DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — With many state workers poised to soon make monthly health care contributions for the first time, will Iowa lawmakers follow suit? Under a recent arbitration award, workers in the largest state employees’ union will have to start making a monthly contribution of at least $20 to their health benefits starting in January. This will be a shift for the majority of the 19,000 state workers represented by Local 61 the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

Lawmakers in the part-time General Assembly can get plans that don’t require a monthly payment. Republican House Speaker Kraig Paulsen says he’d like to change that. But Democratic Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal was less forthcoming on whether he will consider such a change.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

GOOSE LAKE, Iowa (AP) — Officials in the eastern Iowa town of Goose Lake have declared the town’s water system safe and have lifted a boil order this weekend. A water main break Monday night led officials to issue the boil-water advisory.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Police say no arrests have been made in a late-night shooting that injured one person. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that officers were called for a report of a shooting around 12:10 a.m. Friday. Police say five minutes later, 19-year-old Marquis Norris arrived at Covenant Medical Center with a gunshot wound.

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — A 20-year-old Dubuque man is behind bars, accused of trying to abduct an 11-year-old girl as she walked home from school. The Dubuque Telegraph Herald reports that Robert Robbins was arrested Wednesday night after the girl reported that a man followed her as she walked home from school, grabbed her and forced her to a nearby shed. Robbins is being held at the Dubuque County jail on $50,000 cash bond. He could not be reached Saturday for comment.

MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) — Animal welfare officials in Iowa are searching for the person who dumped eight newborn kittens in a gas station dumpster in Mason City. The Globe Gazette reports that a gas station employee saw someone throw a black garbage bag Thursday into the trash bin outside of the business. The kittens were taken to the Mason City Stray Animal Shelter, where they died.

A fire that apparently started on a kitchen stove of an upstairs apartment in a downtown Stanton building resulted in one apartment being a total loss, with three others sustaining heavy water damage. According to reports, the blaze at 402 Broad Street began at around 3-p.m.

Crews from Villisca and Red Oak provided mutual aid in battling the flames for about three hours. No injuries were reported.

An Audubon County Sheriff’s Department K9 was who injured during an accident with his partner Friday night, has died from his injuries. Audubon County Deputy Kent Gries reported on his social media page that K9 “Harry” was euthanized after his injuries proved to be insurmountable. Gries was the dog’s former handler. “Harry” and Deputy Shawn Young, of Audubon, were traveling in a 2012 Chevy Tahoe that missed a curve near 345th Street and Lark Avenue in Audubon County, a few miles north of Interstate 80. The SUV ended up in a field on the southwest corner of the curve. According to reports, the pair were enroute to assist other officers with a situation on I-80, when the accident took place.

K9 “Harry”

Young, who was wearing his seat belt, was transported by Exira Ambulance to the Audubon County Memorial Hospital for treatment of minor injuries, while “Harry” was transported to a vet clinic in Atlantic.

Officials say the accident, which remains under investigation, happened at around 11:12-p.m. No other details were released.