Stories from Thursday, May 2, 2013

Coming off a successful season that saw the Fort Scott Community College rodeo team win nine of 10 rodeos they competed in and capture first place in the Central Plains Region, the FSCC team puts its talents on display for local rodeo fans this Saturday night at FSCC's Arnold Arena...

A local brain injury support group is extending an invitation to anyone in the Bourbon County area to join them. "They've been wanting to increase the size of the group," said Jody Brillhart, who helps facilitate the group. The group is currently comprised of seven people, and a couple of facilitators...

Emergency personnel kept busy responding to two injury accidents that occurred within about an hour of each other Wednesday evening on local highways. According to a report from the Kansas Highway Patrol, Gary D. Felt, 62, of Fort Scott, was hurt in a two-vehicle accident that took place about 4:15 p.m. on U.S. Highway 54 about three miles east of Fort Scott...

Fort Scott National Historic Site staff got some assistance from various agencies for a controlled burn Wednesday afternoon at the site. About five acres of restored tallg rass prairie were burned off for a project that FSNHS officials said will eliminate a buildup of hazardous fuels, control invasion of woody and exotic species and promote the growth of native prairie plants...

Monica Kimbrough and Nate Morgan, Butler, Mo. are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Becca JoLynn Morgan at 7:56 a.m. on May 1, 2013 at Mercy Hospital Fort Scott. Becca weighed 6 pounds and 3 1/2 ounces. Maternal grandparents are Kevin and Mitzi Kimbrough. Great-grandparents are Bodie and Joan Bodenhamer and Frankie and Carol Kimbrough...

Harriet Louise "Babe" Stambaugh, 94, a former resident of Prescott, Kan., and more recently of Ft. Scott, died Tuesday, April 30, 2013, at the Guest Home Estates in Fort Scott. She was born March 8, 1919, in Prescott, Kan., the daughter of August Hoffman and Frances Herndon Hoffman. ...

Jack W. Hembree, 77, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Tuesday, April 30, 2013, at the KU Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan. He was born July 22, 1935, in Hiattville, Kan., the son of Luther and Faye Williamson Hembree. He graduated from Fort Scott High School in 1953. ...

BUFFALO, Kan. -- Five Uniontown athletes won individual events at the make-up of the Altoona-Midway Invitational here Tuesday. This meet was originally the first of the season for the Eagles but was postponed due to bad weather. There was also a winning relay team for Uniontown as Cole Schafer, Gavin Miller, Josh Wisely and John Reed combined to turn in a time of 47.22 seconds in the boys' 4x100-meter relay...

BRONSON -- Garrett Murrow's 3 hits, which included two solo home runs, weren't enough here Tuesday as Uniontown's baseball team was swept by St. Paul in a Three Rivers League make-up doubleheader at Dawson Field. Murrow 2 for 2 in the opener and scored 3 runs. He hit his first run in the bottom of the fourth inning...

COFFEYVILLE -- Fort Scott's Jonathan Allen moved to the top of the Southeast Kansas League golf standings after three of the four designated league tournaments following the results of the Coffeyville Invitational here Tuesday. Two non-league schools, Caney Valley and Iola, were part of the field, so movement among league players and schools within season standings didn't necessarily correspond with the outcome of the tournament. ...

UNIONTOWN -- Uniontown's softball team split a make-up Three Rivers League doubleheader with St. Paul at George Warren Field Tuesday. The visiting Indians won the opener in eight innings, 10-8. The Eagles took the nightcap, 14-1, in five. Wednesday, the Eagles hosted Humboldt rather than waiting until today, the originally-scheduled date, to get the games in before weather adversely affected them. ...

Fort Scott Community College snuck in a make-up home game with No. 6 Crowder, Mo., at Lions Field Wednesday afternoon and beat the nationally-ranked Roughriders in a nine-inning game for the second time in a month. The Greyhounds defeated then-No. 1 Crowder, 11-4, at Neosho, Mo., on April 17. At the time, the Riders had lost 4 of 5 going into that game since being named No. 1 in the NJCAA Division I poll earlier that week...