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

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A new computer algorithm is helping the FBI identify bodies found years or even decades ago. The agency has looked at fingerprints from about 1,500 bodies and succeeded in making 204 matches to prints previously on record. The new system is able to make matches from low-quality prints or even a single finger or thumb. The unit is now urging local authorities to search through other old case files and send in smudged or partial prints that couldn’t previously be matched.

LE MARS, Iowa (AP) — A judge has dismissed a murder charge filed against an Akron woman at the request of prosecutors who want more time to investigate the case. The Sioux City Journal reports District Judge John Ackerman on Monday granted the request to dismiss a second-degree murder charge against Becky Hebert. She was arrested after the Oct. 6 shooting death of her husband, 40-year-old Jeremy Hebert. Plymouth County Attorney Darin Raymond sought more time to investigate medical reports and cell phone records.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Magazine publisher Meredith Corp. is suing the federal government claiming the Internal Revenue Service forced the company to overpay federal income tax by $12 million. The publisher of Better Homes & Gardens, Martha Stewart Living and Family Circle asked the court to force the government to refund the money in a lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in Des Moines, where the company is based.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Polk County judge has dismissed a lawsuit that claimed members of the Iowa Board of Regents violated the state open-meeting law by gathering privately with the man they later chose as president of the University of Iowa. The Des Moines Register reports the judge Monday dismissed the lawsuit filed by former university employee Gerhild Krapf. Krapf alleged that five of the nine-member board inappropriately met with former business executive Bruce Harreld by holding multiple gatherings.