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

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A judge has suspended the prison sentence of a Sioux City woman serving 10 years for selling synthetic marijuana that caused the death of another teen. The Sioux City Journal reports that 19-year-old Rose Mouw, who was sentenced in May, had her remaining prison term suspended Wednesday. She was placed her on four years’ probation. For the death last year of 18-year-old Austin McCloud.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Linn County supervisors have taken a first step toward increasing the county’s minimum wage. KCRG-TV reports the supervisors voted Wednesday for a Linn County increase of the state’s current minimum wage of $7.25 an hour to $8.25 on Jan. 1, 2017. The wage would increase by a dollar in January 2018 and another dollar in January 2019, when it would remain at $10.25 an hour. Officials must vote twice more at meetings Sept. 6 and 12 before the wage increase would become law.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Arrests have been made during protests against the construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota and Iowa. Authorities cut free a man who bound himself to construction equipment and arrested two protesters Wednesday near St. Anthony, North Dakota. The site is about 20 miles west of the main protest near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, where construction has been halted for days. In Iowa, arrests were made after protesters blocked access to a construction staging site.

EVANSDALE, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say no one was injured in an Evansdale metal recycling business in eastern Iowa where a fire broke out. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that the fire started sometime after 6 p.m. Tuesday, after the business had closed for the day. No one was in the building at the time of the fire.