Stories from Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Gene Cowan, 73, of rural Fort Scott, died at his home Monday morning, March 10, 2014. Funeral arrangements for Gene Cowan are incomplete and will be announced later by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home.

Karrie M. Caruthers, age 66, resident of Bronaugh, Mo., died Saturday, March 8, 2014, at her home following a cancer illness. She was born Dec. 22, 1947, at Kansas City, Kan., the daughter of Elmer William Bias and Lula Jean Kesterson Bias. Karrie first married Larry David Coleman on Sept. ...

Marilyn Jean Carnes, age 90, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Saturday, March 8, 2014, at Mercy Hospital. She was born Feb. 17, 1924, in Fort Scott, the daughter of George and Sigrid Carlson Mikesell. She graduated from Fort Scott High School with the class of 1941. ...

Virginia Lea Clarkson, 88 passed away March 8, 2014 at the Medicalodge of Frontenac. She was born March 10, 1925 in Pittsburg, Kan., to William and Ida Mae Lewey Kennedy. She was a lifelong area resident, having lived in the Arma and Camp 50 area since the 1950s...

Rain and snow forced Fort Scott Community College's softball game to postpone a doubleheader against Maple Woods (Mo.) that was scheduled for Saturday. But on Sunday, sunny skies allowed the Greyhounds to get in a rescheduled doubleheader against Muscatine (Iowa) at the Betty Ruth Willard Complex...

Fort Scott Community College's baseball team broke a five-game losing streak but still only came away with a split against Kansas City Kansas in a make-up Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division doubleheader at Lions Field Monday. The Greyhounds won the opener 5-2 but lost the nightcap 3-2...

WICHITA -- It's said that it's difficult to beat a good team three times in the same season. If that's true, Fort Scott Community College's men must be a good team. Brown Mackie had won seven straight games against Fort Scott, including both meetings this season, going into the Region VI Division II championship game at Koch Arena here Saturday afternoon. ...

A newly released National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 25,773 people visited the Fort Scott National Historic Site (FSNHS) in 2013. The report is part of a larger report on the economic benefits of national parks on nearby businesses. The FSNHS has had Labor Day events for many years, and recently has had naturalization ceremonies for new U.S. ...

A legislative forum sponsored by the Fort Scott Area Chamber of Commerce was held Saturday morning at Catherine's Cafe located at Mercy Hospital. Present for the forum were Kansas Senators Jacob LaTurner, a District 13 Republican, and Caryn Tyson, a District 12 Republican. The Senators were joined by District 2 Representative Adam Lusker, a House Democrat, and District 4 Representative Marty Read, a House Republican...

Bourbon County Commissioners got some ideas Monday on how a new jail facility might be funded, if they decide to proceed with the project. They met with David Arteberry, senior vice president of George K. Baum & Company of Kansas City, Mo., who said he has assisted in several jail projects in Kansas...

After this weekend's competition, the Fort Scott Community College men's team is sitting in first places in the Central Plains Region.