Stories from Wednesday, March 24, 2010

FORT SCOTT -- Numbers and experience shouldn't be problems for Fort Scott High School's boys tennis team this season. Head coach Lynn Barr has 21 players out with five of them having varsity experience. Three seniors and two juniors have varsity experience and are expected to be in the six that Barr will send to Independence, Kan., Tuesday for a season-opening varsity tournament. ...

Betty June Dallam, age 94, former resident of Independence, Kansas and more recently of Lawson, Missouri, died Wednesday, March 24, 2010, at the home of her daughter in Lawson. Arrangements for Betty Dallam will be announced by Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main, Fort Scott...

Linda Louise Slater, 45, of Pleasanton, Kansas, died Tuesday, March 23, 2010. Services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, March 27, 2010 at the Coffel-Schneider Chapel, Pleasanton, Kansas. Visitation will be from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m., Friday at the chapel...

Lucille Lee Smith, age 80, a resident of Fort Scott, Kansas, died Wednesday, March 24, 2010, at the Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott, Kansas. She was born January 12, 1930, in Mulberry, Kansas, the daughter of Harold Scott and Eva Hammons Scott. Lucille married Eugene Smith in 1955. ...

A benefit fundraiser with a chili feed, silent auction and professional pictures will be held from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday at the Elks Lodge, 111 W. 19th. Tickets are $5 in advance or $6 at the door. The chili feed includes chili with all the fixings, cinnamon rolls, dessert and tea or coffee...

Officers continue to investigate the weekend beating of a Fort Scott man. According to a statement released by the Fort Scott Police Department, officers are currently investigating the aggravated battery of 29-year-old Kenneth Ray Springston. Officers responded to a report of a person lying on the ground behind 113 S. ...