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Doug Flournoy is one of four candidates running for an at-large Fairfield City Council seat being vacated by Connie Boyer.He has been a Fairfield resident for 20 years.Flournoy said he was motivated to run for election in part because in recent years there has been a shortage of candidates, which has resulted in appointing city council members.?I am primarily running because I was asked to by a friend,? he ...

Batavia resident Jane Brewer found a most unusual sight in her garden in the past week. She discovered a tomato had grown to fill the crevices inside a pinwheel in her garden.

Jessica Ledger-Kalen is running for a two-year term to fill a vacancy for a Fairfield City Council at-large seat. She was appointed in January to fill the vacancy when Susan Silvers stepped down from the council. Ledger-Kalen is the only name on the ballot for this vacancy.Ledger-Kalen was born in Fairfield and moved away when she was a teenager. She returned to the Fairfield area eight years ago, and shortly ...

NEW YORK (AP) ? A federal appeals court block of a judge?s ruling that found the New York Police Department?s stop-and-frisk policy discriminated against minorities may be short lived, depending on the outcome of next week?s mayoral election.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Thursday that the ruling by U.S. District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin would be on hold pending the outcome of an appeal by the city, ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ? A third of the abortion clinics in Texas can no longer perform the procedure starting Friday after a federal appeals court allowed most of the state?s new abortion restrictions to take effect.A panel of judges at the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled Thursday evening that Texas can enforce its law requiring doctors to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital while a ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ? Greeting card giant Hallmark said Thursday that it shouldn?t have changed the lyrics to ?Deck the Halls? on a new holiday ornament that stirred a backlash from customers online.The Kansas City, Mo.-based company has been defending itself after it began selling a miniaturized version of a tacky holiday sweater that changes the lyrics to the holiday carol. The ornament removes the word ...

The manager of the region?s largest camp for Syrian refugees arranges toy figures, trucks and houses on a map in his office trailer to illustrate his ambitious vision.In a year, he wants to turn the chaotic shantytown of more than 100,000 people into a temporary city with local councils, paved streets, parks, an electricity grid and sewage pipes.Zaatari, a desert camp near Jordan?s border with Syria, is far ...

International regulators are likely to follow in the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration?s footsteps in loosening restrictions on the use of smartphones and other electronics during takeoff and landing.Several airlines and an academic who has studied the issue say European and Asian regulators will probably relax their own similar rules that bar the use of phones, movie players, and laptops in the first and ...

Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office reports a deer/vehicle accident at 10:01 p.m. Thursday. A 2004 Pontiac Grand Am was traveling west on Highway 34 when it struck a deer in the road about a half-mile west of Quince Avenue. The car had an estimated $3,000 in damages.

No election may be too small or too local for the independent political groups vying for influence in the United States.That?s the impression some people in Coralville have gotten since Americans for Prosperity, the organization backed by the billionaire Koch brothers, jumped into their sleepy municipal election and turned it into a referendum on government spending and borrowing.Residents in the community of ...

Fairfield Police Department log for Thursday:8:26 a.m. a purple and white Next bike was found and taken to police impound.10:39 a.m. caller with noise complaint about loud music.1:26 p.m. report of a window broken out.7:27 p.m. report of an erratic driver.

Students in Fairfield Community elementary schools have been dressing up all week for Red Ribbon Week, which is about teaching children the benefits of staying away from drugs and alcohol. Today?s theme at Pence Elementary was ?scare drugs away,? and students were encouraged to wear their Halloween costumes to school. The four students pictured all dressed as Star Wars characters. They are, from left, Ella Welch ...