DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Governor Terry Branstad has named a large conference room in the state Capitol in honor of former Governor Robert D. Ray. Branstad announced the honor yesterday, on Ray’s 84th birthday. Ray and his family joined Branstad for a brief ceremony Wednesday in Des Moines.

CENTERVILLE, Iowa (AP) – Fire officials say sparks from a grinder ignited a fire that destroyed a building near the town square in downtown Centerville. The Tuesday afternoon fire gutted a building that was home to a shop called The Gypsy Quarter. Fire officials blamed the blaze on a contractor who was doing metal work on the roof. It took firefighters three hours to bring the blaze under control.

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Police have identified a man who died in a single-vehicle crash in West Des Moines. Authorities say 21-year-old Jeffrey Jones of Earlham was killed just before 6 a.m. yesterday when his vehicle left the roadway on an interstate mix master that connects Interstates 80, 35 and 235.

WEST UNION, Iowa (AP) – Prosecutors have filed a first-degree murder charge against a former resident at an Iowa residential care facility, after a man he is accused of attacking died. KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids reports that 35-year-old Matthew Braun is accused of assaulting 57-year-old Kris Simpson at the Prairie View Residential Care Facility last week.

AMES, Iowa (AP) – The Story County attorney’s office has dismissed charges against two teenagers accused of a sexual assault in July. The Ames Tribune reports the county attorney filed documents Monday dismissing the case against the 16-year-old boys from Ames and Boone.