Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — MidAmerican Energy says thousands of customers have their power back following severe weather in the area this week. The company says about 500 customers remained without power last night.

RUNNELS, Iowa (AP) — Officials have determined a sinkhole in the Polk County town of Runnells was caused by an old septic tank, not an abandoned mine as some suspected. A state environmental engineer, Mike Bourland, tells The Des Moines Register there were coal mines in the area. But environmental engineers that dug into the sinkhole yesterday determined it wasn’t an entrance to a mine.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Des Moines police say a man has died after two vehicles hit the all-terrain vehicle he was riding on a city street. Police say the crash happened Thursday night when the driver of a four-wheel ATV, 29-year-old Daniel Halterman, apparently failed to halt at a stop sign.

FAYETTE, Iowa (AP) — A man has been accused of assaulting people at a rural retirement home in northeast Iowa. The Fayette County Sheriff’s Office arrested 21-year-old Matthew Saul of Waterloo after responding Wednesday night to a report about an out of control man at Prairie View Residential Care Facility in Fayette. Authorities did not release additional information about the case.