Fairfield News

The Fairfield Police Department reports the following incidents logged into dispatch: Thursday12:29 a.m. ? A security officer at Maharishi University of Management reported that a citizen advised him that someone is going through cars in Utopia Park just east of Utopia Way. Officers checked the area for suspicious activity, but no one was located. Campus security advised that they would contact police if ...

One day, Kynsington Deutsch will know first-hand what it means to be one out of 1,461 ? the probability of being born on Leap Day. The only baby born to Southeast Iowa parents Monday at Ottumwa Regional Health Center, Kynsington joins a unique group of only 4 million others in the world who were born on the day that comes once every four years. ?It?s really exciting,? said Kynsington?s mother, Fairfield ...

KALONA (GTNS) ? Residents approved a $3.9 million bond issue to finance an enlarged community center in a special election Tuesday. The project found solid support among those voting in the election, with 400 residents voting for the project and 204 casting votes against it. For passage, a margin of more than 60 percent was required. Just over 36 percent of the city?s registered voters turned out for the ...

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, right, and Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey participate in a roundtable discussion on agriculture Wednesday afternoon at the Jefferson County Farm Bureau Office in Fairfield. The stop was part of a two-day tour of southeast Iowa to meet with ag leaders.

DES MOINES (AP) ? Iowa has experienced the wettest winter on record with precipitation totals for December, January and February surpassing the previous record set 101 years ago. State Climatologist Harry Hillaker says December's record rain combined with snow sent precipitation totals for the three-month period past 6 ½ inches, which is nearly double the seasonal normal of 3.3 inches. The precipitation total ...

FALLS CITY, Neb. (AP) ? Federal regulators want to punish a southeast Nebraska company that the regulators say wrongfully fired a driver who refused to operate a truck that violated Iowa law. The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration said in a news release today that Jake Rieger Farms LLC violated federal whistleblower law. OSHA says Rieger should not have retaliated against an ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? An advocacy coalition in Iowa says it will deliver thousands of petitions to U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley to protest his recent comments about the selection of a U.S. Supreme Court nominee. A coalition of organizations plan to deliver 42,000 petition signatures today to Grassley?s six regional offices around Iowa. They also plan to deliver excerpts from the U.S. Constitution. Why Courts Matter ...

Bell, Loner leading Cambridge?s new Fiduciary Services departmentCambridge Investment Research Inc. has named Colleen Bell as first vice president of Fiduciary Services, and Melissa Loner as vice president of Fiduciary Services.The Fiduciary Services department was established in preparation for the changes facing the industry, including the potential impacts of the proposed Department of Labor?s ruling which ...

IOWA CITY (AP) ? Police officers in Iowa are finding ways to use social media tools to share information and connect better with the people they are trying to protect. Iowa City police officer Ashten Hayes told the Iowa City Press-Citizen that when she was speaking at an elementary school recently, she took extra time to take photos with the kids. "They just wanted to have a selfie with me," said Hayes, who ...

DUBUQUE (AP) ? A hearing will be held this spring to determine whether a Dubuque man is competent to stand trial on sexual assault and murder charges. The Telegraph Herald reports a judge decided a competency hearing will be held for 20-year-old Helmon Betwell on April 4. Betwell?s attorney, Thomas Goodman, said in his motion for the hearing that a mental disorder is keeping Betwell from understanding the ...

Creative Edge Master Shop, the largest and most experienced fabricator of architectural materials using waterjet technology, has announced a new licensing agreement with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.The agreement authorizes Creative Edge to interpret distinctive designs from the FLW Foundation?s extensive archives in stone, terrazzo and metal materials for residential and commercial hard surface flooring.Th...

ATHENS, Ala. (AP) ? Police video released Wednesday shows that an Alabama mental patient who died after being shot with a stun gun began having breathing difficulties within minutes of receiving the jolt.The more than nine-minute video from a police body camera shows officers and medical workers trying to calm 49-year-old Randy Joe Nelson at Athens-Limestone Hospital on Feb. 3. The video shows Nelson growing ...