Fairfield News

The following courts cases were processed at the Jefferson County Clerk of Court?s office. Magistrate CourtWilliam Burton Richardson, 68, of 3305 W. Jefferson Ave, pleaded guilty to third degree harassment. He was fined $200 plus a 35 percent surcharge and must observe a No Contact order for five years.Renee Lynn Hill, 39, of Packwood, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. She was fined $65 plus a 35 percent ...

We know a lot about how babies learn to talk, and youngsters learn to read. Now scientists are unraveling the earliest building blocks of math ? and what children know about numbers as they begin first grade seems to play a big role in how well they do everyday calculations later on.The findings have specialists considering steps that parents might take to spur math abilities, just like they do to try to raise a ...

The Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce has released its 2013 Legislative Agenda, a document designed to provide direction to the advocacy program division of the organization.The 2013 agenda, drafted by the chamber?s Government Affairs Committee, was ratified by the Chamber Board of Directors on March 7.?The Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce strives to be our member?s voice for business,? said Nancy Morrissey, ...

COSC is offering its Energy Efficiency and Rehabilitation Training workshop in a one-day session.The last two free sessions will be offered Wednesday in Altoona and Saturday in Council Bluffs.Attendees will gain knowledge of leading green building rehabilitation energy efficient techniques, benefits, red flags and more. A workshop is a learning opportunity for: contractors, architects, inspectors, municipalities...

OTTUMWA ? Indian Hills Community College has been chosen to join a national effort to train adults older than age 50 for new jobs in health care, education and social services in a program sponsored by the American Association of Community Colleges.Indian Hills will assist adults age 50 and older in completing degrees or certificates in high-demand occupations that give back to the community. With many adults in ...

Fairfield Lions Club vice president Scott Vaughan, left, awarded cash-incentive scholarship prizes to Fairfield High School students Tyler Cooksey, center, and Bryana Gridley Friday. Cooksey and Gridley, along with Hanna Kerr, not pictured, were the top three student sellers of tickets to the Lions Club annual spaghetti dinner supporting Fairfield High School activities. Cooksey sold the most tickets, 24, and ...

NEVADA (AP) ? A 31-year-old man has been arrested, accused of punching two prosecutors in the Story County courthouse.Online records say Major Louis Robinson II was arrested Tuesday and is being held on $24,000 bail.County Attorney Stephen Holmes says the prosecutors were approached in the courthouse in Nevada on Tuesday evening. Holmes says one was punched in the face and then another was punched when he went ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? Viola Mourton buys a Powerball ticket every day. But with a $320 million jackpot that could grow in the next few days, she?s upping her chances Thursday and buying several at her local convenience store.?It?s just a chance to win big money,? said the 51-year-old secretary from Ottumwa. ?I?ll probably buy a couple today because it?s so high. But it only takes one to win.?That could be the game ...

Smithsonian Magazine has named Fairfield the seventh best small town in America to visit.Fairfield will be featured in the April edition of the magazine along with the other small towns that made the top 10 list.Smithsonian Magazine sent a writer to Fairfield for the weekend of Jan. 26-27. Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce director Nancy Morrissey gave the writer, Susan Spano, a tour of the town when she came ...

KNOXVILLE (AP) ? Authorities in southern Iowa have charged two more people in connection with the online distribution of a video showing a sex act between a 19-year-old man and a 15-year-old girl.The Knoxville Police Department says Thursday that 19-year-old Jordan Donovan Cowman, of Des Moines, faces a felony charge of sexual exploitation of a minor. A 17-year-old girl from Knoxville faces an aggravated ...

IOWA CITY (AP) ? A former University of Iowa radiology professor who was fired for engaging in harassing behavior toward colleagues still wants his job back.The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports Malik Juweid filed a petition earlier this month in Polk County asking a judge to reverse a decision by the Iowa Board of Regents to uphold his firing.Juweid argues University President Sally Mason and assistant attorney ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? The World Food Prize is celebrating the 99th anniversary of founder Norman Borlaug?s birth.The World Food Prize Hall of Laureates in Des Moines will be open for extended hours Saturday and the documentary, ?Freedom from Famine: The Norman Borlaug Story,? will be shown at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.A birthday cake will be served Monday from 11 a.m. to noon and sculptor Benjamin Victor, who is creating a ...