Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s auditor is calling on other state officials to join him in refusing to pay appeal costs in a lawsuit filed against former Gov. Terry Branstad, who was found by a jury to have discriminated against a former state official. Auditor Rob Sand says in a letter to the Iowa Executive Council he plans to vote against any appeal costs in the lawsuit filed by former Iowa Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Chris Godfrey against Branstad.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Des Moines group is announcing preliminary plans for a public market at the downtown site of a high-profile but struggling arts organization. The group, which includes business organizations, the city of Des Moines, Polk County and Drake University, announced Wednesday it would study how to turn the Des Moines Social Club’s building into a public market featuring food, art, entertainment and educational programs. For decades, the building was headquarters for the Des Moines Fire Department.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The FBI has named a 20-year veteran of the bureau as the new special agent in charge of the Omaha Field Office, overseeing Nebraska and Iowa. A news release Wednesday from the FBI named Kristi Koons Johnson as the new special agent in charge of the two-state office. She had been serving as chief of a section that investigates transnational criminal organizations at FBI Headquarters in Washington.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Police in eastern Iowa say they’ve arrested a woman suspected of being an accessory after the fact in the May shooting deaths of two teens in Cedar Rapids. The Des Moines Register reports that 24-year-old Alexandra Lanee Nicole Smith was arrested Monday on the charge. Police say Smith helped a man charged in the May 18 shooting deaths of Matrell Johnson and Royal Abram, both 18, outside the Iowa Smoke Shop in Cedar Rapids.