Fairfield News

Two bridges on Ash Avenue are scheduled for replacement and bids will be solicited in April, Jefferson County Engineer Scott Cline told the board of supervisors today.The northern bridge over Cedar Creek is the larger project, and will be made about a foot higher than its current height. Both bridges, the second one over Honey Creek, will be 24.5-feet wide.?This will make them both legal for semis,? said ...

With Christmas Day now a memory and 2013 quickly winding down, the wait for the 2014 Jefferson County New Year?s baby is under way.Originally, the New Year?s baby title went to the first baby born at Jefferson County Hospital each year, but since the facility?s obstetrics department closed several years ago, the title now goes to the first infant born to a Jefferson County mother.The baby can be born in any ...

PERRY (AP) ? A toddler has been found sitting along a state highway in frigid central Iowa.Authorities say someone spotted the little boy Sunday afternoon on Iowa Highway 141 west of Perry and took him to Dallas County Hospital in Perry. The National Weather Service says it was about 10 degrees at the time, with a wind chill of minus 8.The child?s baby sitter, 31-year-old Catalina Ortiz-Ortega, of Guthrie ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? Iowa officials say a state website that people can use to apply for health insurance is working again.The state Department of Human Services says a website for Medicaid eligibility became available again Saturday night. The agency told The Des Moines Register the website was down earlier because it was undergoing scheduled maintenance.The issue affects Iowans who tried to apply for insurance ...

The annual deadline for registering snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles, off-road motorcycles and off-road utility vehicles is Tuesday, the last day of the year.The Jefferson County Recorder?s Office, at the courthouse, is open 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, to accept registrations.Jefferson County Courthouse will be closed all day Wednesday in observance of New Year?s holiday.To register off-road ...

The National Weather Service in the Quad Cities has issued a hazardous weather advisory for portions of north central Illinois, northwest Illinois, west central Illinois, east central Iowa, northeast Iowa, southeast Iowa, including Jefferson County and northeast Missouri.A storm system will move through the midwest this afternoon and evening bringing accumulating snow to the area. Current information suggests an ...

IOWA CITY (AP) ? A former University of Iowa radiology professor who was fired for engaging in harassing behavior toward colleagues faces charges after failing to complete a state-ordered mental and physical evaluation.The Iowa Board of Medicine says in a statement of charges filed Dec. 20 that 52-year-old Malik Juweid failed to complete the exam within 90 days of Aug. 13. The board first issued the order in ...

The Rev. Jim Wotherspoon will complete his active pastoring at First Baptist Church Sunday with his 931st sermon in Fairfield.Wotherspoon and his family came to Fairfield from Columbus, Neb., in July 1995. He?s also served in Portland, Ore., and was raised in southern California.His wife, Betsie, is the department head of special education at Fairfield High School and their four children graduated from FHS.?Ser...

Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office arrested Jesse Duane Harwood, 46, of Batavia, at 5:24 p.m. Friday in Batavia on warrants for assault causing bodily injury.

Fairfield Police Department reports arresting Christian Steven Tosh, 18, of Keosauqua, at 1:21 a.m. Sunday, at the law center, on warrant(s) for third-degree theft and ongoing criminal mischief. Police logSunday1:49 p.m. citizen reported a 2001 Chevrolet Cavalier was broken into while parked, unlocked, in the 1200 block of South Second Street. A spare phone and loose change was taken.2:23 p.m. a vehicle was ...

IOWA CITY (AP) ? Felony misconduct charges have been dropped, but a longtime Iowa narcotics investigator isn?t cleared yet.Division of Narcotics Enforcement Director Steve DeJoode said Thursday that agent Jonathan Borg remains under internal investigation. The review should be completed in the next few weeks.DeJoode says Borg returned to work in an administrative job after prosecutors dismissed their case ...

KINGSLEY (AP) ? Authorities say they had to free a person trapped inside a car wreck in northwest Iowa that injured multiple people.The Plymouth County Sheriff?s Office says the single-vehicle crash early Thursday on a county road near Kingsley injured five people. One of the injured people was trapped inside the wreck.The Sioux City Journal says the five people were transported to a local hospital. Authorities ...