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Community and business leaders gathered yesterday (Thursday) to celebrate a local judge's appointment to the Iowa Court of Appeals. Carroll native, Gina Badding

Three Nominees Chosen for Iowa Court of Appeals vacancy The nominating commission met Friday, June 25, 2021, to interview the applicants for the vacancy. Following the interviews, the commission deliberated and selected a slate of three nominees from the group of applicants and delivered the slate to the Governor. The nominees selected are: Judge Gina Badding, Carroll The governor has thirty (30) days in which to appoint the new judge. The 17-member commission is composed of eight commissioners...

Judge Mary Chicchelly of Cedar Rapids is one of the three finalists for appointment to the Iowa Court of Appeals.

May 8, 2021 Following one of the most gut-wrenching trials to impact Webster County in recent memory, there was a remarkable display of forgiveness and humanity. Not long after the jury submitted its verdict in the Scott County Courthouse in Davenport, Kristine Henderson and Mel Pendleton embraced. Her husband, the Rev. Al Henderson, had been killed by his son, Joshua Pendleton. For that crime, the jury convicted Joshua Pendleton of first degree murder and first degree robbery. District Court J...

A Scott County jury has convicted Joshua Pendleton of first-degree murder in the 2019 death of a Fort Dodge pastor. The Rev. Allen Henderson, 64, was found unresponsive Oct. 2, 2019, outside St. Paul Lutheran Church in Fort Dodge, where he served for 20 years.  Police said that afternoon Pendleton, 37, who lived near the church, tried to enter a rear exit that leads to a fellowship hall and kitchen as confirmation class for middle schoolers started. He attacked Henderson when the pastor attem...

-Messenger photo by Kelby Wingert Fort Dodge Police Department Sgt. Evan Thompson points toward bruising he observed on defendant Josh Pendleton’s face the night he was arrested for assaulting and killing the Rev. Al Henderson. Thompson testified in Pendleton’s jury trial on Wednesday morning. -Messenger photo by Kelby Wingert First Assistant Webster County Attorney Ryan Baldridge holds up the zip-up sweatshirt defendant Josh Pendleton was wearing when he was arrested on Oct. ...

kwingert@messengernews.net The final details for an upcoming jury trial of a Fort Dodge man accused of killing the Rev. Al Henderson were hashed out in a Webster County courtroom on Friday afternoon. Joshua Pendleton, 37, of Fort Dodge, is accused of killing Henderson in the parking lot of St. Paul Lutheran Church on the evening of Oct. 2, 2019. He was charged with first-degree murder and first-degree robbery. Pendleton’s jury trial is scheduled to start April 19 at the Scott County Courthous...

Joshua Pendleton Some incriminating statements made to law enforcement by the man accused of murdering the Rev. Al Henderson will not be admissible during the jury trial for the crime, a District Court judge ruled on Friday. According to the motion to suppress filed by the defense in March, defendant Josh Pendleton, 37, of Fort Dodge, was denied his constitutional rights when law enforcement obtained his statements in violation of the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constit...