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Iowa early News Headlines: Thursday, May 23rd 2019

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May 23rd, 2019 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:35 a.m. CDT

OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) — Iowa prison officials say an inmate from Wapello County serving time for sexual abuse has died of natural causes. The Iowa Department of Corrections said in a news release that 74-year-old Albert Lemoine Collins died Wednesday at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. He was hospitalized for what the department described as a chronic illness.

FOREST CITY, Iowa (AP) — A former NFL defensive lineman who is now a county supervisor in Iowa faces misdemeanor charges after police say he showed up drunk and armed with a pistol at a daytime board meeting. The Mason City Globe-Gazette reports that police were called to the Winnebago County Courthouse after Tuesday’s meeting. Police say an officer determined Mike Stensrud was drunk and had a pistol in his pocket.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An armed robbery suspect shot this month by Iowa City police had been released from jail days earlier, despite probation violations that could have kept him locked up. An Associated Press review has found that within hours of bonding out of jail on charges of assaulting a police officer, authorities say Michael Cintron Caceres robbed an Iowa City gas station at knifepoint early May 7. They say he burglarized other businesses two days later before he was shot after fleeing from officers.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has vetoed a measure that Republican lawmakers pushed through in the final days of the legislative session to stop the state’s Democratic attorney general from filing or joining lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump’s policies. The measure Reynolds vetoed Wednesday was targeted at stopping Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller from joining multi-state lawsuits filed against the federal government. Republicans argued Miller had sued Trump too much.