Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:35 a.m. CST

EARLVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say the husband of a woman killed in what was initially believed to be a fatal fall at a northeastern Iowa farm has been charged with her murder. The Delaware County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Thursday that 42-year-old Todd Michael Mullis had been arrested on a warrant charging him with first-degree murder in the Nov. 10 death of 39-year-old Amy Lynn Mullis. An autopsy shows Amy Mullis was stabbed multiple times in the back with a corn rake.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The state of Iowa settled sexual harassment claims against an agency director for $4.15 million after one victim’s lawyer threatened to sue before the November election and to investigate the harasser’s long association with Gov. Kim Reynolds. Records show Attorney Paige Fiedler backed off her plan to file the lawsuit after a top state lawyer told her Nov. 1 that he had “just got authority this morning” to settle from the governor’s administration. The agreements were negotiated weeks later.

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa farm and its managers have been given probation in a water pollution case. Federal prosecutors for Iowa said in a news release that Etcher Family Farms owner Scott Allen Etcher was sentenced Tuesday to five years of probation. Farm manager Benjamin Allen McFarland was sentenced to two years’ probation. Officials say that in July 2015, McFarland _ at the direction of Etcher _ dumped agricultural waste at the New London farm that ended up in Big Creek.

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (AP) — Police in central Iowa say no one was hurt when officers executing a search warrant at a Marshalltown home fired their guns. Marshalltown police say in a news release that the incident happened around 10:20 a.m. Thursday when the officers entered the home and encountered an armed man. Neither the man nor the officers were injured, and the man was detained. The two officers who fired their service weapons have been placed on paid administrative leave.