MANSON — Picture it: You buy a car with a dead body in the trunk, and cannot for the life of you get the authorities to assist in your predicament. On top of that, you have a big dinner party to throw, and a wanna-be Jack the Ripper won’t stop chasing you around your living ...

The Fort Dodge Study Club will be celebrating the Lotus Community Project with a fundraising event on Friday. The event, which will run from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Cardiff Center at Fort Frenzy, 3232 First Ave. S., is the second time the Study Club has held this large fundraiser for the Lotus ...

The Community Health Center will be holding its fifth annual fundraising costume party on Saturday at Shimkat Motor Co., 3126 Fifth Ave. S. Previously known as the Masquerade Ball, this year’s theme scores with its All-Star Fundraising Costume Party theme. Beginning in 2015 with the ...

Rehearsals for ‘‘A Little Piece of Heaven’’ are underway at the Gail Niceswanger Theatre at Fort Dodge Senior High School. The show, which will be performed at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, was written by Matthew Carlin and is being directed by Lindey Krug. Tickets cost $5. Anyone ...

Fort Dodge: 5:30 to 7 p.m., Thursday, residential Trick or Treat Night. Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Pumpkin Carving and Trunk or Treat: 3 to 7 p.m., today at the church, 1436 21st Ave. N. Pumpkin carving contest, 3 to 5 p.m., bring your own pumpkin. Trunks from 5 to 7 p.m. Callender: 6 to ...

When Heidi Radkiewicz got married in 2002, a honeymoon was not in the budget. “For us, a honeymooon wasn’t even in the works,” she said, after they paid a justice of the peace $25 to marry them. But lucky for them, they got to spend the first months of their marriage on the U.S. ...