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Iowa early News Headlines: Friday, 12/7/2018

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December 7th, 2018 by Ric Hanson

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

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — After a major provider agreed to stay in Iowa’s troubled Medicaid program, state officials quietly let its hospitals and clinics keep $2.4 million in mistaken overpayments. UnityPoint Health threatened to quit Iowa’s Medicaid program a year ago, which would have disrupted health care for 54,000 Medicaid recipients. But it reached an agreement to stay. Weeks later, the Iowa Department of Human Services signed a deal allowing UnityPoint to keep $2.4 million in overpayments for electronic records.

ORANGE CITY, Iowa (AP) — A northwestern Iowa religious activist who burned four LGBTQ children’s books he’d checked out of an Orange City library has been charged with misdemeanor criminal mischief. The Sioux City Journal reports 62-year-old Paul Dorr is scheduled to appear in court on Jan. 22.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a north-central Iowa woman who threw away her employer’s mail in an effort to avoid having her wages garnished has been sentenced to 90 days in prison. Prosecutors say 55-year-old Terri Cosgrove, of Badger, was sentenced Tuesday in Cedar Rapids’ federal court. She had pleaded guilty in August to one count of obstruction of correspondence.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police have announced an arrest in the September shooting death of a Des Moines man. Police Sgt. Paul Parizek says 28-year-old Tyrone Hughes Jr. was arrested Tuesday in Chicago by Des Moines detectives and members of the Chicago Police Fugitive Apprehension Unit. Police say he’s been charged with first-degree murder for the death of 28-year-old Aaron Ross.