Stories from Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Metal detector enthusiast Keith Ehrman's ultimate goal of unearthing a large cache of gold coins has yet to come to fruition. However, Ehrman, 42 of Uniontown, has recently made several unique finds that were buried just below the earth's surface in the area around Uniontown and Bronson...

A Fort Scott woman, who's brother passed away May 21 due to a new tick-borne disease, is hoping others will take heed to warnings about tick-borne illnesses. Darlene Wood said that her brother, Johnny Lee Mitzner of Grove, Okla., was hospitalized and died from a new disease known as Heartland Virus Disease...

Mallorie Hall of Fort Scott gets a balloon treat from Big Red the clown on Main Street during Fort Scott's 33rd Annual Good Ol' Days Saturday morning. Some of the festivities included a carnival, lumberjack show, Red Garter Show, demonstrations presented by the Fort Scott National Historic Site, live music, street vendors, a baby judging contest, a petting zoo and pony rides...

Laura E. Miller, age 81, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Friday, June 6, 2014, at the Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott. Laura was born May 17, 1933 in Bartlesville, Okla., the daughter of Coleman Eden and Belva Edwards Eden. She married Frank Miller on May 25, 1951, in Fort Scott. ...

Eileen L. Roloff, born Sept. 19, 1917, passed away peacefully on May 24, 2014 in Alameda, Calif., surrounded by family. Her can-do, pragmatic, creative and resilient spirit was forged as the fourth eldest child of 12 growing up on hard-scrabble farms in Rich Hill and Kansas City, Mo., as well as Fulton and Fort Scott, Kan. ...