Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:10 a.m. CDT

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris told Iowa voters that they can help refute questions about her electability if they support her in the caucuses. On the campus of Iowa State University, Harris said Sunday that Iowans have the ability to show the country what can be, even if people have never seen it before. Harris’ visit to Ames on Sunday marked her first to Iowa since announcing plans to recommit her focus on the state.

INDIANOLA, Iowa (AP) — Construction has begun in south-central Iowa on a $13.5 million, 50,000 square-foot facility to train utility linemen in several Midwest states. The Des Moines Register reports the Missouri Valley Line Constructors Apprenticeship and Training Program is building the facility in Indianola. It will be the primary training center for Missouri Valley contract linemen, traffic-signal and substation technicians from Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (AP) — Last month’s closing of the obstetrics unit at Unity Point Hospital in Marshalltown was only the most recent in Iowa. The Iowa Public Health Department says nearly three dozen Iowa community hospitals have stopped delivering babies in the past two decades, and eight stopped last year _ the most yet in one year. Hansen Family Hospital CEO Doug Morse told Iowa Public Radio that the increased expense of labor and delivery care led officials to end deliveries at the Iowa Falls facility in November.

VINTON, Iowa (AP) — A Vinton man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for firing at officers sent to check on his welfare. Cedar Rapids television station KCRG reports that 44-year-old Lyle Fowler Jr. was sentenced last week in Benton County District Court after pleading guilty to assault on officers and interference with official acts. In a separate case, Fowler pleaded guilty to two charges of disseminating obscene materials to a minor and was given a deferred 10-year prison sentence.