Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 5:30 a.m. CDT

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — It took more than six decades, but the first black student to be named Miss State University of Iowa in 1955 has received official recognition _ and an apology _ from the university. The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports that 78-year-old Dora Martin Berry was 17 when her fellow students elected her in the annual contest. But university officials at the time denied Berry representation as Miss SUI at official school events, including that year’s Rose Bowl parade.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The family of a Des Moines woman who died of a prescription-drug overdose is appealing a judge’s rejection of their motion seeking to name the doctor’s former health system as defendants. The Des Moines Register reports that Brandy Stoutenberg’s relatives originally blamed Dr. Daniel Baldi for her 2010 death, but their lawsuit against him dismissed last month, nearly two years after Baldi was acquitted of criminal charges in Stoutenberg’s and others’ deaths.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A Harlan man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for possessing child pornography. The Daily Nonpareil reports that 55-year-old Michael Charles Garreans pleaded guilty to the charge on June 9. Prosecutors say a site monitored by law enforcement identified Garreans before a search of his home in Harlan was conducted. U.S. Attorney Kevin VanderSchel says officers found a computer in Garreans’ home that contained ‘hundreds of images of child pornography.’

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A former Nebraska jail employee has been found guilty in western Iowa of child sex and pornography counts. The Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil reports that a Pottawattamie County jury found Shawn Beu guilty Friday on all 10 counts related his sexual abuse and video recording of young girls. Beu, who lives in Council Bluffs, was a corrections sergeant at the Douglas County Jail in Omaha when he was arrested in March.