Andy Hallman

RIVERSIDE ? The Highland girls basketball team took Pekin into overtime Tuesday but could not come away with the victory as the Huskies fell 56-53 at home. The loss drops the Huskies to 4-4 in the conference and 4-4 overall. Pekin improves to 6-2 in the conference and 7-2 overall.Highland jumped out to an 18-11 lead at the end of the first quarter. Pekin answered with a big second quarter and by halftime ...

Washington junior guard Joni Erwin (44) looks to pass in a game Tuesday against visiting Fort Madison. The Demon girls scored a knockout victory against the visitors, 48-16. The Washington Demon boys? won their game 70-59. For the full stories, see Thursday?s edition of The Journal.

The Fort Madison Bloodhounds gave the Washington Demon boys a heck of a game through the first half Tuesday night. The Demons took a 31-28 lead into halftime and expanded on it in the third quarter to 52-37. With about three minutes left in the game, the Demons had stretched their lead to 20 at 65-45. Fort Madison made a run in the fourth quarter but it was too little too late as Washington won 70-59.Washington...

The Mid-Prairie Golden Hawks boys? basketball team was on the wrong end of some late-game heroics in its match against Durant Friday. The game was tied at 40 as the clock wound down in the final seconds of the second half. Durant nailed a three-pointer with 1.2 seconds left. The Golden Hawks had one last chance to tie the game but turned the ball over on the in-bounds play, forcing them to foul. Durant sank one ...

This is the first in a two-part series on the Miller family and immigration. A 13-year-old Fairfield boy realized other people needed birthday presents more than he did.Chaiden Miller, son of Dan and Annalisa Miller and a seventh-grader at Maharishi School, celebrated his birthday Aug. 9. Instead of bringing him gifts, he instructed his friends to bring donations for immigrants affected by the Immigration and ...

The Demon volleyball team swept the Fort Madison Bloodhounds three sets to nil on the road Tuesday night. The win improves the Demons? record to 3-13.Washington won the first set against their conference opponents handily, 25-8. The Bloodhounds played better in the final two frames but the Demons proved to be too much for them, taking those sets 25-22 and 25-23, respectively.      ?The match went really well last

OTTUMWA ? One person is dead and at least two others injured in separate shootings Friday in Ottumwa, including a shootout between suspects and law enforcement officers.The Ottumwa Police Department issued a news release on the incident but is withholding the names of the subjects involved.At 1:42 p.m. Friday, the Ottumwa Police Department received a call reporting shots fired at 831 S. Lillian St. in Ottumwa. ...

The Highland softball team hosted West Burlington Wednesday night and defeated their guests 4-2. Paige Wieland got the win for the Huskies as she surrendered four hits and four walks while striking out three.    Highland struck first by putting up two tallies in the first frame. West Burlington answered with two of their own in the fourth, but Highland untied the game by tacking on two more runs in the fifth inning

A Fairfield woman was arrested Wednesday and charged with stealing an automobile.Cheyenne Rae Brown, 20, was charged with second degree theft and operating a vehicle without a valid driver's license.A subject in the 1200 block of Brookville Road alerted law enforcement that a vehicle was taken from his residence at 4:22 a.m. Wednesday. Just seven minutes later, a Jefferson County Sheriff's deputy located the ...

The Washington High School boys? and girls? track teams put on quite a show for their hometown fans Thursday at the Demon Relays at Case Field. The boys won their meet and the girls came in second place behind Fairfield.    The Demon boys ended the day with 159 points, ahead of Clear Creek Amana in second place with 137 points. Fairfield came in third with 130.5 points, while Davis County was a distant fourth with

Working four jobs at once starts to wear on a person.That's why Jeff Six has decided he wants to reduce that number by one. At the end of this month, Jeff Six will retire from the Fairfield Fire Department after 28 years.Six is retiring to spend more time with his wife, Katie. He also wants to devote his attention to the 34th Army Band, which he has been in for 35 years, and is hoping for five more. He has his ...

Jackson Pennington, son of Marc and Emily Pennington of Wellman, holds up a fish he caught while ice fishing on the frozen pond at Marr Park on Saturday. Marc said it was the first time he had taken his 6-year-old son ice fishing. The fish Jackson caught is known as a redear sunfish, which he snagged while observing a television connected to an underwater camera.

A house in Wellman was nearly consumed by fire Tuesday afternoon, which was only extinguished after the Wellman and Kalona fire departments spent three hours putting out the blaze. Everyone escaped uninjured from the fire, which occurred at the residence of Richard ?Allen? and Suzan Hopp located at 1506 First Avenue on the northeast edge of town.    The Wellman Fire Department received a call from the resident of

The fireworks ordinance resurfaced once again during discussions at Monday's Fairfield City Council meeting.The council agreed to bring back an amendment to the ordinance that had gone through two readings before it was tabled in February. The amendment would have reduced the number of days to discharge fireworks from nine days around Independence Day to only one, July 4. It would reduce the allowable days ...

OTTUMWA ? The Ottumwa Police Department responded to a car theft Monday night, and later learned that the stolen car was involved in a car accident in which two people died.According to a press release from the Ottumwa Police Department, officers responded to the 1800 block of Greenwood Drive at 7:46 p.m. after hearing a pizza delivery driver had been robbed. The victim was a 21-year-old man from Ottumwa, who ...