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Iowa early News Headlines: Tuesday, 7/24/18

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July 24th, 2018 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:47 a.m. CDT

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A University of Iowa football player faces a public intoxication charge after police say he drunkenly mistook a police car for an Uber. University police say 22-year-old Brady Reiff was arrested in Iowa City around 2 a.m. Saturday. According to police records, Reiff tried to open the front and rear doors of the parked cruiser. An officer says when he asked Reiff what he was doing, Reiff told him he was looking for a ride.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The corn and soybean crops in Iowa and Nebraska are significantly ahead of schedule and looking very good for a plentiful harvest this fall. The U.S. Department of Agriculture in its weekly crop progress report says Nebraska corn is rated 87 percent good to excellent and in Iowa its 79 percent good to excellent. Soybeans are 85 percent good to excellent in Nebraska and 76 percent in Iowa. The crops are significantly ahead in development in both states.

BROOKLYN, Iowa (AP) — Relatives, friends and law enforcement are looking for a University of Iowa student who went missing from her hometown in central Iowa. Authorities say 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts was reported missing Thursday. The Poweshiek County Sheriff’s Office said Monday that Tibbetts had not been found. Posters placed around town have one word across the center: Missing. Searchers have focused on fields between her home and where she was dog sitting.

JOHNSTON, Iowa (AP) — The National Weather Service has raised its count of tornadoes in the flurry that struck central Iowa. The service says a dozen or more occurred Thursday, with three accounting for 17 injuries and significant damage in Bondurant, Marshalltown and Pella. The Bondurant tornado was rated an EF2 with estimated peak winds of 115 mph. The twisters that struck Marshalltown and Pella were rated EF3 with peak winds estimated at 144 mph.