Stories from Friday, February 26, 2016

Lloyd Alfred Olson, age 87, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, at his home. Services for Lloyd Olson will be announced by the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main St.

Ella Mae Harris was born Dec. 5, 1929 in Fulton, Kan., to Thomas Frederick Lyons and Nannie Brown Lyons. She died peacefully at her home in Port Angeles, Wash., on Feb. 13, 2016. She was 86 years old. She is survived by her five children: Lisa Jackson; Flynn Harris, Shane (Susan) Harris, Kimberly (Stephen) Warhoe, and Kye Harris; brothers Chuck Lyons and John Lyons; and 11 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. ...

Kevin Wayne Byron Harkness, age 56, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016, at Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott. He was born Sept. 30, 1959, in Kansas City, Mo., the son of K.W. and Lorraine Phillips Harkness. He graduated from Fort Scott High School with the class of 1977. ...

LCDR Richard I. Comstock, Ret., 83, of Pittsburg, passed away at 3:35 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016, at the Guest Home Estates in Fort Scott, Kan. He was born April 13, 1932, at Fort Scott, Kan., the son of H. I. and Helen (Gauggel) Comstock. Mr. Comstock served in the United States Navy for 20 years, and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Commander. ...

An Arcadia man died in a one-vehicle wreck Wednesday morning southeast of Fort Scott. A 2003 Chevrolet Tahoe driven by 64-year-old Alfred Rose of Arcadia was southbound on 250th Street when the vehicle went off into the west ditch. The driver over corrected and came back onto the road, which caused the vehicle to overturn several times and the driver to be ejected, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol crash log...

Bourbon County officials will have a firmer notion on the status of the planned Bourbon County Law Enforcement Center within a couple of weeks. During a meeting Thursday to discuss the project's progress, Kevin Rost, associate senior project manager with Goldberg Group Architects PC of St. Joseph, Mo., said reports from surveys and studies have not been completed yet...

A program that started with a judge who held a special place in his heart for children continues to thrive in Bourbon County. But the program designed to help kids is needing help from adults. The Bourbon County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) program recruits new volunteers on an annual basis, Christa Horn, executive director, said...

Rebekah Houser/Tribune photo First United Methodist Church Pastor Steven Cole, standing, speaks about Lent to a group of about 25 people Thursday during a Lenten Soup and Scripture. The Lent meal will be provided for four consecutive Thursdays, the third being March 3 at the UMC. The fourth meal will be at the First Presbyterian Church...

Ten members of Fort Scott High School's volleyball team recently received honors from the Kansas Volleyball Association. In addition, the Tigers also received a Team Academic Award. The individual Tigers who received honors were seniors Abby Denton, Ashley Cook, Katie Gorman, Madeline McCoy and Makenna Berger, juniors Karlee Stanley, Haley Denton and Emily Hale, and sophomores Madison Cook and Kharsyn Dwyer...

The Sedan Class 2A Sub-State Tournament was seeded Wednesday and both Uniontown teams will begin their run through it with a home doubleheader at the West Bourbon Elementary gymnasium Tuesday night. Uniontown drew Oxford in both the boys' and girls' Sub-States and in both cases, the Eagles are the higher seed. ...

llege's women worked as hard as they could Wednesday night, suiting up just six players due to injuries. But No. 11-ranked Kansas City Kansas took advantage of the depleted Greyhounds and took a 65-40 victory that helped give them the No. 2 seed in the upcoming Region VI-Division II post-season tournament...

Larks' stunner gives Fort Scott No. 1 seed in Region VI