AMES, Iowa (AP) — Some Iowa State students are pressuring the university administration to take action against people who’ve scrawled anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi slogans on campus.
Dozens of protesters gathered Wednesday afternoon at university President Wendy Wintersteen’s office to push their goal of a zero tolerance university policy toward racism and anti-Semitism.

Protest organizers say “Heil Hitler,” ”no trans rights” and anti-Semitic slogans were written in chalk at various places on the Ames campus last week. The Des Moines Register reports that posters and stickers advocating white nationalist viewpoints have been found on campus since 2016. Wintersteen spoke to a couple of the protest organizers and later emailed a statement that said she was proud of the students “for standing up against bigotry and racism.”

A collision between a car and two other vehicles early Wednesday morning in southeast Iowa’s Wapello County, resulted in one dead and another person injured. The Iowa State Patrol says a 2011 Chevy Malibu driven by 31-year old Timothy Iowan, of Ottumwa, was traveling south on Highway 63 just south of Mary Street, in Ottumwa, when the vehicle crossed the center of the road and struck a northbound 2008 Chevy pickup and a 2017 Ford Pickup. The Ford pickup came to rest on its top.

The Patrol says Timothy Iowan died at the scene. The driver of the Ford pickup, 28-year old Katelyn M. Weaver, of Bloomfield, was injured and transported by private vehicle to the Ottumwa Regional Hospital. Both drivers were wearing their seat belts. The accident remains under investigation.

A single-vehicle accident at around 11:23-p.m. Wednesday in Dallas County, has claimed the life of a Perry man. The Iowa State Patrol said 48-year old Michael Thomas Sloss was driving a 1994 Ford F-150 pickup on Park Street, in Perry, when the vehicle struck a parked car and went out of control. The pickup entered a residential yard and hit a tree and two parked vehicles. Sloss died at the scene. He was not wearing a seat belt. The accident remains under investigation.

Montgomery County Sheriff’s Deputies were called Wednesday, to 2405 N. Broadway Street in Red Oak, for a reported possible incident of Theft. Upon further investigation, Deputies made contact with 38-year old Jacob Lynn Derby and 22-year old Carley Marie Jean Hunter, both of Red Oak. They were taken into custody for Theft in the 5th Degree, and booked into the Montgomery County Jail, where their cash bonds were set at $300 each.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:37 a.m. CDT

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa sheriff says one of his deputies has been charged with assault after an off-duty confrontation with a fellow patron at a bar. Linn County Sheriff Brian Gardner says that he finds the allegations against deputy Robert Amos “extremely concerning” and that he has placed him on paid leave pending an internal investigation. Gardner says Amos was arrested late Tuesday after a disturbance at a bar in Lisbon called Beau Dylan’s.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Police in Cedar Rapids saying a man is fighting for his life after being shot in a gas station lot, and officers are now searching for a suspect. Cedar Rapids police say in a news release that the shooting happened just before 8 a.m. Wednesday at a Kum & Go gas station. A man in his 20s was found with critical injuries and rushed to a hospital with life-threatening injuries. Investigators believe the man was targeted.

MORAVIA, Iowa (AP) — Law enforcement officials in southern Iowa say a woman has died following an explosion involving an oxygen tank. The Appanoose County Sheriff’s Office says in a news release that firefighters and medics were called to a home in Morovia shortly after 1 p.m. Wednesday. A woman was found on the kitchen floor and pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators say she had been using an oxygen machine for medical purposes when an unknown ignition source caused an explosion and fire.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State officials say they’re still investigating the fall of a man onto other football fans below at Jack Trice Stadium. The university says the fan tumbled from the second level on the stadium’s east side during the first half Saturday of the game against Oklahoma State, which the Cowboys won, 34-27. University spokeswoman Angie Hunt said Wednesday that she couldn’t yet clarify how many people were injured or say whether the fan who fell remained hospitalized. Names haven’t been released.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Sen. Kamala Harris is increasing the Iowa stakes for her sagging Democratic presidential campaign, with her campaign laying off several dozen staff members and transferring others from early states Nevada and New Hampshire to the lead-off caucus state.

“Plenty of winning primary campaigns, like John Kerry’s in 2004 and John McCain’s in 2008, have had to make tough choices on their way to the nomination, and this is no different,” her campaign manager, Juan Rodriguez, wrote in a memo to staff that was shared by the campaign Wednesday.

Harris had already pledged to go all-in on Iowa, joking she was moving there, and earlier Wednesday her campaign touted the 15 days she spent in the state this month as the “October Hustle.” It was more than any of her competitors spent there in October, but she’s still polling behind competitors such as Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren.

Harris is the most prominent Democratic candidate so far to announce a major campaign restructuring less than 100 days out from the Iowa caucus. The changes come a full month after Rodriguez visited Iowa to evaluate the campaign’s organization and on the eve of an important Iowa Democratic fundraiser. The campaign, which has not yet run any television advertising, hopes to spend at least $1 million on a media campaign in the weeks before the Feb. 3 caucus, the memo said.

Harris plans to spend significant time in Iowa again in November, including over Thanksgiving, her campaign said. She’s in Iowa through this weekend and has announced a trip to New Hampshire next week. Her campaign hasn’t released her schedule beyond that.