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Iowa News Headlines: Thursday, Feb. 1st, 2018

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February 1st, 2018 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:38 a.m. CST

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa county has agreed to pay $285,000 to an Arizona man who was arrested, transported across the country and jailed for 68 days for a crime that he didn’t commit. The payment will resolve a federal lawsuit that 23-year-old Joseph McBride filed this month against Linn County and its longtime top prosecutor, County Attorney Jerry Vander Sanden. McBride was wrongly accused of participating in a 2017 home invasion in Cedar Rapids, his former hometown.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The University of Iowa has announced plans to remove casino mogul Steve Wynn’s name from the school’s Institute for Vision Research in light of sexual misconduct allegations against Wynn. The university announced the move Wednesday in a news release. The university named the institute for Wynn in 2013 following his $25 million donation to the school to support blindness research.

FLOYD, Iowa (AP) — Officials in northeastern Iowa have released the names of all officers and deputies at the scene of the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis man, but have refused to say which officers fired their guns. Bremer County Attorney Kasey Wadding told the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier that he was “not ready to disclose” which officers fired their guns or which ones delivered the fatal shot. Officials say 29-year-old Jihad Merrick died after being shot Jan. 17 on Highway 218.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Preliminary data on the first three months of a new state-funded family planning program in Iowa shows it had a nearly 50 percent drop in enrollment since it switched to a system that excludes abortion providers like Planned Parenthood. The information in a 20-page state report shows an initial reduction in health care providers participating in the program and a decline in services being accessed during that time. The AP received the report as part of a records request.