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Iowa early News Headlines: Tue., March 26, 2019

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March 26th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

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

MONTROSE, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a 15-year-old girl accidentally shot and killed herself at a gun club in Iowa. Lee County sheriff’s officials say emergency crews were called Sunday morning to the Tri-State Gun Club outside Montrose. They found Haley McManus suffering from a gunshot wound suffered while target shooting with her dad. The girl later died at a hospital. The sheriff’s office says the incident is being treated as an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound and no crime or negligence is suspected.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Floodwaters are receding across most of the hard-hit Midwest, but there could be new problems if the forecast for significant rain later this week holds up. Already the flooding along the Missouri River and its tributaries has caused at least $3 billion damage and forced thousands from their homes as floodwaters penetrated or flowed over several hundred miles of levees. The flooding is blamed in three confirmed deaths.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — More than two dozen residents in a suburban Des Moines neighborhood are anticipating limited access to schools, work or emergency services for hours at a time this spring because of idling railroad trains. Wayne and Rita Brasel live near Avon Lake, where Union Pacific Railroad cars have periodically blocked access to the neighborhood’s only road for years. The Brasels say the problem worsened when the Nebraska-based railroad built the Wind 2 Rail distribution center in 2017.