Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

LIME CITY, Iowa (AP) — Two men from Muscatine have been killed in an accident along Interstate 80 in eastern Iowa’s Cedar County. The accident occurred around 4:30 a.m. Sunday. The Iowa State Patrol says a semitrailer was legally parked on the south shoulder of the eastbound lanes when it was struck in the rear by a car. The driver was identified as 20-year-old Gregorio Tapia. His passenger was identified as 19-year-old Anthony Nunez.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An eastern Iowa man accused of torturing his roommate’s cat last year has been given probation. Ywenty-one-year-old Leo Nopoulos, of West Liberty, was sentenced to two years of probation under supervision on charges of animal torture and animal abuse. He also received 30 days in jail on a separate drunken driving charge from an arrest in May.

NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — A former Iowa newspaper editor who said he was fired for expressing his religious beliefs on a personal blog has reached a settlement over a discrimination complaint. Liberty Institute, a nonprofit legal group, says its client, Bob Eschliman, and Dixon, Illinois-based Shaw Media Inc. reached a confidential settlement over Eschliman’s termination in May 2014 from the Newton Daily News. Eschliman was editor when he posted online that gay organizations are trying to reword the Bible “to make their sinful nature ‘right with God.'”

MOSCOW, Iowa (AP) — About 100 people gathered at a family cemetery this weekend in Iowa as part of an annual family reunion. Jeff Kaufmann, a former state legislator and current chairman of the state’s Republican Party, was the chief organizer of the reunion, which began in 1916. His great-great-great grandparents, Gottlieb and Dorothea E. Kaufmann, arrived in America from Germany in 1847 with 13 family members. Relatives gathered on Saturday in the Kaufmann Family Cemetery, which is just north of Moscow.