Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:10 a.m. CST

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ” A Republican Iowa lawmaker plans to introduce what he calls the “suck it up, buttercup bill” to cut budgets at public universities that spend extra money on students upset about the presidential election. Rep. Bobby Kaufmann tells the Des Moines Register that the bill targets schools using taxpayer dollars to fund election-related sit-ins and grief counseling above what is normally available to students. Iowa’s public four-year universities say no such money has been spent.

AMES, Iowa (AP) €” Authorities say a 72-year-old woman has died from her injuries received in a house fire in Ames. The city issued a news release Tuesday saying that Joanna Alexander died in the house fire reported around 10 a.m. Monday. Fire investigators say the fire was accidental and was believed to have started near a chair in the living room. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) €” The company building the $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline is seeking a federal judge’s permission to circumvent President Barack Obama’s administration and move ahead with a disputed section of the project in North Dakota. Opponents held protests across the country on Tuesday urging it be rejected. More than two dozen people were arrested after putting a truck and tree branches on BNSF Railway tracks near a pipeline work staging area in North Dakota.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) €” The bookkeeper for an Iowa credit union who admitted to embezzling nearly $2.5 million from her employer over 37 years has been sentenced to 6 ½ years in prison. Federal court records in Des Moines say 68-year-old Linda Lee Clark of Corydon also has been ordered to repay the money.