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Iowa early News Headlines: Tue., July 21st 2015

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July 21st, 2015 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — Iowan Zach Johnson has won the British Open in a four-hole playoff over Lewis Oosthuizen and Marc Leishman. It’s the second major golf championship for the Cedar Rapids native. Johnson described himself as a “normal guy” from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, when he won the Masters in 2007. And now? He says: “I’m a normal guy from Cedar Rapids … with a green jacket that has something that most guys don’t get to drink out of right now.”

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A jury has convicted former lottery security official Eddie Tipton of fraud. The Norwalk man accused of rigging a Hot Lotto game so he could win a $14 million jackpot in 2010 now faces up to 10 years in prison. He’ll be sentenced in September. His lawyer is planning an appeal.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Gov. Terry Branstad is asking the Iowa National Guard to review security at its facilities in Iowa, in the wake of last week’s shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Branstad asked Iowa National Guard Maj. Gen Timothy Orr to assess the protection for those working at the Guard’s military facilities and recruitment sites. The Republican governor also plans to ask the federal government to review the protections at all military facilities.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — A judge has sentenced a former western Indiana man to 40 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the slaying of a teenager nearly 17 years ago. Thirty-five-year-old Clinton Bryan Mackey was arrested in January 2014 and charged with killing 19-year-old Erika Case. She was found dead on Sept. 6, 1998, having been stabbed multiple times while house-sitting in West Terre Haute.