Articles Tagged: Criminal Cases

Iowa Wesleyan University Division of Science Chair and Criminal Justice Institute Director Richard Buffington of Winfield was arrested in Ainsworth …

In my 15 years experience as a newspaper reporter, Tyler Webster?s murder trial earlier this month in Jefferson County was the first of any type of trial I have covered for an assignment.At my previous newspaper, the Daily Gate City in Keokuk, (1997-2010) another reporter covered the police beat and courthouse. I sat in with her one afternoon during a murder-by-arson trial and another time in a sex abuse trial ...

To the editor:It has always been popular in many countries to justify the practice of passing on the debts incurred by one generation to the next for payment. Should one generation impose its debts on the next? This was not the view of the American Founding Fathers. They knew that the wars, economic problems and debts of one generation should be paid for by the generation which incurred them. They wanted the ...

To the editor:Board member Jennifer Anderson should be given a big thank you for proposing a work session May 2 at 7 p.m. to discuss this opening and possibly redefining the job description of Fairfield's School District Technology position. Mrs. Anderson proposal came due to the fact that our school?s cost per student is 2 to 1 compared to other area districts.The board needs to weigh the curriclum versus ...

To the editor:Mother?s Day will be here soon and Jefferson County Right to Life has a great suggestion. Instead of buying Mom more perfume or another pair of bedroom slippers, honor her for giving you life by supporting Choices Medical Clinic in Iowa City. Choices is having a Walk for Life on Saturday, May 7, from 9-10 a.m. in three locations in Iowa City: Kent Park at Blue Bird Shelter, City Park at Shelter ...

Dr. Martin and Julie Gleason of Fairfield announce the engagement of their daughter, Emily Elizabeth Gleason, to Lucas Carter Helling, son of Ronald and Jo Helling of Danville.The bride-elect is a graduate of Iowa State University and is currently enrolled at the University of Iowa?s Masters of Physician Assistant Studies Program.The groom-elect is a graduate of Wartburg College and of Drake University Law ...

Students at Washington Elementary School are learning about the Seven Habits of Highly Effective Kids and focused on Habit 6: Synergize or ?Together is Better? in March.Habit 6 is about two or more people working together to produce more than they would be able to separately.Teachers nominated one student, who exemplified Habit 6, from their classrooms for recognition at a recent assembly.Kindergarten teacher ...

Sometimes the bigger they are, the easier they fall.Just ask the Pioneer boys? tennis team, which hasn?t often had much trouble knocking the much larger schools down a peg or two. On Tuesday, the Pioneers claimed another of their large school victims, and they did it with their most dominant performance to date.The Pioneers not only won every set they played against visiting Burlington, but they rarely even ...

FORT MADISON ? Michael Fritz doubled up in the throwing events with two victories, and the Fairfield eighth-grade track and field team placed third out of seven teams at Monday?s meet in Fort Madison.Fritz had a winning launch of 145-feet, 6-inches in the discus, and his throw of 38-feet, 5.5-inches in the shot put was also a meet best.Cam Baumann was six feet short of Fritz? winning mark in the discus, ...

KEOKUK ? The Fairfield girls? track squad was back in action at the Keosippi Relays in Keokuk Tuesday.The Trojans scored 110 points at the relays to finish a distant second to Mount Pleasant, which tallied 198 points. Iowa City High and Burlington tied for third behind Fairfield with 79 points apiece.?As a whole I thought we competed very well tonight,? said Fairfield head coach Ron Hunerdosse.Fairfield junior ...

MOUNT PLEASANT ? After opening their season with a win over class 4A Cedar Rapids Xavier earlier last week, the Mt. Pleasant boys? basketball team turned around and opened its Southeast Conference season.Rival Fairfield turned out to be just a speed bump as the Panthers cruised to a 57-18 win.?It?s game two and it?s opening the conference and we wanted to come out and play sound fundamentally, both offensively and

MAQUOKETA (AP) ? Some eastern Iowa high school students have returned home after being stranded in Kenya after an airport fire.The Quad-City Times says the 26 students and chaperones from Maquoketa were reunited with friends and family on Sunday evening.The group, which had been on a weeklong mission trip, was scheduled to leave Africa on Wednesday. But a fire at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi ...

A massive, partly fossilized egg laid by a now-extinct elephant bird has sold for more than double its estimate at a London auction.Christie?s auction house said the foot-long, nearly nine-inches in diameter egg fetched 66,675 pounds ($101,813), valued at 20,000 to 30,000 pounds pre-sale, and was sold to an anonymous buyer over the telephone after about 10 minutes of competitive bidding.Elephant birds were ...

Fairfield has free mulch available at the lot south of Fairfield Hy-Vee Food and Drug Store, along Jefferson Avenue near 12th Street.The city will have a loader and operator available to load mulch from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, with a rain date the following Saturday, 8 a.m. to noon May 4.Residents are welcome to load mulch on their own or contact the city?s maintenance shed from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Mondays ...

Sloan Wright waits patiently during the Farmers? Market at the Fairfield Senior Citizen Center Saturday morning for her parents to finish their purchases. Many of the vendors had locally grown produce already for the crowd of shoppers.