IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Board of Regents is considering tuition hikes at the state’s three public universities next school year to help offset millions in budget cuts.

The Press-Citizen reports the proposal would increase in-state base tuition for undergraduates by $216 for the 2017-18 academic year at the University of Iowa, Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa.

ISU and UNI officials requested the increase be applied across the board, including for international, out-of-state, graduate and professional students. The move is expected to generate an additional $7.1 million at ISU and $2 million at UNI.

But UI officials have requested a 3.8 percent increase for other tuition classifications. That would increase base tuition for non-resident undergraduates by at least $1,078, generating an additional $16.5 million for UI.

What some have said was a “suspected drug house,” in Bridgewater, was destroyed by fire late Friday night, the cause of which is under investigation. A dispatcher at the Adair County Sheriff’s Office told KJAN News the fire in the 300 block of N. Main Street was reported right around 10-p.m.

Sources say the home was vacant and slated for demolition. Photos posted on the “Take Back Bridgewater” social media page, show the house fully engulfed in flames more than an hour later.

No injuries were reported. No other details are currently available.

The house on fire (Photo’s from the Take Back Bridgewater Facebook page used with permission

The structure before the fire

A traffic stop Friday evening in Fremont County resulted in the arrest of a Nebraska man. Sheriff Kevin Aistrope reports at around 7:10-p.m., deputies with the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office stopped a 1998 Ford F150 for speeding in the 2400 Block of Highways 59, east of Riverton.

The driver, 19-year old Logan Last, of Shubert Nebraska, was arrested for Possession of a Controlled Substance 2nd Offense, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, and Possession of a handgun by a felon.

Last was being held at the Fremont County jail on $5000 bond.

Logan Last