IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Hundreds of protesters have rallied at the University of Iowa campus to argue that the school’s new president shouldn’t have accepted the position. The Des Moines Register reports that about 100 protesters at the university challenged the qualifications of newly-hired president Bruce Harreld Monday afternoon. Harreld began as the university’s 21st president Monday.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Mike Hammond, who co-founded computer maker Gateway Inc. in a northwest Iowa farmhouse in 1985, has died at age 53. Hammond started Gateway with brothers Ted and Norm Waitt, selling what became among one of the most popular computers on the market. He managed the company’s operations in Iowa and South Dakota.

EARLY, Iowa (AP) — A judge has agreed with the murder conviction of an Iowa mother who shot and killed her 20-year-old neighbor in 2001. Tracey Richter is serving life in prison in the slaying of Dustin Wehde. Prosecutors say she fatally shot Wehde as part of a plot to frame her ex-husband during a custody battle, but Richter says her trial was tainted by errors from her defense attorney.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — About 2,000 farmers, grain handlers and corn exporters are suing Swiss biotechnology company Syngenta now that a federal judge has ruled their cases have merit and will move forward. The lawsuits allege Syngenta’s introduction of a new genetically modified corn seed interrupted trade with China in 2011 and may have cost the U.S. corn industry as much as $3 billion.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa is paying $235,000 to settle a lawsuit from a woman who says she was kept in isolation at the Iowa Juvenile Home for 280 days. Jessica Turner’s lawsuit alleged she was held in small concrete cells for weeks at a time between 2011 and 2012. The governor closed the juvenile home in Toledo last year amid questions about the treatment of residents.