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Fairfield Community School District will follow its late start schedule Tuesday. School will be delayed 90 minutes.
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Fairfield Community School District will follow its late start schedule Tuesday. School will be delayed 90 minutes.
Janet Yellen will take the helm of a Federal Reserve facing a significantly different economic landscape from the one that dominated Ben Bernanke?s tenure as chairman, confronting her with different decisions as well.Bernanke?s eight years leading the Fed were largely consumed with the Great Recession and his efforts to cure it by pushing down interest rates and pumping cash into the economy.Many economists ...
MT. PLEASANT ? Nichole Bruegee and Justin Brown are the proud parents of the first baby from Jefferson County born in 2014.Aubrey Adeline Brown was born at 10:49 p.m. Sunday in the Henry County Health Center. She is 19.5 inches long and weighs 8 pounds, 14 ounces.The couple resides in Fairfield.
Larry Hall has been a barber for so many years it was difficult for his customers to imagine he?d ever retire.Hall has been a familiar face in downtown Fairfield for more than 50 years, having cut hair at the corner of Broadway Avenue and Court Street since 1961. In recent years, Hall has cut down on his hours at the office, working only Mondays and Tuesdays. In 2013, Hall decided it was time to reduce those ...
A high speed chase began in Fairfield Friday morning and ended when the driver drove into a field near Douds.The chase began at about 7:15 a.m. when members of the Fairfield Police Department attempted to stop a vehicle in town for expired license plates. The driver, Dale Joe Clark of Ottumwa, refused to stop and sped away.The chase lasted 40 minutes before Clark drove into a field, whereupon he fled on foot. ...
CEDAR RAPIDS (AP) ? Firefighters train for all emergencies ? even a temperature of minus 15 and wind chill of minus 40.That?s what faced the crew of Engine 1 of the Cedar Rapids Fire Department and other firefighters Sunday night at a roaring house fire.Fire Capt. Joe Miles says ?fires don?t happen at 3 in the afternoon when it?s 55 degrees.?Miles says breathing gear often freezes up, and other equipment ...
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (AP) ? Paul Gregoline lies in bed, awaiting the helper who will get him up, bathed and groomed. He is 92 years old, has Alzheimer?s disease and needs a hand with nearly every task the day brings. When the aide arrives, though, he doesn?t look so different from the client himself ? bald and bespectacled.?Just a couple of old geezers,? jokes Warren Manchess, the 74-year-old caregiver.As demand ...
MT. PLEASANT ? A snowmobile accident resulted in a fatality Saturday night on the Skunk River, according to a news release from the Henry County Sheriff?s Office.An investigation determined that Justin R. Smith, 31, Mt. Pleasant, was riding his snowmobile southbound on the Skunk River near 240th Street and Ketchum Bridge Campground.According the news release, Smith?s snowmobile was the only vehicle involved in ...
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) ? Law enforcement agents in New Jersey have redoubled efforts to fight what they worry could be one of the biggest menaces to come with next month?s Super Bowl: sex trafficking.Hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected to descend on New Jersey for the Feb. 2 football game. Many believe the state?s sprawling highway system, proximity to New York City and diverse population make it ...
DAVENPORT (AP) ? Roughly 130 members of an Iowa Army Reserve unit are being deployed to Cuba to help guard prisoners at Guantanamo Bay?s prison for about a year.The Quad-City Times reports family members gathered Saturday to say goodbye to the soldiers of the 339th Military Police Company. The unit left Sunday for a month of training in Texas before going to Cuba.This will be the unit?s second time serving in ...
The National Weather Service has issued a hazardous weather outlook for portions of north central Illinois, northwest Illinois, west central Illinois, east central Iowa, northeast Iowa, southeast Iowa, including Jefferson County and northeast Missouri.Wind chills of 30 to 45 below are expected the rest of the afternoon and tonight. A wind chill warning is in in effect today and tonight for the entire outlook ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) ? In at least four states that have nurtured the nation?s energy boom, hundreds of complaints have been made about well-water contamination from oil or gas drilling, and pollution was confirmed in a number of them, according to a review that casts doubt on industry suggestions that such problems rarely happen.The Associated Press requested data on drilling-related complaints in Pennsylvania, ...
The following cases were processes at Jefferson County Courthouse. Magistrate CourtJesse Duane Hardwood, 46, of Batavia was fined $195 for assault, a simple misdemeanor.Sherry Wauice Beamish, 34, of Fairfield was fined $195 for disorderly conduct.Dustin Charles Roll, 23, of Fairfield was fined $148 for public intoxication.
The unemployment rate in Jefferson County rose from 5 percent in October to 5.1 percent in November.According to Iowa Workforce Development figures, in October, Jefferson County had a labor force of 7,830, with 7,440 employed and 390 unemployed. In November, the county had a labor force of 7,990, with 7,580 employed and 410 unemployed.The Iowa Workforce Development figures show an increase in the unemployment ...
