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Early morning Iowa headlines 6-28-2013

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June 28th, 2013 by admin

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press
KEOKUK, Iowa (AP) – Hundreds of people are expected in southeast Iowa this weekend to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Keokuk Dam and Power Plant. The Burlington Hawk Eye reports organizers of the Mississippi Power 100 celebration in Keokuk are highlighting trolley rides across the dam that start today and conclude Sunday.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The former Des Moines schools superintendent is suing the district over its handling of explicit emails that led to her resignation. Des Moines station KCCI-TV reports Nancy Sebring filed a lawsuit yesterday that claims the emails detailing her affair with a lover should not have been released to the public because they were part of a personnel matter when district officials uncovered them.

BRITT, Iowa (AP) – A Nebraska subsidiary of a Minnesota food company has bought egg processing plants in Iowa and Minnesota. The sale of Primera Foods Corporation to M.G. Waldbaum Company of Wakefield, Nebraska was expected to be completed yesterday. The Mason City Globe Gazette reports that the $35.7 million deal includes the Primera Foods plant near Britt, Iowa.

FORT MADISON, Iowa (AP) – A Corrections Department spokesman says an inmate at the Iowa State Penitentiary and Clinical Care Unit has killed himself. Corrections spokesman Fred Scaletta says 35-year-old Adam Moss was found unresponsive Wednesday afternoon in his cell. He was found hanging from a wall vent with a bed sheet around his neck.