Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:35 a.m. CDT

OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) — Iowa prison officials say an inmate from Wapello County serving time for sexual abuse has died of natural causes. The Iowa Department of Corrections said in a news release that 74-year-old Albert Lemoine Collins died Wednesday at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. He was hospitalized for what the department described as a chronic illness.

FOREST CITY, Iowa (AP) — A former NFL defensive lineman who is now a county supervisor in Iowa faces misdemeanor charges after police say he showed up drunk and armed with a pistol at a daytime board meeting. The Mason City Globe-Gazette reports that police were called to the Winnebago County Courthouse after Tuesday’s meeting. Police say an officer determined Mike Stensrud was drunk and had a pistol in his pocket.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An armed robbery suspect shot this month by Iowa City police had been released from jail days earlier, despite probation violations that could have kept him locked up. An Associated Press review has found that within hours of bonding out of jail on charges of assaulting a police officer, authorities say Michael Cintron Caceres robbed an Iowa City gas station at knifepoint early May 7. They say he burglarized other businesses two days later before he was shot after fleeing from officers.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has vetoed a measure that Republican lawmakers pushed through in the final days of the legislative session to stop the state’s Democratic attorney general from filing or joining lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump’s policies. The measure Reynolds vetoed Wednesday was targeted at stopping Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller from joining multi-state lawsuits filed against the federal government. Republicans argued Miller had sued Trump too much.

The Atlantic School District’s Board of Education, Wednesday evening, awarded a contract for the construction of the Washington Elementary parking lot project. The parking lot will include 95-marked stalls and room for seven additional unmarked spaces.

Snyder and Associates Engineer Dave Sturm said bids for the project were opened at 2-p.m. Wednesday. There were five contractors bidding for the project which was estimated by Snyders to cost a little more than $444,000. The Board had earlier decided they would accept the lowest bid. The low bid of $418,731.70 was received by Precision Concrete Services of Atlantic.

Other bids came from: Carley Construction ($444, 280.10); United Construction Services of Atlantic ($462,625.25); Henningsen Construction, Inc., of Atlantic ($466,039.88), and Absolute Concrete from Slater, IA ($499,346.30).

Sturm said two of the sub-contractors for PCS are Berg Electric, for the lighting, and Stamp Construction, for the demolition work and grading. Both companies are based in Atlantic, so Sturm said “We have a local contract here all around.” The project includes a seven-inch thick, Portland Cement Concrete pavement. The deadline for “substantial” project completion is August 16th. That means it must be open for use by that date. Failure to meet the deadline will mean $2,500 per day fine in liquidated damages for the contractor.

In other business, the Atlantic School Board approved additional contract recommendations following those we’ve previously announced. The latest includes: Jenny Madsen – Extended School Year; Julie Phippen – Summer Vocational Rehab, and Mallory Kirchhoff – Summer School Paraeducator.

And, the Board approved an increase of 2% for FY 2019-20 principals’ salaries, which includes FICA and IPERS.

Police in Red Oak report the arrest at around 4:30-p.m. Wednesday, of 57-year old Jason Troy Waters. The Red Oak man was arrested in the 1600 block of N. Broadway, on a charge of Harassment in the 3rd Degree. He was transported to the Montgomery County Jail and held on a $300 cash bond.

(Radio Iowa) — Two men who say they were abused by priests joined the Iowa Senate’s Democratic leader today (Wednesday) in calling on Iowa lawmakers to do more for victims of child sex abuse. Senator Janet Petersen, a Democrat from Des Moines, says the state’s attorney general should investigate the Catholic Church. Petersen also says Iowa’s criminal and civil laws for child sex abuse cases are the most restrictive in the nation.

“Our laws do not protect our communities from sexual predators and I think we cannot continue to ignore this,” Petersen said. “There is case after case across this country.” The period for filing CRIMINAL charges is too short, according to Petersen. Child sex abuse victims in Iowa have until they’re 33 years old to file a CIVIL lawsuit. Sixty-seven-year-old John Chambers of Des Moines says studies show 52 is the average age when a victim reveals they were abused as a child.

“Adults that bottled this up and held it in for so many years,” Chambers says. “And there are a lot of us.” Tim Lennon, who grew up in Sioux City, says he was 43 years old when he first remembered being molested by the priest in his childhood church. “Those memories are the fire, the anger that I feel for what happened to me,” Lennon says. “…What happened to me should not happen to another child.”

Lennon, who now lives in Arizona, is a national leader in the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. He plans to hold a news conference outside the Sioux City Diocese office tomorrow (Thursday) morning. Lennon says the Catholic Church should release the names of bishops, nuns and others involved in the church who are accused of sex abuse.