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

NORTHWOOD, Iowa (AP) — A felony charge has been dropped against a man accused of punching and damaging a northern Iowa casino gambling machine. Police had charged 55-year-old Dion King with felony criminal mischief. The Mason City Globe Gazette reports that Worth County Attorney Jeffrey Greve dropped the case Tuesday after King paid for the damage to the machine. Authorities say King admitted punching the machine out of frustration.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Republicans appear united in proposing about $32 million in new funding toward the state’s roughly $3.2 billion K-12 education budget. A GOP-controlled Senate education committee voted 9-6 Thursday for the 1 percent increase. The vote comes one day after the education committee in the Republican-majority House approved a similar measure. The funding is expected to be finalized next week. The amount is less than the $54 million increase proposed recently by Gov. Kim Reynolds.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa prison officials say the flu has contributed to the death of a 29-year-old inmate. The Iowa Department of Corrections says Rashod Develt Aldridge died Thursday morning at an Iowa City hospital. His cause of death is listed as cardiac arrest, but officials say he had been in the hospital for treatment of complications from a chronic disease and the flu. Aldridge was serving a 20-year sentence for the March 2015 stabbing death of his father, 50-year-old Roosevelt Aldridge.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A key Iowa lawmaker says there’s not enough support to advance a House measure that seeks to reinstate the death penalty in Iowa. The Des Moines Register reports that Public Safety Committee Chairman Rep. Clel Baudler, R-Greenfield, says there aren’t enough votes in the committee to advance the bill. The proposal would allow those convicted of first-degree murder to be executed by lethal injection. Iowa abolished the death penalty in 1965.