Fairfield News

IOWA CITY (AP) ? When a county prosecutor reviews an Iowa trooper?s decision to shoot a suspect in Council Bluffs, the details of the case might seem familiar.Pottawattamie County Attorney Matthew Wilber is expected to decide in the coming weeks whether trooper Tim Sieleman was justified in the Dec. 1 shooting of 28-year-old Michael B. Lee of Carter Lake.Five years ago, Wilber concluded that Sieleman had used ...

New Year?s Day, Wednesday, is a national holiday.The U. S. Post Office will be closed Wednesday and there is no mail delivery.Jefferson County Courthouse will be closed Wednesday.Fairfield City Hall will close at noon Tuesday and re-open for regular hours Thursday.Fairfield Public Library is closing early, at 5 p.m. Tuesday and will be closed Wednesday, opening at regular hours again Thursday.Roosevelt ...

HOUMA, La. (AP) ? A man embroiled in a custody fight with his ex-wife attacked his former in-laws, his onetime boss at a hospital that fired him and his current wife in a rampage that spanned two parishes in Louisiana, leaving three dead before killing himself, authorities said.All three survivors remained hospitalized Friday, two of them in critical condition, Brennan Matherne, a spokesman for the Lafourche ...

The National Weather Service in the Quad Cities has issued a hazardous weather outlook: Dangerously cold wind chills of 20 below to 35 below zero are likely at times Sunday night through Tuesday night, New Year?s Eve, as an arctic air mass settles into the region.This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of north central Illinois, northwest Illinois, west central Illinois, east central Iowa, northeast Iowa, ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) ? The planned release Friday of thousands of pages of police documents from the investigation into last year?s school massacre in Newtown could shed additional light on the world of the 20-year-old gunman.State police said their report totaling several thousand pages would be released at 3 p.m. The report ?has been redacted according to law,? and includes text, photos and 911 calls received ...

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) ? African leaders tried Thursday to advance peace talks between South Sudan?s president and political rivals he accuses of attempting a coup to topple the government of the world?s newest country.As fighting persisted in parts of South Sudan?s oil-producing region, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn had ?a constructive dialogue? with South ...

Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office responded to an accident at 5:28 p.m. Thursday at Second Street near Mound Street. Shawn Douglas Brandt, 43, of Ottumwa, was driving a 2004 Ford Explorer north on Second Street and hit a parked 1998 Ford F-150 pickup truck. Brandt said he was distracted looking at Christmas lights. The Explorer had an estimated $3,000 in damages; the pickup truck, $1,000.

Fairfield Police Department?s dispatch calls received Thursday included:9:38 a.m. resident, a victim of Shawn Howard?s recent car burglaries, reported theft of bank deposit slips.10:19 a.m. resident had seen report in the newspaper of an arrest in the car burglaries and wanted to report the theft of a tool shop 10-inch compound miter saw taken from his garage sometime between mid-August and Sept. 1.One 911 ...

Fairfield Christmas tree pickup is Jan. 13. The city Street Department will begin at 7 a.m.This service is provided for structures of one to three residential units, not multi-family dwellings of four or more.This pickup is for Christmas trees only. Trees must be placed curbside prior to 7 a.m. Crews will not return once they have passed by.All decorations, lights and plastic bags must be removed to guarantee ...

The North American Aerospace Defense Command?s Santa-tracking program logged 19.58 million unique visitors to its website on Christmas Eve.NORAD said Thursday that volunteers answered 117,371 calls from children seeking information on the jolly old elf?s whereabouts. First lady Michelle Obama was among the program?s 1,200 volunteers.An additional 146,307 followed Santa?s progress on Twitter. The program also ...

Due to a state administrative rule change, all vital records fee transactions will increase from $15 to $20, effective with requests received after Jan. 1.This $5 increase applies to the following transactions in the county recorders? offices:? Searches for birth, death, marriage, foreign-born birth and fetal death certificates, which include a certified copy of the record if found.? Additional certified ...

Ronald Braunstein?s career as a musical conductor got off to a brilliant start.He attended The Juilliard School, performed as a guest with top orchestras including the San Francisco Symphony and Berlin Philharmonic, and won the prestigious Herbert von Karajan conducting competition in 1979.But bipolar disorder slowed what might have been an explosive career, including three five-year periods when, he said, he ...