Fairfield News

TEMPLETON (AP) ? Templeton Rye plans to distill whiskey at its bottling facility in west-central Iowa. The Des Moines Register reports that the company is adding distilling equipment and warehouses at its plant in Templeton, a Carroll County town of about 360 residents. In 2015 the company settled lawsuits over labeling the whiskey as "small-batch rye" made in Iowa when it actually was a stock whiskey made by ...

PACKWOOD ? The Pekin Community School District plans to propose a $5.5 million general obligation bond to remodel its K-12 facility.?It?s time to bring the school into the 21st. Century,? said school superintendent Dave Harper, adding that the building hasn?t had a major remodel since it was built. Pekin High School was erected in the 1960s while the elementary school came later in 1970s.During the late 1990s, ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? A panel has tentatively agreed to reinstate open records complaints against Burlington police and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation. The Burlington Hawk Eye reports the Iowa Public Information Board Thursday voted 4-2 to reinstate charges regarding investigative records about an officer's accidental shooting of Burlington resident Autumn Steel in January 2015. An administrative law ...

Kids and germs seem to go together like milk and cookies. But there are ways parents can keep germs from spreading and boost kids? immune systems to help prevent illnesses this cold and flu season, a UIeCare health expert says.?The gathering of children in schools and daycares is one of the main ways germs spread and get circulated through communities,? said Patrick D. Brophy MD, MHCDS, professor of pediatrics ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? A judge has ruled that an Iowa Transportation Department officer didn't have legal authority to issue a speeding ticket. Polk County District Court Associate Judge Heather Lauber said in her Thursday ruling dismissing the citation that the Iowa Supreme Court declared nearly 70 years ago that the department officers didn't have power over most moving violations. The Des Moines Register reports ...

The Fairfield Police Department reports the following incidents logged into dispatch: Wednesday9:25 a.m. ? A citizen reported a burglary at 307 S. Second St.9:49 a.m. ? A caller advised that his neighbor?s dog bit his 6-year-old daughter. He told officers that when he went to speak to his neighbor about the incident, the dog tried to bite him, too.12:25 p.m. ? A citizen advised of criminal mischief on ...

FAIRVIEW, Ill. (AP) ? A decorated U.S. soldier from Illinois and an Army civilian employee from Oklahoma who both had been deployed multiple times to support military operations in Afghanistan were killed in an attack this week in Kabul, the Defense Department said. Army Sgt. Douglas J. Riney, 26, of Fairview, Illinois, and Michael G. Sauro, 40, of McAlester, Oklahoma, died of wounds received when they encountere...

LUDINGTON, Mich. (AP) ? Guinness World Records says a roughly half-mile-long ice cream sundae that was gobbled up in Michigan this June was the longest ever.The sundae measuring a little over 2,970 feet in length fed thousands of people lining eight blocks.The previous longest ice-cream dessert was created in 2015 in Manurewa, New Zealand, and it was 1,957 feet and 1 inch.Ludington?s record may be short-lived. ...

RIVER FALLS, Wis. (AP) ? As a tumultuous campaign nears an end, undecided voters across the country watched the final debate of the U.S. presidential race with a mix of skepticism and rapt attention Wednesday night.They were searching for clarity, and some found it. But others remained painfully undecided just a few weeks before the election, saying neither candidate won them over.?I heard a lot of the same ...

KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) ? Nations strove today for a deal to phase out hydrofluorocarbons from air conditioners and refrigerators as part of efforts to fight climate change. An agreement could put a half-degree Celsius dent in global warming by the end of the century, according to scientists.At issue are greenhouse gases far more powerful than carbon dioxide. HFCs, as they?re known, were introduced in the 1980s as a ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? Samsung Electronics said today that the discontinuation of the Galaxy Note 7 would cost the company about $3 billion during the current and next quarters, bringing the total cost of the recall to at least $5.3 billion.The Note 7 discontinuation will cost in the mid-2 trillion won range during the October-December period and another 1 trillion won ($884 million) during the January-March ...

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Thailand?s King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died Thursday after a 70-year reign, was historically an important bridge in his nation?s close, but recently strained, relations with the United States. Bhumibol was born in the U.S. and was an important ally for Washington in combating the spread of communism in Southeast Asia during the Cold War. He met with six sitting U.S. presidents, starting with ...