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Iowa early News Headlines: Saturday, 6/9/18

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June 9th, 2018 by Ric Hanson

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

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Board of Regents has announced that one of its members has resigned. Dr. Subhash Sahai resigned Friday, with less than a year before his term was set to expire. The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports that Sahai was appointed to his seat in 2013. His term was set to expire April 30. Sahai is currently the medical director of the Van Diest Family Health Clinic in Webster City. No reason was given for Sahai’s resignation in the board’s news release announcing it.

MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) — Police in the northern Iowa’s Mason City say two apartment complexes near an overflowing creek have been evacuated. Police say the decision to evacuate Autumn Park and Chelsea Creek apartment complexes on Friday came after nearly 6 inches of rain fell in the area, swelling nearby Chelsea Creek. Police said the creek’s water levels were slowly receding Friday, but that the threat of more rain later Friday and Saturday still posed a flooding threat.

ESTHERVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Police in northwestern Iowa are investigating the death of an infant from Estherville. Estherville police said Friday that 11-month-old Jasmine Rodriguez Sebastian died Wednesday at a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, hospital, two days after she was taken there for undisclosed reasons. Estherville police, the Emmet County Attorney’s Office, the Iowa Department of Human Services and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation are investigating the girl’s death.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police say that body found on a Des Moines sidewalk was that of a 17-year-old boy. Police identified him as Tyrese Parson, who lived in Des Moines. The body was found early Friday morning. Police say he’d been shot and that the case is being investigated as a homicide. No arrests have been reported.