WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A man’s body has been found frozen in ice in a West Des Moines ditch. Police say a surveyor called around 2:20 p.m. Tuesday to report the body was spotted along a road that runs parallel to Interstate 80. Police say the body is that of a middle-age man. His name hasn’t been released. A police spokesman says officers are treating the area as a crime scene. No arrests have been reported.

(Radio Iowa) — Two abortion-related bills have advanced as Iowa lawmakers approach an end-of-week legislative deadline for committee votes. One bill approved by a Senate panel would require pregnant Iowans to view an ultrasound image and then wait three days to have an abortion. The Iowa Supreme Court struck down a three-day waiting period in 2018, but Republican Senator Brad Zaun says things have changed. “First of all, we’ve got a new court and I believe in this bill and I can file any bill that I want,” Zaun says.

Two of the five justices who overturned the 2018 law have died and, by this spring, two others will have retired from the court. Opponents of the bill — like Laura Hessburg with the Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence — say it puts up more barriers to abortion access. “Of course we want women to have information. What we’re saying is women don’t show up without being informed, any more than any of you show up for a medical procedure without being informed,” Hessburg said.

House Republicans also advanced a bill creating new licensing requirements for abortion facilities.

(By Iowa Public Radio’s Katarina Sostaric)

(Radio Iowa) — A proposal advancing in the statehouse would require some low-income Iowans to work in order to stay enrolled in Medicaid. Most adults under the age of 65 would have to work or volunteer at least 20 hours per week, although disabled Iowans and the parents of young children would be exempted from the work requirements. Scott Centorino is with the Opportunity Solutions Project, which supports work requirements for welfare recipients. “It helps Iowans do more than just see higher incomes,” he says. “It helps Iowans reengage in their communities, build connections and skills.”

Opponents say the bill is unnecessary because most people in Medicaid are already working. They say it would punish people without transportation or child care. The bill has cleared a subcommittee and next goes before the Senate Labor and Business Relations Committee.

A woman from Bedford faces charges after a search of her vehicle in the Bedford High School parking lot resulted in the discovery of an illegal substance and drug paraphernalia, Tuesday. The Taylor County Sheriff’s Office says Deputies were called to the Bedford High School for a report of possible illegal substances being possessed on the premises. The K9 “Ciba” arrived on scene and was deployed. The dog gave a positive indication to the odor of illegal substance on a vehicle that was parked in the parking lot of the school. A subsequent search was conducted and marijuana along with paraphernalia was located.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:33 a.m. CST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign plans to ask for a partial recount of the Iowa caucus results after the state Democratic Party released results of its recanvass that show Sanders and Pete Buttigieg in an effective tie. In the new results, Buttigieg has 563.207 state delegate equivalents and Sanders has 563.127 state delegate equivalents out of 2,152 counted. That is a margin of 0.004 percentage points. The Associated Press remains unable to declare a winner based on the available information, as the results may still not be fully accurate and are still subject to the recount.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa report says state workers didn’t act soon enough on child-abuse reports about a 16-year-old girl who starved to death. Officials have said Natalie Finn weighed only 81 pounds when she died in October 2016 in West Des Moines. An investigation report issued Monday by the state ombudsman’s office says more staffing, training and resources at the state’s top child-protective agency might have made prevented the abuse that led to Natalie’s death. Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds is seeking 47 new agency positions for fiscal 2021. Natalie’s adoptive mother has been sentenced to life in prison. Her adoptive father was given 30 years.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A northwest Iowa man has been given 11 years in prison for the drunken driving death of a cousin last year. The Sioux City Journal reports that Darrick Toel was sentenced Monday. He’d pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide while driving recklessly and to operating while intoxicated. Authorities estimate Darrick Toel was speeding at 90 mph July 1 on a rural highway just northeast of Sergeant Bluff when he lost control of his car and struck a tree. Toel’s passenger, 37-year-old Ryan Toel, of Struble, died two days later from his injuries.

HAMBURG, Iowa (AP) — A man accused of pushing a co-worker off the top of a grain bin in southwest Iowa has been found in Mexico and returned to the United States. The U.S. Marshals Service said in a news release Tuesday that Pedro Andrade was taken into custody outside Medina, Mexico. He’s been returned to a jail in Houston, awaiting his return to Iowa. A court document says the co-worker survived his 60-foot fall Oct. 10 in Hamburg. He told an investigator that Andrade had found out that Andrade’s wife and the co-worker were having an affair.