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GUTTENBERG, Iowa (AP) - Authorities are in their third day of a search for a Clayton County man they say shot at a sheriff's deputy and led police on a high-speed chase.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - The murder trial of a man arrested in the stabbing death of a Cedar Rapids man has been continued to Dec. 1.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - Water advisories for the eastern Iowa towns of Wellman and Mount Vernon remained in effect Friday. A boil order for Wellman was issued on Thursday following a water main break. The order will continue until at least Monday.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Iowa State fans can now show their devotion to the Cyclones at the breakfast table. A new cereal know as Cyclone Crunch is now available in some grocery stores in central Iowa.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - A Chicago man arrested on drug charges in Cedar Rapids last year has been sentenced to life in prison. Zechariah Benjamin was found guilty in May of conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of crack cocaine and distribution of more than five grams of crack.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - With less than four weeks until the election, both presidential campaigns are turning their efforts to delivering Iowans to the polls.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Third party presidential candidate Ralph Nader says the government missed a historic chance to rein in greed and excess on Wall Street when it approved a financial bailout package.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A former Monona County engineer has been arrested on felony bribery charges. The Iowa Department of Public Safety says John Singelstad, of Onawa, was arrested on Thursday on two counts of commercial bribery.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The Iowa Supreme Court has sent the case of civilly committed sexual predator back to district court for a hearing on whether he should be released.

CHARLES CITY, Iowa (AP) - A Rudd woman has filed a federal lawsuit claiming she was wrongfully arrested and then jailed for four days after her name was mistakenly typed on a warrant.

OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) - An Ottumwa woman accused of killing a man last year at her home has been found not guilty. Fifty-year-old Sheri Locke was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 65-year-old Charles Denham.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A Des Moines man has been placed on probation in a case involving exotic animals. Larry Eddinger also promised the judge that he'd scale back his collection.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The administrator of the Iowa Division of Latino Affairs has abruptly quit his job. Walter Reed, the director of the Iowa Department of Human Rights, says Armando Villareal turned in his resignation on Sept. 29 and left without further explanation.

SIOUX CENTER, Iowa (AP) - Two sisters were hit by a pickup truck as they crossed a highway in Sioux Center. Police say 12-year-old Itzel Gomez and 9-year-old Lizbeth Gomez were hit early Wednesday evening as they crossed in a crosswalk on U.S. Highway 75.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The government increased its monthly crop forecast for this year's corn and soybean harvest due to wetter weather, potentially lowering commodity prices.

GRAFTON, Iowa (AP) - A construction worker at a windmill farm near Grafton in northern Iowa is dead after being hit by a forklift. The Worth County sheriff's office say the accident happened Thursday afternoon at the Barton Township project.

CHARLES CITY, Iowa (AP) - Iowa has fined pharmaceutical company Cambrex Corp. over $6,000 for safety violations after a fire and explosion at its plant in Charles City last fall.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Some of the art work from the University of Iowa Museum of Art's permanent collection has been returned to campus. June's flooding forced officials to close the museum.

GALENA, Ill. (AP) - Jurors found a Waterloo man accused of hiring a hitman to kill a Waterloo teenager guilty on all counts Thursday. Sixty-year-old David Damm, of Waterloo, was found guilty of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and aggravated kidnapping.