Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Firefighters are crediting a 10-year-old girl with helping save her younger brother from being washed away into a flooded concrete culvert. Waterloo television station KWWL reports that firefighters were called to Bontrager Park around 7:00 p.m. Thursday. They found 8-year-old Charlie Cizek of Waterloo, clinging to his sister, Caly, after falling into a flooded concrete intake drain.

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Officials in Dubuque have closed several floodgates as the National Weather Service predicts the Mississippi River will crest above flood stage in the coming days. The Dubuque Telegraph Herald says that the city closed the Ice Harbor floodgates on Friday as the National Weather Service predicts the Mississippi River will crest at 17.9 feet this weekend. That’s nearly a foot above flood stage.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Power company Alliant Energy is investigating the cause of a weekend power outage that affected three Linn County communities in eastern Iowa. Cedar Rapids television station KCRG reports that the outage lasted from about 12:30 a.m. to 2 a.m. yesterday, affecting 9,000 in parts of southeast Cedar Rapids and the communities of Ely and Bertram.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A four-alarm fire has partially collapsed an industrial warehouse on Des Moines’s north side. The Register reports that more than half a dozen area fire departments were battling the blaze since about 9 a.m. Saturday at the warehouse, which houses a paint company and two automotive suppliers.

The suspense is over. Iowa Republicans have chosen a candidate in Iowa’s third congressional district.
Even the man who won the nomination admits he was stunned by the turn of events today (Saturday). “Anything can happen,” Young told reporters. “It’s exhilarating. There’s so many different emotions moving inside me, but right now I’m actually looking towards November and figuring out where we go from here.” Over 500 delegates gathered Saturday morning for the special nominating convention and about five hours later Young had secured the spot on November’s ballot.

“Somebody asked me right before I got up on stage: “David, is this one of your magic tricks again?'” Young said, a reference to one of his campaign commercials. “I said: ‘No, but I have one trick left — and that’s to make Staci Appel disappear in November.'” Appel is the Democratic Party’s nominee for seat now held by Republican Tom Latham, who is not seeking reelection. The third district delegates had to make the choice because none of the six candidates who ran in the G-O-P Primary secured 35 percent of the votes on June 3rd. Brad Zaun, a state senator, finished first in the primary voting and Zaun repeatedly asked delegates to take that into consideration.

“I’m a little bit disappointed,” Zaun said after the loss, “but I’m going to be behind David Young 110 percent and I’ll do anything I can to help him.” It took five rounds of voting, with all six primary candidates in the mix at the start, but it wound down to a contest between Zaun and Young, who had placed fifth in the primary. On Saturday, in that last round of vote, a tie vote among the delegates in Polk County, Zaun’s home base, was likely the difference maker. “But, hey listen: we move on,” Zaun said. Two other key moments on Saturday helped Young surge past Zaun. One came when Matt Schultz, Iowa’s current secretary of state, was forced out of the competition by his last place finish in the third round of voting.

“I’m asking all of you who supported me to get behind David because we need someone who’s conservative and can win — and I trust David Young,” Schultz said, “so join me in trusting him.” The other involved Robert Cramer, the construction company executive who finished second in the June 3rd Primary. Cramer took himself out of contention right before the third round of voting and Young spoke next. “When I was 15, my parents moved the family from Van Meter to Johnston and across the street and two doors down was this tall, lanky blonde kid named Robert Cramer and he became my best friend,” Young said. “And we were in track together, basketball, choir, hung out at the swimming pool and we went to church together and he is a man of faith and he helped me grow in my faith and, Robert, I just want to thank you. I love you, brother.”

Many delegates stayed after the voting and the decision-making were over to congratulate Young. “Talk about coming from behind,” one delegate told Young. “Congratulations. Well done.” Young replied: “Anything can happen in politics. It’s a game that moves as you play.” Young resigned from his job as Senator Chuck Grassley’s chief of staff over a year ago to run for the U.S. Senate after Democrat Tom Harkin announce he wouldn’t run for reelection, but Young switched his sights to the third congressional district after Republican Congressman Tom Latham announced this past December that he wouldn’t seek reelection in 2014.

Grassley issued a written statement Saturday night saying Young “has the ability to appeal to a cross section of residents in the third district. Grassley also pledged to “do everything he can to help” Young get elected to congress. Democrat Staci Appel’s campaign sent out a fundraising email shortly after Young secured the nomination, calling Young a “Tea Party extremist.” Democrats also point to 2012 voting in the third district which saw President Obama win that 16-county section of the state.

(Radio Iowa)

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Documents in an unemployment benefits case show that a Council Bluffs hospital administrator resigned his post last year after his superiors refused to tell patients that surgical instruments used on them hadn’t been properly sterilized. The Des Moines Register reports that Robert Owen Burgin was a registered nurse and the infection-control specialist for Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs. State records show he resigned April 12, 2013, after making several attempts to get permission to tell two patients they were at risk of infection from blood-borne pathogens.

Documents say a supervisor threatened his job when he persisted. The matter became public when Burgin filed for unemployment benefits and the hospital challenged his claim. A judge has ruled for Burgin, saying Burgin resigned for good cause.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Northwestern Iowa officials are looking for a prisoner who failed to return to a work release facility in Sioux City. Officials say 30-year-old Caleb Robert Babb was placed on escape status after failing to return to the facility Friday after working his job.

Babb, who was nine years into a 10-year sentence for second-degree robbery, had been transferred to work release on May 29. Officials are asking anyone with information on Babb’s whereabouts to report it to the Sioux City Police Department or Woodbury County Sheriff’s Department.

GLIDDEN, Iowa (AP) — A criminal complaint says DNA evidence led to the arrest of a man suspected in death of a mother and her son in western Iowa. Fifty-three-year-old Thomas Henderson, of Lake City, was arrested Thursday and charged Friday with murder. He is accused of killing 48-year-old Tammie Lee Devore and her 30-year-old son, Karl Allen Devore. Their bodies were found in their Glidden mobile home on May 18.

The Des Moines Register reports that investigators found a knife blade, a black knife handle and a knife labeled “Yoshiblade” at the crime scene. Investigators say DNA found on the knife and handle belonged to Henderson. Henderson is being held without bond at the Carroll County Jail.