Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:45 a.m. CDT

RED OAK, Iowa (AP) — Red Oak police have charged a man in the death of another man whose body was found near a street in the southwest Iowa city. Police found the body of 27-year-old Devin Alexander Davis about 4:15 a.m. Wednesday. They later determined he’d been killed by a single gunshot. Red Oak police say in a news release that investigators determined 39-year-old Kevin Duane Staley and Davis had a confrontation earlier Wednesday, leading to the shooting. Police charged Staley with voluntary manslaughter.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s prisons agency has fired a judge over a ruling in which she dismissed sanctions against an inmate because the meaning of a two-letter acronym was unclear to her in a report. The firing of Administrative Law Judge Renee Sneitzer has prompted her to allege retaliation and discrimination, and renewed questions about the independence of judges who work for the Department of Corrections. The department says she should have sent the report back for clarification rather than dismissing the case.

NASHUA, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say an 8-year-old boy was hit by a stray bullet while visiting an apple orchard with his parents in northeast Iowa. The sheriff in Chickasaw County says the boy is hospitalized in stable condition, though details about his condition haven’t been released. The sheriff says the bullet was fired Sunday at a shooting range less than a mile from the orchard. He tells the Charles City Press the shooting was a “freak accident” and isn’t being investigated as a crime.

CORRECTIONVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a woman has died after her vehicle was rear-ended on a northwest Iowa road and pushed into the path of a school bus. The Sioux City Journal reports 68-year-old Linda Zahnley, of Correctionville, died in the Tuesday afternoon crash on state Highway 31. The Woodbury County Sheriff’s Office says Zahnley was stopped, waiting to turn east when her sports utility vehicle was rear-ended by a pickup truck. The crash pushed the SUV into the path of an oncoming River Valley school bus.