DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Advocates seeking more funding for Iowa’s bridges and roads are launching a new advertising campaign. In a television ad that started airing Monday, a narrator notes the thousands of structurally deficient bridges in Iowa. At the end of the ad, paid for by the Iowa Good Roads Association, the voice of an emergency operator says: “We have a bridge collapse with a bus full of school children.” Gov. Terry Branstad has said he was open to ideas for increasing road construction funding.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Gov. Terry Branstad has ordered that all flags in Iowa be flown at half-staff in honor of state Rep. Dwayne Alons. U.S. flags and Iowa flags under the state’s control will be lowered and flown at half-staff from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday to remember Alons, who died Saturday. The 68-year-old Alons announced in October that he was battling renal cancer. He had represented Iowa House District 4 since 1998. A memorial service for Alons is scheduled Wednesday morning at First Reformed Church in Hull.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — An official says a student at Hawkeye Community College in Waterloo has been injured while in the school’s welding lab. College spokeswoman Kathy Flynn says the student is being treated for burns following an incident Tuesday morning. Additional information about the injury or the student’s identity is not available.

GRINNELL, Iowa (AP) — Grinnell College has received a $4 million bequest from a graduate who died last year after a successful career as a tax attorney. The college says 1950 Grinnell graduate Marilyn Walsh had made the gift to establish a scholarship for Iowa residents admitted to the school. Walsh was a native of Woodbine who received a bachelor’s degree in history, then earned law degrees at New York University. The scholarship will be open to students who have lived in Iowa at least five years.