Stories from Tuesday, September 9, 2014

By DANA LARSEN Pilot-Tribune Editor Ten-year-old Carson Chase was recently diagnosed with a mass on his spinal cord, which required an intensive 23-hour surgery last Tuesday, with a lengthy recovery ahead. An outpouring of support has emerged for the Fonda youngster...

A Texas company is already ordering the steel and drawing up construction contracts, but has yet to apply for the necessary permits from the Iowa Utilities Board.

A Storm Lake man has been arrested for allegedly beating his teenage female cousin, breaking her jaw, then stealing her car to flee the scene. Sunday at approximately 2:45 a.m., police were called to a residence in the 100 block of Russell Street for a 911 call reporting an assault and car theft...

Agnes Lyster Meseck, age 97, of Storm Lake, died Monday, September 8, in Cherokee. Funeral services will be Thursday, September 11, at 11 a.m. at St. Mark Lutheran Church in Storm Lake. Burial will follow in the Barnes Township Cemetery in Linn Grove. Visitation will take place Wednesday, September 10, from 6-8 p.m. at the Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home in Storm Lake. The Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home in Storm Lake is in charge of the arrangements...

Max Alexander Davis, infant son of Jordan and Sara Boesen Davis, was stillborn Friday, September 5, at Covenant Medical Center. Survivors include: his parents; Paternal grandparents, Ken and Jolene Davis of Storm Lake; maternal grandparents, Mark and Nancy Boesen of Waterloo; maternal great grandfather, Cletus Sweeney of Waterloo; maternal great grandmother, Phyllis Boesen of Waterloo; three uncles, Joe (Vaska) Zubak of Jesup, James Boesen of Waterloo and Eric (Martha) Davis of Tucson, Ariz.; an aunt, Kendra (Derek) Tremain of Melbourne, Fla.; and three cousins, Grace Davis, Koa Tremain and Dylan Zubak.. ...