Stories from Sunday, July 2, 2017

This is the first of two parts. The second part will be published in the Wednesday, July 5 edition. On a muggy afternoon in mid-June, 2016 Fort Scott High School graduate Kaleb DeLaTorre was among the first players to arrive on game-day at the Joplin Outlaws clubhouse at Joe Becker Stadium...

Margaret Ann McDermed, age 81, a resident of rural Fort Scott, Kan., passed away early Thursday, June 29, 2017, at the Mercy Hospital Emergency Room in Fort Scott. She was born March 5, 1936, in Girard, Kan., the daughter of Merritt Colegrove and Anabel Gooding Colegrove. ...