Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Gov. Terry Branstad has pardoned two turkeys as part of an annual Thanksgiving tradition in Iowa. Branstad issued the special proclamation Monday outside Terrace Hill in Des Moines for two turkeys named Zoey and Spike. Branstad noted during brief remarks that the birds had survived bird flu this year. The disease killed more than 1.1 million turkeys in the state.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a woman has been killed in a single-vehicle crash in Des Moines that also injured a man. Des Moines police say 22-year-old Scalicity Boyd was a passenger in a vehicle that struck a utility pole Monday morning. The driver, 24-year-old Troy Lee Mure Jr., was injured and transported to a local hospital.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa regulators are transferring money that they had withheld for months from university research centers that study alternative energy and global warming. Yesterday’s reversal by the Iowa Utilities Board comes after critics said the board was violating the law by hanging on to $5.1 million that it collected from utilities.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa egg farms are gradually recovering from the bird flu that destroyed 25 million of the state’s egg-laying hens this spring. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says in a report Monday that Iowa egg production during October was 753 million eggs. That’s up 2 percent from September but down 47 percent from a year ago. Iowa, typically by far the nation’s leading egg producer, fell behind Ohio.