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Iowa early News Headlines: Thursday, 5/16/19

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May 16th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

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

NEW YORK (AP) — The Democratic race for president could be getting another candidate. The mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, has been considering a run for months and is expected to announce a decision this week. He’s booked an appearance on ABC’s “Good Morning America” ahead of travel to Iowa on Thursday and events there and in South Carolina on Friday. Both states are among the handful that cast the first votes in the Democratic primary.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has been dropped from a lawsuit alleging that her predecessor and others in his administration singled out a former state official for a pay cut because of his political party or sexual orientation. The long-running lawsuit filed by former Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Chris Godfrey against former Gov. Terry Branstad is set for trial in state court on June 3 in Des Moines. Reynolds was Branstad’s lieutenant governor.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Current and former attorneys general from both major parties and several states are imploring Iowa’s Republican governor to veto a measure meant to prevent the state’s attorney general, currently a Democrat, from being able to file or join lawsuits challenging Trump administration policies. They think the Republican move would violate basic checks and balances. Iowa would be the only state to impose such limits on an attorney general if Gov. Kim Reynolds signs off on the bill.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A South Dakota man accused of robbing a northwest Iowa bank has been sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison. Federal prosecutors for Iowa said Wednesday in a news release that 43-year-old Brendon Reed, of North Sioux City, South Dakota, was sentenced Tuesday to 105 months in prison and ordered to pay nearly $14,000 in restitution to the United Bank of Moville.