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Iowa early News Headlines: Thu., Sept. 12th 2013

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September 12th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say they have suspended their search for a Perry man who jumped off a boat into Saylorville Lake, north of Des Moines on Tuesday. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said yesterday that authorities utilized all possible efforts and resources to find 22-year-old Luis Cuadra.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State University has surpassed the University of Iowa with its fall enrollment for the first time in more than 30 years. ISU said yesterday that more than 33,200 students have enrolled at its Ames campus, a seven percent increase from last fall. The Des Moines Register reports Iowa enrolled just over 31,000 students, down one percent from last fall. UNI reported a decrease of about 100 students at its Cedar Falls campus.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Coralville radio station is protesting a judge’s decision to bar it from covering a trial that would have been open to newspaper and television cameramen. KCJJ owner Steve Soboroff said his station planned to broadcast yesterday’s trial of Jeff Waite on a misdemeanor assault charge in Johnson County.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa State Treasurer’s Office says a Massachusetts man attempted to claim a deceased Iowa man’s money as his own. State Treasurer Michael Fitzgerald said in a news release yesterday that Kevin Upshaw was sentenced in July to two years in Massachusetts state prison for trying to pass himself off as the trustee of an Iowa man’s estate in 2011.