Fairfield News

ASSOCIATE DISTRICT COURTColton Lee Gallup, 19, of Mount Pleasant entered a guilty plea of possession of marijuana, a serious misdemeanor. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail, less credit for time served; sentence to run concurrently with a Henry County case. His sentence was suspended on the condition of future good behavior. He was placed on two years probation, which will not terminate until he?s paid all ...

Iowa school districts? official count-students day is Oct. 1, and that certified enrollment, to be announced Oct. 15, includes home school assistant program students, competent private instruction students and preschool enrollments.Lacking those categories, Fairfield school district superintendent Art Sathoff shared preliminary enrollment numbers with the school board Monday.?These are rough numbers and this ...

As fans cheered and waved American flags from Central Park to West Burlington Avenue the evening of Sept. 10 to celebrate its Paralympian returning from London, silver medalist Matt Stutzman experienced fully what it meant to have community.?To come back and see all of that support ? it was always worth it, but it made it even more special,? he said. ?Even though I didn?t know many of the people, they still ...

Construction will begin Monday on a Hy-Vee convenience store in Fairfield.The convenience store will be built next to the Fairfield Hy-Vee Food and Drug Store, on the site formerly occupied by Pizza Hut. The first phase of construction involves demolition of the former Pizza Hut building to make way for the new 4,300-square-foot convenience store and five gas pump islands.Fairfield Hy-Vee store director Alan ...

Tyler James Webster, 33, pleaded not guilty of Murder in the First Degree, a Class A felony, in a written arraignment Monday.The plaintiff, the State of Iowa, has charged the defendant in the Aug. 25 shooting death of Fairfield resident Buddy Lee Frisbie, 32.Allen L. Cook and Kenneth A. Duker of the Ottumwa Public Defender?s office are representing Webster. He had the right to an arraignment in open court, but ...

While the man behind an anti-Islam movie that ignited violence across the Middle East would likely face swift punishment in his native Egypt for making the film, in America the government is in the thorny position of protecting his free speech rights and looking out for his safety even while condemning his message.It?s a paradox that makes little sense to those protesting and calling for blood. To them, the ...

Aleigha Sieren, right, sits still to get painted art on her arm while her brother Brantyn Sieren looks on attentively during the Fairfield Kiwanis Kids? Day celebration Saturday morning.

The thousands of students who live on the Louisiana State University campus have begun returning to their dormitories after bomb-sniffing dogs and police methodically swept residential halls Monday following a threat that sparked a campus-wide evacuation.LSU spokesman Herb Vincent said officials hope to reopen the Baton Rouge campus by Monday night, but they aren't certain if a building-by-building sweep will be ...

A New Hampshire woman and her baby are doing fine after the woman gave birth in the New Hampshire Motor Speedway parking lot.Shawna Arnold began going into labor Friday and she and her boyfriend began driving to a hospital. But when she realized she was about to give birth on the way, they made a pit stop at the racetrack parking lot in Loudon.Arnold tells WMUR-TV that she and her boyfriend delivered the baby, ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ? Family of a retired California man who disappeared from an Amtrak train somewhere between Denver and Chicago are searching for him in Nebraska.Jen Dowd says the family chose to focus on Omaha and Lincoln because of unconfirmed reports that an Amtrak employee may have talked to 69-year-old Charlie Dowd when the train was in Omaha on Friday.Family members and volunteers plan to hang missing ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? Iowa taxpayers accounted for nearly one-third of the World Food Prize Foundation?s funding last year with the state?s $850,000 contribution.The Des Moines Register reported the foundation, which recognizes achievements in agriculture and holds an annual symposium every October, is relying more on public support.Iowa officials generally agree that the investment in the World Food Prize foundatio...

Volunteers are accustomed to building homes from the ground up at the Greater Fairfield Area Habitat for Humanity, but a new program will give them a chance to help homeowners in need with nothing but a paintbrush and perhaps a rake.The local chapter of Habitat is accepting applications and volunteers for its new program, A Brush with Kindness, which will focus on exterior home improvements like painting and ...