Stories from Saturday, November 8, 2014

Fort Scott Community College Interim President Dick Hedges takes the podium during the Bourbon County 4-H Achievement Banquet Friday night at Fort Scott Middle School to present FSCC scholarships to recipients Hannah Fry, left, a Hiattville 4-H member, and Dacey Simpson, a Pawnee 4-H member. Fry and Simpson were awarded full-ride scholarships to FSCC...

It has been about two years since a fatal vehicle accident took the life of 22-year-old Justin Hueston. On Friday, a sentence was handed down in Bourbon County District Court to a local man who pleaded guilty in September to two counts he faced related to his involvement in that accident...

Leonard Carnes has seen a little bit of everything throughout the course of his military career. The 92-year-old local veteran, currently a resident at Fort Scott Manor, recently shared some of his World War II experiences as a soldier with the U.S. Army 87th infantry during the 1940s. Carnes said he was involved in both the "D-Day" invasion of Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge, a major German offensive campaign, in 1944...

Fort Scott Community College's volleyball team has won a school-record 30 matches going into today's Region VI Division II District N Tournament at Kansas City Kansas Community College. But if the Greyhounds are going to make their first appearence in a national tournament, they're going to have to beat at least one team they did not beat during the regular season...

Mason Knopp threw for the most yards of any Tiger quarterback in four years and the defense made the plays when it needed to as Fort Scott High broke a five-game playoff losing streak with a 24-12 victory over Baldwin in a Class 4A-Division I Regional Playoff Game at Frary Field Friday night...