Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 1:40 a.m. CDT

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Republican lawmakers are seeking to eliminate a tax on utilities that has long funded energy and environmental research at Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. A draft plan proposes ending in 2022 an assessment on utilities that raises about $5 million annually for the Iowa Energy Center at Iowa State and the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research at the University of Iowa. One Democratic senator says he fears the centers will go away when their funding dries up.

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — One of three men charged in the death of a 29-year-old man last summer has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge. The Quad-City Times reports that 34-year-old Durell Parks Jr. pleaded guilty Thursday to willful injury resulting in serious injury in the Aug. 18 fatal stabbing of Romane Nunn Sr. in a Davenport park. Parks had originally been charged with first-degree murder. He faces up to 10 years in prison when he’s sentenced May 24.

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a police officer and two bystanders pulled a man who slipped and fell into the Cedar River in northeastern Iowa from the water. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier report that the rescue happened Thursday near the Ice House Museum in Cedar Falls. Officials say he was unconscious when the officer and two others pulled him from the water. He was taken to a hospital, and his condition was not known Thursday afternoon.