Fairfield News

Fairfield Police Department investigated a burglary report at 2:39 p.m. Tuesday at 207 W. Stone Ave.

The following traffic tickets were filed with the Jefferson County Clerk of Court:Roman M. Myszcak of Glendale Heights, Ill., speeding.Alexander Ray Lee Fitzwater of 808 W. Grimes Ave., violation of financial liability coverage.Rodney Lyle Tedrow of 1747 Brookeville Road, speeding.Benton Lee Cloke of Libertyville, open container with driver under 21.Madelyn C. Mouton of 408½ W. Broadway Ave., failure to ...

?I really missed ice cubes!? declared Kerri Kistler, remarking on her summer adventure to Uganda and Europe.Kistler is the daughter of Bob and Barbara Kistler of Fairfield and Joy Hall of Baton Rouge, La. Thanks to scholarships from Iowa State University, she traveled to Uganda to work and teach for six weeks. While in Uganda, Kistler and her fellow ISU students helped to plant gardens, dig latrines, build ...

The Fairfield City Council is considering implementing urban bowhunting within Fairfield city limits to combat deer overpopulation in town.Councilmember Connie Boyer said the city is prepared to take action if citizens support it.?There has been some interest from citizens wanting to bowhunt,? said Boyer. ?We will call a community meeting in the next month to see if they want to move forward with it.?The ...

OSKALOOSA (AP) ? Researchers recently found the remains of another mammoth at an Oskaloosa farm where scientists unearthed a nearly complete mammoth skeleton earlier this year.Jim North, a professor at William Penn University, told the Oskaloosa Herald the discovery of shoulder bones of two distinct mammoths and fragments of a tusk is rare in the Midwest.The remains appear to date back about 12,000 years.Dave ...

IOWA CITY (AP) ? The University of Iowa has moved up two spots and now sits No. 2 on the Princeton Review?s annual list of top 20 party schools.The party school rankings are one of 62 lists included in the Princeton Review?s 2013 edition of ?The Best 377 Colleges.?The book has the Iowa school No. 6 on its ?Lots of Hard Liquor? list and No. 9 on the ?Lots of Beer? list.The university on Monday dismissed the ...

CORALVILLE (AP) ? Officials will dedicate two bridges in eastern Iowa to honor two Iowa State Patrol troopers who died in the line of duty.The bridges will be dedicated Wednesday in honor of Troopers Allen Nieland and Harold DeGear.Nieland died Oct. 14, 1990, when the plane he was flying crashed while he was helping other troopers locate a robbery suspect.DeGear died Feb. 19, 1954, of injuries he received the ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? Gov. Terry Branstad has ordered Iowa?s agencies to create advisory groups and seek their input before pushing new rules to implement legislative changes.The governor signed an executive order on Monday that requires the creation of ?stakeholder rule-making groups? composed of people whose interests will be significantly affected by a new rule or regulation.Branstad says it?s easy for government...

Daily workouts at 6 a.m.?Not bad, Paul Ryan. But there?s another influential political figure who?s apparently often finished with hers by then: Michelle Obama.Especially during the school year, the first lady gets up at 4:30 or 5 a.m. to work out before her kids wake up, she told iVillage, the women?s website where she is serving as a guest editor this week, with a theme of ?Rev Up Your Back-to-School Routine.?...

Fairfield Police Department investigated a report of fifth degree theft at Jet Stop at 8:02 a.m. Monday. Police arrested Shelby Sammons, 33, at Ninth St. and Grimes Ave., as a suspect. He was charged with driving under suspension.

Remember when suitcases had to be carried instead of rolled? Or when an airline ticket was a booklet of pages separated by carbon paper? Maybe you remember when Lou Gehrig held the Major League record for consecutive baseball games played.This year?s college freshmen don?t.They never lived in a world where Kurt Cobain was alive or an NFL team played its home games in Los Angeles. The Class of 2016 has no need ...

Iowa State Patrol reported a fatal crash at 1:05 p.m. Thursday on Highway 92, 7.5 miles west of Oskaloosa in Mahaska County. Derrikk T. Crawford, 23, of Fairfield, was killed in a collision. He was driving a 2005 Jeep Liberty eastbound on Highway 92; he crossed the centerline, colliding head-on with a 2006 Peterbuilt semi-tractor trailer truck traveling westbound, driven by Shane K. Mock, 25, of West Plains, Mo. ...