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Man sent to prison for enticing a juvenile

SAC CITY — A Sac City man has been sentenced to prison for five years after pleading guilty to using various social media platforms to entice a girl into sexual conduct, according to the Sac County Attorney’s Office. Joshua W. Phillips, 43, had pleaded guilty to one count of grooming, according to the County Attorney’s Office. Prosecutors said that during the early months of this year, Phillips used Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp and text messages to build a romantic relationship with a girl and to entice her to engage in sexual conduct with him. They said he used code words in ...

Airport project will give passengers more room

After passengers flying out of Fort Dodge Regional Airport clear the security checkpoint, they must sit or stand in a relatively small area while they wait to board their plane. And there is no bathroom there. Anyone needing to use the bathroom has to go back into the main part of the ...

From our files: October 2011

Paramedic level care coming to southern Webster County

A higher level of emergency medical care will be available faster in southern Webster County by the end of this year. The county’s emergency medical service coordinator, Scott Richard, said Thursday he plans to move his base of operations from Fort Dodge to Gowrie. From there, he will ...

Four new homes going up in Lynx Development

Four new homes are under construction in the Lynx Development #2 in southeast Webster City. The company building them was formerly known as Quirk Development, but has filed plans for the new homes under the name HQ Homes. The company is owned by Dean and Holly Quirk, and is based in Ankeny. ...

FD Symphony to offer ‘An American Portrait’

The celebration of America’s 250th birthday continues this Sunday with the Fort Dodge Area Symphony presenting the first concert of its season, “An American Portrait.” It begins at 3 p.m. at the Fort Dodge Middle School, 800 N. 32nd St. Tickets at the door cost $15. Season memberships for all four concerts will be available for $50. The concert features the rousing “American Salute,” written in just eight hours in 1942 by Morton Gould at the request of a government radio producer in the beginnings of World War II. Based upon the familiar “When Johnny Comes Marching ...