Stories from Friday, February 28, 2014

PITTSBURG -- Fort Scott High's girls overcame some more adversity here Thursday night and defeated Pittsburg, 42-30, to win no worse than a share of the Southeast Kansas League title, their second in a row. A few moments later, Coffeyville finished off a 78-61 victory over last-place Parsons to claim its share to the title. Both the Tigers and Golden Tornado finsihed the regular season with 10-2 league records and 16-4 overall marks...

Three members of Fort Scott High School's wrestling team begin their quests for a State championship at the Class 4A State Wrestling Tournament, which will be held at Salina's Bicentennial Center today and Saturday. The qualifiers are, in order of weight class, senior Jerad Heckman at 126 pounds, classmate Jacob Durossette at 145, and senior John Hughes at 160. All three are past qualifiers...

Dorothy I. Troth, age 78, Mound City, Kan., passed away on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, at the Overland Park Regional Medical Center. She was born at Pleasanton, Kan., on June 3, 1935, the daughter of Sam and Madge Smith Hayes. She married her high school sweetheart Raimond Troth on Aug. ...

Joseph Benjamin Travis, 61, entered into the gates of heaven on Jan. 30, 2014. Joe was born Oct. 6, 1952, to Glenn and Eunice (French) in Miami, Okla. Survivors include wife, Rebecca (Martin) Travis, sons, Wes (Jennifer) Travis, Jake (Courtney) Travis, Nick Travis, grandchildren Hunter and Remington all of Tyler, Texas. ...

Uniontown's West Bourbon Elementary School was one of five Kansas schools that has been nominated for the 2014 National Blue Ribbon (NBR) Schools Award Program. The nominations have been sent to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who will invite the schools to apply for the award, according to a Kansas State Department of Education press release. The final selection of the 2014 NBR schools will be made in September...

Eric Reese of Kansas City shows off the rainbow trout he caught Thursday afternoon at Gunn Park's Fern Lake. Reese said he and a friend had caught about 12 fish in one-and-one-half hours of angling. Reese, who works for BNSF Railroad, said he fishes to relax during his time off. They catch and release the fish, Reese said. The trout are stocked by the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism with the assistance of the City of Fort Scott...

The Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce (FSACC) and the City of Fort Scott have partnered to create a Curb Appeal Award to be given each month to a residential or business property that exemplifies community pride in the way the owner has enhanced, improved or maintained the property...

A year-long investigation into alleged missing money from the Bourbon County Clerk's Office came to a conclusion Thursday when a former clerk's office employee was arrested. Officers from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and the Bourbon County Sheriff's office arrested Angela Timi, 28, of Fort Scott, at a location in Fort Scott. ...

Fort Scott Community College's men escaped Kansas City with a 51-50 victory in Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division II play here Wednesday night to conclude regular-season play. According to Kansas City's website, the host Blue Devils had an open 3-point shot that missed. Marcus Allen got the rebound and drew a foul with four-tenths of a second left, only to miss the front end of the one-and-one opportunity and allow the Greyhounds (12-16) to escape with the victory...

A Fort Scott teen was injured in a one-vehicle rollover accident Friday afternoon north of Fort Scott. According to a Kansas Highway Patrol report, 15-year-old Krista Leighann Simpson, of Fort Scott, was hurt in the accident, which took place about 3:30 p.m. Friday on 195th Street, about 250 feet north of Soldier Road or just over two miles west of U.S. Highway 69 near Hammond...

Due to teacher collaboration time, there will be an early release day for students on Wednesday, March 5. The dismissal times are as follows: Fort Scott High School at 1:08 p.m.; Fort Scott Middle School at 1:13 p.m.; Winfield Scott School at 1:03 p.m. and Eugene Ware at 12:58 p.m. The Fort Scott Preschool Center will not have an early release day...

Melissa and Michael Bolton of Mulberry are pleased to announce the birth of a daughter, Alyssa Dawn Bolton, at 6:47 p.m. on Feb. 27, 2014 at Mercy Hospital Fort Scott. Alyssa weighed 6 pounds and 7 ounces and was welcomed by siblings Brayden and Christian Bolton...

Rosalie Dahmer, 90, died Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014 at Mercy Medical Center in Durango, Colo. Rosalie Dahmer, born in Fort Scott, Kan., on April 7, 1923 to Elsie Golden Thompson and John Franklin Kramer. She served in the Women's Army Corp as a clerk typist, and this is where her love of knitting first began. ...

Bourbon County is preparing for another winter storm to hit the area, Bourbon County Commissioners learned during their Friday meeting. Roads and Bridges Director Jim Harris told commissioners the weather forecast he saw online Friday indicated the worst winter weather was predicted to come in late tonight, likely around 11 p.m. Commissioners Harold Coleman and Allen Warren were present for Friday's meeting. Commissioner Barbara Albright was absent...

Another winter weather event is heading our way for the weekend. A significant winter storm will impact this region, according to the National Weather Service website. "Late Saturday night after sundown is when it might start up with some freezing rain," Ryan Kardell, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Springfield, Mo., said Friday afternoon. ...

Formal charges were filed Friday against a Fort Scott woman accused of stealing funds from Bourbon County while she was employed in the County Clerk's Office. Angela Marie Timi, 28, is charged with one count of misuse of public funds, two counts of forgery, 16 counts of making false information, 20 counts of criminal use of a financial card, and 20 counts of theft...