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Iowa early News Headlines: Monday, May 6, 2019

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May 6th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:30 a.m. CDT

(Iowa City)– A small car making an illegal U-turn was struck by a semi Sunday afternoon on Interstate 80 near Oxford, in eastern Iowa, resulting in the deaths of three people including two children and an adult. Two others were injured. injuries to two other vehicle occupants. All of the victims were in the same vehicle. The injured were transported to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City. No names were released as of early Monday morning. The children were said to be 11 and 13-years of age.

OSAGE, Iowa (AP) ā€” Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is proposing a sweeping agriculture and rural investment plan to break up big agriculture monopolies and shift farm subsidies toward small family farmers. Sanders told voters in Osage, Iowa, that a farmer producing the food people eat may be almost as important as “some crook on Wall Street who destroys the economy.” His plan includes several antitrust proposals, including a moratorium on mergers by big agriculture companies.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ā€” An Iowa egg farm which lost more than 4 million chickens in the 2015 bird flu outbreak centered in the Midwest is suing companies hired by the U.S. government to disinfect barns to kill the bird flu virus. Sunrise Farms says the chlorine dioxide gas and heat treatments used to kill the virus destroyed barn equipment, electrical wiring, production equipment and water lines.

KENSETT, Iowa (AP) ā€” Authorities in north-central Iowa say a man has died after being hit by a car. Des Moines television station KCCI reports that the incident happened Friday evening in rural Worth County when a car hit 58-year-old Rick Johnson, of Kensett, while he was walking on a county road. The Iowa State Patrol says the car was driven by a 42-year-old Mason City man.