Stories from Friday, September 24, 2021

Norma Jean Cowan, 89, of Nevada, Mo., and formerly of Devon, passed away late Tuesday evening, Sept. 21, 2021, at Freeman Hospital in Joplin, Mo. She was born May 30, 1932, in Fort Scott, Kan., the daughter of Archie Jesse and Irma E. (Shoemaker) Riggs. She married Billy Joe Cowan on Aug. 12, 1951, in Devon, Kan., and he survives of the home...

James Eldon “Jim” Hoover, 60, of Joplin, Mo., passed away Sept. 20, 2021, at his home. He was born Oct. 19, 1960, in Detroit, Mich., the son of Eldon Lee and Forestine Rosetta (Miller) Hoover. Jim served in the U.S. Army and was a respiratory therapist. He loved riding his Victory motorcycle...

Carol Jean Carnes passed away Sept. 18, 2021 at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Md. She was born Dec. 9, 1957 in Stafford, Kan., to Kenneth and Earline Costley Carnes. She grew up in Wellington and on a farm near Weir, Kan. Graduating from Columbus Unified High School, she received her B.S. ...

Fort Scott High School officials have recently dealt with a social media trend which caused disruptions in the school day. The viral trend, in which students post videos of themselves stealing, vandalizing or showing off items they stole, primarily from schools and typically from bathrooms, has since been banned by the social media platform, TikTok...

A variety of aircraft and many school children converged on the Fort Scott Municipal Airport Thursday as part of the Air Kansas Tour sponsored by the Kansas Department of Transportation Division of Aviation. The tour began at Wellington, with Fort Scott as the second stop. After Fort Scott, pilots and their crew and passengers fly into Iola, then to Lawrence where they spent the night...