These traffic charges were filed with the Jefferson County Clerk of Court:Joseph J. Cichowski, West Palm Beach, Fla., failure to display registration plate.Robert J. Eaton, Lockridge, failure to wear seat belt.Myra Marie Bolander, 606 W. Monroe Ave., No. 12, permitting an unauthorized person to drive.Lisa L. Conrad, 201 Wilson Blvd., speeding.Alexander Gene Hoksbergen, Pella, failure to display ...
Samantha Westercamp was crowned 2011 Van Buren County Fair Queen Monday evening. Sarah Wells was named first runner-up and Miss Congeniality and Patricia Townsend was named second runner-up.
Rhuie Ryan kneels in the flower bed west of the Fairfield Middle School building to pull weeds while Sue Henkel rakes out the piles of weeds and some of the old mulch Monday. The women said they would stop working around noon and move on to a job that wouldn?t be in the hot sun. The bed had been left to its own devices recently and became overgrown with weeds.
Having to buy a squiggly fluorescent light bulb is an affront to personal freedom, some lawmakers are saying as the House decides whether to overturn a law setting new energy-efficiency standards for the bulbs.House Republicans are pushing legislation that would overturn measures in a 2007 energy act requiring efficiency upgrades in the old-fashioned incandescent light bulb, little changed since it was ...
No surer way to bring a light rain this morning than sprinkling the flowers Monday. It had been two weeks since any rain blessed the earth in Jefferson County causing gardeners like LaVon Hostetler to begin watering their flowers and vegetables.
The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics has performed the first implant of an artificial heart in Iowa.Hospital spokesman Tom Moore said Monday that the device was implanted last week and that the unidentified patient remains hospitalized. No other information about the patient is being released, though cardiologist Jennifer Goerbig-Campbell said the patient is doing well.Goerbig-Campbell said the ...
DES MOINES (AP) ? Gambling revenue rose at Iowa?s 18 state-regulated casinos in the past 12 months and it appeared that the latest casino to open has gotten off to a strong start.The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission reported last week that gambling revenue increased by 1.1 percent in the fiscal year that ended June 30 over the previous year. Total revenue in the last 12 months was nearly $1.38 billion.?Thin...
The federal government?s systems for analyzing Medicare and Medicaid data for possible fraud are inadequate and underused, making it more difficult to detect the billions of dollars in fraudulent claims paid out each year, according to a report released Tuesday.The Government Accountability Office report said the systems don?t even include Medicaid data. Furthermore, 639 analysts were supposed to have been ...
A federal appeals court that has called for the immediate halt of the military?s ban on openly gay troops issued an order Monday requiring the U.S. government to state whether it will continue to defend the policy?s constitutionality in court.Monday?s order comes less than a week after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco told the Obama administration to immediately cease enforcing the ?don?t ...
These traffic charges were filed with the Jefferson County Clerk of Court:John William Casey Browning, Montrose, failure to wear seat belt.Lois Louise Loving, Ottumwa, speeding.Carolyn Jean Louden, 905 E. Adams Ave., failure to yield at stop or yield intersection.Gordon M. Peters, 2000 N. Court St., No. 13B, speeding.Stephen Charles Kennedy, 302 E. Pierce Ave., Apt. 2, failure to wear seat belt.
The Fairfield Police Department cited Marcelina Resendiz-Dorado, 38, 307 S. 17th St., at 3:36 p.m. Monday for driving while suspended, revoked, canceled or denied.Joshua Jaurigue III, 23, 406 N. Sixth St., was arrested at 6:41 a.m. Monday in the 700 block of East Fillmore Avenue for operating while intoxicated-second offense. He also was cited for open container and failure to have a valid license or permit.
Good home sought for historic, one-room schoolhouse. You haul. 472-4421.Due to budget limitations, the Jefferson County Conservation Board is offering the former Peach Blossom Schoolhouse to anyone interested in relocating and making use of the building.?We just don?t have enough use for it in the park to justify putting money into it,? said conservation director Dennis Lewiston. ?We?d like to see it go to ...
Driver charged in pickup vs. train accident Shawn Michael Reges of Mount Pleasant has been cited in the pickup vs. train accident that occurred about 7:08 p.m. Monday east of Fairfield.The 16-year-old was cited for having no insurance, having no driver?s license and failure to obey a yield sign. According to the Iowa State Patrol crash information report, Reges was driving a 1997 Ford F-150 pickup ...
Kimberly Claypool takes notes and asks the questions during a job interview conducted in Central Park this morning. Clayton Goss of Fairfield is the prospective employee.
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