Stories from Saturday, March 7, 2015

Frank Leslie Hazlip, 52, of Fort Scott, died Thursday, March 5, 2015 at Mercy Hospital. He was born Sep. 27, 1962 in Cushing, Okla., the son of Robert Monroe and Betty Joan (Sawyer) Hazlip. He married Janneane Thurlow Aug. 19, 1989 in Olathe, Kan., and she survives of the home...

Frank Leslie Hazlip, 52, of Fort Scott, died Thursday, March 5, 2015 at Mercy Hospital. He was born Sep. 27, 1962 in Cushing, Okla., the son of Robert Monroe and Betty Joan (Sawyer) Hazlip. He married Janneane Thurlow Aug. 19, 1989 in Olathe, Kan., and she survives of the home...

Carol Sue Arnold, age 73, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Thursday, March 5, 2015, at the Fort Scott Medicalodge. She was born June 29, 1941, in Lexington, Mo., the daughter of Temple Marvin Simmerman and Pearl Arlene Villers Simmerman. She married Lewis Kelley Arnold in 1996. ...

The loader will replace the aging piece of equipment currently being used. Harris said in 2014, the county spent $19,000 in maintenance for the older loader last year. "It's 15 years old, it's got 37-some-thousand hours on it," Second District Commissioner Harold Coleman said...

Children at New Generation Child Care and Preschool take advantage of the sunny, mild weather Friday afternoon. On the slide is Zander Wells, above him are Daniel Nguyen, left, and Knox Holt. The forecasted temperature for today is 60 degrees.

Letha Bolling is preparing to leave behind more than three decades of providing child care to area youngsters. Friday was the intended last day of work for Bolling, who has helped care for numerous youth the last 35-plus years. Since about 2007, she has worked with local resident Kelly Hall to run a dual day care service out of Hall's home...

ARKANSAS CITY -- Cowley swept a Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division doubleheader from Fort Scott Community College here Friday. The Tigers won the first game 7-6 with a rally in the bottom of the seventh and took the nightcap 11-9. The Greyhounds (1-5 East, 4-8 overall) took the lead in the opener by scoring three runs in the top of the seventh inning. ...

PAOLA -- A 21-0 run in the first half gave second-seeded Louisburg control of a Paola Class 4A-Division I Sub-State semifinal here Friday night and the Wildcats went on to bring an end to Fort Scott High's girls' season, 71-42. The game was tied 5-5 after Elisha Hasenplaugh made Fort Scott's first field goal of the game with 5:49 on the clock in the first quarter. But Louisburg (11-10) scored the last 19 points of the period and the first two of the second...