Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 1:40 a.m. CST

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A nonprofit group has won a $5 million grant to bolster its fight against homelessness in east-central Nebraska and southwest Iowa. Heartland Family Service says the grant from the Bezos Day 1 Families Fund grant will let it expand prevention and diversion services; dedicate rapid rehousing resources specifically to families with children; and develop a transition support team.

SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say an Iowa man rescued his dog before other people came to his rescue after he and the dog broke through lake ice in northeast Nebraska. Authorities say the dog, Jake, broke through the ice on a private lake northwest of Dakota City on Wednesday morning. Andrew Sedivy, of Sioux City, Iowa, went after his dog and got him out but also broke through into the frigid water. Rescuers used a canoe to get Sedivy out of the lake and back to dry land.

BLENCOE, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a Nebraska woman driving south in the northbound lanes of Interstate 29 in western Iowa collided with an oncoming vehicle, killing both drivers. The Iowa State Patrol says 40-year-old Angela Bender, of Omaha, Nebraska, was driving the southbound minivan Wednesday night when the collision occurred near Blencoe. The other driver killed was identified as 51-year-old Carolyn Klimper, who lived in Fort Morgan, Colorado. Three passengers in Klimper’s vehicle were injured.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Every year, Larry Hutchinson of Council Bluffs delivers hundreds of dictionaries to third-graders in several Iowa schools. The reward for Hutchinson is seeing the students’ reactions and knowing that he is, in a sense, he’s carrying on his wife’s mission since her death in 2006. Hutchinson says she was a reading teacher who she took pride in helping kids with their reading.