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Iowa News Headlines: Friday, Nov. 25th 2016

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November 25th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

(DERBY, Iowa) – One person died following an accident Thursday night, in southern Iowa’s Lucas County. The Iowa State Patrol reports 39-year old Steven Lloyd Sinclair, of Humeston who was not wearing a seat belt, died in the crash that happened at around 8:10-p.m. on Highway 65. authorities say a 1997 Pontiac Grand Prix driven by Sinclair was traveling north on Highway 65, when he attempted to pass a pickup, on the right shoulder of the road. The car side-swiped the 2015 Ford F-150 and entered the east ditch before rolling over. Sinclair was ejected from his car as it rolled.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Authorities are trying to determine whether remains found in a Des Moines lake are human. Des Moines television station KCCI reports that a kayaker spotted what he thought might be a human jawbone as he was leaving the water Thursday at Gray’s Lake. A police spokesman says the jawbone appears to be human but must be checked by forensic experts for confirmation.

CENTRAL CITY, Iowa (AP) – Authorities say a firefighter responding to a fire in eastern Iowa has been hospitalized with a serious medical condition. The Linn County Sheriff’s Office says the firefighter was one of several emergency responders trying to put out a large fire Thursday morning at a building in Central City that houses an oil recycling business. A press release says the firefighter was hospitalized for a “possible life-threatening medical issue” but additional information was not released.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) – A man in eastern Iowa faces up to 25 years in prison for using a weapon to rob a bank in July. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the northern district of Iowa says 45-year-old Brandon Brown of Monticello pled guilty Wednesday at a federal court in Cedar Rapids to armed bank robbery. Brown admitted he took more than $4,000 from an F&M Bank in Monticello.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Iowa has proposed no wage increases and removed health insurance provisions in a contract with the state’s largest public employees union. It’s a sign that changes could be on the horizon for Iowa’s collective bargaining laws next year. The contract released Wednesday by the Iowa Department of Administrative Services to the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Iowa Council 61 adds language that would give the state more control in determining health benefits.