Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CDT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An elections panel says Ron Corbett, the sole Republican challenging Gov. Kim Reynolds in Iowa’s gubernatorial race, failed to qualify for the primary ballot because of paperwork. The State Objection Panel concluded Tuesday that Corbett didn’t submit enough valid signatures to be on the June 5 ballot. The panel agreed duplicative signatures put Corbett below the 4,005-signature threshold by eight names.

MIAMI (AP) — A Miami Republican Congresswoman is defending a well-known Florida school shooting survivor from another lawmaker who attacked her for wearing a Cuban flag patch as she advocated for gun control in Washington. Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said Tuesday that she spoke to activist Emma Gonzalez’s father about a comment by Iowa congressman Steve King on Facebook questioning the teenager’s guns stance and her use of the communist-run island’s flag.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A judge declined to order a new trial Tuesday in an Iowa medical malpractice case, saying an investigation turned up no evidence to support an anonymous letter that claimed a juror was bribed. Judge Chad Kepros says he believes the letter was likely a hoax written by a juror who dissented from the 2016 verdict. He says an investigation turned up no evidence any bribe was offered, and ordering a new trial based on an anonymous allegation would be “contrary to the fair administration of justice.”

TIPTON, Iowa (AP) — An eastern Iowa faces up to 240 years in prison when he’s sentenced for producing child pornography involving a prepubescent child and for trading child pornography. A jury convicted 40-year-old Christian Hansen, of Tipton, on Friday of multiple child sexual exploitation and child pornography counts. Prosecutors say Hansen was already a registered sex offender for crimes in Nebraska when he took photos of a child’s genital area last year and emailed the photos to other people.