The Fairfield Police Department reports the arrest of Michael Harris Van Tasell, 34, of 910 S. Third St., at 7:43 p.m. Wednesday in the 100 block of South Fourth Street. He is charged with operating while intoxicated, first offense, child endangerment, operating a non-registered vehicle, failure to provide security against liability (non-accident related) and driving while suspended.
Egypt?s highest court today ordered the country?s Islamist-dominated parliament dissolved and ruled that the last prime minister to serve under Hosni Mubarak could stay in the presidential race, twin blows to the Muslim Brotherhood that could sweep away its political gains since Mubarak?s ouster 16 months ago.The rulings by the Supreme Constitutional Court, whose judges are Mubarak appointees, escalated the ...
Temporary stop sign to help control fair traffic The city of Fairfield will be setting up a temporary four-way stop sign on Burlington Avenue near the fairgrounds and the new Walmart June 26 through July 2.Fairfield Police Chief Julie Harvey explained the temporary stop sign will help accommodate the extra foot and vehicle traffic in the area during the Greater Jefferson County Fair.The stop sign will be used ...
Butterflies, insects and frogs, oh my!That was the mantra of 25 kindergarten and first-rade students who played several rounds of the game ?Frogs and Flies? Tuesday afternoon at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. The game was just one activity in the Insects and Butterflies day camp offered by the Jefferson County ISU Extension Service.Taught by Fairfield High School and Iowa State University graduate Courtney ...
Permits to perform railroad quiet zone work on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe right of way in Fairfield are expected soon according to Jerry Long of French Reneker Associates.?Drish Construction should be able to start the quiet zone work within a week after getting the permit,? said Long.Long said Trevor Brown of Drish Construction estimated the work schedule at seven weeks, which should enable the contractor...
Afghanistan?s neighbors and regional heavyweights met in Kabul today to do something they rarely do ? try to tackle common threats and problems together.With NATO?s combat mission ending in 2014, the region?s countries are being called on to help stabilize Afghanistan by joining forces to resolve regional problems such as extremism, drug-trafficking, poor coordination on economic issues and, most importantly, ...
?I?m Ksenia Sobchak, and I?ve got something to lose. But I?m here.?That?s what the 30-year-old blond socialite and TV personality said when she began her unlikely foray into political activism by taking the stage at a huge anti-Putin rally in December.It was a shaky start.Sobchak was greeted with jeers and boos from protesters, who derided her as a rich party girl and were suspicious of her motives because of ...
The seventh annual All Things Italian Street Festival is set to begin Thursday and culminate in the street festival from 5-10 p.m. Saturday on the Fairfield square.?People kept on saying it was too much fun to fit into one night?, said Dick DeAngelis, president of the Society of Fairfield Italian Americans, ?so we turned it into a weekend.?DeAngelis said the street festival, with its great fun and great food ...
PACKWOOD ? A third administrator is leaving the Pekin Community School District this year.Superintendent John Dotson turned in his resignation Monday in a meeting with the school board.?It was a surprise,? said Ann Swanson, superintendent?s secretary, this morning. ?I wasn?t at the meeting.?School board secretary Connie Linnet said Dotson is retiring because his service in the Iowa Public Employees Retirement ...
DES MOINES (AP) ? It?s been a century since Josiah and Sarah Moore, their four children and two visiting children were hacked to death with an ax while they slept, and the tiny town where they lived in Iowa has never been the same.What remains the state?s worst mass murder divided the community in 1912 between those who suspected a prominent businessman and others who blamed a traveling preacher or thought it ...
Poison hemlock required to be destroyedJefferson County weed commissioner Dan Miller reports poison hemlock, a noxious weed, is abundant this year.?The county sent out letters to property owners about it with instructions to destroy it by May 15,? he said. ?It?s a very aggressive, invasive species. We don?t want it reproducing, which is why we set a May 15 deadline. If owners can keep it mowed short, it won?t ...
DES MOINES ? Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey said the lack of rainfall in the state is a concern because, while crops remain in fairly good condition, more moistue is needed for it to develop.According to the Iowa Crops and Weather report released Monday by the USDA National Agricultural Statistical Service, warm, dry conditions are beginning to stress Iowa row crops. Although crops continue to be ...
Proposals for Internet addresses ending in dotpizza, dotspace and dotauto are among the nearly 2,000 submitted as part of the largest expansion in the online address system.Apple Inc., Sony Corp. and American Express Co. are among companies that are seeking names with their brands.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers announced the proposals for Internet suffixes, the ?.com? part of an ...
Americans barely increased their spending at retail businesses in April and May, constrained by weak job creation and paltry wage increases.A sharp drop in gas prices pulled down overall sales in both months by 0.2 percent, the Commerce Department said today.But excluding volatile gas station sales, retail sales grew only modestly in May and dipped in April. The report could lead economists to lower their ...
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