Stories from Friday, October 18, 2013

Thelma L. Bonner, 87 of Grove, Okla., passed away Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013 at the Grove Nursing Center. She was born Oct. 6, 1926 on a farm south of Kellerton, Iowa. Thelma was the daughter of Forrest N. and Opal (Ordway) Osborn. She attended Woodland Elementary School and then attended and graduated from Mt. ...

Local law enforcement authorities were led on a high-speed chase through parts of Fort Scott and Bourbon County Thursday afternoon. Officials said Thursday that officers with the Fort Scott Police Department and Bourbon County Sheriff's Office pursued a maroon Jeep Grand Cherokee through portions of town and the county in a chase that took place about 4 p.m. and at points reached 100 mph, according to police scanner reports of the incident...

Doug Niemeir, county executive director of the United States Department of Agriculture/Farm Service Agency in Fort Scott, is relieved the federal shutdown is over. However, Niemeir expressed disappointment regarding what the farmers and ranchers of Bourbon County had to go through during the lengthy shutdown...

Nine of the 13 Fort Scott National Historic Site employees reported back to duty at the site Thursday, after President Barack Obama signed the end of the government shutdown earlier that morning. "Everyone this morning, as people came in, all the employees were so glad to be back at work...it was a good feeling," said Betty Boyko, superintendent of FSNHS...

Fort Scott High School's soccer team had to fight off a Coffeyville rally to prevail 4-3 in their Southeast Kansas League finale at Ellis Park Thursday afternoon. The Tigers (2-3-1 SEK, 6-7-1 overall) led 3-0 after 25 minutes. But the Golden Tornado (0-5-0, 5-8-0) scored two goals in a five-minute span late in the second half and had the potential tying score deflected by a Tiger defender with about four minutes to go...