Congregate meal set in East Pleasant Plain
EAST PLEASANT PLAIN — A congregate meal will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. July 25 at St. Joseph Church in East Pleasant Plain. The menu will include Poor Man’s Steak, mashed potatoes and...
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Flower show winners announced
KEOSAUQUA — The Roberts Memorial Center in Keosauqua was filled with the color and aroma of flowers Saturday as area residents brought their best and brightest flowers, demonstrated their design...
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Moths at Midnight program set Wednesday night
A luna moth rests on a blade of grass at Jefferson County Park. As part of National Moth Week, which begins Saturday and continues through July 28, Jefferson County Conservation is working with local...
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Fairfield Fire Department responded to a two-vehicle accident with personal injuries at 8:38 a.m. Wednesday at Main Street and Fillmore Avenue. Firefighters used the Jaws of Life to open a car door...
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Fairfield Police Department responded to an accident at 11:54 a.m. Wednesday in the 100 block of North Court Street. Rita Elizabeth Goldstein, 72, of Fairfield, was moving her 2003 BMW from a parking...
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The following court cases were processed at the Jefferson County Courthouse. Associate District Court Diana Jean Haynes, 43, of 606 W. Jackson Ave., pleaded guilty to public intoxication, second...
View ArticleUN: Syria’s war children will grow up illiterate
Syria’s devastating civil war will force a generation of children to grow up illiterate and filled with hate, a U.N. envoy warned Thursday as fighting raged on around the country, including an...
View ArticleRepublican Texas Sen. Cruz visits Iowa this week
DES MOINES (AP) — Republican Sen. Ted Cruz will appear in Iowa this week as he makes a summer tour of early voting states on the presidential calendar. The freshman senator from Texas — a tea party...
View ArticleAuditors: Spencer lawyer overbilled state $177,000
DES MOINES (AP) — State auditors say a Spencer attorney working under contract as a public defender overbilled the state more than $177,000 claiming he worked more than 24 hours in a single day for 80...
View ArticleMan tells judge he didn’t mean to kill Iowa woman
MARSHALLTOWN (AP) — A 40-year-old man charged with killing a Marshalltown woman has said he "didn't really mean to kill her." The Marshalltown Times-Republican says Mathew Irving made the statement...
View ArticleHeat wave sweeps through
The National Weather Service has advised a heat wave has descended on Jefferson County and will remain here through Friday. The weather service predicts afternoon heat indices to top out at 98 to 105...
View ArticleInternational custody case child returns to Sweden
DES MOINES (AP) — A 3-year-old girl at the center of an international custody dispute boarded a plane to Sweden on Wednesday after a federal judge ruled that her mother was violating a treaty by...
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Forty RAGBRAIs for Fairfield resident Terry Klein
When Terry Klein leaves Council Bluffs on his bike next Sunday, it will mark the start of his 40th trip across Iowa on two wheels. While he wasn’t able to participate in the very first RAGBRAI because...
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Car accident
A two-vehicle accident with personal injuries was reported Wednesday morning at the intersection of Main Street and Fillmore Avenue in Fairfield. The accident involved Sharon Sue Harbison, 59; Cora...
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Music, travel enhance annual training
Six Iowa National Guard members deployed June 30 to southeastern Europe, armed with a tuba, a French horn, trumpets, a trombone and a bandleader’s baton. Members of the 34th Army Band, the “Brass...
View ArticleFairfield shares conference title with Mount Pleasant
MOUNT PLEASANT – The Mount Pleasant baseball team scored big in the first inning of Monday’s doubleheader against Fort Madison, and the Panthers didn’t let up until they had claimed a sweep and a...
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Junior varsity ends year with 17-12 record
Even though the Fairfield junior varsity baseball team went through a bit of a skid to finish the year, the Trojans still managed a successful year and a winning percentage above .500. The Trojans...
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Fairfield Police Department received a report at 10:34 p.m. Thursday of a bicycle theft in the 100 block of West Broadway Avenue.
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Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office arrested Andrea Fluharty at 1200 W. Grimes Ave., at 1:26 p.m. Thursday on a warrant for probation violation.
View ArticleVeteran returns to North Korea for first black Navy aviator
Two years after he made history by becoming the Navy’s first black pilot, Ensign Jesse Brown lay trapped in his downed fighter plane in subfreezing North Korea, his leg broken and bleeding. His...
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