Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CDT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court says the state had no legal responsibility to safeguard a 95-year-old woman who was raped by a violent sex offender placed in her nursing home after being released from state custody. The court ruling Friday upholds a lower court’s decision to dismiss the state from a lawsuit filed by the women’s children.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The former No. 2 administrator for University of Iowa athletics will square off against the school in a trial that centers on her claim that she suffered discrimination as a gay female who fought bias in college sports. The trial in a lawsuit brought by Jane Meyer, Iowa’s former senior associate athletic director, begins Monday. It i expected to litigate whether Athletic Director Gary Barta’s personnel decisions were necessary judgment calls or tainted by discrimination.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police in central Iowa say they’ve made an arrest in a shooting this week that killed one Des Moines man and left another injured. Police said Friday that 26-year-old Larry Deandre Ratliff Jr., of Des Moines, has been charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder, robbery and a weapons count in connection with the Tuesday shooting in the Beaverdale neighborhood. Police say 36-year-old Antonio Quinn died from his wounds; another man was injured.

STRATFORD, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a central Iowa medical helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing after hitting a bird. The Fort Dodge Messenger reports that the UnityPoint Health-Trinity Regional Medical Center air ambulance landed early Thursday morning in Hamilton County farm field. No one was hurt. Officials say the collision broke out the helicopter’s windshield.