COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Iowa public health officials have confirmed the first case of West Nile virus this year. A woman from Ringgold County is recovering from the illness.

SOLON, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a girl who drowned while swimming at Lake Macbride beach in Eastern Iowa was on a field trip with 25 other children from a Cedar Rapids child care center. The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office tells the Press Citizen 6-year-old Alaina Joy Hauskins was with Kids Kampus Learning Center Thursday on an annual trip to the beach, part of a 2,000-acre state park 16 miles north of Iowa City, when she drowned.

ATLANTA (AP) —Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker will have more than 5 minutes and forty five seconds to address GOP voters on Saturday. Unlike Thursday’s nationally televised Fox News debates that divided the 17-candidate field into two groups on crowded stages, Saturday’s RedState Gathering in Atlanta, Georgia offers several of those seeking the Republican nomination a half-hour all to themselves. Noticeably absent from the event will be Donald Trump. RedState’s Erick Erickson says he withdrew Trump’s invitation because of a comment Trump made Thursday evening about Fox News debate moderator Megyn Kelly.

ATLANTA (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina is looking to parlay a standout debate performance into serious campaign momentum. The former Hewlett-Packard executive reminded 1,000 conservative activists at the RedState Gathering in Atlanta yesterday that several recent presidents were once dismissed as underdogs.