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

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Officers responding to a domestic disturbance at a Cedar Rapids apartment shot and killed a 25-year-old man suspected of stabbing his children’s mother. The Division of Criminal Investigation says both officers responding to Monday night’s call fired their service weapons at Markell Bivins, who died of his injuries. Bivins is suspected of stabbing 25-year-old Raelynn Finn multiple times. Finn has undergone surgery for her injuries and is expected to live.

MAXWELL, Iowa (AP) — The men and women who grew what’s expected to be the biggest corn crop the United States has ever seen won’t benefit from the milestone. Prices are so low that for the third consecutive year, most corn farmers will spend more than they earn. It’s a similar story for soybean producers. That’s left farmers across the country cutting costs, dipping into savings or going further into debt to make it through the year.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A woman accused of stealing money from a Mason City dental office where she’d worked for years has pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud in the case. Federal prosecutors say 58-year-old Pamela Harris, of Mason City, was the office manager of the dental practice of Drs. Blake Barnes and Michael Louscher, and had been an employee for 21 years. Prosecutors say that from 2005 through May 2014, she stole nearly $500,000 from the practice.

ASTON, Pa. (AP) — Donald Trump is rolling out a plan aimed at making child care more affordable, guaranteeing new mothers six weeks of paid maternity leave and suggesting new incentives for employees to provide their workers childcare. Spurred on by his daughter, Ivanka, Trump waded into topics more often discussed by Democrats.

A tip from authorities in Denver, Colorado, Tuesday, resulted in the arrest in Red Oak, of a man wanted on sexual assault charges. According to Red Oak Police, their department was notified by Denver Police, that 23-year old Jacoby Tyrell Tubbs, was residing in Red Oak.

Tubbs was found in the 1600 block of E. Summit Street and taken into custody on a Fugitive from Justice Charge, in Iowa. He was being held at the Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center without bond, pending a hearing and extradition to Colorado, where Tubbs was wanted on two felony warrants for Sexual Assault with Force, and Sexual Assault Aiding and Abetting by another.

Voters casting their ballots Tuesday during a Special Election for a Voter Approved Physical Plant and Equipment Levy (VPPEL) have said YES to a request by the Atlantic School District to have an income surtax blended with the property tax the District collects, to fund school infrastructure, equipment, repairs, purchases and improvements over $500 or for capital improvement projects.

Unofficial results from the Cass County Auditor’s Office show there were  351 Yes votes (61.63%) and 221 NO votes (38.64%). A simple majority was needed in order for Public Measure B to pass. The results will be canvassed during a meeting of the Cass County Board of Supervisors next Monday morning.

School officials had said in the months leading up to Tuesday’s vote, that if they would have been able to use an income surtax for the VPPEL in the past, it would’ve reduced the property tax by 60-cents per $1,000 of taxable valuation. Approval means patrons of the district will pay no more than 85-cents per thousand dollars of taxable property valuation each year annually (for up to 10-years), plus up to 20-percent of an Iowa Income Surtax for each individual income taxpayer in the district, with the amount of the surtax to be determined by the School Board each year. The total taxation cannot to exceed $1.34 per $1,000 of assessed property value in any one tax year.

The Income Surtax will begin December 31st for each calendar year, commencing with the 2017 calendar year, and the PPEL itself will begin with the levy of property taxes for collection in the fiscal year that begins July 1st, 2017. School Board Vice President Kristy Pellet said back in July, that the combined PPEL and Income Tax Surtax would essentially make it fairer, because more people would contribute to the PPEL, not just property owners.

A similar Measure placed before the voters last fall, failed.