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Iowa News Headlines: Sun., Nov. 24th 2013

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November 24th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press…

WAUKEE, Iowa (AP) — A shooting range in a Des Moines suburb is getting a new neighbor — a public middle school. Des Moines television station KCCI reports that Timberline School, which will teach eighth- and ninth-grade students, is being built next door to the New Pioneer Gun Club’s shooting range, which has been in the same spot since 1961.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Health officials say 95 cases of a contagious bacterial infection that causes diarrhea have been reported in northwest Iowa’s Woodbury County. The Siouxland District Health Department’s deputy director Tyler Brock tells the Sioux City Journal that the majority of those sick are children, but a number of adults have contracted shigellosis, too. Woodbury County recorded a single case of shigellosis last year. But on Friday, 95 cases had been reported. About 20 of those had been diagnosed in early November.

OSCEOLA, Iowa (AP) — Executives for a southern Iowa casino who face a sexual harassment lawsuit have dropped their effort to keep court filings and a hearing in a sexual harassment lawsuit from the public. The lawsuit filed last year by Gail Wilson, a former guest services manager at Lakeside Casino in Osceola, alleges sexual harassment, sex discrimination, race discrimination and retaliation.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Jake Rudock threw for 239 yards and a pair of touchdown passes and Iowa rallied from 14 down to beat Michigan 24-21 yesterday. A fumble recovery by Anthony Hitchens with 2:12 left sealed it for the Hawkeyes.