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The Fairfield Fire Department cleaned up after a car accident at 4:41 p.m. Saturday near the intersection of Salina Road and Spruce Avenue.
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The Fairfield Fire Department cleaned up after a car accident at 4:41 p.m. Saturday near the intersection of Salina Road and Spruce Avenue.
DES MOINES (AP) ? Schools were closed across northern and eastern Iowa as a winter storm brought heavy snow and dangerous driving condition.The National Weather Service says several inches of snow fell in northwest Iowa early today. The heaviest snow, up to 8 inches, is expected to pile up in northern Iowa into northern Illinois during the afternoon.State officials reported a multiple vehicle crash in the ...
An Iowa businesswoman who was the subject of a nationwide search after vanishing two weeks ago was found Wednesday in a confused state at a Texas truck stop and is safe with relatives, authorities said.Sharon Hopf, 45, of Crawfordsville called a relative in Missouri at about 8 a.m. Wednesday from a Pilot truck stop off Interstate 35 in Fort Worth and ?seemed to be disoriented,? said agent Jeff Uhlmeyer of the ...
The Van Buren Community School Board discussed budgeting issues and possible building plans at its work session Jan. 11.The financial challenge facing the district is not as great as it has been in years past, according to superintendent Lisa Beames.Two years ago, the board closed the Birmingham Daycare, and last year, the district closed the Stockport attendance center.This year, the district is dealing with ...
Southeast Iowa Singles is sponsoring its 20th anniversary dance 7:30-11 p.m. Saturday at the Fairfield Eagles Club.It is open to anyone in the community, including couples. Admission is $5.Pizza Ranch is where S.I.S. members can meet for dinner at 6 p.m. prior to the dance.Gary Cahill of Farmington is the dance coordinator.?We?ll have Ned Francis playing live music,? he said. ?He?s popular with our dance ...
A Fairfield man accused of poaching deer will stand trial Friday morning in magistrate court.The Iowa Department of Natural Resources ticketed Jack Henry Schafer, 42, of 2349 Glasgow Road, for no habitat fee, no hunting license, no valid deer license and two counts of unlawful deer possession in December 2010.Schafer is accused of unlawfully taking two whitetail antlerless deer, valued at $1,500 each.
Hunting mourning doves has been legal in Iowa for nearly a year, but the issue still isn?t settled at the Capitol.A Senate subcommittee on Thursday discussed using lead shot ammunition in hunting the birds.The state?s Natural Resources Commission last year unanimously voted to ban the practice, but a legislative committee put the ban on hold.Sen. Dick Dearden, D-Des Moines, says the commission overstepped its ...
Some Iowa lawmakers are concerned about details of the governor?s education reform plan.During a House Education subcommittee meeting Wednesday evening, lawmakers were particularly concerned about how teachers would be evaluated under the bill from Gov. Terry Branstad.Representatives agreed teachers should be evaluated annually as the bill calls for, rather than the current minimum of every three years. But ...
Holly Moore of Fairfield bundles up this morning to fend off the single-digit temperatures, but still manages a smile. ?What else can you do?? she said. A new blanket of snow is in the forecast for Friday.
United Parcel Service driver Aron Zaragoza bundled up a little more, but said the single-digit temperatures in Fairfield this morning weren?t slowing him down any. Zaragoza made his delivery in the downtown area and was on his way.
A strong snow storm is poised to dump several inches of snow on Iowa and other parts of the upper Midwest in what for some will be the first real blast of winter.The National Weather Service in Des Moines is predicting up to 7 inches of snow in northern and eastern Iowa on Friday. It comes after several weeks of unusually warm and dry weather.Forecaster Kevin Skow says the ?bulls-eye? of the storm will likely ...
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) ? Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination and endorsed Newt Gingrich, adding a fresh layer of unpredictability to the campaign two days before the South Carolina primary.?Newt?s not perfect, but who among us is?? Perry said.He called the former House speaker a ?conservative visionary? best suited to replace Barack Obama in ...
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP ? When the Marine unit that suffered the greatest casualties in the 10-year Afghan war returned home last spring, they didn?t rush back to their everyday lives.Instead, the Marine Corps put them into a kind of decompression chamber, keeping them at Camp Pendleton for 90 days with the hope that a slow re-entry into mundane daily life would ease their trauma.The program was just one of ...
The Iowa National Guard couldn?t have met its deployment demands without a state program that pays most of the tuition for returning veterans who enroll in college, the general who heads the organization told lawmakers Wednesday.Maj. Gen Timothy Orr said in his annual speech to the Legislature that Iowa National Guard deployments have been the largest since World War II, and that nearly 15,000 Guard members have ...
