Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A judge has declined to halt Iowa’s efforts to turn over management of its Medicaid program to private insurers. Aetna Better Health and Meridian Health Plan sued seeking to halt the transition to managed care which is now expected to begin in March.

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is out with his first attack ad aimed at rival Ted Cruz. The ad paints the Texas senator as an inconsistent politician who once supported allowing the millions of people living in the country illegally to remain. Cruz responded on ABC by describing Trump’s position as akin to amnesty.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa City man who has been charged with using a plastic gun to rob a bank now faces charges of calling in a bomb threat to a school on the same day. The Press Citizen reports 30-year-old Clifton Brinkmeyer was taken into custody Tuesday morning after a bank robbery that occurred about 20 minutes after a bomb threat was phoned in at West High School.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A man whose second-degree murder conviction was thrown out by the state appeals court must face a new trial in the case in which a partying crowd beat a Des Moines man to death in a downtown parking lot in 2013. The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday ruled that 20-year-old Kent Tyler the Third must be retried for the death of 40-year-old Richard Daughenbaugh.