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Iowa early News Headlines: Sunday, Oct. 15th 2017

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October 15th, 2017 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 5:35 a.m. CDT

SUTHERLAND, Iowa (AP) — Residents of the small northwest Iowa city of Sutherland have gathered to mourn Carly Kreibaum, a 33-year-old mother of two who was among those killed in a Las Vegas mass shooting. The Sioux City Journal reports dozens of people converged Saturday morning at a downtown community center to remember Kreibaum. A burial was held later at a local cemetery. Kreibaum’s family requested no media attend the funeral. Several attendees later refused to comment, citing privacy concerns.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — More oversight and money will be needed to demolish an abandoned apartment building near downtown Waterloo. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports city officials determined recently that the apartments must be removed as if all the debris contains asbestos. That special designation requires more regulated cleanup. It’s also twice as expensive as more traditional demolition methods.

WAVERLY, Iowa (AP) — Two northeast Iowa men are raising awareness about a critical shortage of emergency medical technicians in rural areas of the state and calling for changes in law so ambulance service is deemed essential. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that Bremer County’s Emergency Management Coordinator Kip Ladage and the EMS association’s president Jim Schutte spoke about the EMS crisis at a Waverly town hall meeting on Oct. 11. Residents discussed funding services with sales or property taxes.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A jury has convicted a New York man in connection to a 2016 bank robbery in eastern Iowa. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the northern district of Iowa says 27-year-old Daniel Louis Jackson was convicted on charges that included armed bank robbery. A date for sentencing is pending, but he faces a mandatory minimum sentence of seven years in prison. Officials say Jackson and another man took about $8,000 from a Citizens State Bank in Hopkinton on Oct. 21, 2016.