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Iowa early News Headlines: Saturday, 2/10/18

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February 10th, 2018 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:00-a.m. CST

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — The Pottawattamie County attorney says an investigation has found a Council Bluffs police officer was justified in shooting a suspect. The Daily Nonpareil reports County Attorney Matt Wilber joined with other law enforcement officials Friday to announce officer Trevor Benson’s actions in the Feb. 1 shooting were justified. Benson shot 21-year-old Daton Petrey, of Omaha, during an early morning altercation. Petrey will be released from a hospital soon and will face charges.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Jurors have convicted one person and acquitted another in a 2016 Waterloo shooting that left one man dead and others wounded. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports jurors Friday found 17-year-old Doncorrion Spates guilty of murder, attempted murder and intimidation with a weapon. Jurors acquitted 22-year-old Shavondes Martin of murder and other counts against him. The jury was still deliberating in the case of 18-year-old Armand Rollins Jr., who also is charged with murder.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Magazine and broadcasting company Meredith says it’s closing a customer service center in Tampa, Florida, as it integrates the operations of Time Inc., which it acquired last week. Meredith spokeswoman Jenny McCoy says 600 Time workers will lose their jobs as the company switches customer service and renewal processes for Time’s magazines to CDS Global, a company providing similar services to Meredith’s existing publications. CDS is based in Meredith’s hometown of Des Moines, Iowa.

CHICAGO (AP) — Police counted up 16 semitrailers among 38 vehicles involved in a chain-reaction crash amid heavy snowfall that blocked Interstate 94 in southwestern Michigan for several hours. Michigan State Police say no one was seriously hurt in the Friday afternoon pileup in the highway’s eastbound lanes just east of Kalamazoo. The crashes started to happen as emergency crews were working to remove a jack-knifed semi from the highway.