Stories from Saturday, August 18, 2007

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how much is an entire photo gallery worth? Imagine having access to hundreds of photographs of community events and everyday happenings in your hometown. You got it! The Fort Scott Tribune Online and The Nevada Daily Mail Online introduce "You Spotted" and "We Spotted" photo galleries, hosted by MyCapture...

Fort Scott, Kan. -- A Fort Scott man was placed on 40 months of probation after pleading guilty to burglarizing a residential home and storage unit in March. Sixth Judicial District Judge Mark Ward on Thursday sentenced 19-year-old Jerrod Fredrick to 40 months of intensive supervised probation under the direction of community corrections followed by 12 months of post-release supervision...

Vernon County, Mo. -- Missouri's river otter population has seen a resurgence of river otters, and while Vernon County Conservation Agent Sean Pennington told a group of local citizens at a luncheon Thursday that he doesn't know if they're "thriving" in the area, certainly, if they get into a private fishing pond they can wreak havoc on the fish population...

Area residents do not have to sit at home with nothing to do. The Southwest Missouri Team Penner's Association is open to the public and assembles once a month to compete in sortings, Southwest Missouri Team Penner's Association announcer Rick Klumpp, Richards, Mo., said...

Fort Scott, Kan. -- Imagine if you could use your memories to help find a cure for cancer. You can. Two Relay for Life members have created "Crop for a Cure," a first-time scrapbooking Relay for Life fund-raising event...

NEW YORK (AP) -- After a season of chasing, Southern California is again the team being chased. And that's just the way coach Pete Carroll and the Trojans like it. For the third time in the past four years, USC begins the college football season No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25...

A new season of Cottey College volleyball is about to begin. The Comets will be sporting seven new faces, along with two returning starters from last year. "I feel very good about my players and the wonderful opportunity we have to be successful this coming fall." Cottey head volleyball coach Marla Kannady Foreman said...

NEW YORK (AP) -- After a season of chasing, Southern California is again the team being chased. And that's just the way coach Pete Carroll and the Trojans like it. For the third time in the past four years, USC begins the college football season No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25...

FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- Yes, it's hot. But the bi-state area is going throgh perhaps one of the hotter two-week periods in quite some time, and it's occurring just as the high schools in Kansas are in the first week of practice allowed by the Kansas State High School Activities Association...

Fred Harper was succinct. "With all this heat in Missouri this month, I wish we had stayed up north another month," said Harper after spending two weeks canoeing in the boundary waters between Canada and the United States. It reminded me of our trip to the north country, where my wife Donna said, " It was one of the shortest weeks ever."...

Many people today fail to realize that baseball has a language all its own. The interloping of other sports onto the American scene seems to have blurred a portion of the terminology. But things are always as they are, and I plan to pen here for the first time in 34 years of writing this column, an informative correction...

At the United Racing Club event held at Selinsgrove, Pa.'s ultra quick half-mile, originally designed by Joie Chitwood, we had time to chat with former sprint-car champion Kramer Williamson. Williamson, who led the 25-lap feature for 24 3/4 laps only to be passed by first-time URC winner Joey Biasi coming off Turn 4 for the checkered, said his 24-year-old son, Kurt, is now working for Kyle Petty's team doing shock absorbers. ...