Fairfield News

DES MOINES (AP) ? Family members say the 33-year-old man who died in an Iowa police chase while his son rode along was a veteran who abducted the boy last fall out of concern for his safety.Family members of Jeremiah Johnson told The Des Moines Register he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.Jeremiah Johnson?s 5-year-old son, Johnnathen, suffered serious injuries ...

WATERLOO (AP) ? A 34-year-old Iowa man faces life in prison after his convictions for shooting his former fiancee and killing her mother in May.A Black Hawk County jury on Friday found Kevin Ambrose guilty of first-degree murder and attempted murder. Authorities say he shot former fiancee Marlene Buss, tried to shoot one of his own friends, Undray Reed, and fatally shot Buss? mother, Kay Straw.Buss had filed ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? A businessman from Cedar Rapids is the first Republican to declare he?s running for the northeastern Iowa congressional seat that will be vacated by U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley.The Des Moines Register reports Steve Rathje said Friday he will run for the First Congressional District seat. He is the founder and president of International Procurement Services Inc. in Hiawatha.Rathje says he nearly ran ...

DES MOINES ? As Iowa lawmakers continue to debate expanding Iowa?s Medicaid program to cover more low-income residents, one aspect of the debate is the economic impact of expansion on both the state and its community hospitals.?We can?t ignore the fact that Medicaid expansion would bring as much as $600 million a year to Iowa?s economy,? said Iowa Hospital Association President and CEO Kirk Norris. ?That is a ...

Arnold Motor Supply recognizedArnold Motor Supply, headquartered in Spencer, recognized the 2012 top performers for the Retail Store Division of The Arnold Group of Companies, at the company?s manager?s meeting Jan. 15 in Ankeny.The Top 5 Awards recognize the top producers companywide in both sales and the percentage increase of sales.Arnold Motor Supply in Fairfield received the ?Top 5 Award? for third place ...

Education is a hot topic in the Iowa Legislature this session, Sen. Mark Chelgren told participants at Saturday?s Legislative Breakfast hosted by Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce.?It?s a challenge,? he said. ?The governor has a plan how to run our schools to change and improve, and it comes with a $2 million-plus price tag.?I personally don?t like the plan,? said Chelgren, an Ottumwa resident representing ...

Iowa?s Senior Medicare Patrol has issued a warning that scammers posing as Medicare officials are phoning Iowa?s seniors and attempting to visit them in their homes.Scammers are trying to obtain personal information to commit financial fraud. Their hook is to convince the potential victim they have new and critical information about their Medicare benefits.Deb Yankey, state coordinator for Iowa Senior Medicare ...

Iowa Attorney General has offered tips on gift cards or certificates. Options? Gift certificates are issued by a merchant for goods or services with that merchant. They?re generally issued on paper, as opposed to a card, and they entitle the recipient to goods or services;? Retail gift cards can be used only with the issuing merchant;? Bank gift cards are issued by a bank or financial institution through ...

SIOUX CITY (AP) ? A Sioux City man accused of shooting and killing his two dogs has pleaded not guilty to two weapons charges.Sioux City television KCAU reports that Jon Holloway won?t be prosecuted on animal abuse charges. Sioux City Police Lt. Mark Kirkpatrick says it?s technically not illegal to shoot your own pets.Holloway is charged with reckless use of a firearm and discharging a gun within city limits. ...

RAGBRAI will stop in Fairfield this summer for the first time since 1997.Many of the city?s residents remember RAGBRAI?s most recent visit. Fairfield Police Chief Julie Harvey road her bike through town that day, not as a participant but as an officer.Harvey was part of a police bike patrol that made sure the riders found what they needed in town.?The riders came in on Glasgow Road by the Sunset Roller Rink,? ...

MOSCOW (AP) ? A meteor streaked across the sky and exploded over Russia?s Ural Mountains with the power of an atomic bomb Friday, its sonic blasts shattering countless windows and injuring about 1,100 people.The spectacle deeply frightened many Russians, with some elderly women declaring that the world was coming to an end. Many of the injured were cut by flying glass as they flocked to windows, curious about ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? Mandatory water cutbacks may be employed this summer in some parts of Iowa if the drought lingers.Tim Hall is bureau chief of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources? geology and water survey staff and he told a legislative panel on Thursday that the situation was worst in northwest Iowa.The state has the power to prioritize water use based on a system developed in the 1950s. Hall says the ...