Colfax News

The Colfax Police Department is asking for the public's help in finding a missing man.

Two Colfax teens have been charged in more than a dozen burglaries reported in the past few months at various businesses all over Jasper County.

No one was injured in a fire that gutted a Colfax home Thursday afternoon, Firefighters from Colfax, Baxter, Mingo and Prairie City responded to a call of a house fire around 1 p.m. on Thursday at 108 N. Lincoln St.

Two Jasper County 4-H members recently received 4-H Scholarships awarded by Iowa State University Extension and the Jasper County Youth Committee.

Colin Wilson of Newton displays some of the military items from his collection Colin Wilson has an unusual hobby; some might even say obsession.

Former Colfax resident Rachel Marie Huggins, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2006 for shooting a local man she accused of sexual abuse, has been granted work release by the Iowa Parole Board, according to media reports.

About a month following the controversial Iowa Supreme Court decision declaring the ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional, the Jasper County Recorder's Office began accepting applications for marriage certificates from same-sex couples on Monday, receiving 10 applications as of noon Thursday.

The Gulielma Zollinger Chapter of Questers met April 8 at the home of Jeanne Hershey with Dorothy Anspach as co-hostess. Eleven members were present.

The drier weather last week allowed many Jasper County farmers, including this one east of Colfax, to finally get some fieldwork done, including fertilizer and chemical applications.

If you are convicted of an aggravated misdemeanor in Iowa, such as second-offense drunken driving or third-degree theft, you would have to surrender a sample of your DNA, under a proposal before state ...

A Baxter man lost his home to a raging fire on Thursday afternoon. The Newton Daily News reported that firefighters fought the flames at Phillip Calvin's home at 104 N. West Ave.

The controversy began early for the Jasper County Board of Supervisors. On the first meeting of the year, one of the requirements of the board is to select official newspapers for the countya s legal ...

December 20, 2008-- Two people died this morning on Interstate 80 in between Mitchellville and Colfax, east of the metro.

Good morning, Quad-Cities. At 6 a.m. it is rainy and foggy at 35 degrees in the Quad-Cities, according to the National Weather Service , or NWS.