DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Republican-controlled Iowa Legislature could face pressure next session over its decision earlier this year to reduce a key Medicaid benefit for poor and disabled people. Some GOP lawmakers have begun to question whether the cut to so-called retroactive eligibility, which helps new patients with recently incurred medical costs, was larger than intended. They’ve indicated the issue will be revisited when lawmakers return in January. It’s still unclear what Republicans may do, but the health care community is expected to lobby for some kind of action.

The benefit is a staple of Medicaid that helps newly eligible patients with medical bills that go back three months. The federal government recently approved a plan that reduces that benefit for everyone except pregnant women and children younger than 1 year old.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Police have identified a 21-year-old Ames man who died after two masked men burst into his apartment. Ames police say Xavier Jordan Shepley was killed early Saturday morning when he was shot during an apparent robbery. Police say Shepley was found around 3:40 a.m. Saturday when officers went to an apartment building to investigate a shooting. He had a gunshot wound in his chest.

Witnesses told police that two people wearing masks entered the apartment in what seemed like a robbery, and one of them shot the victim. Witnesses told police the suspects sped away in a black or blue pickup truck.

One person died, and another was injured during a single-vehicle accident this (Sunday) morning, in Taylor County. The Iowa State Patrol reports a passenger in the vehicle, 23-year old Clintin David Marshall, of Corning, who was not wearing a seat belt, died at the scene. The driver, 30-year old Jody Dee Reed, of Corning, who was wearing a seat belt, was flown from the scene to the UNMC in Omaha, by LifeNet Helicopter.

The Patrol says Reed and Marshall were traveling eastbound toward the town of Gravity on J-35/200th Street, when for reasons unknown, the 2011 Lincoln MKS they were in, went out of control. The Vehicle left the road and entered the east ditch before it struck a tree in the ditch, and came to rest. The accident happened at around 12:45-a.m.

Red Oak Police arrested two men on separate charges, Saturday. At around 9:30-a.m., 93-year old Granville Earl Williams, of Red Oak, was arrested for Theft in the 5th Degree (Shoplifting), at the Red Oak Fareway Strore. His bond at the Montgomery County Jail was set at $300. And, at around 11:30-p.m., Saturday, 24-year old Timothy J. Temperley, of East Dubuque, IL., was arrested in Red Oak, for Public Intoxication. His bond was also set at $300.

Officials with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reported Saturday, that 25-year old Amanda Joy Williams, of Red Oak, was arrested just before 4-p.m that day, on two counts of assault on a peace officer and on a Fremont County warrant for Harassment in the 3rd degree. Williams was being held on $2,000 bond for the assault charges. She was also held without bond on the warrant.

Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse warned against false idols, political tribalism and an addiction to “24/7 news cycles” during a speech in Iowa Saturday night.

“Friends, there is no politician who’s going to save America,” Sasse said. “Friends, there is no election that’s going to transform your life to become so much better than it is right now and into all you want it to be.” Sasse was the featured speaker at a fundraiser in Des Moines for The Family Leader, a Christian conservative organization. Sasse told the crowd of 550 that elections can make the country “worse” or “incrementally better,” but Sasse suggested it was “almost a little bit un-American” to organize your life around two- and four-year election cycles.

)”America is made up of a people who think in decades and in centuries, not in terms of political addiction and political consumption and short-term-election ways of thinking about the world,” Sasse said. Sasse was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2014. He has raised the hackles of the Iowa G-O-P’s chairman — and a formal reprimand from Nebraska Republicans — for his critiques of President Trump. Sasse on Saturday described himself as a “temporary public official affiliated with the Republican Party” who is a Christian first.

“To be a good Christian, you’re obligated to be on guard against political idolatry ’cause politics isn’t the center of any our lives,” Sasse said. “Politics isn’t the pathway by which the kingdom comes and, oh by the way, it isn’t just as a Christian that you have this calling. It’s as an American that you have this calling.” State Representative Steven Holt, a Republican from Denison, was impressed. “It was amazing. I mean, it was absolutely amazing,” Holt said. “I’d never heard him speak before and I thought he did a fantastic job and a lot to think about.”

Sasse said “Lots and lots of people differ on policy debates, they just don’t think policy defines the line between good and evil…You can’t fix what’s broken in American politics with more politics.” Bob Vander Plaats is the president of The Family Leader, the group that hosted Sasse Saturday night. Vander Plaats started the evening by telling the crowd cultural change won’t be accomplished at the ballot box.

“For too long, the church was hijacked for political gain. The church was hijacked to get this candidate to win. The church was hijacked so this party could win,” Vander Plaats said. “Ladies and gentlemen, the Gospel of Jesus Christ is much bigger than any candidate and much bigger than any political party and it should not be reduced to such.” About 550 people attended the event, which was held in Des Moines.

(Radio Iowa)

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The city of Des Moines is expected to pay $225,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of an unarmed man killed by police in 2015. The Des Moines Register reports that the City Council is scheduled to approve the settlement agreement on Monday. Last month, the city acknowledged that a former police officer falsely told investigators she warned 28-year-old Ryan Bolinger as he approached her patrol car before she fatally shot him.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Des Moines International Airport officials are pushing to limit the number of taxi companies permitted to pick up travelers. The Des Moines register reports that taxi operators have been violating the airport’s rules by having too few drivers, using damaged vehicles, charging minimum trip fees, failing to post fee lists and only accepting cash payments. Officials plan to reduce the number of taxi companies serving the airport and request that operators apply in December.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse says Republican leaders are overstating how much passing tax-cut legislation can protect their party in next year’s elections. In Iowa for a speech Saturday night, the Nebraska Republican tells reporters that politicians in Washington, D.C., regularly pretend that every bill being debated will usher in heaven. Sasse pointed to his conservative credentials in addressing a group of evangelical conservatives, affirming his opposition to abortion rights.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Police in central Iowa say an Ames man has died after two masked men burst into his apartment and a shot was fired. Ames police say officers were called to the man’s apartment around 3:40 a.m. Saturday for a report of a shooting. Arriving officers found a man in his 20s with a gunshot wound to his upper chest. The man was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.