The group “Progress Iowa” held its second annual “Corn Feed” fundraiser in Des Moines Sunday afternoon and Iowa Democrats at the top of the 2016 General Election ticket spoke to the crowd of about two-hundred. Dave Loebsack of Iowa City — the only Democrat in the state’s congressional election — says there’s a lot on the line this year. “What happens at the top of the ticket has some effect on the rest of us down ballot, so it is absolutely imperative that we get Hillary Clinton elected president of the United States. I know you’re all going to help us do that,” Loebsack said, to applause.

Monica Vernon, Kim Weaver and Jim Mowrer — the three other Democratic congressional candidates in Iowa — also spoke. Patty Judge, the Democrat who is challenging Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, says Grassley is part of “an orchestrated” G-O-P plan to “try to give Barack Obama a black eye every day.” “Everybody said to me when I got into this: ‘Have you absolutely lost your mind?…Don’t you know that can’t beat Chuck Grassley? Chuck Grassley wins elections by 30 or 40 points,” Judge said.

People in the crowd started to clap and one woman yelled “Fired up and ready to go,” Judge continued: “I’m telling you, we are in single digits right now here in August. We can do this.” Former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley was the event’s keynote speaker. O’Malley began with a barb aimed at Terry Branstad, Iowa’s Republican governor, but he spent most of time talking about the race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

“It’s time to put this racist bully in his place and put a tough woman in her place: the White House,” O’Malley said at the end of his remarks to the crowd. Iowa is among the few truly “toss up” states in the General Election, with recent polls showing the presidential race close here. “Early voting” in Iowa starts in a month.

(Radio Iowa)

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:30 a.m. CDT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — New data show there’s an increase in the number of former Iowa inmates returning to prison, and corrections officials are still figuring out why. The Iowa Department of Corrections measures recidivism as the percent of offenders released from prison or work release who return to corrections within three years. For the budget year that ended in June, just over 1,600 offenders were in that category for a rate of 34.2 percent. That’s up from 31.9 percent the previous year.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa City officials and a local Realtor still hope to fill a city-owned, 173-acre industrial park that has been vacant for the last seven years. The 420th Street Industrial Park was certified as “shovel ready” in 2012.

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Nearly two months after a suspect in a Dubuque killing was ordered to have a psychiatric evaluation he was finally transferred to a state facility earlier this month. The Dubuque Telegraph Herald reports the delay in Helmon Betwell’s case is fairly typical for Iowa defendants waiting for an evaluation at a state facility in Coralville.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Fort Dodge woman surprised to learn she was pregnant three hours before giving birth. The Des Moines Register reports that the mom didn’t experience any typical symptoms of pregnancy before she gave birth, so the arrival of her fourth child was a surprise Friday.

(Update to earlier report) The Iowa State Patrol says two people were injured in a single-vehicle crash Sunday afternoon on Interstate 80 east of Walnut. Officials say the driver of a 2007 Toyota Camry, 34-year old Osam Adam Mohamed Juma, of Philadephia, PA, and his passenger, 23-year old Ali Khamis, of Fort Morgan, CO., who were not wearing their seat belts, were transported by Walnut Rescue to the Cass County Hospital.

The pair were injured when the car they were in went out of control at around 4:17-p.m. as it was westbound and crossed the median before crossing the eastbound lanes at the 46.6-mile marker. The car overturned onto its top and came to rest in the south ditch. The accident remains under investigation.

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The ISP was assisted at the scene by deputies with the Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office, Walnut Fire and Rescue, and personnel with Iowa Dept. of Transportation’s Motor Vehicle Enforcement (MVE).

A rollover accident on Interstate 80 Sunday afternoon sent at least two people to the hospital in Atlantic. According to authorities, a passenger car was traveling west on I-80 at about the 47-mile marker, when it crossed the median and flipped into the eastbound ditch. The right lane of I-80 eastbound was closed for a time while emergency crews and law enforcement were on the scene. The accident happened at around 4:35-p.m.

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The accident was under investigation by the Iowa State Patrol. No names have been released, and additional details are currently not available.