It took more than a year to build and equip the new 32,000-square-foot home of FORCE America Inc. in Fort Dodge. Despite all of the time and work, Jeff Warner, the company’s chairman and chief executive officer, stood in front of the building on First Avenue South Thursday and declared ...
A jury trial is underway for a Fort Dodge man charged with 39 counts of child abuse against his own baby. Austin Prewitt, 25, was charged in September 2025 with dozens of counts of both felony and misdemeanor child endangerment causing bodily injury, assault causing injury, child endangerment causing injury, and neglect or abandonment of a dependent person. During opening statements in Webster County District Court Thursday, Webster County Assistant County Attorney Bailey Cavanaugh said the life of Prewitt’s 10-month-old son was “physically tumultuous.” According to ...
The Iowa Central Community College football team — plus the sports medicine, pre-physical therapy and athletic training programs — will be housed in a new building on the Fort Dodge campus. The planned Center for Sports Performance will not be paid for with the $35 million bond issue ...
A Rockwell City woman was killed and her husband was seriously injured in a fiery crash on a Missouri highway on Saturday. Two other women were also killed in the collision. Vicki Harper, 76, of Rockwell City, died, according to published reports and family acquaintances. Her husband, Steven Harper, 72, of Rockwell City, was seriously injured. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported that he was airlifted to Bryan West Medical Center in Lincoln, Nebraska. A passenger who was in the Harpers’ vehicle, 67-year-old Marcine Usher, of Harlan, also died in the crash. Marvies ...
Webster County’s new emergency medical services coordinator is now on the job. Scott Richard is filling a new position created as a result of the March 2025 voter approval of a property tax to support emergency medical services. Richard was introduced during Wednesday’s meeting of the county’s Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council. He is a native of Minnesota, who has been a paramedic for 30 years. During that time he has worked for several different agencies. For the last 15 years he had been a paramedic for UnityPoint Health - LifeFlight. He has also been an EMS ...
