Fairfield News

SIOUX CITY (AP) ? Sioux City workers are hauling in dirt to historic Floyd Cemetery to fill in a gully and make sure erosion doesn?t expose any graves.City officials say the ongoing project involves bringing in soil and extending drainage tubes. The work should eventually slow runoff and erosion.The Sioux City Journal reports some gravestones near the gully in question have exposed concrete bases and tilted ...

All that?s left of Doodles are his ashes, a clay impression of his paw and a whole lot of questions owner Patricia Cassidy has about his mysterious death.Doodles is believed to be one of 580 dogs in the U.S. that have died in the past six years from eating pet jerky from China. Baffled by the cause and seeing another surge in illnesses, the Food and Drug Administration reached out to owners and veterinarians ...

A weather notice from the National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:A freeze warning is in effect overnight into early Friday morning for southeast Iowa, northeast Missouri and west central Illinois where a killing freeze for annual vegetation has yet to occur, but is expected tonight.Cold Canadian high pressure will settle into the region tonight.Clearing skies and diminishing ...

The city of Fairfield is taking a new approach to sewer repairs.Until recently, the public works department has been dispatched to fix a break in the city?s sewer line. That is not going to happen anymore. On Oct. 14, those responsibilities passed to the wastewater treatment facility.The change has required the wastewater employees to undergo additional training, something they will continue throughout the ...

CEDAR RAPIDS (AP) ? Police in Cedar Rapids are investigating a phone scam report involving a utility company.Police say a resident received a phone call Saturday from someone who claimed to be from MidAmerican Energy. The person told the resident that he was behind on a payment and the utility would need it to fix a gas leak.The resident told police that he made a partial payment through a prepaid card. A ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? Iowa companies and organizations have signed 20 cooperative trade agreements with their counterparts from the Chinese province of Hebei solidifying a 30-year sister city relationship between Iowa and the province.The Des Moines Register reports the value of business investment involved in each cooperative agreement was not disclosed by the Iowa Economic Development Authority, but the agency?s ...

Prosecutors across Greece were ordered Tuesday to conduct emergency checks of birth records from the past six years, after the arrest of a Gypsy couple on suspicion of abducting a little girl triggered fears of widespread welfare fraud.The blond-haired, fair-skinned girl, known as Maria and believed to be 5 or 6, drew the attention of police during a raid on a Gypsy camp last week because she looked unlike the ...

Jefferson County Board of Supervisors Monday asked the county attorney?s office to send a letter of 30 days to vacate to Lutheran Services, which has been using the top floor of the county attorney?s office for storage of Parents as Teachers program materials.Stephanie Bard, representing the Early Childhood Services with Lutheran Services Decategorization, attended Monday?s board meeting.?I?m new to the area ...

Fairfield Police Department arrested Lereco Arnez George, 30, of 702 ½ W. Washington Ave., at 1:55 a.m. today at the Sears parking lot on West Burlington Avenue. George is charged with public consumption or intoxication and interference with official acts of a police officer, EMT or firefighter. Police logTuesday7:57 a.m. a pink bicycle with a basket on front was brought to police impound.3:36 p.m. Jessica ...

Fairfield Fire Department reported a woman was stuck in an electrical elevator during a power outage 12:07-12:45 p.m. Monday at Calu Apartments. The power returned.

MARSHALLTOWN (AP) ? A December trial has been scheduled for a 30-year-old Marshalltown man charged with murder.Online court records say Jeremy Gartin has pleaded not guilty to killing 59-year-old David Warnell, of Garwin. Police say Warnell?s body was found in Gartin?s home on Oct. 1. He?d been shot.Fifty-five-year-old Max Nelson also is charged in the case. He?s pleaded not guilty to charges of being an ...

A day after a Jackson County prosecutor was named to re-investigate a northwest Missouri teen sexual abuse case, a modest crowd of a few hundred people braved chilly conditions Tuesday night to show support for a girl whose story has drawn worldwide attention.The rally on Maryville?s courthouse square was organized over the Internet by a women?s rights activist from the Kansas City area who used social media to ...