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Iowa early News Headlines: Thursday, 9/20/2018

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September 20th, 2018 by Ric Hanson

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

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Teammates and others who knew an Iowa State University student-athlete who was killed this week while playing golf near the campus shared stories about her and lit candles in her memory. The vigil Wednesday evening to remember 22-year-old Celia Barquin Arozamena drew a large crowd to the Ames campus. Several speakers, including women’s golf coach Christie Martens, talked about the star golfer from Spain. Barquin, an engineering student, was the Big 12 women’s golf champion this year.

NEW YORK (AP) — Even as the White House has seized on crimes committed by those living in the U.S. illegally as proof of the need for an immigration crackdown, agents are increasingly apprehending people with no criminal records at all. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests of noncriminals soared 66 percent in the first nine months of this fiscal year over the same period a year earlier, while apprehensions of criminals have gone up only 2 percent.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Despite criticism by Democrats of Gov. Kim Reynolds for taking campaign contributions from a company that provides Medicaid services, records show two Democratic leaders also accepted money from such companies. The Des Moines Register reports Rep. Mark Smith of Marshalltown accepted multiple campaign contribution from Medicaid vendors, as Sen. Janet Petersen of Des Moines.

MERRILL, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a young child has been killed in a crash in northwestern Iowa. The Sioux City Journal reports that 6-year-old Ayaan Ibrahn died in the Monday night crash at the intersection of Highway 75 and a city street in Merrill. The Iowa State Patrol says the child was in a southbound SUV driven by 38-year-old Mohamed Abdullahi-Mohamud, of Sioux City, when it went onto the highway shoulder, overcorrected and went into the northbound lanes, hitting a pickup truck nearly head-on.