CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A former manager at an Iowa-based halal food supplier has been given three years’ probation for conspiring to export misbranded beef products overseas. Fifty-year-old Philip Payne of Ryan, Iowa, was sentenced on Thursday. Prosecutors say that between April 2007 and December 2009, Payne conspired with others at Midamar Corporation to mislead regulators and customers about the source of its beef products and the level of adherence to halal standards.

DAYTON, Iowa (AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of a man found in a motor home in Webster County. Sheriff James Stubbs says an autopsy report shows 55-year-old Roger Brown died of a gunshot wound. He was found in his home in Dayton on Wednesday.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A Marion man has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for wire fraud. Thirty-three-year-old Jeremy Murphy was also ordered to repay more than $187,000 to his former employer’s insurance companies. As part of a plea deal, Murphy admitted that he made fraudulent charges on a company credit card from April 2013 through August 2014.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — A Waterloo man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the death of a 17-year-old girl who was shot in his grandmother’s home. Nineteen-year-old Quaderious Spates pleaded guilty last month to charges of involuntary manslaughter, trafficking stolen weapons and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Authorities say Spates and Jazzmine Rembert were in the basement of the home last October when Rembert was shot in the head.