Fairfield News

The Fairfield Police Department reports the following incidents logged into dispatch: Wednesday7:01 a.m. ? A citizen advised that her vehicle had been broken into and a male subject was sleeping in it. The citizen told officers that she did know the subject, and that he stole cigarettes, left her vehicle disheveled and he road off on a bicycle. The citizen called back and said that the subject had also been ...

Sleeping Idaho hunter wakes up to black bear biting his headKEITH RIDLER, Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) ? A hunter asleep in the remote Idaho wilderness woke up when he felt something tugging on his hair. Then he heard the black bear breathing. Stephen Vouch, 29, reached behind his head and felt it was wet. He yelled when he realized a bear was biting at his head. ?He got a hold of my head, and ...

The nominations for those running for city council in area towns are in; and Libertyville, which has an opening for a town mayor and three at-large councilmember seats, currently has zero hopefuls. ?Nobody turned in papers in Libertyville, and the mayor?s seat is open and three council seats,? said city clerk Karen Blakley. ?I don?t have any idea why nobody turned in papers. There will just be write-in votes.? ...

NEW YORK (AP) ? Ask a roomful of people to take out their phones, and you?re bound to see several with cracked screens.Despite engineering breakthroughs, screen breakage has become a part of life, the leading type of phone damage.In part, we?re to blame. We want phones that are bigger, yet thinner, offsetting strides made in strengthening glass. We also want phones to be sleek: A phone that?s rugged enough to ...

FORT DODGE (AP) ? A 72-year-old Virginia man has completed his longtime goal of donating blood in all 50 states after visiting a blood bank in Iowa. John Ball of Charlottesville, Virginia, completed his quest Wednesday afternoon at the Life Serve Blood Center in Fort Dodge. He told The Messenger that he?s been donating blood since he was 17 and later decided to challenge himself to donate in every state. ?After ...

SPEARFISH, S.D. (AP) ? Matthew Murraine wants to know who swiped his 100-pound pumpkin.Murraine has been growing a type of large pumpkin at his home in Spearfish, South Dakota, this summer. Last Friday, someone stole the largest one in a heist Murraine believes was carefully planned.?They backed right up to the house. That?s pretty brazen,? he told the Black Hills Pioneer. ?They brought a saw. You could see on ...

SICKLERVILLE, N.J. (AP) ? An 8-year-old girl received a one-day suspension from her New Jersey public school for wearing a shirt the wrong shade of green.The girl?s mother tells WTXF-TV that Winslow Township Elementary School No. 4 sent her daughter home Tuesday for wearing a kelly green polo shirt, which was deemed to be in violation of the Camden County school?s dress code.The school?s dress code specifies ...

BURLINGTON (AP) ? An eastern Iowa sheriff says he?s to blame for a collision between his unmarked vehicle and a pickup on an access road to a firing range. The Hawk Eye reports that the accident occurred Aug. 26 at the Big Hollow Recreation Area. Des Moines County Sheriff Mike Johnstone says his sport utility vehicle hit an oncoming pickup on a sharp bend of the road when he looked away at something in a camping ...

OTTUMWA (AP) ? A murder trial has been delayed for a 31-year-old man accused of fatally beating another man outside a bar in Ottumwa. The trial is scheduled to begin Nov. 3 for Kendrick Jackson. It had been set to begin Oct. 6. Jackson is accused of beating Maekele Hagos outside The Elbow Room on Sept. 7 last year. Authorities say Hagos died later at a hospital in Iowa City. Jackson?s attorneys have filed ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? The fabled Goodyear Blimp is retiring.But don?t fret, blimp fans. That big, cigar-shaped thing you?ve seen floating over sports events all your life will still be there. It will also remain instantly recognizable with its blue-and-gold Goodyear logo emblazoned across the side.It just won?t be, well, technically, a blimp.But that?s OK, too, because from the ground it won?t look much different ...

The Fairfield Police Department reports the following incidents logged into dispatch: Wednesday11:04 a.m. ? A no-injury accident occurred at 20th Street and Jefferson Avenue. Linda Mullikin, 72, admitted to running a stop sign that caused an accident with Rose Weeks. Damages to both vehicles were estimated at $1,000. Millikin was cited for the accident.2:44 p.m. ? A caller advised that a subject purposely hit ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? Former President George W. Bush returned Friday to New Orleans ? the scene of one of his presidency?s lowest points ? to tout the region?s recovery from the nation?s costliest natural disaster on the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. He and Laura Bush visited the oldest public school in the city ? Warren Easton Charter High School, which was closed for a year because of storm damage and ...