Fairfield News

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ? Drivers are more likely to be stopped by the Iowa State Patrol in one of five counties that are home to busy stretches of Interstate 80.The Des Moines Register analyzed five years of reports to determine the patrol?s interdiction team writes the most tickets in Pottawattamie, Poweshiek, Cass, Iowa and Dallas counties.About 22,000 tickets and warnings were issued by the team from 2008 to ...

Fairfield Fire Department responded at 11:02 a.m. Sunday to an accident at Burlington Avenue and Highway 34, using a half-bag of oil dry to clean up at the site and returning to the station at 11:53 a.m.Firefighters responded at 2:52 p.m. Friday to a field fire at 2270 Marigold Ave., Libertyville. The fire had an unknown source. Firefighters returned to the station at 4:15 p.m.Another field fire had been called ...

The Fairfield Police Department received a report at 5:17 p.m. Sunday of a lost or stolen cell phone from missing from the ladies? dome at Maharishi University of Management campus.Kevin Wayne Franklin, 53, of 504 S. Sixth St., was arrested at 5:40 p.m. Saturday in the 100 block of West Broadway Avenue. He is charged with possession of a controlled substance, marijuana, third and subsequent offense, and public ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? The manager of an Iowa fast food business lost her job after a customer posted a photo of the woman making food in the kitchen while sweaty and barefoot from mowing the grass outside the restaurant.The Des Moines Register reports 31-year-old Melinda Halvorsen was fired from the Taco John?s restaurant in Charles City in August after 5.5 years there.Halvorsen recently lost her appeal to collect ...

Pope Francis has ramped up the Vatican?s charity work, sending his chief alms-giver and a contingent of Swiss guards onto the streets of Rome at night to do what he usually can?t do: comfort the poor and the homeless.A few times a week, Archbishop Konrad Krajewski takes a few off-duty guards with him in his modest white Fiat to make the rounds at Rome?s train stations, where charities offer makeshift soup ...

The Miami neighborhood where inaugural poet Richard Blanco grew up, in many ways, resembles Cuba his family left behind. Down the street, a man sells avocados from a small table. His favorite bakery, a few blocks north, serves guava pastries and cafe con leche.As a child and even as an adult, this was home. But it wasn?t necessarily what he imagined as America.?There?s always a little part of you as an immigrant...

Even after three decades, the triple-dog dare doesn?t get old.The film ?A Christmas Story? opened 30 years ago to mixed reviews but has shown its staying power as a holiday family favorite. Cleveland, where parts of the movie were filmed and hard-luck Ralphie dreamed big, is celebrating the anniversary with iconic leg lamps, holiday store windows like the ones that drew Ralphie?s wide-eyed stares, and stage and ...

Fairfield Police Department log for Thursday:5:20 p.m. caller reported a black handgun in a street intersection. Police retrieved an air soft gun.6:56 p.m. caller getting gasoline at Farm Service reported hearing an alarm nearby. Police investigated, an alarm on the large gas tanks was going off.

DYERSVILLE (AP) ? A pickup driver has escaped from a Dyersville officer after ramming into the officer?s police cruiser.The Iowa State Patrol says the incident began a little before 10 a.m. Thursday when the officer tried to pull over the pickup. The pickup driver didn?t halt the vehicle but instead went into an intersection and hit a car. The patrol says the pickup driver then backed into the officer?s vehicle, ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? A convicted Iowa sex offender has lost his bid for unemployment pay after being fired by a veterans hospital in Des Moines.The Des Moines Register says an administrative law judge told 46-year-old Stanley McGinity that it was his responsibility to tell his employer of restrictions that barred him from working at the hospital. McGinity says he plans to appeal the decision.McGinity, who has two ...

Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office responded to reports of a vehicle fire at 11:07 p.m. Wednesday on Highway 34 west of exit 212. James George Shepherd, 64, driving east on Highway 34, apparently struck a guardrail on the north side of the road, causing an explosion and his truck landed on its top in the median. Caller said driver was walking around before law enforcement arrived. Shepherd was transported by ...

CEDAR RAPIDS (AP) ? An Iowa judge increased a teenage girl?s bond to $500,000 after her murder case was moved to adult court.KCRG reports the 16-year-old girl?s bond was increased on Wednesday. Linn County Attorney Jerry Vander Sanden the change was warranted because of the severity of the crime.The Associated Press typically doesn?t identify juveniles charged with crimes. The girl and her 19-year-old boyfriend,...