Obituaries

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) ? A 911 dispatcher is in trouble over his response to a mother who called for help after her 10-month-old son accidentally locked himself in her car, police said. Shana Dees said she put her son Jack in his car seat Saturday afternoon and when she went to move a shopping cart, Jack hit the lock button on the keychain remote, The Tampa Tribune (http://bit.ly/1mR1C8l) reported. She called 911 ...

Jefferson County Health Center patient and clinical care directors want to ease the minds of the public when it comes to Tenco?s new crisis stabilization home.?Anyone seen as a danger to themselves or others will not be admitted [to the crisis home],? said JCHC Outpatient Director Curtis Smith. ?Sometimes patients just need to be placed for 24 to 48 hours to help them get through a crisis they are dealing ...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) ? A young man on camera names the person who?s challenged him to dump the contents of a bucket over his head. But in a twist on the ice bucket challenge, this man is soon drenched in frothy, soapy water ? part of a campaign to raise awareness about Ebola prevention in West Africa. Ivory Coast?s ?Lather Against Ebola? campaign, catchy songs and comedy are being used by West Africans to ...

The Fairfield Police Department was contacted today by officials with the U.S. Postal Service.This agency is documenting increased incidents of a computer virus scam in the Fairfield area. Subjects are reporting that they are receiving emails advising it is from the U.S. Postal Service and to open it to receive information about picking up a package. If anyone opens this email it will transfer a computer ...

Fairfield Police Department conducted a traffic stop around 2:03 a.m. Thursday and arrested Nicole Lena Lehan Davis, 28, of Fairfield and Rebecca Ann Grubbs, 39, of Fairfield.Davis is charged with possession with intent to deliver more than 5 grams of methamphetamine, a Class B felony; drug tax stamp violation, a Class D felony, possession of drug paraphernalia, a simple misdemeanor, and violation of the gun ...

Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office reports a vehicle/cow accident at 10:56 p.m. Monday. Robert Jeffrey Wilson of Cosby, Missouri, was driving a 2009 Ford F-750 truck east on Highway 34/163 at Fir Avenue and struck a cow in the road. Damages to the truck are estimated at $10,000.

For all the tens of billions of dollars that the nation has spent on screening passengers and their bags, few airports made a comparable investment to secure the airplanes themselves.As the case of the San Jose stowaway shows, it did not take a sophisticated plan for a 15-year-old boy to spend about seven hours in what is supposed to be a secure area of Silicon Valley?s main airport ? much of it in a wheel well ...

BURLINGTON (AP) ? Iowa?s largest insurance provider has accused a southeast Iowa insurance broker of overcharging for its products and has asked the state to investigate the company, Two Rivers Insurance.Potentially as many as 10,500 government employee policies are affected with millions of dollars in premiums at stake, including those in Fairfield and Jefferson County. Jefferson County Attorney Tim Dille said ...

MT. PLEASANT (GTNS) ? The safety committee in Henry County is working on ways to make the county safer in order to obtain the Best Practices Award.According to IT/Tech Coordinator (and safety committee member) Derek Wellington, oil storage in the secondary road department?s maintenance shed has gotten the county dinged on safety standards in the past.?The oil storage is one of the reasons we haven?t gotten the ...

Danaher Oil joined the 224th Engineer Battalion of the Iowa Army National Guard in becoming the second business to achieve Blue Zones Worksite designation in Fairfield.Both sites are empowering their employees to be happier, healthier and more productive by creating healthier work environments.Representatives from the Blue Zones Project Fairfield team and the Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce presented Danaher ...