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Iowa early News Headlines: Sunday, April 8 2018

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April 8th, 2018 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 4:35 a.m. CDT

ADEL, Iowa (AP) — The adoptive grandmother of a central Iowa teenager who starved to death has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after admitting she didn’t seek medical attention for the dying girl. Sixty-three-year-old Carla Bousman, of Perry, was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty to neglect of a dependent person and six other charges in the May 2017 death of 16-year-old Sabrina Ray. Bousman also admitted that she locked Sabrina’s two sisters in a room with the girl as she was dying.

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — An eastern Iowa woman is facing charges that she took $71,000 from the company where she worked as a part-time bookkeeper. The Scott County Sheriff’s Department says 42-year-old Jennifer Michele Farmer-Thiesen is charged with an ongoing criminal activity and first-degree theft, both felonies. Deputy Eric Roloff says in an arrest affidavit that from June 2015 to December 2017, Farmer-Thiesen used her company’s credit cards to make personal purchases totaling $71,000.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Police are investigating a report of a sexual assault at Iowa State University. Deputy Chief Carrie Jacobs says a woman reported the assault to campus police Thursday evening but further details were not immediately available. Jacobs says the woman is not a student and it’s unclear if she was assaulted on or off campus.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — The owners of a former Sioux City riverboat casino have agreed to pay $1.5 million to a nonprofit group that had filed a lawsuit over unpaid revenue-sharing funds. The Sioux City Journal reports that the Community Action Agency of Siouxland and the Belle of Sioux City reached a settlement last month. Belle operated the Argosy Sioux City riverboat casino.