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Iowa early News Headlines: Tue., April 5th 2016

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April 5th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

GUTHRIE CENTER, Iowa (AP) — Police arrested a western Iowa woman after finding her hiding in an oven. Twenty-five-year-old Gabrielle Looper, who was wanted for violating her probation requirements, was arrested Thursday after police forced their way into her Guthrie Center mobile home to complete a search warrant.

MURRAY, Iowa (AP) — State officials are investigating a manure spill that has reached the Thompson River in southern Iowa. Officials with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources say the spill occurred about eight miles south of Murray after a pipe broke at a Swine Graphics Enterprises hog plant. The manure was being transferred from building pits to an outdoor basin when the transfer pipe broke and released an unknown amount of manure.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — University of Iowa officials have proposed a new location for a building to house its art museum less than a month after pulling out of a public-private partnership for the project. The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports that the University of Iowa Museum of Art’s executive director says the new location is just a few blocks from the site in the previous proposal. The school’s art collection has been homeless since the previous building was damaged in the 2008 flood.

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (AP) — A Marshalltown resident has been arrested in the fatal assault of another man outside a Marshalltown bar. Authorities say Brandon Skidmore was taken into custody early Saturday and is charged with second-degree murder. Police say James Anderson was attacked in an alley as the Center Street Station bar was closing. Anderson was also from Marshalltown.