The Iowa State Patrol reports a woman and a teenager died, while two others were injured, during a rollover accident Tuesday afternoon in Jasper County. All of the victims are from Des Moines. Authorities say a 2003 GMC Envoy, driven by 14-year old Bryneisha Watkins was traveling west on I-80 about a mile east of Newton, when the teen lost control the SUV while it was passing a semitrailer. The vehicle ran off the roadway into a roadside ditch, and rolled over.

Two passengers in the vehicle, 13-year old Natasha Watkins and her mother, 30-year old Sabrina Watkins, died in the crash. The driver, and 11-year old Nataija Watkins, were injured and transported to Iowa Methodist in Des Moines.

The accident, which happened at around 12:30-p.m., Tuesday, remains under investigation.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

LYTTON, Iowa (AP) — Three people have been taken to hospitals in serious condition after an explosion at a protein processing plant in northwest Iowa. The Sac County Sheriff’s Office says three people were involved in a welding storage tank when the explosion occurred just before 6 p.m. at the Proliant facility in Lytton.

The Sioux City Journal reports that two people were taken to Loring Hospital in Sac City. A third person was taken to Stewart Memorial Hospital in Lake City and then transferred to an Omaha hospital. Their names have not been released. The State Fire Marshal’s Office and emergency personnel from Lytton, Sac City, Rockwell City and Lake City assisted with the incident.

Lytton is about 83 miles east of Sioux City.

Presidential candidate Ted Cruz, a Republican Senator from Texas, will travel to Iowa Friday and Saturday. Cruz, who was elected to the U-S Senate in 2012, will start off his tour of Iowa 9:45-a.m. Friday in Sioux City, where he and Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King will hold a Town Hall meeting at Briar Cliff University, Stark Student Center – Clare Room (3303 Rebecca Street).   And, at 1-p.m., Friday, Cruz and King will hold a Town Hall meeting in Harlan. The event takes place at the American Legion Hall (7th and Chabturn Avenue).

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Nebraska man convicted in the hit-and-run death of an Iowa man who was trying to help him has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. Twenty-nine-year-old Dustin Suppi was sentenced Tuesday on a vehicular homicide charge in the August death of Troy Ford, of Sioux City. A plea deal with prosecutors dropped a charge of leaving the scene of a fatal accident.

Troy Ford and his wife, Liz Ford, found Suppi on Aug. 8 slumped over the steering wheel of a pickup. As Liz Ford called for help, Suppi woke up and put the pickup into drive. A trailer attached to the vehicle ran over Troy Ford. The Sioux City Journal reports Suppi, of South Sioux City, Nebraska, told Liz Ford during the sentencing hearing he was sorry.