Fairfield News

Authorities have arrested an Ottumwa man charged with running a phony investment scheme that bilked Iowans out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.U.S. Attorney Nicholas Klinefeldt announced the arrest and 20-count indictment against John Francis Holtsinger Thursday.The indictment alleges Holtsinger marketed investment funds to Iowans, but used much of their deposits for personal expenses, including legal fees, ...

State police say a pair of amorous bovines tied up traffic near the intersection of two rural Pennsylvania highways.The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette first reported the situation this morning. Trooper John Corna tells The Associated Press it was resolved about 9:15 a.m. when state Department of Agriculture managed to shoo the bull and cow into a trailer.Corna says the intersection of Routes 28 and 85 in Rayburn ...

Concerned citizens filled the Fairfield City Council room Tuesday night for the first reading of the Water Meter Opt-Out Program ordinance, a piece of legislation which would allow residents to decline the installation of a new type of ?Read-o-Matic? water meter.The concern rises from the new meter?s ability to transmit data wirelessly using radio waves. While it was originally understood that the meter would ...

This little songbird is a male Dickcissel, a sparrow-like bird of prairie grasslands, though it has adapted somewhat to agricultural areas. He sports a yellow stripe above the eyes and a yellow chest with a black patch, and rusty patches on the shoulders. His mate will be duller with a light yellow stripe over the eyes, a whitish throat, dull yellow breast and light gray belly. These could be mistaken for ...

Jefferson County Board of Supervisors approved a change in the 28E agreement with 10-15 Transit first, because Lee County is leaving the group June 30, and second, wording about negligence was changed to willful acts.?Since this service began in 1992, the original agreement has put each individual county in charge of providing public transportation,? said supervisor Lee Dimmitt in a committee report to the board ...

Crime Scene Iowa is the theme for the June 13-17 MotorMemories vintage vehicle tour.Open to 1987 and older vehicles, nearly 40 cars are already registered from 25 different Iowa communities. Motoring through western Iowa, the tour takes a closer look at some of the better, as well as lesser known crime stories in the Hawkeye state.First stop is Villisca, 100 years to the week after six members of the Josiah B. ...

From left, Sara Adam, Addison Taglauer and Justin Godwin hold up the life-sized alligator head, which had been missing since Thursday night from the Bonnifield Lake Beach at Waterworks Park. The three were fishing for bass on Bonnifield Lake Tuesday evening when they found the alligator head along the west shore. Beach volunteer Frank Wintroub said he wasn?t sure how the steel twisted cable broke, but he was glad ...

Nestled nearly 5,000 feet beneath the earth in the gold boom town of Lead, S.D., is a laboratory that could help scientists answer some pretty heavy questions about life, its origins and the universe.It?s hard to spot from the surface. Looking around the rustic town, there are far more nods to its mining past than to its scientific future, bu today, when part of the closed Homestake Gold Mine officially becomes ...

Commencement speaker Candy Crowley told graduates ages 20 to 66, she wants their dreams to come true, but she also asked the Maharishi University Management Class of 2012 to watch for the ?un-dreams.?Crowley, CNN?s award-winning political correspondent and anchor of ?State of the Union,? flew into Fairfield Friday, getting a brief glimpse of the community and campus?I?m looking forward to the trip,? she said by ...

AGENCY (GTNS) ? Washington County Sheriff Jerry Dunbar confirmed today an Agency woman who was reported possibly shot and killed Saturday morning was employed at the Washington County Jail.According to a press release from the Wapello County Sheriff?s Office, at about 5:23 a.m. Saturday, the office received a 911 report of an individual who had ?possibly been shot.? The incident happened in the 8700 block of Fox ...

America?s newest veterans are filing for disability benefits at a historic rate, claiming to be the most medically and mentally troubled generation of former troops the nation has ever seen.A staggering 45 percent of the 1.6 million veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now seeking compensation for injuries they say are service-related. That is more than double the estimate of 21 percent who filed ...

The Fairfield Fire Department assisted the Fairfield Police at 10:45 a.m. Tuesday at 1010 N. B St. Two firefighters used the jaws of life.