Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa crime lab analyst fired after posting a rant against black people on Facebook has to pay back $3,800 in unemployment benefits. An administrative law judge has ruled that former Division of Criminal Investigation criminalist Amy Pollpeter was fired for work-related misconduct and therefore was ineligible to collect unemployment insurance.

FORT MADISON, Iowa (AP) — Corrections officials say a convicted murderer who had been imprisoned for more than 43 years has died at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison. Officials announced Tuesday that 74-year-old Elbert James Hinkle was found Monday unresponsive on a restroom floor. Crews attempted CPR and rush Hinkle to a Fort Madison hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Hinkle was serving a life sentence for 1st degree murder from Polk County. His sentence began in February 1973.

KEOSAUQUA, Iowa (AP) — A Van Buren County attorney is set to stand trial over accusations of sexual harassment, intoxication and retaliation against employees. The Hawk Eye reports that Abraham Watkins’ civil trial is scheduled to begin Thursday. The Van Buren County Board of Supervisors filed a petition in district court in Keosauqua (Kee-oh-SAH’-kwuh) last month requesting that Watkins be removed from office. The trial is set to begin Thursday.

NASHUA, Iowa (AP) — An appeals court has overturned the life sentence given to a Charles City man suspected of killing a retired Clarksville grocer but convicted of weapon-related charges. The court ordered Friday that Randy Patrie be resentenced. He was suspected in the 2012 death of Carl “Ken” Gallmeyer, found dead in a rural Nashua home. Investigators found Gallmeyer’s guns and other items in Patrie’s home. Prosecutors charged Patrie with weapons crimes. He was sentenced to life because of his prior convictions.