Stories from Thursday, March 22, 2007

Two 19-year-olds stood before a judge on Wednesday as they faced multiple felony and misdemeanor charges stemming from a string of burglaries and thefts that occurred last week. The Bourbon County Attorney's Office filed four separate cases each against Brian M. Newsom and Jerrod J. Fredrick...

Two names have been added to the mix of candidates vying for spots on the Uniontown City Council after the April 3 general election. According to information obtained from Uniontown City Clerk Linda Gier, local residents Mary Beerbower and Hartman "Jay" Kite will be considered as write-in candidates on voters' ballots on April 3...

My father died at Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott on Wednesday, March 21, 2007. But it is not a death we should mourn but a life to be celebrated. He went "hell-bent for leather" for 88 years and that is to celebrate. He was born in Gross, Kansas to Marcelli Savini, but she took him to Italy in the first year of his life and she died there, and he was put into an orphanage in Italy after World War I during the depression. ...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) Last evening Leslie Liepman and his brother-in-law, Gus Greenfield, drove out southeast in search of a certain workman whom Mr. Liepman desired to employ to do some work for him. They inquired at several places and were finally directed to a somewhat isolated house way over on upper Buck Run. ...