Picking the right car seat for their child is among the seemingly endless weighty decisions new parents must make. That decision is made more complicated by an influx of car seats that don’t meet current safety standards. The problem of these “counterfeit car seats” is getting worse in ...
Land immediately south of the Webster County Fairgrounds will become a new housing area. There will be 12 to 16 lots for single family homes there, according to Dave Bianchi, a spokesman for DBJG Properties LLC, which owns the roughly seven acre site. “We’re excited about it,” he ...
The Messenger staff won several awards in Class V of the 2024 Iowa Newspaper Association Better Newspaper Contest. For the newsroom, former Messenger reporter Kelby Wingert won second place for Best Personality Feature Story for coverage of a drug court graduation in a story headlined, “A ...
WEBSTER CITY — Jane Curtis, the Daily Freeman-Journal’s interim editor, was named Master Columnist for her work with the DFJ by the Iowa Newspaper Association Thursday. The award was announced during the INA’s annual awards ceremony in Des Moines. The columns for which Curtis was ...
Two people were found shot to death in a Moorland house late Thursday morning. Webster County Sheriff Luke Fleener said the incident was isolated to that house and there is no danger to the public. He added that investigators are not seeking any suspects. The deaths were reported at 11:45 ...
