Beaconsfield News

She lost her re-election bid by 30 votes in this western Iowa town of 224 that she had served since the mid-1990s. Friendships have been strained, reputations sullied and her town is not able to collect property taxes this fiscal year - all because the city's former part-time clerk missed a deadline to file an 13-page form with the Iowa state ... (more)

The southern Iowa towns of Beaconsfield , in Ringgold County , and Le Roy , in Decatur County , were tied in the new 2010 U.S. Census at 15 residents apiece.

Astronaut Peggy Whitson of Beaconsfield, Ia., has spent more time in space than any other American.

Do you like this story? We'll see a partly-cloudy day on Monday... highs should top out in the upper-70's. We might see a few showers in the late afternoon and evening.

The three mayoral candidates in Beaconsfield: David Pollock , Hela Labene and Bob Benedetti.