Fairfield Police Department reports the following were included in Thursday?s calls logged by dispatch:7:05 p.m. report of a lost wallet.11:52 p.m. complaint of loud music.
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The Fairfield Police Department was contacted today by officials with the U.S. Postal Service.This agency is documenting increased incidents of a computer virus scam in the Fairfield area. Subjects are reporting that they are receiving emails advising it is from the U.S. Postal Service and to open it to receive information about picking up a package. If anyone opens this email it will transfer a computer ...
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Fairfield Police Department conducted a traffic stop around 2:03 a.m. Thursday and arrested Nicole Lena Lehan Davis, 28, of Fairfield and Rebecca Ann Grubbs, 39, of Fairfield.Davis is charged with possession with intent to deliver more than 5 grams of methamphetamine, a Class B felony; drug tax stamp violation, a Class D felony, possession of drug paraphernalia, a simple misdemeanor, and violation of the gun ...
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Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office reports a vehicle/cow accident at 10:56 p.m. Monday. Robert Jeffrey Wilson of Cosby, Missouri, was driving a 2009 Ford F-750 truck east on Highway 34/163 at Fir Avenue and struck a cow in the road. Damages to the truck are estimated at $10,000.
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The latest concept drawing of the proposed indoor gymnasium was unveiled Monday at the Fairfield City Council meeting.Dave Zahradnik of Neumann Monson Architects said the diagram shows only two racquetball courts in the new facility. The Roosevelt Community Recreation Center has three racquetball courts, but one of them is being used by the gymnastics and trampoline club. Zahradnik said the number of racquetball ...
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Members of Friends of Lake Darling appeared before the Jefferson County Board of Supervisors Monday to ask for a contribution to build cabins in Lake Darling State Park.Fay Vittetoe, president of Friends of Lake Darling, and Charles Rubey, treasurer of the group, asked the supervisors for money to help build a set of three four-season cabins at the park. In December, the group received almost $300,000 from the ...
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Fairfield Attorney David Sykes said he has filed temporary and permanent injunctions against Heartland Co-op with the Jefferson County District Court.Sykes has been hired as lead attorney by Overland Sheepskin Company and members of the Leahy family to represent their interests in the issue of a proposed grain elevator facility to be built at Nutmeg Avenue and Highway 34.?The first step is the temporary ...
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Voting for the 2014 Congressional Art Contest is open and closes at 5 p.m. Friday.For the first time, residents can choose the winner.The high school student selected as the 2014 People?s Choice Award winner will represent Iowa?s Second District and have his or her artwork displayed in the tunnel leading to the U.S. Capitol for one year.?Believe me, it is going to be a tough choice for you to make,? said ...
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The Jefferson County Health Center Board of Trustees approved the health center?s purchase of the Medical Arts Clinic during the board?s monthly meeting Monday evening.Health center administrator and CEO Deb Cardin reminded the trustees she has been in various stages of discussion on the topic with both the physician clinics, Medical Arts Clinic and Fairfield Clinic PC, since last year.?We are now at a point ...
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The Supreme Court today handed the Obama administration an important victory in its effort to reduce power plant pollution in 27 Midwestern and Appalachian states that blows downwind and leads to unhealthy air.The decision caps a decades-long effort by the Environmental Protection Agency to find a legally acceptable way to ensure that states are good neighbors and don?t contribute to pollution problems in ...
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The Iowa Department of Transportation is working across the state this spring and summer to determine how many cars, trucks and other vehicles are using the state, county and city roadways.This year?s efforts are concentrated in southeast Iowa, but occasionally crews will work elsewhere in the state. Many employees will spend peak hours between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. at one location counting the morning, noon and ...
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Fairfield Police Department responded at 3:20 p.m. Sunday to an accident in the 2700 block of West Burlington Avenue. Wendy Rivera Rivas Xiomara, 34, of Columbus Junction, was driving a 2001 Ford Focus and failed to yield at the stop sign exiting Walmart drive, colliding with a 2002 Dodge Ram 1500 driven by Joseph Cash-Kelly Lancaster, 16, of Fairfield. Xiomara had two passengers, ages 12 and 7, in the back seat ...
