Stories from Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Dr. Charles Gabriel Parsons, age 60, a former resident of Fort Scott, Kan., and more recently of Peculiar, Mo., died late Monday, June 29, 2015, at the Kansas City Hospice House, in Kansas City, Mo. He was born Aug. 8, 1954, in Butler, Mo., the son of Charles V. ...

McPHERSON -- The Kansas Indians, an 18-and-under baseball team that is made up of the players who were on the Fort Scott High School varsity team in the spring, went 5-0 at the 2015 Hooper Showcase here over the weekend. It was the second consecutive weekend that the Indians won a tournament...

Local school districts are playing the waiting game following a June 26 ruling by a three-judge panel that the state's new block grant school finance law is unconstitutional. Senate Bill 7, which was approved in March by the Kansas Legislature and Gov. ...

been set in the case of a Fort Scott man facing charges of felony murder and child abuse. According to Bourbon County District Court documents, a preliminary hearing for Anthony M. Anderson, 21, who faces charges for his alleged involvement in the death of a 6-month-old boy in late April, has been set to take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 28 and from 9 a.m. to noon Tuesday, Sept. 8 in Bourbon County District Court...

Bourbon County Commissioners on Tuesday said they are looking at property near the Mercy Hospital Fort Scott entrance as the site for a new jail. Commissioners met with Larry Goldberg of Goldberg Group Architects PC of St. Joseph, Mo., Sheriff Bill Martin, Southeast Kansas Regional Correction Center Jail Administrator Bobby Reed, Bourbon County Undersheriff Ben Cole and County Attorney Justin Meeks...