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Iowa early News Headlines: Tue., April 14th 2015

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April 14th, 2015 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton will begin raising money to pay for her second bid for the White House the same way she plans to start campaigning: small. Clinton is forgoing the celebrity-studded fundraisers that marked her husband’s presidency, as well as the high-dollar private events put on this year by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Instead, Clinton’s initial appeals for money will be for small-dollar donations collected over the Internet.

CHEROKEE, Iowa (AP) — A Cherokee man has been sentenced in connection to a lengthy standoff with police. Thirty-six-year-old Joshua Allender was sentenced Monday to up to 10 years in prison. He took a plea deal in March to intimidation with a dangerous weapon and assault on a peace officer, dropping attempted murder, assault and weapons charges.

GARNER, Iowa (AP) — Another doctor has testified in the trial of a former Iowa lawmaker accused of sexually abusing his wife, saying the woman’s mental capacity deteriorated rapidly in the months before the alleged incident. Dr. John Brady, medical director of Garner’s Concord Care Center, testified in the third-degree sexual abuse case against 78-year-old Henry Rayhons. Prosecutors allege Rayhons had sex with his wife, Donna Lou Rayhons, in May at the nursing home after being told his wife was no longer mentally capable of consenting. She died in August.