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

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad says one of his former Lt. Governors, Joy Corning, has died at the age of 84. Corning served two terms as lieutenant governor under Branstad beginning in 1990. She had lived with a liver condition for 21 years, but she told the Des Moines Register recently that her health had been failing.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Some advocates for programs that help low-income people are expressing puzzlement over Gov. Terry Branstad’s decision to veto spending from an infrastructure fund. When he used his line-item veto authority last week to cut $1.8 million in spending approved by the Legislature, Branstad wrote that he would prefer state funds be spent on people, not buildings. But the proposed spending came from a fund that can only be used on building work.

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — A Davenport college is unveiling plans for more than $50 million in improvements to student housing, buildings, athletic fields and other aspects of campus. The Quad-City Times reports Palmer College of Chiropractic unveiled preliminary plans at a community meeting Thursday. The college hopes to make the improvements over the next 10 years. Vice Chancellor Aaron Christopher says part of the plan is already being implemented with the construction of a $14 million athletic facility.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — The eyesore that used to be the Waterloo Greyhound Park has fallen into disrepair while two groups with a claim on it battle in court. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports city officials have stopped issuing citations for broken windows, overgrown weeds and graffiti until the legal dispute between the National Cattle Congress and the Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Des Moines police are investigating after a man was found dead in a church parking lot early Sunday. The Des Moines Register reports the dead man was found in the parking lot of Zion Lutheran Church around 2:30 a.m. with a 27-year-old man who was wounded in a shooting.

Police say that at least two other people injured by gunfire in the city overnight, but it wasn’t immediately clear how many different shootings occurred. The man who died was identified as 19-year-old Ruot Gach of Carroll, Iowa. Zion Lutheran officials planned to hold their regularly scheduled worship services Sunday.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Some advocates for programs that help low-income people are expressing puzzlement over Gov. Terry Branstad’s decision to veto spending from an infrastructure fund.

When he used his line-item veto authority earlier this month to cut $1.8 million in spending approved by the Legislature, Branstad wrote that he would prefer state funds be spent on people, not buildings. But the proposed spending came from a fund that can only be used on building work.

Sen. Rick Bertrand, the Republican chairman of the subcommittee that oversees the infrastructure fund, says he doesn’t understand the veto, noting “This fund is not set up for individuals.”

When asked about the governor’s move, Branstad spokesman Ben Hammes offered a response that largely repeated the veto statement. Hammes declined to answer further questions.

Residents of Des Moines are waking up to the news another person has died as the result of a shooting, the 15^th homicide in the Capital City this year. KCCI TV reports Des Moines Police are investigating the shooting that took place in the 4300 block of Beaver Avenue in the Parking lot of Zion Lutheran Church. The incident, which happened at around 2:30-a.m., resulted in one person killed, three others injured.

Witnesses provided a potential suspect vehicle description to officers. Police later located and stopped that vehicle after a short pursuit. Inside, they found a third shooting victim. He was taken to a local hospital. Detectives are now interviewing the other people in that vehicle. A fourth victim later showed up at a local hospital.

No word yet on the conditions of the three surviving victims.

Sheriff’s Deputies in Montgomery County early this (Sunday) morning, arrested a woman for Public Intoxication. 28-year old Madison Marie Bowling, of Red Oak, was taken into custody at around 1:45-a.m. in the 700 block of E. Corning Street, in Red Oak.

Bowling was transported to the Montgomery County Jail and held on a $300 cash bond.

A western Iowa man wanted on Child Endangerment and other charges, was arrested Friday in California. Captain Todd Weddum with the Council Bluffs Police Department reports, in October 2016, Council Bluffs police detectives began to investigate 72-year old Frank French, of Council Bluffs, on allegations of abuse committed upon his teenage daughter.

In January 2017, a felony arrest warrant for French was signed, charging him with:

• 4 counts of Child Endangerment – resulting in bodily injury
• 2 counts of Child Endangerment – without no injury
• Neglect or Abandonment of a Dependent Person
• and False Imprisonment.

On May 19th, 2017, French was located and arrested in San Bernardino County, California, where he is being held as a Fugitive from Justice. Proceedings will soon begin to have French extradited back to Iowa. Details of the case, including those documented in the arrest warrant affidavit, will not be released by the Council Bluffs Police Department until French arrives back to Pottawattamie County, where he will be served with the warrant and notified of the allegations he faces.

An influential figure in Iowa politics for more than four decades has died. Former House Speaker Don Avenson, of Oelwein, died of a heart attack on Friday. He was 72. Avenson was the Democratic Party’s unsuccessful nominee for governor in 1990 and he’d been statehouse lobbyist ever since. Avenson served eight years as House Speaker, the legislature’s most powerful post. No other speaker has had a longer tenure. Jerry Fitzgerald struck up a friendship shortly after the two were elected to the Iowa House nearly 45 years ago. Fitzgerald says Avenson was “a towering figure” with shrewd deal-making skills.

Fitzgerald was with Avenson when he died. The two had been vacationing. They were driving through Nebraska when Avenson suffered a heart attack. Republican Terry Branstad, who defeated Avenson in the 1990 race for governor, issued a written statement Saturday, calling Avenson a “strong and effective legislator…who cared deeply about…the people of Iowa.”

Avenson steered the Groundwater Protection Act through the legislature in 1987 as well as a bill that dramatically reorganized the executive branch of state government. Avenson was an avid outdoorsman and a voracious reader of non-fiction. Several years ago, Avenson tracked down every book about the Lewis and Clark Expedition that was still available in print and he read each one.

Avenson is the father of three adult children as well as grandchildren. He and his wife Diane were married in 1964 and have made their home in Oelwein. He joined the family business after college and became president of Oelwein Tool and Die Company in 1984.

(Radio Iowa)