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Iowa early News Headlines: Wednesday, April 10, 2019

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April 10th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

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

GRINNELL, Iowa (AP) — Young voters, many of whom reside in delegate-rich areas of the state and can be powerful multiplying forces if they’re engaged enough to convince friends and family members to show up and support their candidates, could be a major force in this cycle’s Iowa caucuses. So the Democratic presidential candidates are already making an early effort to court this voting bloc and get students to turn out to caucus this fall.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Des Moines woman faces up to 35 years in prison when she’s sentenced in May for hitting and killing a pedestrian while she was driving drunk. The Des Moines Register reports that 23-year-old Oleaf Teoh was found guilty Friday of vehicular homicide by operating while intoxicated and vehicular homicide by reckless driving in the February 2018 death of 33-year-old Matthew Otto, of Des Moines.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Plains and Midwest states are bracing for another massive winter storm and the prospect of renewed flooding. The National Weather Service says the storm moving east out of the northern Rockies Wednesday and Thursday will pack heavy snow and strong winds. It brings the specter of renewed flooding to a part of the country where massive flooding over the past month has caused billions of dollars in damage, though rivers aren’t likely to rise as much as they did last month.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa social worker has been charged with perjury for giving false testimony in a court proceeding in which a judge removed four children from their parents. Criminal complaints allege that former Department of Human Services case manager Chelsie Gray lied repeatedly during a 2017 hearing in which she recommended a judge terminate the parental rights of a mother and father and be placed in foster care. Gray was arrested and released from jail on bond.