Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

FORT MADISON, Iowa (AP) – Officials say several staffers at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison required medical attention after an inmate allegedly attacked one of them. The incident occurred Monday morning. Officials say an inmate attacked a correctional officer after the inmate failed to follow orders from the officer. Two officers were sent to a local hospital for evaluation. Two other officers were seen by medical staff at the prison.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) – Iowa’s executive branch is acknowledging that it erroneously disqualified dozens of former employees from jobs at its 42 agencies. The Department of Administrative Services says a review identified roughly 90 people who should not have been on a list of workers facing employment bans due to previous firings or forced resignations. Attorneys representing former workers have filed a proposed class-action lawsuit contending the state kept an illegal blacklist.

MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) – A northern Iowa man has been given jail time after his minor son tested positive to marijuana exposure. Twenty-five-year-old Nathaniel James Gabrielson, of St. Ansgar, was recently sentenced to a year in jail, with all but 50 days suspended. He was also given two years of probation. Gabrielson pleaded guilty to an aggravated misdemeanor of child endangerment without injury.

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) – An Iowa judge has upheld a life in prison without parole sentence for a man convicted of murder when he was a juvenile. Scott County District Judge Joel W. Barrows decided to keep the sentence for Romeo Hardin, based on Hardin’s lack of remorse and his behavior in prison. Hardin was 16 when he was convicted of first-degree murder in the 1996 shooting death of Augustus “Gus” Nance in Davenport.