Stories from Saturday, April 16, 2016

Motions were discussed and some testimony was given during a pretrial conference for a felony murder and child abuse case Friday morning in Bourbon County District Court. Bourbon County District Judge Mark Ward presided over the hearing and discussed motions with attorneys in the case, defense attorney Robert Myers, a Columbus lawyer, and prosecutor Adam Zentner representing the Kansas Attorney General's Office...

In the future, those hiking or biking the Riverfront Park will have easier access to each section, thanks to a grant from the Kansas Department of Transportation. KDOT announced Friday the Fort Scott/Bourbon County Riverfront Authority is one of 25 organizations selected for funding through the Transportation Alternatives program with KDOT...

Chase Gleason of Uniontown left, talks about the choice he made to attend a college close to home, which has been ranked number one academically in the nation. Also pictured are his Fort Scott Community College livestock judging teammate Callahan Grund of Sharon Springs and coach Ryan Page. A reception to honor the team, which has completed the year as national champions, was held Friday after on the FSCC East Campus...

Chris Beard, who was the head coach of Fort Scott Community College's men's basketball program in the 1999-2000 season, has been hired as the head men's basketball coach at Texas Tech University, according to several reports. Beard's decision to take the Texas Tech job comes almost three weeks after he had accepted the job at Nevada-Las Vegas...

MOUND CITY -- Fort Scott High School's junior varsity golf team finished second at the Jayhawk-Linn Invitational here Thursday. The Tigers shot 223 as a team in the nine-hole affair. Jayhawk-Linn came out on top with a 192. Caleb Rhoades and Cade Gosewisch were medalists for Fort Scott. Rhoades placed fourth with a score of 48 while Gosewisch was fifth with a 53...

April has been an unkind month for Fort Scott Community College's softball team. After completing the early portion of its schedule a game over the .500 mark, the Greyhounds have gone just 3-13 in April. Those three wins have been over Brown Mackie (a sweep), which is winless in Region VI-Division II play, and Coffeyville (a split on Wednesday), with which Fort Scott is now tied for last place (a three-way tie that also includes Neosho County) in the Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division...