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

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A state panel that approves payment for lawsuits and settlements for the state of Iowa has approved payment of $315,000 to the parents of an Iowa State University student who died by suicide in November 2015. A jury in August found the state partially liable for the death of Dane Schussler. The lawsuit alleged the state failed to provide adequate mental health services. Schussler sought counseling at the university for anxiety and depression before he was found dead on railroad tracks in Ames.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The union representing workers at pork processing plants sued the federal government on Monday to challenge a new rule that allows companies to set line speeds and turn over more food safety tasks to company employees. The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union and local unions in Minnesota, Iowa and Kansas joined with nonprofit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen to file the lawsuit in Minneapolis federal court.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The state of Iowa has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by two women once held at a state-run juvenile home for nearly $700,000. The Iowa State Appeal Board has agreed to the settlement which pays Laera Reed and Paige Ray-Cluney more than $170,000 each and their lawyers more than $340,000. The women were held at the Iowa Juvenile Home at Toledo until it closed then sent by Iowa to a Wisconsin juvenile facility where they claim isolation and mistreatment led to suicide attempts.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa House Republicans have chosen state Rep. Pat Grassley to head their leadership team as Speaker-Select. The grandson of U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley was chosen by the GOP House caucus on Monday. The 36-year old farmer from New Hartford was first elected to the House in 2006. He operates a family farm with his father and grandfather, who also served in the Iowa House from 1959 to 1975. He takes over as speaker after a vote of the full House in January.