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Iowa early News Headlines: Monday, 11/13/17

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November 13th, 2017 by Ric Hanson

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

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A top official for Senate Republicans in the Iowa Legislature says an investigation into alleged sexual harassment within the office is complete, but there will be no report about it and no information will be shared with the public. Ed Failor, senior aide to Senate Majority Leader Bill Dix, told The Associated Press that additional information cannot be shared publicly because it’s a personnel issue.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa Western Community College professor and literacy advocate has donated hundreds of books to a county jail. Nicole Juranek is a communications professor at the community college in Council Bluffs. The Daily Nonpareil reports that it was Juranek’s third annual donation to the Pottawattamie County Jail. But this one more than doubled the 300 she donated in her first two years.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Sioux City man has been released from prison less than two months into his seven-year sentence for shooting his 3-year-old sister in the face with a BB gun. The Sioux City Journal reports that a judge reconsidered 18-year-old Adrian White’s sentence earlier this week and suspended the remainder of White’s prison term. Prosecutors say White shot the preschooler twice in the face in May. One BB fractured the girl’s jaw and the other entered her eye and lodged next to her brain.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Judicial Branch data shows that more than three-fourths of those who took Iowa’s bar exam passed this year. The Des Moines Register reports the state had a 78 percent pass rate this year, compared to 68 percent in 2016. Of the 260 people who took the Iowa bar in 2017, 204 passed. The percentage of people who passed the exam on their first try also increased in 2017.