The Fairfield Police Department has issued a press release to ask the town?s residents to move their vehicles from city streets in light of the upcoming snowstorm.The National Weather Service predicts Fairfield will receive 4 inches of snow Thursday and another 3 inches Thursday night and Friday morning.Fairfield Police Chief Julie Harvey said the police received many complaints about the large number of ...
A long-time Fairfield resident is still missing after local law enforcement has searched for her for several days.Teresa Bruegge, 44, of Mount Pleasant, formerly of Fairfield, was reported missing Friday by the Henry County Sheriff?s Office.The Henry County Conservation Department discovered Bruegge?s silver 1992 Dodge Grand Caravan at 9:51 a.m. Friday. The car was found at the end of a boat ramp at Faulkners ...
President Barack Obama says he has accepted Marine Gen. John Allen?s request to retire from the U.S. military.That means the White House won?t go forward with Allen?s nomination to lead U.S. and NATO forces in Europe.Obama says Allen is retiring so he can address family health issues. He?s calling Allen one of the nation?s finest military leaders and a true patriot.Allen recently left a 19-month command in ...
Members of the new outdoor pool and gym task force came to today?s Jefferson County Board of Supervisors meeting to learn about the board?s options of financial support to the project.Last week, the supervisors had discussed holding a vote among residents in the unincorporated areas of Jefferson County to approve a half-million dollars to help build a new outdoor pool at O.B. Nelson Park and a new gym with ...
DES MOINES (AP) ? A clerk for a small southeast Iowa city overpaid herself more than $15,000 over several years and recorded her hours on scraps of paper, according to a new audit released Friday.State Auditor David Vaudt?s report on the tiny city of Stockport?s finances between July 2007 and October 2011 shows Beverly Runyon overpaid herself in her biweekly payroll checks. Scraps of paper she used to record her ...
DES MOINES (AP) ? Lawmakers in the state House are set to debate a scaled-back version of Gov. Terry Branstad?s education reform plan.Debate on the legislation was scheduled for Tuesday. Last week, Republicans in the House education committee approved a plan to water down Branstad?s proposal. The revised proposal lets schools opt-out of Branstad?s proposed minimum salary increases and leadership bonuses.Branstad...
WATERLOO (AP) ? A group of friends originally from Syria have gathered enough clothing to fill a semi-trailer and will ship the items to Syrian refugees in Turkey.Dema Kazkaz Masri tells the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier she wanted to help some of the thousands of people who have fled Syria due to the extended conflict there.Masri left Syria 16 years ago and her family eventually moved to Waterloo.She got in ...
An accident stalled traffic Monday afternoon at the intersection of Hempstead Avenue and North B Street in Fairfield. No injuries were reported. Danielle Cassiday, 17, of Fairfield was cited for failure to maintain control.
Fairfield Police received a report at 1:47 a.m. Monday about a hit and run accident in the 600 block of South Second Street.Police received a report at 2:09 p.m. Saturday about a bicycle theft at 1000 N. Fourth St.Police investigated at 7:36 a.m. Friday a burglary/breaking and entering at 405 N. Court St.David Brian Tanner, 69, of 402 W. Hempstead Ave., No. 3, was arrested at 9:30 a.m. Friday at Argiro Center ...
With scant snowfall and barren ski slopes in parts of the Midwest and Northeast the past couple of years, some scientists have pointed to global warming as the culprit.Then when a whopper of a blizzard smacked the Northeast with more than 2 feet of snow in some places earlier this month, some of the same people again blamed global warming.How can that be? It?s been a joke among skeptics, pointing to what seems ...
DES MOINES (AP) ? A budget proposal Gov. Terry Branstad made last month to attract more physicians to Iowa?s less populated areas by forgiving medical school debt is welcome news to longtime surgeon Dr. Phil Caropreso.Caropreso, who practices in Keokuk in the southeast Iowa, said such an offer might lure natives from rural parts of the state to work in their home communities without having to worry about making ...
DAVENPORT (AP) ? Davenport Community School District safety specialist Ellen Reilly?s job includes one duty that she has had to perform rarely: When a student exhibits questionable behavior, she checks to see whether that youth has inappropriate access to weapons, either at home, at the home of a relative or friend.That type of investigation has been necessary about seven times over the past 10 years, said ...
Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office arrested Tracy Wade Cottrell, 49, of Ottumwa, at 9:56 p.m. Sunday in Batavia, charged with domestic abuse assault (simple).Jeremy Kent Booth, 41, of 701 E. Adams Avenue, was arrested at Highway 34 and Tamarack Ave., charged with operating while intoxicated, first offense.
CEDAR RAPIDS (AP) ? Companies that received incentives from Iowa in the past decade, but failed to deliver the jobs and investment they promised owe the state $7.5 million.The Gazette reports the amount owed is about 11 percent of the total incentives paid. But some of the companies that owe Iowa money folded, so there?s little recourse for the state.Iowa handed out $67.6 million between 2003 and June 30 mostly ...
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