Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 1:40 a.m. CST

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A nonprofit group has won a $5 million grant to bolster its fight against homelessness in east-central Nebraska and southwest Iowa. Heartland Family Service says the grant from the Bezos Day 1 Families Fund grant will let it expand prevention and diversion services; dedicate rapid rehousing resources specifically to families with children; and develop a transition support team.

SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say an Iowa man rescued his dog before other people came to his rescue after he and the dog broke through lake ice in northeast Nebraska. Authorities say the dog, Jake, broke through the ice on a private lake northwest of Dakota City on Wednesday morning. Andrew Sedivy, of Sioux City, Iowa, went after his dog and got him out but also broke through into the frigid water. Rescuers used a canoe to get Sedivy out of the lake and back to dry land.

BLENCOE, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a Nebraska woman driving south in the northbound lanes of Interstate 29 in western Iowa collided with an oncoming vehicle, killing both drivers. The Iowa State Patrol says 40-year-old Angela Bender, of Omaha, Nebraska, was driving the southbound minivan Wednesday night when the collision occurred near Blencoe. The other driver killed was identified as 51-year-old Carolyn Klimper, who lived in Fort Morgan, Colorado. Three passengers in Klimper’s vehicle were injured.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Every year, Larry Hutchinson of Council Bluffs delivers hundreds of dictionaries to third-graders in several Iowa schools. The reward for Hutchinson is seeing the students’ reactions and knowing that he is, in a sense, he’s carrying on his wife’s mission since her death in 2006. Hutchinson says she was a reading teacher who she took pride in helping kids with their reading.

One person was transported to the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, following a rollover accident Thursday evening, south of Anita. Rescue crews were dispatched to the scene at the intersection of Glendale Road (Cass County Road G-27) and 750th Street (Highway 148), just before 6-p.m.

Dispatch reports indicated the vehicle apparently failed to stop at the t-intersection and went off the road. Initial reports said two people were hurt, but only one was transported to the hospital. Anita Rescue and Wiota 1st Responders, Medivac Ambulance and the Cass County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene.

No other details are currently available.

SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say an Iowa man rescued his dog before other people came to his rescue after he and the dog broke through lake ice in northeast Nebraska. The Dakota County Sheriff’s Office says the dog, Jake, broke through the ice on a private lake northwest of Dakota City on Wednesday morning. He’d chased after a goose that had been shot. Thirty-year-old Andrew Sedivy, of Sioux City, Iowa, went after his dog and got him out but also broke through into the frigid water.

Sheriff’s deputies, the landowner and other hunters used a canoe to get Sedivy out of the lake and back to dry land, where he and Jake were later treated for their dunking.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A nonprofit group has won a $5 million grant to bolster its fight against homelessness in east-central Nebraska and southwest Iowa. Heartland Family Service says the grant from the Bezos Day 1 Families Fund grant will let it expand prevention and diversion services; dedicate rapid rehousing resources specifically to families with children; and develop a transition support team.

The grant was one of 24 totaling $97.5 million unveiled Tuesday by the Bezos Day One Fund. Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos announced in September that he’s giving $2 billion to help open preschools in low-income neighborhoods and aid homeless families.

Heartland Family Service was founded in 1875 and serves more than 52,000 individuals annually from more than 15 locations in east-central Nebraska and southwest Iowa. It is based in Omaha.

ANKENY, Iowa (AP) — A trucking company is having a $9 million operations and training center built in Ankeny. The Des Moines Register reports that Ruan Transportation Management Systems says the project will create at least 40 new jobs. The company also plans to relocate more than 100 positions to the Ankeny facility from offices in Des Moines. Ruan President Dan Van Alstine says Ruan has been looking for a place to expand and add training space for drivers and office staff.

City documents say Ankeny will provide Ruan with tax increment financing rebates worth an estimated $262,000 over five years. Construction is expected to begin in early 2019 and conclude in the fall.

MONTEZUMA, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a 6-year-old boy died after he, another child and a man fell through pond ice in central Iowa. The accident occurred around 2:45 p.m. Wednesday at a privately owned pond in Montezuma. First responders were able to get all three out of the frigid water and send them to hospitals. The Poweshiek County Sheriff’s Office says the boy was pronounced dead at a Grinnell hospital. The girl was flown to a Des Moines hospital, and the man was hospitalized in Grinnell. Their names and their relationships to each other have not been released.

(Radio Iowa) — A state law passed in 2012 called on Iowa schools to identify struggling readers and improve the quality of reading instruction. In one central Iowa elementary school, reading aloud is being emphasized. Brian Vaughn, principal of Cornell Elementary in the Saydel Community School District, says  “Our staff has spent multiple weeks teaching, modeling, observing, conferring, self-reflecting on what fluent readers look and sound like in our classrooms.”

“Cornell students,” according to Vaughn, “now know that to be a fluent reader, they need to pay attention to their automaticity — reading quick, smooth and accurate; phrasing — making sure that my group of words sound like talking — and monitoring of expression, “to make sure their voice matches the punctuation.”

Vaughn says his teaching staff is building a “community of readers” with these strategies. “Our work here was to get students to start thinking about themselves as a reader,” Vaughn says, “because knowing one’s self as a reader has empowered them to take charge of their own learning and reach those fluency goals.”

The most recent STATEWIDE data found about 70 percent of kindergarten through third grade students in Iowa’s public and private schools are reading at or above grade level.