Stories from Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Five members of Uniontown's basketball teams earned spots on the All-Three Rivers League basketball teams, includong two First Team players. Junior Garrett Elder was named to the boys' First Team and junior David Bradbury was a Second Team pick. Both were also named Honorable Mention All-Class 2A picks by both the Wichita Eagle and Topeka Capital-Journal over the weekend...

The Fort Scott Community College baseball team took three out of four games in Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division play versus Independence Thursday and Saturday. The teams split on Thursday at Independence with the Greyhounds taking game one 2-1 and the Pirates capturing the second, 10-9...

Fort Scott High School boys' tennis continues its role as the first spring sports team to begin its season this afternoon with a varsity tournament at Independence. The Tigers have 11 players out for head coach Lynn Barr but only Alex Combs is a senior. There are four juniors, five sophomores and one freshman...

ncy management officials said a one-vehicle rollover accident late Monday morning in the southern part of the county could have been a worse situation. Several local emergency units responded about 11 a.m. to an accident involving an Old Dominion Freight Lines semi-trailer that had rolled over on Kansas Highway 39 near 140th Street. It was reported over the police scanner the truck had been carrying some cargo labeled as hazardous materials...

Bourbon County District Chief Judge Amy Harth handed a probation sentence down Monday to a Fort Scott man facing felony drug charges. Jesse Woods, 25, appeared before Harth during a sentencing hearing in Bourbon County District Court. In January, Woods pleaded guilty to five counts in two separate cases involving felony drug charges in 2015. ...

Members of the Kansas Society of the Sons of the American Revolution held their 124th Annual Conference of the KSSSAR Friday and Saturday in Fort Scott.