Stories from Tuesday, May 24, 2016

LYNDON -- Uniontown junior Shalina Harper will be the only Uniontown athlete at this year's State Track and Field Championships in Wichita as she qualified for two events out of Friday's Lyndon Class 2A Regional Meet. Harper will be going to State for the third consecutive season. She was also the lone Eagle at State in 2014, when she finished 11th in javelin. She qualified in two events last season, the same ones in which she will participate this season...

Emma Jean Allen, 86, of Fort Scott, passed away early Monday morning, May 23, 2016. Lloyd Houk will conduct funeral services at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home with burial following at the Maple Grove Cemetery. Condolences may be submitted to the online guestbook at konantz-cheney.com...

Dorothy M. Pack, age 86, Pleasanton, Kansas passed away on Sunday, March 6, 2016 at the Fort Scott Manor. She was born on December 27, 1929 the daughter of Richard and Mae Lyden Watt. She graduated from Arcadia High School She was married to Clyde Pack who preceded her in death on April 14, 1968. ...

The Bourbon County Sheriff's Office will continue using Pearson Towing of Fort Scott any time there is a vehicle that has to be seized and impounded. On Tuesday, Sheriff Bill Martin presented bids he received for the county's towing service for seized vehicles...

A jury trial in the case of a local man facing charges of felony murder and child abuse began Monday with jury selection and testimony from two witnesses. Most of the day was taken up by the jury selection process as attorneys in the case of Anthony M. Anderson whittled a jury pool down to the 13 needed for the case. The jury consists of 12 jurors - six men and six women - and one female alternate...

Two days of celebration for the grand opening of Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes Exhibition Hall at 1 S. Main, began Monday morning at the Liberty Theater, downtown Fort Scott. In addition to Irena Sendler's holocaust heroine story that helped found the LMC, there were other presentations throughout the day about unsung heroes Adam and Gene Shoemaker, Lt. Colonel Tran Ngoc Hue, Ken Reinhardt, Ann Williams Wedaman, Therese Frare, and Alice Seely Harris...

The grand opening celebration of the new Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes continued Monday night. Under the direction of LMC Fellow Stephanie Bishop, "Walk with Me" was performed at Liberty Theatre. Bishop is an award-winning theatre arts teacher at Prince George High School in eastern Virginia. ...

Fort Scott resident Rex Hall can scratch "albatross" off of his bucket list. An albatross is the golfing community's monicker for making a hole-in-one on a par four hole. Hall accomplished this rare feat on the sixth hole Sunday at Woodland Hills Golf Course. Hole No. 6 is a 235-yard par-4 from the white tees...

Fort Scott Community College sophomore basketball player Jeremiah Fleming has signed a national letter of intent to play basketball at East Central University in Ada, Okla. Fleming helped lead the Greyhounds to a Conference Championship--their second in three years--and the top seed in the Region VI-Division II Tournament this season. He earned Second Team honors from Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference Division II coaches...

Marion Sue Kunkel, 74, of Olathe, Kan. formerly of Moran and Chanute, Kan., passed away May 23, 2016 at Good Samaritan Center of Olathe. Funeral service will be 10:00 am Fri., May 27, 2016 at Bruce Funeral Home, Gardner, Kan. (913) 856-7111. Greeting and visitation will follow the service. Cremation to follow service with inurnment at a later date. Memorial contributions may be made to Good Samaritan Center of Olathe. Condolences may be left at www.brucefuneralhome.com...

A jury trial in a local felony murder and child abuse case continued Tuesday with testimony from law enforcement and medical personnel, as well as some family members involved in the case. Bourbon County District Judge Mark Ward is presiding over the case of Anthony M. Anderson, who faces charges of first-degree felony murder and child abuse for his alleged involvement in the April 2015 death of 6-month-old Aiden J. Osborn...

Rain may have changed the venue for the day, but it did not dampen the spirit of those who came to celebrate the grand opening of the Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes at 1 S. Main. The lightning and heavy rain Tuesday morning changed the venue to the Liberty Theater...