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Iowa early News Headlines: Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018

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December 13th, 2018 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:25 a.m. CST

BETTENDORF, Iowa (AP) — Voters in the Bettendorf school district have rejected a proposed $30 million bond issue to renovate several school buildings. The Quad-City Times reports that more than two of every three voters cast ballots Tuesday against the bond. The money would have been used to remodel, renovate or improve the district’s high school and middle school, as well as Herbert Hoover, Paul Norton and Neil Armstrong elementary schools over the next 3-to-6 years.

URBANDALE, Iowa (AP) — Police in a suburban Des Moines city say the shooting death of a man inside a home was accidental. Urbandale police say the shooting happened late Sunday night when 20-year-old Anthony Taylor accidentally shot himself inside a friend’s home. Police believe Taylor was handling a gun when he accidentally shot himself.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Sen. Charles Grassley says President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen may be truthfully pleading guilty to federal crimes, but he doubts Cohen can be believed when he implicates the president in crimes. Cohen was sentenced to prison Wednesday in part for campaign finance violations tied to illegal payments made during the campaign to women alleging they had affairs with Trump. Cohen says he paid them at the direction of Trump, potentially implicating the president in a crime.

MUSCATINE, Iowa (AP) — A 19-year-old Iowa man has been arrested hours after police say he stabbed his grandmother to death. Darian Lensgraf was arrested in Muscatine after a convenience store clerk called 911 to report that he was in the store holding a bloody knife. About 15 minutes earlier, police had received another call reporting that a woman was found stabbed to death at a home in Muscatine.