Fairfield News

Jefferson County sold 12.58 acres of land in Section 22, Liberty Township, at Monday?s board of supervisors meeting to neighboring property owners, brothers Nathan, Ryan and Mark Porter.A public hearing Monday prior to the sale drew no comments.Supervisor board chairman Dick Reed said the land was part of the old county home acreage. The building hasn?t been owned by the county in several years and most ...

State Rep. Curt Hanson, represents Iowa House District 82, which includes most of Jefferson County and Davis and Van Buren counties.Small business development and entrepreneurship are valued in Iowa.The House introduced a resolution to recognize Iowa Small Business Development Centers and honor 2013 award winners.Since many small businesses lack the resources that larger companies have access to, ISBDC helps ...

The National Weather Service in the Quad Cities reports rain will change to snow this evening and continue overnight.The snow will be moderate to locally heavy at times over portions of southeast Iowa, west central and northwest Illinois, where 2 to 4 inches of slushy, wet snow accumulation is possible. One to 2 inches of snow accumulation will be possible over much of the rest of the outlook area.The snow will ...

Fairfield Police Department log of calls to dispatch Monday included:9:29 a.m. report of an iPhone found.9:44 a.m. an elementary school principal received a baggie with box tops turned in; the baggie had a small amount of residue with a unique odor. The residue was too small of an amount to test and the box tops were returned to the school.2:37 p.m. suspicious activity reported; an unoccupied vehicle in the ...

Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office reports a deer/vehicle accident at 8:29 a.m. Monday on Jasmine Avenue north of Fairfield airport.

Law enforcement, government agencies and others are itching to use drones for everything from finding lost hikers to tracking shifting wildfires.But privacy watchdogs are urging state legislatures to step in and head off any potential privacy violations.That tension is on display as more than 35 states consider drone legislation this year, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. The bills ...

It?s now up to a judge whether two key figures in a political payback scandal ensnaring Gov. Chris Christie?s administration will have to turn over text messages and other private communications to New Jersey lawmakers investigating the case.Fired Christie staffer Bridget Kelly and two-time campaign manager Bill Stepien risk self-incrimination if they comply with the subpoenas for documents related to the ...

Kitty Genovese?s screams for help couldn?t save her on the night she was murdered outside her apartment building in 1964.Fifty years later, those screams still echo, a symbol of urban breakdown and city dwellers? seeming callousness toward their neighbors.The case ?caught the spirit of the time,? said Thomas Reppetto, a police historian. ?It seemed to symbolize that society no longer cared about other people.?G...

A British man says he backed out of a shoe-bomb airplane plot in 2001 after his parents told him they wouldn?t want their son to be a terrorist.Saajid Badat testified Tuesday in New York City at the trial of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith Osama bin Laden?s son-in-law.Abu Ghaith could face life in prison if he?s convicted of conspiring to kill Americans and providing material support to al-Qaida in his role as al-Qaida?s ...

Fairfield Community School District Superintendent Art Sathoff notified area media and district employees that Indianola Community Schools is announcing him today as one of two finalists for superintendent in that district.A decision is expected in Indianola by March 24, according to the district?s central office.Sathoff said he applied for the job in Indianola after much reflection and for a variety of ...

Motorists in Fairfield should be mindful of wastewater department workers who will begin fixing city sewer mains today and will continue their work for the next two weeks.Wastewater superintendent Shawn Worley said today the crews won?t block off streets entirely although they will probably block one lane of traffic while they work. They will be fixing leaky mains using a fairly new technology that allows them ...

For much of the past three decades, pit bulls have been widely regarded as America?s most dangerous dog ? the favorite breed of thugs, drug dealers and dog-fighting rings, with a fearsome reputation for unprovoked, sometimes deadly attacks.Hostility toward ?pits? grew so intense that some cities began treating them as the canine equivalent of assault rifles and prohibited residents from owning them.But attitudes...