IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa State University Foundation is receiving a $93 million majority stake in a Massachusetts-based education company. University officials announced ISU’s stake in Curriculum Associates on Wednesday. The Iowa City Press-Citizen says that once the company is sold, the university’s share will be designated for various projects within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. ISU Foundation officials say the donors are alumni, but declined Wednesday to identify the couple.

Curriculum Associates is an educational publishing and technology industry company. It has more than quadrupled in size since 2012, and was recently named among the fastest-growing private companies by the Inc. 5000 and Boston Business Journal, according to its website.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republicans in the Iowa Legislature have moved quickly on a longstanding goal of ending funding for Planned Parenthood, but the effort means the state will lose federal money and use funds typically spent on other social services. By defunding Planned Parenthood, the state will lose about $3 million of federal funding for family planning services. The state pays about $300,000, which prompts the 90 percent to 10 percent match.

Although it will lose the federal Medicaid money, Ben Hammes, a spokesman for Gov. Terry Branstad, says Iowa will spend an equal amount on family planning services by tapping a separate federal grant. This money will go to organizations that don’t perform abortions.

Iowa has used the roughly $15.2 million grant for foster care and other child protective services, though the state has legal discretion to use the money on family planning services. Hammes says there’s extra money to accommodate the family planning expenditure.

Page County Sheriff Lyle Palmer says a joint investigation between the Page County Sheriff’s Office and Shenandoah Police, resulted in search warrant executed at 108 N. Center Street in Shenandoah, Wednesday afternoon. In the process, 37-year old Jamie Valrema Vanatta, of Shenandoah, was arrested on a Page County Warrant for Accessory to a felony.  Vanatta was unable to post a $2000 cash only bond, and was booked into the Page County Jail while awaiting further court proceedings.

Jamie Valrema Vanatta

The Mills County Sheriff’s Office reports 39-year old Mara Kae Hunt, of Glenwood, was arrested this (Wednesday) afternoon, on a warrant for Violation of Probation. Hunt was being held in the Mills County Jail on $10,000 bond.

The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports 25-year old Christine Whitney McGlade, of Red Oak, was arrested today (Wednesday), on an Adams County warrant for Operating a motor vehicle While Intoxicated. McGlade was being held for Adams County in the Montgomery County Jail, on $1,000 bond.

The Iowa Court of Appeals has upheld a sentence of Life in Prison for a man convicted of first degree murder in Pottawattamie County. In it’s decision, the Court rejected the appeal of Dan Dorris, who was convicted of 1^st Degree Murder and Willful Injury, for the May 12, 1998 shooting of Timothy Osbourne, in Council Bluffs. The Willful Injury charge was merged into his Life sentence.

Dorris appealed the district court decision denying his request for postconviction relief from his conviction for first-degree murder. In its decision, the Appeals Court said the district court did not act improperly by failing to record a postconviction hearing, by not having sufficiently specific findings of fact and conclusions of law in its decision, or by denying Dorris’s request to file a pro se supplemental brief.

The Appeals Court said Dorris has also not shown he received ineffective assistance of counsel.