Fairfield News

Fairfield Fire Department responded to a two-vehicle accident with personal injuries at 8:38 a.m. Wednesday at Main Street and Fillmore Avenue. Firefighters used the Jaws of Life to open a car door and assisted emergency medical services with patients.

Fairfield Police Department responded to an accident at 11:54 a.m. Wednesday in the 100 block of North Court Street. Rita Elizabeth Goldstein, 72, of Fairfield, was moving her 2003 BMW from a parking space and driving south when she collided with another parked vehicle in front of her, a 2007 Chevrolet Trailblazer. The BMW has an estimated $2,000 in damages; the Chevrolet, $200. Goldstein was cited for failure to ...

The Iowa Department of Public Health continues to receive reports of confirmed cases of Cyclospora infection, but officials think, because of the limited shelf life of fresh produce, the source of the outbreak has already been consumed or discarded.The onset dates of the illness suggest ill people had eaten the contaminated food in mid-June, according to the IDPH.?We know fresh produce [fruits and vegetables] ...

StruXture Architects working with the Fairfield Community School District on renovations at the high school updated school board members of its progress in a letter shared at Monday?s school board meeting.According to Nicholas Hildebrandt, principal architect, the building floor plans have been fine-tuned to get closer to the exact square footage and layouts prior to meeting with teachers and staff.The architect...

When RAGBRAI comes to Fairfield July 26, so will the Circus ? the Tiny Circus.A collaborative and community-based art project, Tiny Circus uses the medium of stop-motion animation to create and tell stories. Traveling nationwide to schools, universities, art and film festivals, museums and galleries, Tiny Circus hosts stop-motion animation workshops for people of all ages.After receiving a grant from the Iowa ...

IOWA CITY (AP) ? Authorities say an Iowa state trooper's cruiser collided with another vehicle as the trooper headed to the scene of an accident involving a fellow trooper.The Iowa State Patrol says the first accident occurred about 12:15 p.m. Tuesday on an Interstate 80 median near Iowa City. Trooper Cody Kammeyer was using a radar device when another vehicle struck his cruiser.Kammeyer was treated at a nearby ...

MARTELLE (AP) ? Authorities say a 42-year-old man has been charged with stealing cattle in eastern Iowa.Jones County Sheriff Greg Graver says in a news release that Barry Bieber, of rural Wyoming, is charged with felony theft.Graver says the theft occurred over a three-day period from a farm about four miles east of Martelle and was reported July 7. The 18 animals were recovered from a sale barn near Cascade.Th...

MASON CITY (AP) ? A Mason City woman has bought and donated a sculpture with the provision that it remain in front of the city library.The Mason City Globe Gazette says the sculpture titled "Circle of Friends" was bought for $36,000 by Kay Sloan. The artwork depicts a little girl sitting inside a circle, reading a book.Sloan says the sculpture ?spoke to me in so many different ways.? She's a former reading ...

SIOUX CITY (AP) ? Sioux City police are considering a requirement that all pawn shop transactions be entered into an electronic database, making it quicker and easier for officials to track down stolen items.Police say the system would let business owners enter transaction information directly into a computer database that would include photographs of the merchandise and seller. The merchandise would appear on a ...

The attorney representing newly licensed horse slaughterhouses in New Mexico and Iowa says the plants are set to open Aug. 5.But lawyer Blair Dunn says those plans hinge on an Aug. 2 court date before a federal judge in New Mexico overseeing a lawsuit by animal protection groups.The Humane Society of the United States, Front Range Equine Rescue of Larkspur, Colo., and others filed the suit against the Department...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday won Arab League backing for his effort to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, raising hopes for a resumption in the stalled negotiations in the near future. Kerry himself said significant progress had been made in narrowing gaps between the two sides but declined to elaborate.On his sixth trip to the Middle East in as many months as America?s top diplomat, ...

The following court cases were processed at the Jefferson County Courthouse.Magistrate CourtJohn Michael Foster, 58, of 302 W. Broadway Ave., pleaded guilty to violating a no contact order and was sentenced to seven days in jail.Jessica Shay Liles, 30, of Libertyville, pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting violation of a no contact order and was sentenced to one day in jail and ordered to pay court costs.Saman...