Fairfield News

Fairfield experienced sanitary sewer overflows Sunday that resulted in 265,775 gallons of untreated wastewater to be discharged.The city received 0.7 inches of rain in a very short time frame. The discharges were from manholes north of the wastewater facility and were discharged into Crow Creek, south of the Fairfield Gold and Country Club and south of Jefferson County Park. The city is conducting flow studies ...

QPS Employment Group opens locallyQPS Employment Group, a staffing and recruiting firm, has opened a new location at 1805 W. Jefferson Ave., Suite 3 in Fairfield.QPS Employment Group will be hosting an open house from 10 a.m. to noon Monday.QPS is a full-service employment agency that specializes in industrial, technical, office clerical and professional placements. QPS places workers in temporary, temp-to-hire...

Emergency officials searched for survivors today in the debris left by a powerful tornado that killed at least 14 people in Arkansas and carved an 80-mile path of destruction through suburban Little Rock.The tornado that slammed into Vilonia, just north of the state?s capital city, grew to about half a mile wide Sunday and was among a rash of tornadoes and strong storms that rumbled across the Midwest and ...

The Somali mother?s home is a frame of sticks covered by ragged blankets on the dusty grounds of this refugee camp.It was here that her 15-year-old son wanted to travel on an impossible journey as a stowaway on a plane from California.Ubah Mohammed Abdule hasn?t seen her boy ? who was hospitalized in Hawaii after landing there in the wheel well of a jetliner ? for eight long years.Wearing a black and white ...

The National Weather Service in the Quad Cities reports a prolonged period of unsettled weather will be seen across the area, including Jefferson County, from Saturday night through Wednesday with many rounds of rain expected.Thunderstorms will be possible from Saturday night through Monday.Storms Saturday night may be able to produce some hail especially west of the Mississippi River.A better chance for ...

Fairfield High School 2009 graduate, Sgt. Jacob Guck, of the Iowa Army National Guard, is the state?s noncommissioned officer ?Best Warrior? this year.The annual Best Warrior Competition tests a soldier?s mental, physical and emotional toughness and endurance. The three?day competition is divided into junior enlisted and noncommissioned officer categories.Guck, the son of John and Kathy Guck in Libertyville, ...

Jefferson County Board of Supervisors set a public hearing for May 19 to amend the fiscal year 2014 county budget and approved a noxious weeds resolution Monday.In other news, absentee voting for the June 3 primary elections began today.The June 3 primary election has party-affiliated ballots to select candidates for the November general election.Absentee ballots can be cast in person at the auditor?s office ...

Fairfield Police Department log of calls to dispatch Thursday included:11:58 a.m. report of vandalism; sometime between 1-6 a.m. Thursday, someone ripped the screen off a storm door.6:21 p.m. caller reported a phone scam concerning Windows on computer.7:17 p.m. caller reported standing water on a roadway.

The captors of an American soldier held for nearly five years in Afghanistan have signaled a willingness to release him but are unclear which U.S. government officials have the authority to make a deal, according to two individuals in the military working for his release.Critics of the release effort blame disorganization and poor communication among the numerous federal agencies involved.An ever-shrinking U.S. ...

No Way Off Broadway shows are planned in Fairfield this summer owing to the group?s artistic director accepting a position out of state.Randy West was the artistic director of Way Off Broadway until a few months ago when he became the executive director of the C. L. Hoover Opera House in Junction City, Kansas. West?s move to Kansas has left Way Off Broadway without a director. Way Off Broadway board president ...

Fairfield Police Department?s log of calls received at dispatch Wednesday included:7:06 a.m. two abandoned bicycles taken to impound.9:53 a.m. theft at Walmart investigated.12:40 p.m. Yvette Stepp was arrested on a warrant.4:55 p.m. Mogen Keene, 26, and Courtney Carey, 18, were both driving east on Burlington Avenue when a truck driving erratically blew black smoke and neither Keene nor Carey could see ...

The U.N. Security Council today expressed ?horror? at the recent massacre of several hundred civilians in South Sudan, while the U.S. ambassador to the world body said she fears a deepening human catastrophe.The strongly worded Security Council statement deplored the killings last week in Bentiu, the capital of oil-producing Unity state, as well as the use of radio broadcasts to ?foment hate and sexual violence.?...