Stories from Tuesday, December 19, 2017

The Overland Park Police Department is seeking assistance in locating 18-year-old Mikayla L. Norris, formerly of Fort Scott. Norris is 5-foot, 3-inches tall, weighs 185 pounds, and has blonde hair and blue eyes. She was last seen wearing a black shirt and black pants. She was last seen about 8:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 17 at her place of employment in the 9500 block of Metcalf in Overland Park, according to a news release from the Overland Park Police Department...

Although no resolution has been signed, Bourbon County Commissioners have agreed upon how much of a wage increase the 2018 budget can accommodate for hourly county employees. After the holidays, the commissioners will consider a resolution that finalizes a $1.75 per hour increase for sheriff’s deputies, $1.60 for correctional staff, and 75 cents for all other hourly employees...

A local CPA presented good financial news to the Fort Scott Community College Board of Trustees at the board’s Monday meeting. Terry Sercer with Diehl Banwart Bolton CPAs presented some highlights of the firm’s audit of the college’s financial statements for the past year...

Nearly all the graves at the Fort Scott U.S. National Cemetery are decorated with wreaths this year, thanks to donations received for Wreaths Across America. Wreaths were laid Saturday at Fort Scott and all national cemeteries as part of the national program...

EMPORIA — Uniontown’s Colt Eck and Graham Hathaway earned medals in a tournament full of mostly Class 6A and 5A schools here Saturday. Eck finished third at 152 pounds. He earned a first-round bye then faced Matthew Cutshall of Topeka, pinning him in just 25 seconds. ...

OTTAWA — Although it this was a dual tournament here Saturday, Fort Scott High’s boys’ wrestling team was looking for good individual results as the Tigers were short-handed at the Ottawa Dual Tournament. One of the bigger dual tournaments around, the 12 teams were divided into four pools of three teams each. Then based on where they finished in those pools, the teams were place in three divisions of four each when it was time to determine placers...

CHERRYVALE — It was about two or three weeks sooner than expected but Fort Scott High School’s new girls’ wrestling team took part in its first meet here Saturday. Team scores weren’t kept but seven girls participated and three of them placed first in their brackets...

Labette County senior Tristan Gegg — who’s already the Southeast Kansas League’s all-time leading scorer, boy or girl — led her fifth-ranked Grizzlies to a 55-46 victory over Fort Scott High in league play Tuesday night by scoring 30 points, picking up 8 steals and grabbing 7 rebounds...

It was a nearly-even game in the first half at Fort Scott High School’s main gymnasium Tuesday night with Fort Scott’s boys trailing No. 7-ranked Labette County at halftime by just 2 points. But the Grizzlies’ scorers got going in the second half and LCHS went on to a 57-45 victory in Southeast Kansas League play in the last game before the holiday break for both teams...