Fort Scott Invitational, weather permitting. Play will begin at 3 p.m. If that is rained out, the Tigers' next tourney will be at Chanute Friday...

Fort Scott Community College head baseball coach John Hill III shared an interesting statistic with KSEK-FM's Matt Newbery after the Greyhounds defeated Labette in the second game of a doubleheader Sunday afternoon. "I was at a coaching convention," Hill remembered, "and one of the speakers said that about 70 percent of college baseball games are won by a team that scores more runs in one inning than the opponent scores in the entire game."...

The course conditions weren't the best due to damage caused by the previous weekend's storm. The weather conditions weren't the best -- cloudy and unseasonably cool -- due to the weather system that's supposed to bring storms this week. But Fort Scott High finished in second place as a team and won three individual medals in their home tournament at Woodland Hills Golf Course Monday...

BURLINGTON -- Uniontown High School's track team made the first of two trips here for the week on Monday when they Eagles attended the Waverly Invitational here. Although individual placings were not as high as they were at Thursday's meet at Oswego, head coach Jackie Hall said that many of her competitors posted better times and distances Monday...

Floyd Dewayne Camp, age 61, resident of Independence, Mo., died Monday April 15, 2013, at Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo. He was born Nov. 9, 1951, in Fort Scott, Kan., the son of Floyd Daniel Camp and Betty Jeanette Wiggans Camp. He was a union carpenter with the Local Carpenters Union Chapter No. ...

Leona Irene Littleton, 83 of Fort Scott, died Saturday afternoon, April 13, 2013 at Fort Scott Mercy Hospital. She was born Dec. 13, 1929 in Bates County, Mo. the daughter of John Marvin Lee and Mary Susan (Norval) Compton. She married John Woodrow Littleton Jan. 10, 1948 and he preceded her in death Feb. 24, 2000...

Margaret Catherine Hill Sullivan, age 67, a resident of Ft. Scott, Kan., died Sunday, April 14, 2013, at the Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott, Kan. She was born March 18, 1946, in Pleasanton, Kan., the daughter of Willis and Florence Hughes Hill. Margaret was one of three children. ...

"The power of words...stories can change lives." So began the introduction by Norm Conard of two best-selling authors, Jenna Blum and Jack Meyer, who appeared as part of the Healing in the Heartland lecture and book signing on April 13. The two authors were part of the event which took place on April 12 at the Danny and Willa Elllis Fine Arts Center at Fort Scott Community College...

This summer Bourbon County rural residents may be offered some relief from dusty roads. The Bourbon County Commissioners on Monday asked Public Works Director Marty Pearson to get estimates on how much it will cost to treat roads with calcium to minimize dust during the dry season...

Members of the Holmes Brigade, the 24th Missouri unit, and other area reenactors shoot their weapons during Saturday's firing demonstration. It was just one feature of the Civil War Encampment Weekend at the Fort Scott National Historic Site on Saturday and Sunday...

Officials have ruled a tragic incident that took place Wednesday, April 10, in rural Bourbon County a double murder-suicide. A news release from the Bourbon County Sheriff's Office said Monday that while there are lab reports still pending, an investigation has determined the incident, which left three people dead, to be a double homicide/suicide...