Fairfield News

The Fairfield Police Department responded to a theft reported at 5:20 p.m. Wednesday at 1905 W. Burlington Ave.Police responded to a theft reported at 12:50 p.m. Monday at 611 S. Fifth St.Christopher Allan Shute, 23, 1751 Highway 34 West, was arrested at 6:55 a.m. Wednesday in the 900 block of West Harrison Avenue for operating while intoxicated-first offense.

The former mayor of a Los Angeles suburb has pleaded guilty to stealing a commercial food mixer from the local school district so he could make dough for his home pizza oven.Los Angeles County prosecutors say Larry Guidi entered the plea Wednesday to a felony count of grand theft. He was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and one year?s probation. A commercial burglary charge was dismissed.Guidi was a ...

The Obama administration says health plans must start providing more consumer-friendly summaries of coverage and costs so people will know what protection they have.Officials are calling the summaries a ?nutrition label for health care,? naming it after those information panels found on packaged foods at the supermarket.It?s a new requirement of President Barack Obama?s health care overhaul, and one poll found ...

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Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway is upgrading its infrastructure to improve on-time performance of Amtrak passenger service, according to Amy McBeth, director of public affairs for BNSF in Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, North and South Dakota and Wisconsin.?Beckwith, Iowa, is the furthest east of four locations where we are installing a centralized traffic control crossover,? she said from Fort Worth, ...

State Rep. Curt Hanson sponsored a bill this week to make sure rural schools get their share of state education funding.?It?s time for us to fix the fundamental deficiencies with state education funding that leave too many rural schools with less money,? said Hanson. ?My goal is to truly equalize school funding and make sure every child in Iowa ? regardless of where they live ? can get a world class education.?A...

Maharishi School speech team members, from left, Toby James, Raphael Gelfand and Paul DeAngelis give an improvisational performance. Two of the school?s improvisational teams received the highest ranking from three judges and the third team received the highest ranking from two judges at the Iowa High School Speech Association sub-state tournament Saturday in Cedar Rapids. The three improv teams will give a ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Officials at an elementary school rocked by teacher sex abuse claims are investigating yet another allegation of misconduct, this one involving a 50-year-old teacher?s aide accused of sending love letters to an 11-year-old boy.The mother of the fourth-grader told the Los Angeles Times that the aide, a woman in her 50s, sent at least three letters to her son in 2009, including one that read: ...