MONROE, Ga. (AP) — The world’s oldest person lives in Iowa. Yesterday, the woman who was listed as the world’s oldest person died in a Georgia nursing home yesterday at age 116. A Guinness official says the title now belongs to 115-year-old Dina Manfredini, of Johnston, Iowa.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Ken Trickey, a former basketball coach at Iowa State, Oral Roberts and other schools, died Tuesday. He was 79. ORU President Mark Rutland said in a statement announcing Trickey’s death that the coach’s exciting basketball program helped the university become known throughout the country.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — More people in Iowa are connected to faster broadband speeds. That’s according to new data. Connect Iowa released figures yesterday that show nearly 96 percent of state residents have access to faster broadband speeds. That means fixed broadband speeds of 3 megabits per second or higher.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The city of Council Bluffs may be forced to levy a special tax to pay two black men if a jury blames the city and two retired officers for their wrongful conviction. Terry Harrington and Curtis McGhee, of Omaha, Neb., claim the city and two police investigators targeted them for the shooting of a former police captain because of their race. The men were freed in 2003 after 25 years in prison after the Iowa Supreme Court found prosecutors committed misconduct. The men are suing for $100 million.