Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — First Lady Michelle Obama will appear in Des Moines Friday to campaign for Democratic Senate candidate Bruce Braley. A Braley campaign spokesman Jeff Giertz said yesterday that Obama and Braley will attend a rally at Drake University Friday afternoon. Braley, a four-term congressman from Waterloo, is locked a tight race against Republican Joni Ernst, a state lawmaker and officer in the Iowa National Guard from Red Oak.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Governor Terry Branstad is spending some of his overflowing campaign money on Illinois television, with the hope of carrying remote Lee County, one of two counties that have eluded the governor in his long career. The 67-year-old Republican seeking a sixth term acknowledges it is not a cost-effective move but hopes to highlight how the county’s economy has rebounded since his 2010 election.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa family is fighting the Des Moines school district’s refusal to enroll the Rwandan immigrant they are caring for because of questions about his immigration status. The district’s lawyer, Andrew Bracken, tells the Des Moines Register it appears that 16-year-old Habibu Moise Habienza’s legal residence remains with his family in Rwanda, so Des Moines won’t enroll him.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa county is suing a landowner to collect more than $1 million in unpaid taxes. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports Black Hawk County filed the lawsuit against J.L. Watts Company in August over $1.048 million in unpaid property taxes.

A traffic stop Sunday afternoon in Montgomery County resulted in the arrest of a Red Oak man. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office says 40-year old James Donald Uhlmann, Jr., was pulled over at around 2:45-p.m. in Red Oak. He was charged with Driving While Revoked/Drug Related, and brought to the Montgomery County Jail, where Uhlmann’s cash bond was set at $300.

Motorists traveling in southern Cass and northern Montgomery Counties early this morning should slow down and be on the lookout for cattle on the loose. According to scanner traffic, deputies were reporting a couple of hundred head of cattle were roaming free near the Cass/Montgomery County line south of Lyman and near Grant, or in an area spanning from about Wichita Road south along Highway 71 in Cass County, to the County line, or about one-mile south of Grant.

No one was seriously hurt when a vehicle rolled over this (Sunday) morning, near Griswold. According to dispatch reports, motorists saw a vehicle in the ditch west of Highway 48 on Osage Road, at around 1:35-a.m.

Griswold Fire and Rescue and Medivac Ambulance responded to the scene, along with a Cass County Sheriff’s Deputy. The male driver of the vehicle was treated at the scene for minor injuries and then turned over to law enforcement.

No other information is currently available.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A freeze could stop the growing season in the upper Midwest as far south as Nebraska and Iowa, leaving farmers in a difficult situation because much of the region’s corn and soybean fields are not quite ready for harvest. The area of most concern includes the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin, where just 40 percent to 50 percent of the corn crop is mature.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Hundreds of people turned out for a memorial service to remember an Iowa State University student from China whose body was found on September 27th in the trunk of her car. The Des Moines Register reports that 250 people gathered in a circle on the Iowa State campus Friday night to remember 20-year-old Tong Shao. The memorial service was held by the Chinese Students and Scholars Association.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Police say a man suspected of shooting a Sioux City officer is in an Omaha, Nebraska hospital after turning a gun on himself. The Sioux City Journal reports that the incident began late Friday afternoon when police officers were called to a Sioux City house. Officer Jill Ohm was the first to arrive. Police say she struggled with the 27-year-old suspect before the man wounded her in the chin.

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — A 29-year-old Davenport man has been charged with second-degree murder. The Quad-City Times reports that Devyn Fix was charged Friday for the September 26th shooting death of 18-year-old Thomas Taylor.