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

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for causing recurring flooding that damaged farms and property in four Midwest states along the Missouri River. The ruling Tuesday in Washington says the government must compensate farmers, landowners and business owners for the flood damage in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska. The damage has been estimated to exceed $300 million.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A legislative aide to the former Republican majority leader of the Iowa Senate is leaving his job, one day after his boss resigned for kissing a Statehouse lobbyist. Senior Senate Aide Ed Failor, who reported to Senate Majority Leader Bill Dix, announced his resignation late Tuesday afternoon. Failor’s exit is effective immediately. Failor tells The Associated Press he didn’t want to be a “distraction” as Senate Republicans elect a new leader Wednesday to replace Dix.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A judge has ordered an Iowa youth basketball coach jailed on a federal child pornography charge until a detention hearing Thursday. Greg Stephen, until recently the co-director of the Iowa Barnstormers, was handcuffed and shackled during an initial court appearance Tuesday afternoon in Cedar Rapids. Stephen was arrested by the FBI earlier in the day. Investigators say he confessed to secretly recording three adolescent players disrobing.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A judge has denied the appeal for reinstatement of a former Polk County sheriff sergeant fired for insubordination and gender bias. The Des Moines Register reports says Polk County District Judge Paul Scott ruled Friday that former Sgt. Dan Charleston failed to show that a county commission wrongly affirmed Sheriff Bill McCarthy’s decision to fire Charleston last year. Charleston was accused of giving preferential treatment to male subordinates and of gender bias, and he was fired June 23.