Stories from Friday, January 24, 2014

ture business operators listened to Kathryn Richard talk about the key points of starting a business Thursday afternoon at Fort Scott Community College. Richard is the regional director of the Kansas Small Business Development Center (KSBDC) at Pittsburg State University, who facilitated the business startup workshop...

On a bitterly-cold winter afternoon, the sun shines bright over the frigid Marmaton River near downtown Fort Scott Thursday. Temperatures hovered in the teens throughout the day and dipped to single digits overnight. Windy conditions today will drive the wind chill to uncomfortable levels...

The public had an opportunity to look at plans for a U.S. Highway 69 expansion that will give drivers four lanes to travel between Fort Scott and Arma during a Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) open house Thursday evening at Northeast High School in Arma...

PLEASANTON -- Uniontown's boys were paired up against Humboldt, the No. 9-ranked team in Class 3A according to this week's Kansas Basketball Coaches Association poll, in the second round of the Pleasanton Mid-Season Tournament here Thursday night. Humboldt won 60-37. But perhaps as impressive as how much they won by was how they did it, at least on offense. Only one Cub scored in double figures but four others scored in the range of 7-9 points and nine players scored in all...

FRONTENAC -- Both of Fort Scott High School's basketball teams saw fourth-quarter rallies come up just short in the first round of the Raider Kansas Army National Guard Tournament here Thursday afternoon. Tiger girls trailed by 20 entering the fourth quarter. They eventually got to within 7 points but that was with just under a minute to go and third-seeded Blue Valley Southwest held on for a 66-58 win over sixth-seeded Fort Scott...