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Iowa early News Headlines: Friday, 10/23/2015

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October 23rd, 2015 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Pres

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Officials cancelled afternoon classes at a Des Moines high school after many staffers suffered from food poisoning, apparently by a catered meal. The Des Moines Register reports classes were cancelled Thursday at Roosevelt High School and students were sent home early. School district spokeswoman Amanda Lewis says the Polk County Health Department believes the staffers were sickened by a meal catered by two businesses. The food wasn’t prepared by the school kitchen and no students are believed to have been sickened. Roosevelt Principal Kevin Biggs says classes were cancelled because there were too few staffers to continue classes.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will be in Iowa more as the leadoff presidential caucuses draw closer. His campaign also tells The Associated Press that Christie is opening his first office soon in suburban Des Moines.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Tests on more than 750 ducks shot by Minnesota hunters this fall have turned up no signs of the kind of bird flu that devastated the Midwest poultry industry earlier this year. Wild waterfowl don’t normally get sick from these viruses, but they’re deadly to domestic poultry. Bird flu cost producers more than 48 million chickens and turkeys earlier this year, mostly in Minnesota and Iowa.

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — Plans have been canceled for placing a 40-foot-tall statue in a roundabout intersection near Cedar Falls Industrial Park. Former City Council member Barbara Brown told the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier that the controversy about roundabouts proposed for University Avenue made it hard to collect donations.