IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Senate is slowing down the confirmation of Geri Huser as the Iowa Utilities Board chairwoman after The Associated Press revealed her extensive private legal work. Members of the Senate commerce committee had been scheduled Tuesday afternoon to consider Huser’s appointment for a second two-year term as board chairwoman. But they pulled her from the calendar after the AP reported that she has maintained a busy law practice on the side.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A tiger at the Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines has died of cancer. The Des Moines Register reports that the 6-year-old Siberian tiger named Max died March 21. Zoo spokesman Ryan Bickel says Max showed signs of illness in late February. A necropsy performed at Iowa State University identified lymphoma, a type of cancer, as the cause of Max’s illness and death.

KEOKUK, Iowa (AP) — Supervisors in southeastern Iowa’s Lee County have approved a minimum wage increase, even after state lawmakers passed a bill that would ban local governments from increasing the minimum hourly wage. The Hawk Eye reports that Lee County supervisors voted 4-1 Tuesday to raise the county’s minimum wage to $8.20 an hour _ 95-cents above the current minimum of $7.25 an hour.