Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Governor Terry Branstad has sent a letter to President Barack Obama asking that Iowa officials be notified about any immigrant children placed in the state. About 120 children who entered the U.S. illegally and alone were sent to Iowa in the first half of the year. Branstad learned of the placements from a news reporter.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A convicted armed robber accused of living under the identities of two boys who died in the 1940s remains in custody without bond. Ronald Dwaine Carnes appeared in court yesterday in Cedar Rapids on Social Security fraud and identity theft charges. Prosecutors say he spent decades under the boys’ IDs after escaping from a North Carolina prison in 1973.

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — The father of a pregnant woman who was shot and killed in rural southeast Iowa in 2012 says the family can start to heal now that the woman’s husband has been convicted in her slaying. Todd Caldwell says he was disappointed Seth Techel didn’t show emotion in court. Techel faces a mandatory life sentence for Lisa Techel’s death.

MONTROSE, Iowa (AP) — An 88-year-old southeast Iowa man has died in an all-terrain vehicle accident. Lee County authorities say Dale Carter lost control of the vehicle Wednesday while traveling on an incline as he was working in his yard in rural Montrose. He was pinned beneath the vehicle after it rolled backward and landed on top of him.