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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 ...

The Healthier Workforce Center for Excellence is accepting proposals from students, faculty and community-based organizations for pilot project grants.Faculty and students are invited to submit applications for new and creative research that focuses on integrated approaches to worker health. Projects must integrate health protection and health promotion.Funding of up to $5,000 is available for student projects ...

DES MOINES ? Iowa?s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to a post-recession low of 4.2 percent in December from a revised November rate of 4.3 percent.The comparable rate for December 2012 was 5.0 percent.The U.S. unemployment rate for December dropped to 6.7 percent from 7.0 percent in November, as more people left the labor force.?In contrast to the national trend, Iowa made considerable progress ...

Fairfield Police Department log of dispatch calls Wednesday included the following:11:13 a.m. caller registered a stalking complaint.11:46 a.m. caller reported a credit card theft; she had ordered items paying with a credit card and did not receive merchandise. Company claims it was delivered to a Fairfield address, but it was caller?s old address.12:41 p.m. caller reported being stalked by former landlord.4:4...