Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:30 a.m. CST

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Donald Trump’s election and Republicans’ firm grip on Congress have raised the National Rifle Association’s hopes of seeing a sweeping expansion of gun rights. The gun lobby’s priorities include eliminating gun-free zones at schools and allowing anyone with a concealed carry permit issued by one state to carry the weapon into any other state.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Iowa and Nebraska legislators are preparing a new push for gun-rights laws next year, and they may be in a good position to succeed after past failures. Republicans will soon control both the Iowa House and Senate, and in Nebraska, a leading gun-rights advocate said he’s hopeful newly elected conservative senators will support a proposal that could overturn local gun restrictions in Omaha and Lincoln.

CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) — Oil pipeline protesters are pledging to remain camped on federal land in North Dakota, despite a favorable government ruling and an imminent deadline to leave. Monday’s government-imposed deadline for the protesters to depart the property comes a day after the Army Corps of Engineers refused to let the company extend the pipeline beneath a Missouri River reservoir. Despite the deadline, authorities say they won’t forcibly remove the protesters.

FOREST CITY, Iowa (AP) — Arson and burglary charges against a former Forest City officer have been dismissed. The Mason City Globe Gazette reports that prosecutors have determined that without a confession and other evidence thrown out by state courts, they cannot get a conviction against Thaddeus Ellenbecker, who was convicted in 2012 of arson and burglary. In 2014, the Iowa Court of Appeals ordered a new trial for Ellenbecker because officers didn’t read him his Miranda rights before the questioning.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Attorney General’s Office has launched a review of the operations of Goodwill Omaha in the wake of an Omaha World-Herald investigation showing the charity’s top executives have been paid more than Goodwills nationwide.

The Omaha World-Herald reports state law empowers the attorney general to protect the financial assets of Nebraska charities. The newspaper reported in October that longtime Goodwill Omaha CEO Frank McGree received total compensation of $933,444 in 2014.

Also, 13 of the nonprofit’s executives were paid more than $100,000 in 2014, siphoning a significant portion of the $4 million generated from Goodwill’s stores in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa from job-training programs. McGree, who had led the Omaha charity for 30 years, announced his resignation in late October.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Iowa and Nebraska legislators are preparing a new push for gun-rights laws next year, and they may be in a good position to succeed after past failures. Republicans will soon control both the Iowa House and Senate, and in Nebraska, a leading gun-rights advocate said he’s hopeful newly elected conservative senators will support a proposal that could overturn local gun restrictions in Omaha and Lincoln.

In Iowa, numerous attempts to pass gun-rights legislation have stalled in the Democratic-led Senate. That could change, however, once Republicans officially take the majority in January.

In Nebraska, gun-rights advocates will push again for a bill that would prohibit local governments from imposing gun restrictions that go beyond state law. A similar measure was narrowly defeated by a filibuster earlier this year.

Officials with the Cass County Health System (CCHS) report a Public Hearing will be held Tuesday morning (Dec. 6th) in Atlantic, with regard to the issuance of Revenue Refunding Bonds in an aggregate amount not to exceed $21-million . The Cass County Memorial Hospital (CCMH) Board of Trustees Special Meeting takes place in CCMH Conference Room 1, beginning at 8-a.m.

The purpose of refinancing, according to officials, is to take advantage of the current low interest rate. Following the Public Hearing, the Board will act on approving a Resolution “Authorizing and Approving Supplements to an indenture of Trust Providing for the issuance of Revenue Refunding Bonds in an Aggregate Amount not to Exceed $21,000,000 (21-million dollars), Bond Purchase Agreement Providing for the Sale of Bonds and Other Documents Relating to the Bonds.”

Sheriff’s Deputies in Montgomery County arrested a woman early this (Sunday) morning, on a warrant out of Page County, for Providing False Information on a permit to acquire a firearm. Authorities say 59-year old Patricia Lee Graham, of Villisca, was taken into custody at around 1:25-a.m., in Villisca. Graham was turned over to Page County authorities. She was being held at the jail in Clarinda on a $5,000 bond.

(Updated 5:26-a.m. 12/4/16) A 39-year old Council Bluffs Police Officer was injured, and another person died, when a vehicle struck the officer’s cruiser as he was handling traffic control Saturday afternoon. According to Bluffs’ Police, Officer Josh Horner, a seven-year veteran of Council Bluffs, was conducting traffic control on southbound Interstate 29 near 25th Street at around 3:30-p.m., when his vehicle was rear-ended. The officer was transported to the Creighton Hospital Emergency Room for treatment. The driver of the vehicle that struck his car was transported to Nebraska Medicine, where he died.

The victim was identified as 72-year old Bertram Ellis, of Houston, TX. The accident is being investigated by the Council Bluffs Police Department Traffic Unit.