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Iowa early News Headlines: Wed., May 28th 2014

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May 28th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

MUSCATINE, Iowa (AP) — Muscatine police are investigating a stabbing death as a homicide. Police were called to a report of a stabbing just after 7 p.m. Sunday. Officers discovered 45-year-old Timothy Dean Lane had been injured. Efforts to resuscitate Lane were unsuccessful. He was later pronounced dead at Trinity Hospital.

FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) — The Webster County agriculture extension office has been closed for a few days because of flooding. The Iowa State University extension office in Fort Dodge has water damage from a storm Monday night. Office manager Ally Zagers says it will take a few days before the damaged items can be repaired.

MAPLETON, Iowa (AP) — A western Iowa city has been discharging untreated sewage into the Maple River because of delays to repairs at its wastewater treatment plant. The city of Mapleton began releasing the sewage Tuesday. The city began routing wastewater to ponds on May 15 to allow crews to make repairs to a wall at the treatment plant. After heavy rains on Monday filled the ponds to capacity, workers began discharging the sewage to prevent damage to the ponds.

TOLEDO, Iowa (AP) — A jury has convicted an Iowa woman of first-degree murder in the death of her daughter-in-law. Jurors took only about two hours Tuesday to convict 57-year-old Ginger Jefferson in the stabbing death of Kerry O’Clair-Jefferson. Authorities say the 32-year-old O’Clair-Jefferson was stabbed twice in the neck Sept. 25 and died in a house in Tama.