Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

BURNSIDE, Iowa (AP) — A third member of a central Iowa volunteer fire department has lost his home in a fire this year. KCCI-TV reports the latest fire broke out early Friday at the home of Lehigh Fire Chief Kirk Kelley in Burnside. On October 5th, firefighter Cody Frazier also lost his Lehigh home in a fire. In April, firefighter Milton Friedel of Burnside lost his home in a blaze blamed on an electrical problem.

CHARLES CITY, Iowa (AP) — A trial has been rescheduled to January for a convicted sex offender who’d been defeated in a Charles City school board election. Online court records say the trial is scheduled to begin January 12th for 59-year-old Doug Lindaman. He’s pleaded not guilty to allegations that he performed a sex act in 2011 on a 17-year-old boy without the boy’s consent.

NEW HAMPTON, Iowa (AP) — A court has upheld a ruling finding a New Hampton utility wrongfully fired a worker who had exposed inappropriate actions by a supervisor. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports the Iowa Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a lower court judgment that sided with Jacob Hackman, who filed a wrongful termination claim after being fired by New Hampton Municipal Light.

TYNGSBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is campaigning in Massachusetts, promising the repeal of President Barack Obama’s signature health care law and strict enforcement of immigration laws. The billionaire businessman spoke at a rally Friday in Tyngsborough, northwest of Boston.