Baxter News

WILLIAM a oeBILLa SECOR SR. Article Photos William "Bill" Secor, Sr., 88 of Fort Dodge, died Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at the Fort Dodge Trinity Regional Medical Center.

No one was injured in a fire that gutted a Colfax home Thursday afternoon, Firefighters from Colfax, Baxter, Mingo and Prairie City responded to a call of a house fire around 1 p.m. on Thursday at 108 N. Lincoln St.

Due to a problem with the postal service, many invitations to Baxter High School alumni for the annual banquet and reunion were not delivered.

Absentee ballots for the upcoming May 19 Baxter special city election are now available, according to Dennis K. Parrott, Jasper County auditor and commissioner of elections.

For several years, the city of Baxter has had problems with flooding, particularly at the Baxter School and the city park nearby.

The suspect in an assault case hit a man in Des Moines so hard on Wednesday that he broke his own hand.

A fire destroyed a family's home in Baxter Thursday night, but quick thinking and good preparation saved their son's life.

A Baxter man lost his home to a raging fire on Thursday afternoon. The Newton Daily News reported that firefighters fought the flames at Phillip Calvin's home at 104 N. West Ave.

Jasper County is the seventh largest county in Iowa, by area. There are 67 cemeteries within the borders of the county, and 18 of those are designated as a oepioneer cemeteries,a meaning there has been fewer ...