Fairfield News

The Cardinal School District has purchased 10 Promethean boards, which project an image onto a screen with which a user can interact. Cardinal kindergarten teachers gave the school board a demonstration Tuesday on how the new promethean tables are utilized in the classrooms.

KEOSAUQUA ? Van Buren County Hospital announced that it is has been awarded a grant in the amount of $15,000 from Dover Corporation, Hillphoenix Inc, and the local employees.Van Buren County Hospital?s $2.2 million building was designed to house the hospital?s child care center, preschool, Job Opportunities Center, Parents as Teachers program, Occupational Health Services, Healthy Villages, Head Start, the WIC ...

A judge has sentenced a small Illinois city?s former bookkeeper to nearly 20 years in prison for embezzling more than $53 million over more than two decades.U.S. District Judge Philip Reinhard in Rockford sentenced 60-year-old Rita Crundwell today after witnesses testified about the hardship her massive theft had caused the city of Dixon.The former Dixon comptroller pleaded guilty to wire fraud in November and ...

It may have taken 46 years, but one boy?s postcard has made it home to Mom.Bert Jacobson sent the postcard to his mother in Pauls Valley, Okla., in January 1967, when he was 13 years old. The card, from the Old Country Store Museum in Hereford, Pa., arrived last Friday.Jacobson tells a Tulsa television station that he traveled to the East Coast with his father and cousins to buy concrete trucks and mixing ...

One Las Vegas shooting range is selling ?take a shot at love? packages that include 50 submachine gun rounds. Another is offering wedding packages in which the bride and groom can pose with Uzis and ammunition belts. And a third invites lovebirds to renew their vows and shoot a paper cutout zombie in the face.Never known for its understatement or good taste, Sin City is bucking the national trend of avoiding ...

For the first time since Prohibition, Chicago has a new Public Enemy No. 1 ? a drug kingpin in Mexico deemed so menacing that he?s been assigned the famous label created for Al Capone.Joaquin ?El Chapo? Guzman was singled out for his role as leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel, which supplies the bulk of narcotics sold in the city, according to the Chicago Crime Commission and the Drug Enforcement Administratio...

Fairfield Police Officers examine their new computers Tuesday afternoon prior to a training session at the Jefferson County Law Center. The officers pictured are Sgt. Aaron Price, left, Ofc. David Wall, center, and Ofc. Kathy Blumhagen. The computers will be used in the officers? patrol cars.

DES MOINES (AP) ? Democratic state Rep. Pat Murphy said Wednesday that he?s running for the Iowa congressional seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley?s run for Senate.Murphy, from Dubuque, announced he would run in next year?s election for Iowa?s 1st Congressional District, which covers the northeastern part of the state. Murphy has served in the Iowa House since 1989, and led the chamber as Iowa House ...

The Jefferson County Board of Supervisors had planned to sign an updated 28E Agreement with Maharishi Vedic City Monday about maintenance of roads, but put it off another week.One of the stipulations Supervisor Dick Reed had voiced to signing the new agreement was for previously erected speed limit signs not installed by the county to be taken down.County Engineer Scott Cline and supervisor Becky Schmitz each ...

The city of Fairfield is contemplating an agreement to extend police protection to Maharishi Vedic City.In return, Vedic City would pay the city $13,000 a year. Vedic City council member Chris Johnson said in an interview today that the Vedic City councilors have observed the Fairfield Police Department already has a significant presence near Vedic City because it patrols the airport.?We already work with ...

Fairfield Fire Department investigated a gas smell at 2:21 p.m. Tuesday at Walker?s Office Supply, 107 W. Broadway Ave.

The following court cases were processed through the Clerk of Courts Office, Jefferson County:Associate District CourtAnthony James Law, 21, of 606 W. Monroe Ave., No. 5, pleaded guilty to possession of a Schedule I controlled substance, marijuana, a serious misdemeanor. He received a deferred judgment, was placed on two years probation, ordered to get a substance abuse evaluation and follow recommendations. He ...