Fairfield News

BP lied to the U.S. government and withheld information about the amount of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico after its well blew out in 2010, attorneys told a judge Monday.But lawyers for the London-based oil giant denied those accusations and said there was no way to prepare for such a unique blowout a mile below the sea floor.Second-guessing the company?s efforts to cap the well was ?Monday morning ...

Mary Ann Vestal, who lives at 2040 Coral Lane in Fairfield, went on a vacation to Maine in August. Little did she know, the peach tree in her yard was producing so much fruit the branches were in danger of breaking off. Fortunately for her and the peach tree, her neighbors Jonathan and Kathleen Worcester haulted the branches? steady decline by placing crutches underneath them. Vestal said this year has been a ...

Contentious from its conception, President Barack Obama?s health care law has survived the Supreme Court, a battle for the White House and rounds of budget brinkmanship. Now comes the ultimate test: the verdict of the American people.A government shutdown could dampen the rollout Tuesday as insurance markets open around the country. But it won?t stop the main components of ?Obamacare? from going live as scheduled...

The Top 100 Iowa Workplaces announced in The Des Moines Register Sept. 22 included businesses with branches in Fairfield.The No. 1 workplace in the Large Employer category was Edward Jones, with 513 employees in Iowa. The financial services firm has two offices in Fairfield: the Edward Jones office with Brian Olson and the Edward Jones office with John Stever and Connie Boyer.The No. 11 workplace in the Large ...

DES MOINES ? The storm system that left Colorado dealing with historic flooding dropped rain across a large swath of the nation from Wisconsin to Texas last week, helping to alleviate drought conditions in some areas of the country, including Iowa and Nebraska, authors of a weekly national drought monitor said Thursday.The rain was too late to help most corn and soybean fields, however. Rainfall throughout the ...

Fairfield High School is adding a new event to homecoming this year ? an Ultimate Frisbee Tournament will kickoff Thursday Rally Night at Trojan Stadium with parents, high school students and school district staff members forming and joining teams.?The Ultimate Frisbee Tournament is replacing the jersey auction,? said Jeff Courtright, activities director. ?I met with the student council and advisors, and ...

Jefferson County Health Center will celebrate the inauguration of its new wellness trail from 9:30-11 a.m. Oct. 5, in conjunction with Physical Therapy Month, which has the theme ?Keep Moving Forward.?According to the health center?s community relations manager Ginny Hughes, the celebration being held outdoors at the south end of the center will include sneaker decorating and a Halloween costume contest for ...

A suburban Dallas police officer ended up playing midwife to one mother in labor.Gene Kimpton says he entered a home in Carrollton Wednesday morning with his weapon drawn. All he knew is there was some sort of emergency situation in the house.There was.A young boy pointed Kimpton into the bathroom, where his mother ? who hadn?t realized she was pregnant ? was in labor.Kimpton helped guide the baby boy out and ...

Beauty queens and backstage drama may seem inevitable, but at this year?s Miss World competition, something more serious than hair-pulling and name-calling has come from host country Indonesia: Muslim hardliners have threatened to hijack the competition despite major concessions from the government and organizers.The bikinis that have been a pageant hallmark were replaced with more conservative sarongs three ...

Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office arrested Luke Cal Jefferson Fowler, 35, of Bloomfield, at 8:36 a.m. Thursday at 22nd Street and West Burlington Avenue. He is charged with driving while barred.

The Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce held its ?Business before Breakfast? meeting Tuesday at Hy-Vee Food and Drug Store. Fairfield Mayor Ed Malloy, right, briefed those in attendance on the positive strides Fairfield has made in the past year and what the town hopes to accomplish in the near future. The highlights Malloy mentioned included Fairfield being named the seventh best small town to visit by Smithsonian...

DUBUQUE (AP) ? A Dubuque high school was briefly locked down after police received a report of an armed man who was talking about hurting himself.The Telegraph Herald newspaper reports a neighbor called police just after noon Wednesday about a man with a gun who was speaking of hurting himself.Dubuque police Lt. Scott Baxter says officers notified Dubuque Senior High School, Washington Middle School and St. ...