Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:45 a.m. CDT

BROOKLYN, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa highway patrolman who was recently elected to the Legislature wrote almost no tickets to his future constituents as he made his first run for public office. The annual number of citations issued by Trooper Jon Thorup plummeted in 2018 as he campaigned for the Iowa House. He issued 8 tickets, or 1 for every 45 issued by the average trooper statewide. Thorup says he should have written more but that his priority was responding to calls in rural areas.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence took a look at the raging Elkhorn River at the small town of Waterloo, Nebraska, which found itself cut off from the outside world last week by floodwaters. Pence met with a group of first responders who helped pluck people from their flooded homes along the river’s banks.

ANKENY, Iowa (AP) — Police in the Des Moines suburb of Ankeny say an officer has shot a burglary suspect who advanced on officers. Police say the incident happened around 4 a.m. Tuesday when Ankeny officers were called to a car wash for a burglary in progress. Police say arriving officers a masked man inside the business, and Officer Tony Higgins fired when the man advanced on Higgins and other officers. Police have identified the suspect as 27-year-old Myles Matthew Regenold. He is expected to recover.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Police in eastern Iowa say officers and firefighters have found the body of a person in a burning car. The Iowa City Police Department says in a news release Tuesday that the body was found after first responders were called just before 11 p.m. Monday to a car on fire in an Iowa City parking lot. The person’s identity has not yet been released.