FORT SCOTT, Kan. (AP) — A 23-year-old man has been charged with killing his mother and another man in Fort Scott in December. Dawson Mitchell was charged last week in the deaths of 48-year-old Melissa…

FORT SCOTT — Mother Nature delayed action for Iola High’s tennis team Monday. But once the weather cleared, Iola’s Miah Shelby and Kiera Fawson provided a little thunder of their own. Both swept past all…

FORT SCOTT — Historic Fort Scott is getting high-tech treatment, thanks to Adam Wiewel and his team from the Midwest Archeology Center in Lincoln, Neb., who’ve been surveying the site for the past two weeks.…

FORT SCOTT (AP) — Fort Scott National Historic Site will be conducting a geophysical survey to better understand how the fort looked in the 1840s. A four-person crew from the Nebraska-based Midwest Archeological Center will…

Monotonous … The plains perfectly still as the clock strikes slowly. Such was early life at Fort Scott for most soldiers, who were cranky from living in tents, and with only the occasional prostitute or…

Besides the danger of contracting COVID-19 itself, the pandemic is revealing other ways health is being negatively affected in Southeast Kansas.  Social isolation, the lack of transportation, housing and access to food make it difficult…

Kansas State University provides you with research-based information through many avenues.  Locally, your contact is the Southwind Extension District in Erie, Fort Scott, Yates Center and Iola. Hundreds of publications and fact sheets, written by…

Josh Granere, who grew up in Elsmore, is back home, and he’s brought Peerless Products with him. The company, based in Fort Scott, recently announced its purchase of a 150,000-square-foot building, formerly home to Endurance…

“The year 2020 will be remembered for COVID-19. But in Iola, it will also be remembered as the year Peerless Products came to town,” predicted Iola Mayor Jon Wells at Tuesday’s celebration of the company’s…

FORT SCOTT — Crest High’s Ursula Billings kept up her golden running Thursday at the Fort Scott Invitational. In a meet that featured runners from Fort Scott, Pittsburg, Chanute, Humboldt, Marmaton Valley and Jayhawk-Linn, Billings…