Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press…

OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) — After a second day of deliberations, jurors haven’t reached a verdict at the trial of an Iowa man charged in the 1974 slaying of a 17-year-old girl. Wapello County jurors left yesterday after meeting all day to consider the case against Robert “Gene” Pilcher. Deliberations resume today.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Authorities have captured an Iowa inmate accused of walking away from a work release center. The U.S. Marshals Service say in a news release that 25-year-old Derrick Dejuan Hoover was arrested Thursday after Des Moines police located him during a traffic stop. Authorities say Hoover cut off his monitoring device and walked away from the Fort Des Moines Work Release Center on January 7. He had been ordered to live at the center as a condition of release for federal convictions.

LOGAN, Iowa (AP) — Residents in the western Iowa city of Logan have been asked to conserve water as officials investigate a possible leak in the distribution system. The Department of Natural Resources says the amount of water coming into the city from four wells has been gradually decreasing over several weeks. Workers spent the weekend looking for a break in a line but have been unsuccessful.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Democrats who hold the majority in the Iowa Senate want to boost state education funding for the 2015 school year. But the Republican governor and Republicans controlling the state House have shown little interest in considering the proposal this year. Under state law, the General Assembly is supposed to establish funding levels more than a year in advance. Legislators have not always followed that law.