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Iowa early News Headlines: Sunday, Jan. 28th 2018

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January 28th, 2018 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 4:55 a.m. CST

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Trial has been delayed for a Cedar Rapids teen accused of killing a man and injuring another teen in a 2016 shooting. Television station KCRG reports that 17-year-old Kenyauta Vesey-Keith is being tried as an adult on charges of first-degree murder, attempted murder, willful injury causing serious injury and intimidation with a dangerous weapon. Prosecutors say Vesey-Keith shot 21-year-old Brandon Johnson and a 16-year-old boy in March 2016. Johnson died from his injuries.

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — A central Iowa city could welcome a new outdoor pickleball complex later this year. The Cedar Falls City Council has approved a project for new pickleball courts at Orchard Hill Park that will be financed with public and private money. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that the Cedar Falls Pickleball Club and locals fundraised to move the project up to this summer.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A $1.25 million lawsuit has been filed in U.S. District Court in Omaha over the construction of the Omaha National Cemetery. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that Seedorff Masonry Inc. of Strawberry Point, Iowa, has sued a Chicago construction company and the project’s insurer over what it says is $1.25 million in unpaid bills.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Dozens of tissue samples from hunted deer in Iowa have been turned over to be tested for chronic wasting disease. The samples are part of a nine-day collection effort by deer hunters and state officials that ends Sunday. The first weekend of the effort in Allamakee and Clayton counties provided 54 samples. Chronic wasting disease is a neurologic disease of deer, moose and elk that is always fatal for the animals.