Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:00 a.m. CDT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds says she will announce in September whether she’ll need to call a special session to address a budget shortfall. The Republican governor told reporters Tuesday she is still reviewing financial information for the budget year that ended in June. The nonpartisan Legislative Services Agency said this summer that Iowa’s roughly $7.2 billion budget was facing a revenue shortfall of about $100 million. The agency warned the figure could fluctuate.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds says the state agency that advocates for the elderly and disabled will review its budget in an effort to avoid some cuts to staff visits at facilities like nursing homes, but she didn’t offer specifics. The Republican governor told reporters Tuesday her office is communicating with the office of the Iowa Long-Term Care Ombudsman to review options. The ombudsman’s office says reductions to its budget would limit staff travel to facilities like nursing homes.

VERSAILLES, Mo. (AP) — The father of a 20-year-old man who drowned in a Missouri lake while he was handcuffed will be able to attend the sentencing of a highway patrol trooper involved in the case. Craig Ellingson, the father of Brandon Ellingson, of Clive, Iowa, was concerned last week that a judge’s schedule would prevent him from speaking at the sentencing for Trooper Anthony Piercy. The hearing has been rescheduled for Sept. 19, which will allow Ellingson to attend.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man has been found guilty of a lesser charge in the 2015 shooting death of a Waterloo resident. Prosecutors had charged 39-year-old Steve Fordyce, of Denver, Iowa, with first-degree murder for the August 2015 death of 43-year-old Donald Harrington. The Courier reports that a bench trial was held earlier this month, and on Tuesday, District Judge David Odekirk in Black Hawk County found Fordyce guilty of voluntary manslaughter.

VERSAILLES, Mo. (AP) — The father of a 20-year-old man who drowned in a Missouri lake while he was handcuffed will be able to attend the sentencing of a highway patrol trooper involved in the case.

Craig Ellingson, the father of Brandon Ellingson, of Clive, Iowa, was concerned last week that a judge’s schedule would prevent him from speaking at the sentencing for Trooper Anthony Piercy. The Kansas City Star reports a judge rescheduled the hearing for Sept. 19 in Versailles, Missouri, which will allow Ellingson to attend.

Piercy avoided an involuntary manslaughter trial by pleading guilty in June to the misdemeanor boating violation. In May 2014, Piercy pulled Brandon Ellingson over on the Lake of the Ozarks. Ellingson drowned after he was thrown from the boat while wearing an improperly secured life vest.

In an update to an earlier post: Officials with the AHST-W School District posted this evening on their social media site, that a District School Bus was involved in a collision with a car southeast of Walnut at Highway 83 and 570th Street. Seven students were on board the bus. Two were transported to the hospital as a precautionary measure. Two people in the car were also transported to the hospital.

Walnut Rescue, Medivac and the Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene. No other information was immediately available. (All photos submitted to KJAN)

Details are sketchy, but reports in to KJAN this evening indicated an accident took place this afternoon between a car and and AHSTW School District bus. The accident happened on Highway 83, near (southeast of ) Walnut. Walnut Rescue, Medivac and the Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office were on the were on the scene.

No other information was immediately available. (All photos submitted to KJAN)

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds says the state agency that advocates for the elderly and disabled will review its budget in an effort to avoid some cuts to staff visits at facilities like nursing homes, but she didn’t offer specifics. The Republican governor told reporters Tuesday her office is communicating with the office of the Iowa Long-Term Care Ombudsman to review options.

The ombudsman’s office announced recently that reductions to its state-appropriated budget, which is just above $1 million, would limit staff travel to facilities like nursing homes. The travel is aimed at monitoring conditions.

Reynolds says a large portion of the office’s budget is salaries and administrative costs, so officials may try to use resources differently. She declined to clarify if that could lead to layoffs at the ombudsman’s office.

The Page County Sheriff’s Office reports 43-year old Joe Edward Harris, of Shenandoah, was arrested today (Tuesday), after Harris turned himself in on a Page County warrant for Violation of a protection order.  Harris was booked into the Page County Jail on $300 bond.

Joe Edward Harris