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

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe says it has found several sites of “significant cultural and historic value” along the path of a proposed oil pipeline. The tribe is challenging the Army Corps of Engineers’ decision to grant permits for Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners’ $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline. Tribal preservation officer Tim Mentz says researches found cairns, burials and other sites of historic significance to the Standing Rock Sioux and other tribes.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld the first-degree murder conviction of an Iowa man for killing a northeast Nebraska woman. Raymond Gonzales Jr., of Sioux City, Iowa, was convicted in 2014 and sentenced to life for shooting 28-year-old Bonnie Baker 16 times in her South Sioux City home on Dec. 15, 2013. On Friday, the state’s high court rejected arguments by Gonzales of prosecutorial misconduct and that jurors should have been instructed that they could find him guilty of manslaughter.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Environmental Council says Iowa has set a new state record for the number of beach advisories issued because of toxic algae dangers. The council says 37 beach advisories have been issued this year because of a toxin produced by blue-green algae blooms in water. That surpasses last year’s previous record of 34 warnings.

BLUE GRASS, Iowa (AP) — Sheriff’s officials have identified a construction work killed when the driver of a speeding car apparently lost control in a work zone near the southeast Iowa city of Blue Grass. The Scott County Sheriff’s Office says 62-year-old Willie Holley, of Rock Island, Illinois, was killed in the Thursday crash. Officials say a deputy spotted the speeding car on Highway 61, but that it entered a work zone before she could pull it over.