Stories from Saturday, September 8, 2012

Terry Wayne Page, 58, resident of Las Vegas, Nev., died Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012, at the Southern Hills Hospital in Las Vegas. Funeral services for Terry Page will be announced by the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main.

Brenda Joyce Welch, 62, a resident of Madison, Kan., died Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012, at the Via Christi Emergency Room in Pittsburg, Kan. She was born June 5, 1950, in Allen County, Kan., the daughter of Ray Hutton and Elsie King Hutton. She first married Kenneth Davis. ...

August 22 Tammy Kronk was arrested for hindering the prosecution of a felony. Bond is $10,000. Robert Friedli was arrested for failure to appear. Bond is $354.50. Cody Boyd was released on bond. Bradley Sprinkle was released on $100,000 bond. Eric Vanscyoc was released on bond...

Strong winds from storms rolling through Bourbon County on Friday afternoon knocked down more than 45 transmission poles and left thousands of Westar Energy customers in the Fort Scott area without power. As of 8:30 p.m. Friday, 4,122 customers in Bourbon County were without power...

NEVADA, Mo. -- It's a special year for any Boy Scout member on a quest to become an Eagle Scout -- it's the 100th anniversary of the inception of the Boy Scout rank. This year, those who achieve the rank will earn a special insignia as a 100th year Eagle Scout, said Troop 42 scoutmaster Walt Coffer...

For the second straight week, representatives of the Amish Community in Fort Scott failed to appear at the Friday Bourbon County Commission meeting to address alleged sanitary violations pertaining to non-flushable toilets among the 26 households and three schools in their community...

Herald-Tribune High winds and heavy rains took out electricity for nearly 5,000 customers -- mainly in Bourbon County, Kan., on Friday. KCP&L, which provides power to the Nevada area, said on its Web site that 794 customers were without power Friday afternoon. The utility has 8,865 customers, the site said...

Hi neighbors. Last week I attended my aunt's funeral in Stockton. She was the baby of her family -- only 78 years old. She would have been 79 during the week she died, but she missed it by two days. That is odd. My experience with people dying shows a tendency to die just past one's birthday. It is as if that milestone needs to be crossed just once more to complete their journey. Still, and obviously, people die when they die and their birthday anniversary most likely has little to do with it...

By James R. Campbell Herald-Tribune The Nevada Tigers played the state-ranked Oak Grove Panthers evenly for three quarters Friday night at Logan Field, but missed blocks and tackles and special teams snafus eventually sent them to their second loss in three games, 40-20...

By Scott Nuzum Herald-Tribune COLUMBUS, Kan. -- Straton Hunziker found himself wide open in the end zone to catch Johnathan Stark's 10-yard pass for the game-winning score on Fort Scott's possession of the second overtime period Friday night as Fort Scott High improved to 2-0 on the season with a 35-32 vicvory over Columbus...

Herald-Tribune NEVADA -- Fresh off of a road victory at Carl Junction, the Nevada Lady Tigers softball team added yet another notch to its cap Thursday with a victory over the Lady Bulldogs of El Dorado Springs. Head coach Tammy Holcomb's squad took advantage of five errors to score eight runs in the second inning on the way to a 13-1 victory at Bushwhacker Field. The game was called after the top of the fifth inning and the Lady Tigers took the victory by the run rule...

Herald-Tribune FORT SCOTT -- Fort Scott High School's volleyball team was swept in a non-league triangular at the FSHS gymnasium Thursday evening. The Tigers lost to Wellsvillle, 28-26, 25-23, and Paola, 25-13, 25-8. The Tigers fell to 3-6 on the season and are 0-4 at home...

Herald-Tribune INDEPENDENCE, Kan. -- Fort Scott High School's tennis team finished second at the first of two invitationals they will play here in the next few days. The Tigers earned second-place finishes from both singles entries and thirds from both doubles teams...

The Cottey College Comets softball team traveled to Harrison, Ark., Thursday, for a twinbill with the Pioneers of North Arkansas College. The Comets won the first game with a score of 10-0, but North Arkansas came back to win the second contest 4-0...

Horace Leon Gray, 69, Nevada, passed away on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012, at St. Luke's South Hospital, Overland Park, Kan., following a brief illness. He was born June 22, 1943, in Magnolia, Ark., to Elmer Nolan and Evelyn Bunch Gray. On March 11, 1962, he was married in El Dorado, Ark., to Mary Jane Hollensworth and she survives of the home...

What began as a typical hit-and-run report on the night of June 6, 2009, has ended in Jeffrey Tenpenny, 47, of Nevada, getting a $140,000 settlement from the Nevada Police Department and the Vernon County Sheriff's Office in a federal civil rights violations lawsuit settled on Aug. 7...