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Iowa early News Headlines: Thu., 12/31/15

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December 31st, 2015 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa State Patrol says releasing the name of a trooper and details about his use of force during an arrest would be unfair to the suspect he injured. The patrol refused to explain how a trooper’s rifle injured Shanne Arre during a June arrest following a police chase in Plymouth County. The Associated Press asked the State Patrol for further explanation earlier this month.

BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — A judge has granted another trial delay for a man accused of killing his 3-week-old son in southeast Iowa. Twenty-three-year-old Randall Payne’s trial is now scheduled to begin in May. It had been slated to begin next week. Payne was arrested at his Burlington home last May in the 2014 death of Carter Payne.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A plea agreement calls for a retired National Park Service officials to serve probation and publicly apologize to tribes for stealing the remains of their ancestors from a museum he managed. The agreement also recommends former Effigy Mounds National Monument superintendent Thomas Munson pay $108,000 in restitution. Munson is expected to plead guilty to embezzlement next week and receive his sentence.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A state engineer fired in 2014 for giving sexually inappropriate buttons to a female co-worker will be reinstated with $173,000 in back pay after successfully appealing his termination. Bruce Flippin will return Monday to the job with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, two years after the incident that prompted his firing. An administrative law judge has concluded Flippin violated DNR work rules, but that termination wasn’t justified.