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Iowa early News Headlines: Thursday, March 7, 2019

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March 7th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:50 a.m. CST

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Storm Lake man has pleaded guilty to one count of receiving child pornography. Federal prosecutors say 49-year-old James Gailey was convicted after pleading guilty on Monday to the single count. At his plea hearing in Sioux City, Gailey admitted that in October 2017 and January 2018, he received child pornography online. Prosecutors say the images included victims as young as infants and toddlers.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Federal prosecutors in Iowa have announced the indictments of six people suspected of having stolen various opioids from nursing homes where they had worked. The indictments were announced in a news release Wednesday. All are charged with acquiring a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud, deception, and subterfuge.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa lawmaker is accusing the administration of Gov. Kim Reynolds and the director of the state’s human resources agency of “fostering a culture of secrecy in state government” for refusing to release information on the number of sexual harassment cases filed within state agencies in recent years. Democratic Rep. Amy Nielsen said she’s received a bureaucratic runaround in her attempts to get data on the number of cases from Department of Administrative Services Director Janet Phipps.

FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) — Authorities in north-central Iowa say a Fort Dodge police officer was found unresponsive in his squad car after handling a suspected opioid and had to be revived. The Fort Dodge Police Department has released police body camera video of the officer being pulled from the squad car on Sunday, placed on a gurney and loaded into the back of an ambulance. Police believe the substance the officer handled was a form of fentanyl, a powerful opioid that is fueling a national epidemic of fatal overdoses.