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March 8th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

Urbandale police say an infant has died after being found unresponsive at an in-home daycare. The Urbandale Police Department say officers and fire crews were dispatched to an in-home daycare on a report of an unresponsive infant. The child died at a local hospital. Police did not provide details on how the infant died.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Attorneys for an anti-abortion group who successfully challenged part of an Iowa campaign finance disclosure law will be reimbursed nearly $300,000 by taxpayers. The State Appeals Board agreed to the payout of legal fees to Iowa Right to Life, which had been ordered last month by a federal judge. The Bopp Law Firm of Terre Haute, Indiana will receive $271,000 while Des Moines-based BrownWinick will get $28,000.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A lawsuit filed Monday accuses Iowa athletic director Gary Barta of unfairly removing female coaches and the top women’s sports administrator during a tenure marked by gender bias. The lawsuit by fired women’s field hockey coach Tracey Griesbaum asks a judge to order her reinstatement and to require the university to take steps to ensure female coaches are treated the same as their male counterparts. It alleges that six female coaches and the department’s most powerful female administrator, Jane Meyer, have been forced out under Barta.

DECORAH, Iowa (AP) — Prosecutors in a former Boone man’s murder trial called a rebuttal witness Monday as the trial entered its third week. A doctor who performed an autopsy on Emily Fazzino’s body after she was found dead in her home testified Monday for a second time in Winneshiek County court. Alexander Fazzino is charged with first-degree murder in the January 2012 death.