Fairfield News

INDEPENDENCE (AP) ? A two-hour police standoff with an armed man in eastern Iowa has ended with an arrest.The Independence Police Department says officers were sent to an apartment complex about 10:40 p.m. Thursday after someone reported that a man had pointed a gun at someone else.Officers say 50-year-old Daniel Flack shut himself inside his apartment and initially wouldn't come out.Flack did leave after a ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? Des Moines police are looking for a man who may have taken an 88-year-old man's stamp collection valued at $15,000.The Des Moines Register reports the man had been staying at the home of the elderly Des Moines resident, who noticed the collection was missing after the man left in February to live elsewhere. The elderly man also said his house guest had persuaded the man to write the guest ...

Lynn Neff, right, samples Barb Grijalva?s vegetables Wednesday at the Fairfield Farmers? Market in Howard Park. Grijalva was selling potatoes, pea pods, arugula, lettuce and other greens.

Fairfield Fire Department responded to a call Thursday evening for a possible tractor fire near exit 214 on Highway 34. The call was canceled as firefighters were enroute.

Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office reports a deer/vehicle accident with no personal injuries at 10:21 p.m. Thursday on Highway 34 approximately 0.25 mile east of exit 210.

Fairfield Police Department arrested Matthew Ronald White, 19, of 801 S. Sixth St., at 9:01 p.m. Thursday in the 200 block of West Fillmore Avenue. He is charged with possession of a controlled substance, marijuana.Geoffrey Joshua Webb, 13, of 202 S. Fifth St., was cited at 11:55 a.m. Thursday at the law center for credit cards (credit card fraud more than $1,000) and forgery (credit card fraud less than ...

The winning team at the June 14 Men?s Blast Off consisted of, from left, Jeremy Howard, Larry Padget, Alan Jones and Shannon Messer. The team scored a 57 at The Walton Club. The Men?s Blast Off is an event sponsored by the Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce.

Artists, tinkers, woodworkers, designers, crafters ? all willing volunteers ?are needed to create and produce ?Cirque de Fairfield,? decorations for RAGBRAI.The inaugural meeting is 9 a.m. Saturday at Josie Hannes Design.Volunteers ages 16 and older are welcome. Participants can review the overall plan Saturday and select projects to work on; some can be taken home and other projects will stay at Hannes? studio ...

REMSEN (AP) ? An estimated $50,000 repair bill has jumped with the fall of a flood-damaged bridge into a creek in northwest Iowa.High water in Willow Creek from Memorial Day flooding had damaged connections to the banks on both sides of the bridge. The span carries 110th Street traffic about six miles north of Remsen.Last week the bridge collapsed into the water.County engineer Tom Rohe told the county ...

KEOSAUQUA ? Owners of a Keosauqua business have approached the city council in regards to a major project involving the Hotel Manning.John and Sonia Stookesberry have owned Village Cup and Cakes for the past 10 years and started Starwest Cable in the early 1980s. They would like to purchase Hotel Manning from owners Ron and Melinda Davenport.?It?s a large vision,? Stookesberry told the city council.?The plan ...

A tech advisory group consisting of Fairfield school district employees is planning for technology integration in classrooms, reviewing tech needs and the direction the district wants to go with technology.?Our broad priorities are addressing infrastructure and setting instructional priorities,? Superintendent Art Sathoff told the school board Monday.The ?tech cadre? wants to have a clear picture of what the ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? A state report says early academic gains by children in Iowa's preschool program have been lost by third grade.The report says the preschool students made modest gains on a school readiness assessment, but the program impact vanishes later in reading and mathematics.Iowa Education Department Director Jason Glass says the study echoes a 2012 report that shows children in the federal Head Start ...