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Iowa early News Headlines: Friday, Jan. 29 2021

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January 29th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

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

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A 38-year-old Sioux City man who was impaired and texting on his cellphone before he hit a bicyclist who later died has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. Edy Guevara was sentenced after pleading guilty Tuesday to vehicular homicide and operating while intoxicated. Prosecutors said Guevara hit 64-year-old Charles Fluharty on his bicycle in June 2019. Fluharty, who was dragged about 66 feet, died a week later. Guevara also must pay $150,000 in restitution to Fluharty’s estate. Court documents say Guevara told investigators he was texting on his phone when he hit Fluharty.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — A 23-year-old Missouri woman has been sentenced to five to 20 years in prison for her role in a stabbing death in Nebraska. Krystal Martin, of Hawk Point, Missouri, was sentenced Thursday after pleading no contest to being an accessory in the June 26, 2018, death of Brent Quigley during a robbery at his home in Bellevue. Martin and her boyfriend, Raymond Davis, of Des Moines, Iowa, fled to Chicago before being arrested in Troy, Missouri. Davis will be sentenced next month after he was found guilty of first-degree murder and two other counts in Quigley’s death. Three other people also were charged in the case.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A announcement of a second positive case of coronavirus at the Iowa Capitol on Thursday again raised the issue of safety in the building. Iowa House Chief Clerk Meghan Nelson says a person associated with the House tested positive on Wednesday. It is the second positive coronavirus test in the building since lawmakers convened more than two weeks ago. Democrats have complained daily that Republican leaders refuse to initiate a mask mandate in the building. House Speaker Pat Grassley says leaders have done what is needed to ensure a safe work environment.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Officials say an Iowa prisoner serving a life sentence for the January 2003 shooting death of his wife has died after contracting COVID-19. The Iowa Department of Corrections says in a news release that 89-year-old Harold Duncan died Tuesday from complications from the virus and other pre-existing medical conditions. The department says Duncan was in a hospice room at the Iowa Medical Classification Center in Coralville at the time his death. Duncan was 72 when he was convicted of first-degree murder for shooting and killing his wife, 62-year-old Karen “Kay” Duncan. Authorities said Duncan then turned the gun on himself in an unsuccessful suicide attempt.