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

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Meatpacking workers across the country have started receiving coronavirus vaccines and thousands more will have a chance to get their shots this week, offering some peace of mind in an industry that was ravaged by COVID-19 a year ago. Officials with the United Food and Commercial Workers union say interest in the vaccine is high among workers after the industry took a heavy toll from the virus. The major meatpacking companies — JBS, Cargill, Tyson Foods and Smithfield Foods — say a number of states plan to begin vaccinating meat plant workers this week, including in Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado and Kansas.

WINTERSET, Iowa (AP) — A 27-year-old Norwalk man is facing life in prison after being convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend in 2019. A Madison County jury convicted Jerome Moyer III on Friday in the death of 23-year-old Roseanna Otto. She was shot to death in her Winterset home in May 2019. Moyer was the father of two of Otto’s three children. Family members said their were several instances of domestic abuse during the relationship but he was charged only once. The family said Moyer shot Otto because he wanted to get back together with her but she refused.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police in Des Moines have identified a man fatally shot last week in the city’s first homicide of the year. The Des Moines Police Department said Monday in a news release that 52-year-old Darrell Merriwether, of Clive, died early Saturday after being shot late Friday night in a residential area several blocks southeast of Drake University. Police say officers and firefighters called to the scene found Merriwether around 11:20 p.m. Friday with gunshot wound and rushed him to a local hospital, where he later died. Police did not announce any arrests or suspects in the Monday release.

MARENGO, Iowa (AP) — The Pride of Iowa sandwich-making facility in east-central Iowa has been destroyed in a fire. Television station KCRG reports that firefighters were called to the plant in Marengo around 9 p.m. Saturday for the fire. Officials say the facility was closed and that no one was working in the building at the time of the fire. No injuries were reported. Fire officials say crews were able to salvage one freezer, but the rest of the plant was destroyed. The Pride of Iowa makes sandwiches for sale in vending machines and at convenience stores.