Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 5:00 a.m. CDT
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — About 100 homes in low-lying areas of the small Linn County town of Palo on the Cedar River have been evacuated. City Clerk Trisca Dix tells The Associated Press that the mandatory evacuation in the town of about 1,000 took place Saturday afternoon before the river was expected to crest Sunday night at 24.5 feet. Mayor Tom Yock told the Des Moines Register that volunteers and work crews scrambled Saturday to protect as much of the town from flooding as possible.
AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State University is confirming its president was returning from an 11-day personal trip to North Carolina when he damaged one of its airplanes in a rough landing. The school says that President Steven Leath has reimbursed it $1,100 for some costs of the July 2015 flights to Ashe County, North Carolina, where he owns a home and helps manage a Christmas tree farm.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — More rain on the way in parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa had officials on high alert for flooding. Leaders of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, asked residents located within a downtown flooding zone to evacuate by 8 p.m. Sunday and to expect to remain out of their homes and businesses for up to a week. That came even as officials announced that the Cedar River there was expected to crest at 24.5 feet on Tuesday _ nearly a foot below earlier projections.
OSAGE, Iowa (AP) — A former Osage school board member accused of stealing from the Mitchell County Treasurer’s Office has received a deferred judgment. The Mason City Globe Gazette reports that 46-year-old Tracey Mooberry, who had worked as a clerk in the treasurer’s office from 2011 until May, was also put on probation Friday for a year and fined $350. She originally was charged with felony theft but pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of misconduct in office.
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