Fairfield Fire Department responded at 6:01 a.m. today, Thursday, to a call for the Jaws of Life at Crestwood Avenue and 240th Street. Nothing was needed, and the six firefighters returned to the station at 6:36 a.m.
Heartland Co-op, which has been working with Fairfield Economic Development Association and Jefferson County Board of Supervisors to build a grain storage facility east of Fairfield, emailed a news release to local media Tuesday:Heartland Co-op is moving forward with building a state of the art high-speed shuttle train loading grain elevator east of Fairfield on Nutmeg Avenue with construction to begin immediatel...
Local law enforcement responded to a couple of incidents Tuesday in Fairfield in which pellet guns were mistaken for real guns.In one incident, a caller reported a 12-year-old boy was walking in the 300 block of South C Street at about 4 p.m. with a rifle slung over his shoulder. Fairfield police officers and Jefferson County Sheriff?s deputies responded to the scene and ordered the boy to drop the weapon and ...
This magnolia tree in the 600 block of North Second Street in Fairfield is in full bloom, one month after the spring equinox.
Fairfield Police Department?s log of calls to dispatch include:Tuesday4:44 p.m. resident reported a phone scam.10:26 p.m. report of noise disturbance.Monday2:15 p.m. resident reported a phone fraud; he was contacted about winning a lottery and asked to send money. The resident mailed three separate checks totaling $12,500 to an address in St. Paul, Minn.2:45 p.m. caller said a neighborhood dog was tied up ...
The Justice Department is encouraging nonviolent federal inmates who have behaved in prison, have no significant criminal history and have already served more than 10 years behind bars to apply for clemency, officials announced today.The initiative is part of a broader Obama administration effort to trim the nation?s prison population, ease sentencing disparities arising from drug possession crimes and scale ...
For all the tens of billions of dollars that the nation has spent on screening passengers and their bags, few airports made a comparable investment to secure the airplanes themselves.As the case of the San Jose stowaway shows, it did not take a sophisticated plan for a 15-year-old boy to spend about seven hours in what is supposed to be a secure area of Silicon Valley?s main airport ? much of it in a wheel well ...
First lady Michelle Obama has announced a new online effort to link soldiers leaving the military with jobs that match their skill sets.She said the new Veterans Employment Center provides one-stop shopping for troops as they transition to civilian life.The move comes as the U.S. winds down wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the administration seeks to lower unemployment among veterans.Mrs. Obama, joined by Vice ...
VINTON (AP) ? For six years, time has stopped at the Benton County Courthouse in Vinton.Officials want to change that and are raising $50,000 needed to get the clock atop the historic courthouse ticking again. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reported that time has been frozen on the clock at just before 12 since sometime in 2008.The eastern Iowa county already is planning to spend $500,000 on new windows in ...
A Jefferson County resident is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of suspects who stole his pickup and other valuables earlier this month.The resident, who wishes to remain anonymous, owns a hunting cabin at 2852 193rd Boulevard south of Salina. He believes that on April 12, persons used a crowbar to break into the garage on the property and steal a 2010 red Ford Ranger pickup. They ...
DES MOINES (AP) ? Iowa lawmakers have work to complete before adjournment, but they?ll have to finish up without daily payments for their expenses.The session has no specific end date, but Tuesday ? the 100th day of the session ? marks the last day lawmakers will receive their per diem payments. Pages will be sent home and Capitol staff will be reduced, but lawmakers must stick around to wrap up budget bills and ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ? Swan Lockett had high hopes that President Barack Obama?s health overhaul would lead her family to an affordable insurance plan, but that hasn?t happened.Instead, because lawmakers in her state refused to expand Medicaid, the 46-year-old mother of four from Texas uses home remedies or pays $75 to see a doctor when she has an asthma attack.?If I don?t have the money, I just let it go on ...
Fairfield Police Department?s log of calls to dispatch included: Sunday2:08 p.m. officer picked up a beagle-mix dog running loose and took to the vet clinic.11:05 p.m. caller reported hearing gunshots. Saturday4:05 a.m. caller reported phone harassment.11:17 p.m. Cortney Haynes was arrested on a state warrant and cited for driving while suspended.12:59 p.m. caller reported an assault which happened ...
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) ? After the 9/11 attacks, tens of thousands of young men and women joined the military, heading for the rugged mountains of Afghanistan and dusty deserts of Iraq.Many of them now are officers in the Army with multiple combat deployments under their belts. But as the wars wind down and Pentagon budgets shrink, a lot of them are being told they have to leave.It?s painful and frustrating. In ...
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