Fairfield News

DES MOINES (AP) ? A city official says Burlington is facing a $1 million, six-year battle that it will lose to an insect species that?s killed millions of ash trees.The Hawk Eye newspaper says city forester Casey Chadwick shared his dire prediction with the City Council on Monday. He said he?s finding the emerald ash borer ?in every tree I?m in.?The emerald ash borer was discovered in Fairfield earlier this ...

WATERLOO (AP) ? A Waterloo woman is seeking to honor her great-grandfather who died nearly a century ago while responding to a fire call in Dubuque.The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports Kathy Flynn is working with the Dubuque Fire Department to add her great-grandfather to the names of firefighters killed on duty at the Iowa Firefighters Memorial in Coralville.After learning from her mother about how Lt. ...

NEW YORK (AP) ? Some lit candles in commemoration, others marched to remember. ?Lights out? parties were held and volunteers fixed still-damaged homes.In countless ways up and down the East Coast, survivors of Superstorm Sandy remembered the day, one year ago, when floodwaters poured across the densely populated barrier islands of Long Island and the Jersey shore.Sandy smacked into the East Coast, sending water ...

The Iowa Department of Transportation is seeking public input into the development of a new statewide plan for bicycle and pedestrian transportation at six public input meetings and online.One of those meetings is in Fairfield, from 5-6:30 p.m. Nov. 12, at the?Iowa Department of Transportation?s District 5 Office?Materials training conference room.IDOT is committed to expanding opportunities and further ...

CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (AP) ? A stream of thick, blowing dust crossing an Arizona highway led to a chain-reaction crash that killed three people in an area where gusting winds often stir up towering clouds of dirt that can reduce visibility to zero.At least 12 other people were injured Tuesday in the 19-vehicle pileup on Interstate 10 between Phoenix and Tucson.Crews brought in portable lights as they worked past ...

The Iowa Department of Transportation will be closing offices in observance of Veterans Day.All business locations will be closed Nov. 11.All IDOT driver?s license stations will be closed Nov. 9 and Nov. 11 (offices are normally closed on Mondays). The stations will resume operation at 8:30 a.m. Nov. 12.The IDOT?s Office of Vehicle and Motor Carrier Services, normally open Monday through Friday, will be closed ...

A legislative update from Sen. Rich Taylor, representing Henry and Lee counties and portions of Washington and Jefferson counties.The Iowa Department of Revenue and local governments are rolling out the new Business Property Tax Credit the Legislature approved this year (Senate File 295).Commercial property owners can take advantage of the Business Property Tax Credit at ~ There you?ll find an application, ...

Fairfield?s trick-or-treat hours are 5:30-8 p.m. Thursday.Jefferson County Sheriff Gregg Morton advises trick-or-treat hours in the smaller outlying towns are from 6-8 p.m. Thursday.The following safety tips are recommended by the Fairfield Police Department:? Only trick-or-treat at houses that are lit. Residents who do not wish to participate often leave off lights as a sign.? Have each child wear or carry ...

Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office arrested Shad Lavern Heckart, 43, of Ottumwa, at 1:06 p.m. Tuesday at the law center. He is charged with public intoxication ? enhanced.

A stream of thick, blowing dust crossing an Arizona highway led to a chain-reaction crash that killed three people in an area where gusting winds often stir up towering clouds of dirt that can reduce visibility to zero.At least 12 other people were injured Tuesday in the 19-vehicle pileup on Interstate 10 between Phoenix and Tucson.Crews brought in portable lights as they worked past sunset to pry apart the 10 ...

Four Frenchmen held hostage by al-Qaida militants landed in France on Wednesday after three years in captivity in the punishing African Sahel.The wife and daughters of one hostage, Daniel Larribe, rushed to hug him, and the three held each other while crying. Other friends and family snapped photos of their loved ones finally home.President Francois Hollande greeted each of the hostages on the tarmac at a ...

Fairfield Police Department received a report at 1:55 p.m. Tuesday about a burglary, which occurred between 6-9 p.m. Monday of an unoccupied vehicle parked near Fairfield High School. An iPod valued at $279 was taken.Candice Katharine Campbell, 66, of 2490 Salina Road, was arrested at 11:16 a.m. Tuesday at 12th Street and Adams Avenue for driving while suspended, revoked, canceled or denied.