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Iowa early News Headlines: Friday, 9/7/2018

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September 7th, 2018 by Ric Hanson

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

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Urbandale man faces up to 50 years in prison after being convicted of receiving and transporting child pornography. Federal prosecutors for Iowa say 46-year-old Nedzad Juhic was found guilty Tuesday of the counts following a two-day trial. Evidence at trial showed that police in 2015 traced child porn files made available online to Juhic’s home. A search of his laptop found more than 1,500 videos of child pornography.

BAGLEY, Iowa (AP) — A 24-year-old Guthrie County mother has been charged in the bathtub drowning of her 11-month-old son. The Des Moines Register reported Thursday that Seaira Briceno has been charged with child endangerment resulting in death. The Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office says Briceno’s baby drowned Aug. 10 when she left him and his 2-year-old brother in the tub at their Bagley home.

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — A judge has ruled that Davenport’s Civil Service Commission lacked the authority to reinstate the city’s fired fire chief. The Quad-City Times reported Thursday that a Scott County judge also said only a change in Iowa law could give weight to former Chief Lynn Washburn’s argument that her 30 years of previous experience with a Rockford, Illinois, department should grant her civil service status in Davenport.

BROOKLYN, Iowa (AP) — Immigration enforcement agents have visited the Iowa dairy farm that employed and housed the man charged with killing college student Mollie Tibbetts. Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, and the county sheriff’s office spent two hours at Yarrabee Farms in Brooklyn, Iowa on Thursday morning. Yarrabee Farms said in a statement that federal authorities had requested to visit the farm Thursday, and that they met with employees and owners.