Fairfield News

Iowa District 47 Sen. Mark Chelgren, right, listens to Cardinal High School industrial technology teacher Tom Cope, center, talk about the school?s greenhouse Monday with Chelgren?s assistant Blake Smith. Chelgren wanted to see what is happening in schools, said Superintendent Joel Pedersen. Chelgren spent around four hours at Cardinal and attended Cardinal?s Veterans Day assembly. Chelgren talked to students ...

MOUNT PLEASANT (AP) ? A former Iowa jail guard was the only person with reason to kill his pregnant wife, a prosecutor said Wednesday in closing arguments before the man?s murder trial went to a jury for deliberations.A judge handed the case Wednesday to a Henry County jury of six men and six women, The Des Moines Register reported. They met briefly before being dismissed for the day, and they resumed deliberatio...

Bowing to pressure, President Barack Obama today announced changes to his health care law to give insurance companies the option to keep offering consumers plans that would otherwise be canceled.The administrative changes are good for just one year, though senior administration officials said they could be extended if problems with the law persist. Obama announced the changes at the White House.?This fix won?t ...

Faced with heartbreaking images of the typhoon-ravaged Philippines ? the sea of corpses, communities reduced to rubble, mothers clutching their hungry children ? the world is watching an epic tragedy unfold and looking for ways to help. The big question is how.In the aftermath of mega-disasters such as Typhoon Haiyan, experts say there are some basic rules for those eager to do good: Forget the rummage sale ...

Fairfield Police Department investigated an accident at 9:04 a.m. Wednesday. An unattended 2010 Ford F150 light panel truck rolled west down the hill east of Everybody?s Whole Foods into the store?s parking lot, struck the store building and two parked, unoccupied vehicles in the parking lot. The truck received an estimated $1,000 in damages. The store has an estimated $500 in damages. A parked 2004 Toyota ...

The following court case were processed at Jefferson County Courthouse:Associate District CourtJeremy Dean Fugate. 25, of Rome, Iowa, pleaded guilty to operating while intoxicated, first offense, a serious misdemeanor. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail, all but two days were suspended. His sentence may be satisfied by completion of a court-ordered operating while intoxicated program. His license was revoked ...

The concrete is poured and set for the new parking lot west of Fairfield High School. Dirt work continued Monday.

Jefferson County Board of Supervisors approved a sale/transfer agreement for county ambulance vehicles to Midwest Ambulance, the company that contracted to serve Jefferson County in October 2012.It was a split vote, 2-1. Supervisors Dick Reed and Becky Schmitz approved transferring ownership of the three ambulance vehicles to Midwest and supervisor chairman Lee Dimmitt disagreed.Schmitz serves on the Ambulance ...

Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office reports a deer/vehicle accident at 8:06 p.m. Wednesday on Pleasant Plain Road north of Cambridge Investment Research campus. A vehicle, traveling south, struck a deer in the road.

Opposition to bow hunting in the city limits was fairly muted at Tuesday?s city council meeting compared to what it had been two weeks prior.No one from the audience spoke against the ordinance to allow a bow hunters to hunt deer in select wooded areas on the south side of town. However, councilor John Revolinski said he was opposed to the ordinance.He was the only councilor to vote against moving the ordinance ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? One of the two Iowa carriers offering policies on the government website says the situation is improving.Cliff Gold is chief operating officer of CoOportunity, and he says the situation is ?clearly getting better.? He says the company has had as many applications in the first 11 days of November as it had in all of October.The Des Moines Register reports that CoOportunity also has received ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? Democratic Attorney General Tom Miller says he will seek a ninth term in office.Miller kicked off a series of news conferences in Des Moines on Wednesday. He also plans announcements in Cedar Rapids and Dubuque.The 69-year-old Miller says he has a ?wonderful job? and is proud of his work on public safety issues and consumer protection. He says there is more to be done, including investigating ...