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Iowa early News Headlines: Thursday, Aug. 25th 2016

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August 25th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 4:40 a.m. CDT

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) – Law enforcement officials have charged a man shot last month by police with assaulting a peace officer and criminal mischief. The Scott County Sheriff’s Office announced the charges Wednesday against 19-year-old Rodricco Radell Parks Jr., of Davenport. The office says the charges were brought after the department and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation had concluded their investigation into the July 19 officer-involved shooting.

DECORAH, Iowa (AP) – Heavy overnight rain in northeast Iowa claimed the life of at least one person and forced evacuations and school closures as it washed out roads in and around several communities. The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings Wednesday for several northeast Iowa counties. Nearly 8 1/2 inches of rain fell about five miles from Decorah and more than 5 1/2 inches three miles south of Dorchester.

HAMBURG, Iowa (AP) – The body of a man who was swept beneath a Missouri River barge near Hamburg, Iowa, has been recovered from the river just south of the state border in Missouri. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says the body of 42-year-old Jason Grayson was recovered Wednesday downstream from Hamburg. Grayson, of Elliot, Iowa, had been missing since Sunday, when the boat he was in lost power and was swept under a barge moored to the bank of the Missouri River.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – An Iowa prosecutor wants a judge to issue subpoenas for telephone and bank records of two Texas attorneys who believes are connected to a former lottery computer security administrator who fixed lottery games in several states. Assistant Iowa Attorney General Rob Sand filed documents Tuesday in the cases of Eddie Tipton and his brother, Tommy Tipton, a former justice of the peace in Flatonia, Texas.