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

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — C.J. Beathard threw three touchdown passes and Iowa pummeled No. 17 Nebraska 40-10 on Friday, knocking the Cornhuskers out of Big Ten title contention and sending Wisconsin to the championship game.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump holds stock in the company building the disputed Dakota Access oil pipeline, raising concerns about any decisions he makes on the project. Trump’s 2016 federal disclosure forms show he owns up to $50,000 in stock in Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners. Since the Obama administration says it wants more study before making a decision, this raises the likelihood that the final say will go to Trump.

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — The faculty union plans to prepare a post-visit evaluation of the four presidential finalists scheduled to be on the University of Northern Iowa campus in Cedar Falls next week. Union president Joe Gorton says the analysis being done by the presidential search committee “won’t be enough to provide a definitive statement about who the faculty thinks should be the next president.”

NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — Work to get a historic downtown Newton building ready for redevelopment is underway. The Newton Daily News reports the city purchased the former Hotel Maytag in September, with the goal of preserving the commercial tenant spaces by making maintenance and repair investments. The city has so far spent more than $19,000 on repair-related building expenses. Newton Development Specialist Craig Armstrong says the project is challenging, but that it’s “also very gratifying.”