Fairfield News

IOWA CITY (AP) ? A judge has ordered the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to pay an Iowa trucking company $4.7 million in legal costs for bringing frivolous claims during a six-year sexual harassment lawsuit.U.S. District Judge Linda Reade?s judgment for CRST Van Expedited is believed to be the largest-ever fee sanction against EEOC.EEOC spokeswoman Christine Nazer said Tuesday the agency is ?deeply ...

SIOUX CITY (AP) ? The Sioux City school district is struggling to hire a diverse workforce that reflects growing diversity in the student population.The Sioux City Journal reports 96 percent of teachers in Sioux City are white.Superintendent Paul Gausman says that lack of diversity is troubling, considering that 29 percent of the district's students are Hispanic. About 56 percent of students are white. Isaiah ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? Iowa GOP Chairman A.J. Spiker says he supports the Republican National Committee effort to get NBC and CNN to cancel shows on Hillary Rodham Clinton.In a statement Monday, Spiker says he backs RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, who has vowed not to partner with the networks on GOP debates if they don?t pull the programs. Spiker says he also won?t let the networks partner with the party on Iowa caucus ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? Iowa has launched a website that lists all the public school job openings in the state.The education package passed by lawmakers this spring required schools to post their vacancies on the site. The site, TeachIowa.gov, already has hundreds of listings.Candidates can apply online and post personal profiles for employers to see. Applicants also can sign up for electronic notification of ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? A national bus tour calling for tougher gun laws is coming to Des Moines.The ?No More Names: National Drive to Reduce Gun Violence? tour will make a stop Wednesday morning in the city?s Union Park as part of a 25-state tour.The event will include Carlee Soto, whose sister was killed at the Newtown, Conn., school where 20 children and six educators died.Pat Maisch also will attend. He survived ...

The Army psychiatrist accused in the deadliest mass shooting ever on a U.S. military installation told jurors today that evidence would ?clearly show? he was the gunman during the attack on Fort Hood, but he insisted it wouldn?t tell the whole story.Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan briefly laid out his defense as he addressed jurors during the first day of the long-delayed trial for the attack that killed 13 people on the ...

Fairfield Police Department responded to a vehicle accident at 1:09 p.m. Monday at the intersection of Main Street and Washington Avenue. Julie Anne Chapius, 46, of Keosauqua, was driving a 2007 Chevrolet Uplander van north on Main Street. Rita Arlene Vandersnick, 87, of Fairfield, was driving a 1991 Buick LeSabre west on East Washington Avenue and stopped at the stop sign at the intersection with Highway 1. ...

Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office responded to an accident at 6:27 p.m. Monday on Highway 34/163. Lawrence Grover Wilson Jr. of Des Moines was driving a 1994 Ford Ranger pickup truck east on the highway approximately a half-mile west of Pine Avenue. He said he went off the road onto the shoulder, lost control and his vehicle struck a home at 2452 Highway 34. No injuries were reported. The home has an estimated ...

The music was so infectious at the Fairfield 1st Fridays Art Walk that the people pictured had to get on their feet and dance. The live music that evening was part of the Southeast Iowa Blues and BBQ Music Fest.

Jefferson County Board of Supervisors approved today the lowest of three bids received for repairs to the bridge deck crossing Mitchell Creek on Brookville Road.Supervisor Dick Reed was absent today, however supervisor chairman Lee Dimmitt and Becky Schmitz both approved County Engineer Scott Cline?s recommendation for Cramer and Associates Inc. with the low bid of $242,214.?The three bids were not close in ...

Iowa?s new policy that the governor must sign off on reimbursement approval for Medicaid-funded abortions remains untested one month in.Tim Albrecht, a spokesman for Gov. Terry Branstad, said no reimbursement claims for abortions have been submitted since the rule took effect July 1. Branstad signed the legislation ? thought to be unique to Iowa ? in June.Iowa?s Medicaid program covers a small number of ...

Friday, Congressional leaders once again put a ?Closed for Business? sign on the Capitol and sent Congress home for five weeks.Not that I won?t enjoy being in Iowa, working and meeting with folks just as I do every weekend, but there is so much left to do, Congress should stay in Washington and get to work.One of the major issues Congress has failed to address is passing a commonsense, long-term farm bill that ...