Fairfield News

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) ? Recordings of 911 calls from the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that were released Wednesday show town dispatchers urged panicked callers to take cover, mobilized help and asked about the welfare of the children as gunshots could be heard at times in the background.One caller told police in a trembling, breathless voice that a gunman was shooting inside the building.?I caught a ...

The national weather service in the Quad Cities reports a very strong cold front will sweep through eastern Iowa early this afternoon and Illinois later this afternoon, ending any remaining fog.The cold front will bring sharply colder temperatures to the region. Wind chills late tonight will drop as low as zero in some parts of eastern Iowa.Thursday through Tuesday will include an extended period of cold ...

YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) ? An engineer whose speeding commuter train ran off the rails along a curve, killing four people, experienced a hypnosis-like ?daze? and nodded at the controls just before the wreck, and by the time he caught himself it was too late, people representing him said Tuesday.Attorney Jeffrey Chartier accompanied engineer William Rockefeller to his interview with National Transportation Safety Board ...

Look alive, selfie. There?s another word of the year that?s not all about you.While Oxford University Press, the British publisher of the Oxford dictionaries, declared those little smartphone self-portraits its winner last month, the folks at Merriam-Webster announced ?science? on Tuesday.Oxford tracked a huge jump in overall usage of selfie, but Merriam-Webster stuck primarily to look-ups on its website, ...

Fairfield resident Timothy Laughrin steps into the voting booth this morning at the Jefferson County Courthouse. Residents will decide whether Patrick Bosold or Douglas Flournoy will replace Connie Boyer as an at-large city council member. Bosold and Flournoy were the top two vote-getters in the Nov. 5 election, but neither received a majority of the vote, which prompted the run-off election between the two men ...

Fairfield Police Department arrested Darrell Roberts Jr. 34, of Fairfield at 12:34 p.m. Tuesday at the law center when he came there to have his guns returned that had been seized. He was arrested and placed in jail on a warrant for possession of a controlled substance, prescription drugs.Charges were filed Tuesday afternoon on Aaron Lucas Williams, 13, of Brighton for criminal mischief, second-degree arson, ...

It is public art made of private wishes.In a phenomenon spreading across the globe, oversized blackboards, painted on buildings and freestanding displays, invite passers-by to complete the sentence: ?Before I die I want to ...?Answers, some profound, some profane, are written on stenciled lines with pieces of sidewalk chalk picked from the ground below.?... make my dad proud.??... find the yin to my yang.?Sin...

Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office responded to an accident at 5:59 p.m. Tuesday at Highway 34/163 and Filbert Avenue. Dale Ray Dolberg of Packwood, driving a 2012 Ford Escape, was pulling onto Highway 34 from the crossover at Filbert Avenue to travel west. Dolberg stated he looked right, (east), saw an approaching vehicle he thought was traveling in the right-hand lane, pulled out to highway and was struck by the ...

Timing is important for the Fairfield outdoor pool and new gymnasium project, task force chairman Tom McMahon told the Jefferson County Board of Supervisors Monday.McMahon and task force members Tammy Dunbar and Jane McMahon attended Monday?s supervisors meeting to ask for a second vote in the unincorporated portions of Jefferson County. The task force asked the supervisors to hold an election March 4 for county ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? The Iowa Parole Board has granted some freedom to a dying inmate who was 15 when she entered prison.The Des Moines Register reports the board granted parole Tuesday to 33-year-old Kristina Fetters. She will be released to a hospice facility.A jury convicted Fetters of first-degree murder in 1995 in the death of her great-aunt, Arlene Klehm. Fetters? attorney says her client has inoperable ...

The city of Fairfield and Alliant Energy are partnering to remove ash trees from the city-owned parking.Alliant Energy line clearance inspector Morgan Poole met with Fairfield public works superintendent Darrel Bisgard and city councilor Michael Halley Monday morning to discuss removing the ash trees. Some of the city?s ash trees are infected with the emerald ash borer, and the city believes it will lose all its ...

The city of Fairfield will be allowing a trial deer hunt on two weekends.The first weekend that hunters will be allowed to hunt deer within city limits is Dec. 28-29, and the second weekend is Jan. 4-5.Interested parties must first fill out an application for a deer hunting permit. These applications can be picked up at the Jefferson County Law Enforcement Center.A driver?s license and hunting license are ...