Fairfield News

Jefferson County Sheriff?s Department responded to an accident at 11:58 a.m. Thursday on Highway 34 just east of Fairfield exit 210. A semi truck loaded with half a mobile home was driving west in the right lane. A second semi truck also driving west attempted to pass in the left lane. The passing truck struck the side mirror on the semi carrying the mobile home, causing the two trucks to be hooked together. At ...

Fairfield Police Department took a report at 8:51 p.m. Sunday about a theft of a vehicle from Fairfield Middle School. The vehicle was later found parked at the school.Michael Dwayne Hannah 43, of Eldon was arrested at 10:11 p.m. Saturday in the 1900 block of South Main Street. He is charged with possession of a controlled substance, marijuana.Tori Essary 19, of 501 W. Hempstead Ave., Apt. 1, was arrested on ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? Anne Danaher is largely responsible for freeing two Omaha men wrongly convicted in a 1977 murder and now seeking $100 million from the police officers they claim framed them for the crime, but as she watches the civil trial in a federal courtroom she wonders why she?s never been compensated for her years of work on their behalf.Danaher, now of Kansas City, hopes Terry Harrington and Curtis ...

WASHINGTON, Iowa (AP) ? Thomas L. Hansen will likely lose his freedom for the rest of his life after a jury found him guilty of second-degree murder. But, at least for now, he will get to keep the lifetime pensions he earned as an Iowa City fire official and as Johnson County?s emergency management director.Jurors found the 72-year-old guilty of second-degree murder last week for fatally shooting his longtime ...

Jefferson County engineer Scott Cline reported the 240th Street project is completed now that riprap has been added at the pond there.Last week the Jefferson County Board of Supervisors drove out to see the project, which wasn?t quite complete seven days ago.?When we saw it last Monday, I wondered if it needed a culvert there,? said supervisor Dick Reed. ?Maybe you can tell better now that it?s completed.?You ...

CEDAR RAPIDS (AP) ? Iowa lawmakers are adding more transparency to their day-to-day workings at the Capitol.The Cedar Rapids Gazette reports the state Senate will begin offering live video streaming of floor debates during the upcoming legislative session.Officials say the installation of several video cameras cost more than $200,000, but a state grant helped cover the bulk of it.The move brings the Senate in ...

Citizens will soon have a chance to weigh in on Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz?s amended voting rules, which would increase the state?s patrol of elections by taking extra measures to verify the citizenship status of registered voters.Schultz?s office will be taking public comment from 2-4 p.m. Jan. 3 through the Iowa Communications Network. The nearest location will be the Ottumwa National Guard Armory in ...

Iowa KidSight is a joint project of the Lions Clubs of Iowa and the University of Iowa, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences.The program is dedicated to early detection and treatment of vision problems in Iowa?s young children through screening and public education. The target population is 6-48 months of age.Richland and Packwood Lions Clubs helped screened 53 children at Pekin Community Schools ...

Iowa is often called the safest state in the nation, so it may come as a surprise it harbors more of the invisible, odorless gas, which is the second-leading cause of lung cancer, than anywhere else in the country.Jefferson County Sanitarian Dan Miller of the environmental health department is turning his focus to radon awareness as the nationally recognized Radon Action Month approaches in January. Miller has ...

Officials have rescued half a dozen neglected horses from southern Iowa.Union County officials and the Animal Rescue League of Iowa took four mares and two colts from the property near Lorimor on Thursday.The league?s Scott Wilson says the horses had been living without adequate food, shelter and veterinary care for some time. They were taken to the league?s rescue ranch.Wilson says one of the horses had an ...

A district court judge is considering whether a lawsuit filed by civil rights groups against Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz over new voting rules should be dismissed or allowed to go on.Schultz attempted to pass two emergency rules prior to the Nov. 6 general election, but Polk County District Court Judge Mary Pat Gunderson halted them. One would have challenged votes of individuals who appear on state and ...

As a result of a legislative mandate presented this spring to reduce Iowa?s Area Agencies on Aging from 13 to six, Seneca AAA in the Ottumwa area and Generations AAA in the Davenport area chose to work together to create and facilitate a new service area comprised of their existing counties with the addition of the Southeast Iowa Region in Burlington and will be known as Milestones AAA.Other AAAs throughout the ...