Fairfield News

SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (AP) ? A 35-year-old Iowa man has been charged with stealing groceries from a northeast Nebraska mom and her child.A South Sioux City officer says he found grocery bags of pork and bread in the vehicle of Jacob Tuttle when he stopped Tuttle for speeding and a broken brake light last week. The officer matched the vehicle?s description to that provided by a witness to a theft from another ...

The late Jim Gevock will be inducted into the Iowa 4-H Hall of Fame during a ceremony at 3:30 p.m. Aug. 18 in the 4-H Exhibits Building at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines.Linda Gevock of Fairfield plans to attend the ceremony to accept the honor for her husband, who died earlier this year on Feb. 24.?I think it?s very nice,? said Gevock. ?There are many more people who have done far more for 4-H ? that?s what ...

HAMPTON (AP) ? A group is seeking matching donations to pay for repairs to a Civil War memorial in the northern Iowa city of Hampton.The Mason City Globe Gazette reports the Hampton Historic Preservation Commission is seeking $32,000 in donations to match a grant it recently received.The money will pay for exterior masonry restoration and other work on the Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hall, located on ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? The Iowa Board of Ethics is expected to discuss how political candidates should handle social media accounts.The board is scheduled to meet Thursday. On the agenda is a proposed advisory opinion about whether social media accounts created for political purposes should include a disclosure known as a ?paid for by? attribution.Currently, political candidates or campaigns must include such a ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? A spray-painted sign in the front yard of a rural Polk County home shows the resident is serious about catching whoever broke into her home.It says: ?$2,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of those who broke into this home on 8-6-13.?Gretchen Stevenson told Des Moines television station KCCI that the break-in occurred Tuesday after she?d gone shopping around 10:30 a.m. She returned about ...

Fairfield Public Library children?s librarian Jessi Garchik tells a room full of children the story of an enormous mouse and his friends in the animal kingdom.

ADEL (AP) ? Pleas of not guilty have been entered for an Urbandale Middle School teacher accused of having sex with two of his students.The Des Moines Register says says 23-year-old Benjamin Hoffman has bonded out of Dallas County Jail. His lawyer entered the pleas for him last week.Hoffman is charged with 11 counts of sexual abuse, one count of sexual exploitation by a school employee and two counts of ...

A former teacher who moonlighted as a hip-hop dancer entertaining NBA crowds has been arrested in the fatal shooting of four people in two Dallas-area homes, and police were investigating Thursday if he used a grenade or other explosive in one of the attacks.Investigators arrested Erbie Bowser, 44, on Wednesday night at the second crime scene, DeSoto police Cpl. Melissa Franks said. Charges are pending, she ...

Barbara Mertz, an Egyptologist died Thursday morning at her home in Frederick, Md., at 85.Mertz wrote 29 suspense novels under the pen name Barbara Michaels and more than 35 under the name Elizabeth Peters, many of them set in Egypt and the Middle East.Under her own name, she wrote nonfiction books about ancient Egypt.Mertz grew up in small-town Illinois and went on to receive a Ph.D. in Egyptology from the ...

Rep. Curt Hanson shared information about competitive grants available to Iowa nonprofits.The Iowa Energy Center is introducing three new competitive grant opportunities that aim to help Iowa nonprofit organizations gain external funding to further the environmental, social and economic well-being of Iowans through improved energy efficiency measures and alternate energy technology.The Matching Grant Program ...

Two redesigned Honda Civic models were the only small cars to get the top rating in stringent front-end crash tests performed by an insurance industry group.In all, half of the 12 compact and subcompact cars tested by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety fared poorly, but six performed well. Safety is critical in the fast-growing small-car market, with many buyers downsizing from larger vehicles.The ...

Fairfield was scheduled to welcome the Carson and Barnes Circus to town this weekend, but now Eldon will have that privilege.Circus performers will entertain area residents with a show at 2 p.m. and again at 5 p.m. Sunday at the Wapello County Fairgrounds near Eldon. The show was originally to take place at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds that day, but the circus moved its shows to the Wapello County Fairgrounds...