Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:30 a.m. CST

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Presidents of Iowa’s three state universities are asking for funding increases to pay for more financial aid for undergraduate students. But stagnant tax revenue could make additional spending unlikely. The Des Moines Register reports the university presidents requested $12 million on Tuesday from the governor. The requests come as the governor warns that Iowa may face another tight budget next year. But she says she’s committed to working with the universities.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a Des Moines tax preparer has been sentence to nearly four years in prison for wire and tax fraud and identity theft. The U.S. Attorney for Iowa’s southern district says 48-year-old Lony Tap Gatwas, of Ames, was sentenced Wednesday to 21 months in prison for wire fraud and tax fraud, and 24 months for aggravated identity theft, to be served one after the other.

HARLAN, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a body has been found in the burned-out wreckage of a vehicle in western Iowa. The Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil reports that that Shelby County sheriff’s deputies and firefighters responded to a report late Tuesday night of an explosion and fire in Harlan, about 50 miles northeast of Omaha, Nebraska. First responders found a vehicle next to a shed in a backyard, and both were engulfed in flames. The body was found inside the vehicle once the flames were extinguished.

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — The Pentagon has approved a Silver Star medal of heroism for a Navy chaplain from Iowa who’s been credited with helping sailors escape a battleship during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Station KDTH reports that Pentagon staffers will travel to Dubuque next week and present the nation’s third-highest medal to the family of Aloysius Schmitt.