Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 4:55 a.m. CST

GUTHRIE CENTER, Iowa (AP) — Authorities believe the pilot of a small plane that crashed in central Iowa, killing all four people on board, may have suffered a heart attack. The Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office says in a news release that a student pilot was going to attempt an emergency landing Friday night because the pilot apparently had a heart attack, but the plane dropped off radar southwest of Guthrie Center airport.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The city of Omaha and its fire and police departments are teaming up with the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots program to help make the holiday season memorable for less-fortunate children. The program gives to children in Omaha and neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa, Lincoln and the Hastings and Grand Island areas. Most Omaha fire stations and police precincts will be accepting public donations of new, unwrapped toys through Dec. 1.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Agribusiness experts say high production costs and low commodity prices are forcing more and more dairy farmers out of business in Iowa and other dairy states. Experts say the global flood of milk has depressed prices to about half what they were in 2014, and they still haven’t hit all-time lows. University of Wisconsin-Madison dairy policy analyst Mark Stephenson says the U.S. needs a significant increase in exports to bring about a dramatic improvement in prices.

Sheriff’s officials in Guthrie County this (Saturday) afternoon, released the names of four people, including three adults and one teenager, who died in a single engine airplane crash Friday evening while en-route from LeMars to Osceola. The victims were identified as the pilot, 49-year old  Edward Ralph Anderson, and his passengers 36-year old Patrick Kellen, and 15-year old Samantha Clark, all of LeMars, along with 28-year old Tyler Douvia, of Merrill, Iowa. The deceased occupants of the plane have been transported to the Iowa Medical Examiner’s Office. The crash site is being secured pending an investigation by the FAA.

Authorities say a little after 5-p.m. Friday,  the Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office received a phone call from Des Moines Air Traffic Control requesting an emergency landing for a single engine aircraft tail# 91770 at the Guthrie Center Airport. Des Moines Traffic Control advised the pilot had suffered a heart attack and a student pilot would be attempting an emergency landing.

Guthrie Center Fire and Rescue along with Panora Rescue were dispatched to the Guthrie Center Airport for the emergency landing. The aircraft never arrived at the airport. Des Moines Traffic Control reported the aircraft dropped off radar approximately 4 miles southwest of the Guthrie Center Airport. The aircraft had left Le Mars, Iowa at around 4:15-p.m..

The Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office launched an extensive search and rescue mission to locate the aircraft. The Sheriff’s office utilized the assistance of the Iowa State Patrol, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Adair County Sheriff’s Office, Dallas County Sheriff’s Office, Carroll County Sheriff’s Office, Panora police Department, Stuart Police Department, Guthrie County Emergency Management, Guthrie Center Fire and Rescue, Panora Fire and Rescue, and numerous other law enforcement, fire, and rescue agencies.

At around 6:30-a.m. Saturday (Today), a Guthrie County Citizen reported a small plane crash in a cow pasture southwest of the intersection of 265^th and Maple Avenue. The plane was identified as the missing aircraft. It had impacted the terrain very hard before skidding to a stop. (All photo’s below supplied by the Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office)

GUTHRIE CENTER, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a small plane crashed in central Iowa, killing all four people on board, including a teenage girl. Guthrie County Sheriff’s Deputy Jesse Swensen says the plane was reported missing shortly after it took off Friday evening from the Le Mars Municipal Airport in northwestern Iowa. He says the wreckage was found at around 6:30 a.m. Saturday in a cattle pasture southwest of Guthrie Center, which is about 115 miles southwest of Le Mars.

Airport manager Tom Mullally confirmed Saturday that there were three men and a 16-year-old girl on the plane. He declined to release their names or discuss what may have caused the crash. Earlier reports indicated the pilot may have suffered a heart attack and a student pilot was taking over the controls.

Mullally says he expects federal safety officials to arrive at the scene some time today (Saturday).

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The city of Omaha and its fire and police departments are teaming up with the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots program to help make the holiday season memorable for less-fortunate children. The program gives to children in Omaha and neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa, Lincoln and the Hastings and Grand Island areas.

Most Omaha fire stations and police precincts will be accepting public donations of new, unwrapped toys through Dec. 1. Two Men and a Truck will be picking up the donations from all locations beginning Dec. 3.

A map of all toy drop-off locations can be found online . Donated toys should be for children between birth and mid-teens. The charity cannot to accept realistic looking weapons or gifts with food.

w/ Chris Parks

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The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office released details on three arrests in Villisca on Friday evening.

At approximately 8:52pm Deputies arrested 43-year-old Jason William McCollum of Villisca for Assault Causing Bodily Injury. He was arrested in the 400 block of E 2nd Street in Villisca and taken to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $1,000 bond.

At 8:59pm Deputies arrested 29-year-old Jeremy John Beedle of Villisca also in the 400 block of E 2nd Street in Villisca. Beedle was charged with Criminal Mischief 3rd Degree. He was taken to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $2,000 bond.

At 9:06pm Deputies arrested 63-year-old Deborah Kay McCollum of Villisca for Burglary 3rd Degree. She was arrested in the 100 block of E 4th Street in Villisca and taken to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $5,000 bond.

The Red Oak Police Department reports the arrest Friday of 42-year-old Willard Edward Frazier of Red Oak for Driving While Barred and Failure to have SR-22 Insurance. Frazier was arrested during a traffic stop in the 300 block of East Maple Street in Red Oak at 9:00pm. Frazier was taken to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $2,000 bond.

The Red Oak Police Department reports the arrest of a Red Oak woman on Friday evening. At 9:47pm Officers arrested 25-year-old Ashley Dawn Eden of Red Oak for Terroristic Threats to a Postal Employee, a Class B Felony. She was taken to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $25,000 cash bond.

(Radio Iowa) — Republican Congressman Steve King says he’s ready to mount a vigorous defense of the president in the U.S. House Judiciary Committee next year. King predicts “a good number” of Democrats will try to impeach the president once Democrats take the majority in the House in January. “I sit on the House Judiciary Committee, you know, up on the top bench. I will be third in seniority, I believe, so if they try to bring impeachment of President Trump through the Judiciary Committee, I’ll be sitting there doing battle with all of the vigor that I can to defend this president and help him be as effective as he can be,” King says. “I dread that. I don’t look forward to that, but it must be done.”

Once he returns to Washington, King plans to confront Ohio Congressman Steve Stivers, the head of the National Republican Congressional Committee. On October 30th, Stivers took to Twitter to say the country “must stand up against white supremacy and hate” and Stivers “strongly” condemned King. “When he criticized me, that lended validity to the charges made by all the Democrats…and I believe Steve Stivers was worth to my opponent at least $1.5 million for what he said and so there will be a reckoning for that kind of behavior and I would say of Steve Stivers, he has no path to leadership for the rest of his political life, but that’s not enough,” King says. “He and I haven’t had a conversation yet, but you can just about imagine how that’s going to go.”

King won his eight previous races for congress by an average margin of 23 percent. His victory margin in 2018 was about two percent. “I feel like Kirk Ferentz when the Hawkeyes beat Michigan State in a triple overtime,” King says. “I talked to him after the game and he said: ‘We cut that one a little close.'” J.D. Scholten, the Democrat who came within two points of defeating King this year. King has accused his critics of trying to “Kavanaugh-ize” him in the closing weeks of the election.

“The people over here knew better, on balance,” King says. “It peeled some off. It may have peeled off 15-18 percent, but in the end I’d stopped into 382 towns. Our staff has been there every year, in each town, and I got to all 39 counties at a minimum every year and that’s what sustained the victory here.” Scholten has not ruled out another run against King in 2020. Long-time Iowa Congressman Berkley Bedell and Senator Tom Harkin — who was first elected to the House — were both elected in their second try for a House seat.

(Radio Iowa) — A faculty member and alumna of a struggling Iowa college is donating half a million dollars to keep the school open. Iowa Wesleyan. Biology professor Dolores Poulter Wilson wants her school in Mt. Pleasant to stay open much longer than that.

“I could do a whole lot with a half million dollars. That even staggers me, you know? But what would’ve been the gain there? And we’re at a critical point,” Wilson says. Wilson says she graduated from Iowa Wesleyan with one dollar and 87 cents to her name, and that she only got her degree because of the school’s scholarships and donations. She went on to teach a the school for 56 years.