Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CST

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State University President Steven Leath damaged a private plane in a hard landing in 2014 _ 11 months before he banged up a university aircraft in remarkably similar fashion. Documents obtained under the open records law show Leath was flying in gusty conditions in August 2014 and “landed hard” in a crosswind, causing propeller damage.

DOUGHERTY, Iowa (AP) — Family of a Mason City resident killed five years ago in a crash say they are disturbed someone stole an item left at a roadside memorial to the man. Heidi Hanson, of Mason City, told the Globe Gazette there isn’t a gravesite for her father, Marlin Hanson, so relatives and friends visit a memorial at the site near Dougherty where he died in a 2011 grain truck crash. In October, they pounded in a wind vane with an eagle cutout, as Hanson loved the birds. Recently they realized it had been stolen.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Some 200 rallies protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline are slated Tuesday across the United States, at Army Corps of Engineers offices, federal buildings and banks that have helped finance the project. Pipeline opponents are seeking to draw the attention of President Barack Obama and get his administration to reject a crossing at a Missouri River reservoir in southern North Dakota.

LEON, Iowa (AP) — Police in the southern Iowa city of Leon are investigating what authorities are calling a suspicious death. Leon police, with help from the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, were called to a home Sunday morning after two people found a man’s body. The body was identified as 53-year-old Steven Dabb, of Leon. The body was in a home where Dabb lived and had recently been destroyed by a fire.