A young Kansas man whose father was gunned down nearly eight years ago in a hotel parking lot is getting a tuition boost from an unusual source as he heads into his freshman year at a Missouri college.
Colby Leeper has been awarded a $1,500 scholarship from a nonprofit organization run by death row inmates, the Joplin Globe (http://bit.ly/2b9STRb ) reported.
The organization, Compassion, decides who gets the awards after reviewing essays the ...