Early voting begins Wednesday at the Webster County Courthouse, with weekday hours, a Saturday voting opportunity and a satellite location available ahead of the upcoming general election. According to Webster County Auditor Krystal Lloyd, in-person absentee voting will take place in the ...
By BILL SHEA bshea@messenegrnews.net Dave Muhlbauer, the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, can quickly describe the approach to government that he and running mate Rob Sand share. “It’s about people,” he said Saturday morning during a visit to Fort Dodge. “It’s about public service, and not politics. It’s about trying to really bring people together to find solutions.” Muhlbauer, a Crawford County supervisor, came to Fort Dodge to rally Democratic Party volunteers who were heading out to spend the day knocking on doors to meet voters. Fixing what he ...
A measure U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst wrote to combat runaway federal spending by publicizing the worst examples of it is now law. The Iowa Republican reported that her Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act was signed into law by President Donald Trump earlier this week. It requires the federal ...
ROCKWELL CITY — A Rockwell City man has pleaded guilty to a federal money laundering charge in a case that involved about $22 million, prosecutors reported. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa, Curtis Weston, 35, pleaded guilty to one count of money laundering. Prosecutors reported that Weston and another individual transferred $21,992,037 in fraudulently obtained loan funds. They said an employee of a bank, which was not named, transferred the funds from the bank’s general ledger into Weston’s bank account. The prosecutors said that at ...
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