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

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An outspoken critic of Iowa’s Medicaid privatization process says he has been removed as a chairman of a state council that monitors the state’s shift to private management of its $5 billion Medicaid program. The Des Moines Register reports David Hudson says Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has dropped him from the Medical Assistance Advisory Council for apparently pushing back too hard against the privatization scheme.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A spokesman for a central Iowa nonprofit crime-stopper organization says the reward fund for a missing University of Iowa student has grown to more than $300,000 and is likely to continue climbing. Greg Willey, spokesman for Crime Stoppers of Central Iowa says the Mollie Tibbetts reward fund has reached $301,363 a record for the organization that was incorporated in 1982.

EDDYVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a man died after a boat capsized on the Des Moines River in southern Iowa. Rescuers were sent to a spot on the southern end of Mahaska County around 7 p.m. Sunday to check a report about a capsized boat and people in the water. The Mahaska County Sheriff’s Office says 46-year-old Martin Almond was found unconscious in the river and that he was declared dead later at a hospital. He lived in Oskaloosa.

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — A Chicago man accused of trying to kill his estranged wife has been sentenced to 25 years in an Iowa prison. The Telegraph Herald reports that 51-year-old Clifford Smiley was sentenced Monday. Prosecutors say Smiley stabbed his estranged wife in a Dubuque store parking lot on April 1.