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Iowa early News Headlines: Sunday, August 18, 2019

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August 18th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

ELDORA, Iowa (AP) — A man and woman who confined the man’s son in a basement in central Iowa have each been sentenced to 30 years in prison. The Des Moines Register reports that 31-year-old Alex Shadlow and his girlfriend, 40-year-old Traci Tyler, were sentenced Friday. Prosecutors say Tyler and Shadlow in the summer of 2017 locked his 8-year-old son in a space beneath the basement stairs of their Ackley home, where he had no access to a bathroom and food was withheld.

IDA GROVE, Iowa (AP) — A man Iowa authorities say was intoxicated when his vehicle crashed into another, killing three men, has pleaded not guilty to charges in the case. The Sioux City Journal reports that 21-year-old Ryan Childers, of Odebolt, entered the written plea Friday in Ida County District Court to three counts of vehicular homicide and one count of serious injury by motor vehicle. Authorities say Childers was driving a pickup truck the wrong way in March when he hit a car head-on.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A homeless shelter in downtown Des Moines is building a 24-unit, $4.3 million apartment building made out of shipping containers for the chronically homeless. The Des Moines Register reports that Central Iowa Shelter and Services was recently awarded $2.7 million from the National Housing Trust Fund program and the Iowa Finance Authority to complete the project. It will be built in the water retention basin just south of the shelter, where homeless have frequently set up tents.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Elizabeth Warren and at least six other Democratic White House hopefuls are due to meet with tribal leaders and members in Iowa next week on issues of concern to Native American voters. Warren has sought to mend relations with these voters since apologizing to the Cherokee Nation early this year. That was after she pointed to DNA test results as evidence of her tribal heritage. Warren is expected to face scrutiny at the Sioux City forum over how she addresses that issue.