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Iowa early News Headlines: Wed., Dec. 14th 2016

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December 14th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CST

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A former Drake University student is challenging a federal government policy that he says discriminates against men in campus sexual assault cases. He claims the Des Moines-based university failed to consider his allegations of sexual assault by a female student but believed her allegations against him and expelled him. The case is one of several filed in recent years claiming federal guidance from 2011 has resulted in reverse discrimination.

HIAWATHA, Iowa (AP) — A man police found earlier this month wandering naked on an eastern Iowa street has been charged with second-degree murder in his mother’s death. Hiawatha Police said Tuesday that 32-year-old Joseph Hubbard faces the murder charge in addition to other charges levied against him earlier. Officers found him wandering naked on a Hiawatha street on Dec. 2 after they say he broke into a church, poured gasoline inside and punched a man. They then found the body of his mother at the home they shared.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Authorities have identified a woman killed at a northeast Des Moines home. The Des Moines Register reports that Polk County deputies called to the home for a domestic disturbance on Monday found 19-year-old Katelynn Rose Gould, of Urbandale, injured in the garage. She died at the scene. Officials have not detailed the nature of her injuries.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Sioux City lawyer has been sentenced to 15 days in jail for a hit-and-run that injured two pedestrians and damaged a vehicle. Television station KTIV reports that 32-year-old Thomas Farrens was sentenced Friday after entering an Alford plea to leaving the scene of a serious injury accident. Court documents say Farrens didn’t stop after his car hit two pedestrians and sideswiped another vehicle on April 4.