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

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Former Iowa congressman and businessman Berkley Bedell has died at age 98. Tom Bedell says his father died Saturday after suffering a stroke earlier in the week. Berkley Bedell represented northwest Iowa’s 6th District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1975 to 1987. He also founded Pure Fishing, a fishing tackle business, based in Spirit Lake, Iowa. Iowa Democratic Party Chair Troy Price and Fourth District Chair Penny Rosfjord said in a statement that Bedell fought hard to protect farm families in times of crisis and to help the middle class.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Pete Buttigieg is facing intense scrutiny for the first time as his outsider Democratic presidential campaign continues to roll in early-voting Iowa and New Hampshire. He is responding in his characteristic unflappable style, saying, “The more heat there is, I welcome that.” He is being pressed, especially by rival Elizabeth Warren, to disclose corporate clients he served at a top consulting firm and open his fundraising events to the media. Buttigieg is asking McKinsey & Co. to release him from a non-disclosure agreement and is weighing whether to disclose more about his key donors.

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Cory Booker says the Democratic party’s process for determining who gets on the debate stage puts “elites” and “money” in control. His Sunday remarks come as he fights to hit the polling thresholds to be on the Dec. 19 debate stage in California. The qualifying deadline is Thursday. Booker says the requirements that are for now keeping him off the stage don’t reflect the enthusiasm he’s seen from Iowa voters over a four-day tour across 12 counties. A Democratic party spokeswoman says the qualifying thresholds have remained low and saysthe party’s process has been inclusive.

WAVERLY, Iowa (AP) — A northeastern Iowa woman has been charged with non-support of a dependent adult in the May death of a 77-year-old woman who had suffered severe burns. The Bremer County Sheriff’s Office says in a news release that 56-year-old Debra Kleppe, of Tripoli, was charged Thursday in the death of Sylvia Schwerin, of Sumner. The sheriff’s office says it was notified of Schwerin’s death on May 30, a day after she was taken to a community hospital. Investigators say she had been scalded over 20 percent of her body. Officials believe the burns happened by accident, but that Kleppe failed to seek medical treatment for them.