Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:45 a.m. CDT
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa House has approved an expansive immigration enforcement bill that would withhold state funding from local governments that don’t comply with immigration laws. The Republican-controlled chamber voted 55-45 Tuesday for the legislation. The measure heads to the GOP-controlled Senate, which already passed the bill but must OK final changes. Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds, who highlighted the bill to raise money for her gubernatorial campaign, is expected to sign it.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A state court judge will rule soon on the fate of former Cedar Rapids Mayor Ron Corbett’s campaign for governor. Corbett asked a Polk County judge Tuesday to allow signatures crossed out in his ballot petition to be counted after a state elections panel refused to consider them. An attorney representing the panel said “rules are rules” and that drawing a bold line through a signature clearly indicates it shouldn’t be counted.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Des Moines man has been charged with training roosters to cockfight more than a month after police and animal rescue workers seized scores of chickens from his property. Officials say 50-year-old Jose Barrios was booked Monday evening in the Polk County Jail. He’s charged with being a trainer for an animal contest, a felony. More than 100 roosters and hens were taken from Barrios’ home on March 8.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A jury has found a Des Moines man guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of another man last year in the city’s River Bend neighborhood. The Des Moines Register reports that 19-year-old Miguel Lorenzo-Baltazar was found guilty Monday of the July 28 death of 23-year-old Jeffrey Mercado, of Des Moines.