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Iowa News Headlines: Saturday, Oct. 1st 2016

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October 1st, 2016 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A powerful University of Iowa administrator who has helped build its sprawling health care enterprise has announced plans to step down. Jean Robillard says he will soon resign his role in which he serves as dean of the medical school and top administrator for the school’s hospital and clinics system.

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — One of three men charged in the stabbing and beating death of a 29-year-old man this summer Romane Nunn Sr., has pleaded not guilty. The Quad-City Times reports that 45-year-old Terrell Bloch, of Davenport, waived his right to a formal arraignment Thursday and filed his plea through his attorney. He and two others, 42-year-old William Crawford and 34-year-old Durell Parks Jr., are charged with first-degree murder and willful injury in the Aug. 18 death of Romane Nunn Sr.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Police are looking for suspects in the overnight fatal stabbing of an 18-year-old man in Cedar Rapids. Police say in a written release that officers were called to a southern Cedar Rapids neighborhood just after 2 a.m. Friday and found the man with a stab wound. The teen was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Authorities have not yet released his name.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Des Moines authorities have released the name of a woman whose body was found in a parked minivan. Police identified the woman as 49-year-old Angela Eubanks, who lived in Waukee. The body was reported Thursday morning. Police say an autopsy found no evidence of traumatic injury and that toxicology tests are being run. The investigation is continuing.