Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:50 a.m. CDT

GEORGE, Iowa (AP) — The start of the school year at one northwestern Iowa school district has been delayed five days until Aug. 28 after a colony of bats was discovered in a second-floor high school office. George-Little Rock superintendent John Eyerly tells the Sioux City Journal that an electrician installing a new phone system during the first week of August found evidence of bats while in the school’s liaison officer’s office.

JOHNSTON, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Department of Public Safety is confirming that recruits at its basic training academy were treated last month for heat-related illness. Department spokesman Alex Dinkla said Thursday that two of 20 recruits needed medical treatment following academy activities. He said he believed they are trooper candidates and remain part of the academy, which started May 30 at Camp Dodge in Johnston and remains ongoing.

MUSCATINE, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a 14-year-old bicyclist died after she was struck by a car in eastern Iowa. The Des Moines Register reports that Raeanna M. Reynolds of Muscatine was riding her bicycle around 9 p.m. when a 1999 Ford Taurus hit her, throwing her bicycle into a ditch. Authorities identified the driver as 26-year-old Alexander Cortes-Wolfe, of Wapello.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa couple whose adopted baby was killed after his birth parents regained custody in 2014 has won a $3.25 million judgment in a lawsuit against their adoption lawyer. The Des Moines Register reports that Rachel and Heidi McFarland were awarded the judgment in a lawsuit against their attorney, Jason Rieper. The couple alleged that Rieper allowed them to believe he’d gotten the baby’s birth mother to sign a critical release-of-custody document when he had not done so.