Fort Dodge News

Fort Dodge, Ia. - There's only one way department managers in this city will get a raise this year: by cutting their budgets.

Lorretta C. Heidt, 55, of Fort Dodge, died Tuesday, June 30, 2009, at the Paula J. Baber Hospice Home.

A $356,750 federal grant will help pay for future work on the building that houses the Community Health Center of Fort Dodge Inc.

John P. Laska, 89, went to be with his Lord on Saturday, June 27, 2009, at the Paula J. Baber Hospice Home in Fort Dodge.

A shooting Saturday evening in downtown Fort Dodge left one man injured. According to a report from the Fort Dodge Police Department, Darwin Foy was shot in the lower leg outside the Dodger Tap, 22 N. 12th St.

Many golfers started moving day at the 61st Fort Dodge Amateur battling for positioning or trying to make the final cut.

Beginning July 1, 2010, the delivery of services of Iowa State University Extension will be altered to adjust to a $4.5 million budget cut for fiscal year 2010.

Two workers at a central Iowa cooperative have been injured in an explosion at a grain elevator.

A 20-year-old Renwick man has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the 2008 death of a man who died of a head injury after an altercation.

Fire destroyed a barn Monday on the property of Gerald Ascherl, 2744 190th St., east of Fort Dodge.

Michael Zamora pleaded guilty today to involuntary manslaughter in connection with the 2008 death of Colby Pettigrew.

Vestlandslag Stevne is the gathering of seven groups of people with roots in the westernmost lands of Norway - see how "vestland" sounds like "west land." Each group is a "lag," pronounced "log." For instance, Vosselag is named for Voss, Norway.

Lawsuits stemming from the controversial attempt to restart the Fort Dodge Hydroelectric Dam have been settled out of court.

A railroad yard and a facility for repairing rail cars may someday be built near the North Central Agricultural Industrial Park in Webster County.

By Iowa law, every third Monday of June, unpaid property tax revenues are offered at tax sale.

Delbert Melvin Porter, 90, of Fort Dodge, died Sunday, May 31, 2009 at the Trinity Regional Medical Center.

Gates open at 10 a.m. 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. - General entertainment 11:30 a.m. - Ed Aragoni, balloon artist and magician, west side of the stockade Noon to 12:30 p.m. - Bob Hamm, cowboy entertainer, in front of the stockade 12:30 p.m. to 1 p.m. - Doc Anderson on the porch of the Trading Post or other areas along Front Street 1 p.m. - Fort Dodge ...

Michelle Denise McKibban, 35, of Fort Dodge, passed away on Wednesday, June 3, 2009.

A Fort Dodge man received minor injuries in a collision Tuesday afternoon on the edge of Manson, according to the Manson police chief.

HE WAS ONLY FIFTEEN WHEN HE WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH FIRST DEGREE MURDER AND THAT 'S A GATORS BELIEVE THIS FORT DODGE TEEN WAS THE GUNMEN WHO SHOT AND KILLED A FORTY YEAR OLD MAN DURING A DRUG DEAL JUST LAST MONTH PRICE GOING NOW SIXTEEN WAS FOUND NOT GUILTY OF MURDER AND IS CHANNELED HER TEENS MARKED HASEK REPORTS GULLY NOW FACES THE ...