Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — As time runs short in the competitive Iowa Senate race, Democrats are trying to tarnish the centerpiece of Republican Joni Ernst’s successful Senate campaign — her appealing image as a down-to-earth farm girl. Ernst, a state lawmaker and lieutenant colonel in the Iowa National Guard, is running against Democratic Congressman Bruce Braley.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Agriculture ministers from West African nations at the center of the Ebola epidemic say only money and global coordination will keep the health care crisis from becoming a food emergency. In Sierra Leone, where thousands are infected and more than 900 have died, 40 percent of the nation’s farmers have abandoned their fields. The officials made the remarks Wednesday at the World Food Prize Foundation annual meeting in Des Moines.

SWISHER, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say they’re investigating an officer-involved shooting after police chase in eastern Iowa. The state Department of Public Safety says deputies with the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office responded Monday to a report of a suicidal man. They identified him as 32-year-old Bradley Wayne McNeese. He is now being treated in an Iowa City hospital.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police say a woman has been fatally stabbed at a Des Moines apartment building. Sgt. Jason Halifax with the Des Moines Police Department tells the Register the woman was found wounded in the torso Wednesday afternoon in the office of an apartment building on the city’s east side.