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

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — In Iowa, one of the whitest states in the nation, black Democrats are more energized than they’ve been since Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign and poised to make a mark on 2020. Driven by dissatisfaction with President Donald Trump, they could make a difference in a state that chooses its primary candidate via a caucus, which, unlike an open primary, attracts only the most motivated voters.

GLENWOOD, Iowa (AP) — A former western Iowa art teacher and track coach accused of groping and having other sexual contact with a female student has been convicted of two counts. Prosecutors in Mills County say a jury convicted 40-year-old Christopher Lee Irvin, of Pacific Junction, on Friday of third-degree sexual abuse and sexual exploitation by a school employee. Irvin is being held without bond until his sentencing at a later date, when he faces up to 12 years in prison.

NEBRASKA CITY, Neb. (AP) — Only weeks after reopening in the wake of historic flooding along the Missouri River in March, Interstate 29 on and off ramps for Highway 2 in southwest Iowa have again closed due to flooding. Highway 2 connects southwest Iowa to Nebraska City, Nebraska, over the Missouri River. The Omaha World-Herald reports that as of Saturday morning, floodwater was covering the ramps to the highway from I-29.

SALIX, Iowa – DNR Conservation Officers responded to a boating incident that left two people with serious injuries on Saturday, May 25 at Brown’s Lake just before 4:00pm.

Two tubers, 17-year old Adreanna Hamman, of Sioux City, and 39-year old Bernard Jon Baker (B.J. Baker), of Lawton, were being pulled behind a boat driven by 29-year old Nicole Baker, when the tube struck a stationary boat causing serious injury to both tubers.

Both Hamman and Baker were taken to a Sioux City hospital. Hamman has since been transferred to an Omaha hospital and has undergone surgery and is in stable condition.  Baker is still at a Sioux City Hospital and is currently stabilized.

Alcohol and drugs were not a factor in the crash. All safety equipment was in place on the boat during the crash and the tubers were wearing personal flotation devices when the crash occurred. Charges are pending.

Woodbury County Conservation, Woodbury County Sheriff’s Department, and the Iowa State Patrol assisted the Iowa DNR with the investigation.

CORALVILLE, Iowa – Iowa DNR Conservation Officers responded to a diving rock on the Coralville Reservoir Saturday, around 4:30-p.m., where a group of approximately 15 teenagers were gathered and one had been rescued after jumping into the water and nearly drowning.

A passerby boat noticed a male that could not swim and was struggling to stay above the water and stopped to rescue the male. The male was transported to a local hospital once the DNR and Johnson County Sheriff’s Office arrived.

A DNR Conservation Officer charged a 14 year old female after the officer found drug paraphernalia. It is against Army Corps of Engineers rules to jump off the rock into the water.

Pottawattamie County Sheriff Jeff Danker reports a Nebraska man involved in a motorcycle accident this weekend, has died from his injuries. Deputies responded at around 6-p.m. Saturday, May 25th, to Old Lincoln Highway near the intersection with Teal Lane for a motorcycle accident.

Upon arrival, deputies located the driver, 68-year old Paul Lund, of Omaha, suffering from serious injuries. Lund was transported by helicopter to a local area hospital.  Mr. Lund was later pronounced dead.

Authorities determined Lund was southbound on Old Lincoln Highway on a 2003 Indian motorcycle, when near the intersection with Teal Lane, he lost control of his machine. No one else was on board the cycle.

GLENWOOD, Iowa (AP) — A former western Iowa art teacher and track coach accused of groping and having other sexual contact with a female student has been convicted of two counts.

Prosecutors in Mills County say a jury convicted 40-year-old Christopher Lee Irvin, of Pacific Junction, on Friday of third-degree sexual abuse and sexual exploitation by a school employee. Irvin is being held without bond until his sentencing at a later date, when he faces up to 12 years in prison.

A girl reported that Irvin groped her earlier last summer and had other sexual contact with her earlier in the year. The criminal complaints say the incidents did not occur on school property.

Irvin had worked for the East Mills School District in western Iowa.

The Taylor County Sheriff’s Office reports a Washington State man was arrested Saturday on an escape charge. 22-year old John Walker, of Goldendale, WA, was arrested in the 200 block of Pearl Street in Bedford, on a active warrant from the Washington State Department of Corrections, for Escape from Custody on an original charge of Possession of a Controlled Substance.

Walker was being held at the Taylor County Sheriff’s Office until he is extradited to the state of Washington.