Obituaries

The Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce held its third Legislative Forum of the year Saturday at the Fairfield Public Library.The forum featured four local legislators: Rep. Curt Hanson (D-Fairfield), Rep. Dave Heaton (R-Mt. Pleasant), Sen. Rich Taylor (D-Mt. Pleasant) and Sen. Mark Chelgren (R-Ottumwa). Each gave opening remarks and then took questions from the public. Chelgren missed the first half of the ...

The Fairfield Police Department arrested a 16-year-old male subject Wednesday morning who was wanted on a Muscatine County warrant for attempted murder.Noah Hass, 16, of Fairfield was taken into custody at 9:45 a.m., and held at the Jefferson County Jail for around an hour and a half before being released to Muscatine County law enforcement authorities. According to a WQAD article, Hass is wanted in conjunction ...

A group of students at Fairfield High School have a plan to increase recycling in the building.The quartet of Kaylee Hanley, Michael Ennen, John Boatright and Briseyda Jiminez hatched the idea to put recycling tubs in as many rooms at the high school as they could. The idea began as a homework assignment for Tyler Miklo?s American Government class, but the students were genuinely interested in putting it into ...

DES MOINES ? Hull Sen. Randy Feenstra is living the dream as a Republican legislator tasked with reforming, rewriting and reducing Iowa?s income taxes.Feenstra, 47, enters his third term in the Iowa Senate next month as the newly named chairman of the Senate?s tax-writing Ways and Means Committee and part of a GOP majority that controls the Iowa Senate for the first time in a decade along with a Republican-led ...

JOHNSTON ? President-elect Donald Trump?s ?America first? economic nationalism scored well with voters, but may not play well with international trading partners, much to the detriment of Iowa, according to economists who monitor the state?s economy.The zero sum trade game ? that is, the idea that when American wins there has to be a loser -- that Trump seems to be advocating could hurt Iowa?s exports to China ...

Kids and germs seem to go together like milk and cookies. But there are ways parents can keep germs from spreading and boost kids? immune systems to help prevent illnesses this cold and flu season, a UIeCare health expert says.?The gathering of children in schools and daycares is one of the main ways germs spread and get circulated through communities,? said Patrick D. Brophy MD, MHCDS, professor of pediatrics ...

The Fairfield Police Department reports the following incidents logged into dispatch: Wednesday9:25 a.m. ? A citizen reported a burglary at 307 S. Second St.9:49 a.m. ? A caller advised that his neighbor?s dog bit his 6-year-old daughter. He told officers that when he went to speak to his neighbor about the incident, the dog tried to bite him, too.12:25 p.m. ? A citizen advised of criminal mischief on ...

FAIRVIEW, Ill. (AP) ? A decorated U.S. soldier from Illinois and an Army civilian employee from Oklahoma who both had been deployed multiple times to support military operations in Afghanistan were killed in an attack this week in Kabul, the Defense Department said. Army Sgt. Douglas J. Riney, 26, of Fairview, Illinois, and Michael G. Sauro, 40, of McAlester, Oklahoma, died of wounds received when they encountere...

Election Day is nearing and absentee voting in Iowa starts Thursday.Ballots will be available from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. until Nov. 7 at the Jefferson County Auditor?s office, on the first floor of the courthouse.The auditor?s office will also be open until 5 p.m. Nov. 4, as well as until 5 p.m. Oct. 29 and Nov. 5., which are the two Saturdays before the Nov. 8 General Election.Those choosing to vote early can ...

DES MOINES ? (AP) ? Authorities in several Iowa cities were mobilizing resources today to handle flooding from a rain-swollen river that has forced evacuations in several communities upstream, while a Wisconsin town was recovering from storms now blamed for two deaths. More rain fell Thursday night and early today in the area, and the National Weather Service said the threat for more rain and flash-flooding ...