BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — A Burlington man has been charged with felony child endangerment after police say he intentionally knocked his son from a car seat because the infant would not stop crying. The Hawk Eye reports that 30-year-old Joseph Michael Hartman was arrested Thursday night on a warrant.

Police say Hartman admitted becoming angry on Dec. 19 because the 5-month-old baby was crying uncontrollably. Police say Hartman also admitted knocking the car seat holding the baby off a kitchen table, causing the infant to fall head-first onto the floor, with the car seat falling on top of him. Police say Hartman then picked up the baby and violently shook him.

The baby was taken to a hospital on Dec. 28. The condition of the infant has not been released.

Two men were arrested late this week on separate charges, in Page County. Sheriff Lyle Palmer said today (Friday), 33-year old Christopher Joseph Janik, of Clarinda, was arrested at around 12:40-p.m. Thursday, on a Pottawattamie County warrant for a parole violation.  Janik was arrested at the Page County Sheriff’s Office and booked into the Page County Jail without bond.  He was later transferred to the Pottawattamie County Jail for further court proceedings there.

And, at around 5-p.m. Tuesday, a traffic stop was conducted in the 600 block of Iowa Avenue in College Springs, on a black Ford Ranger for a traffic violation.  The operator and only occupant, 25-year old Ian Richard Alexander MacVenn, of College Springs, was arrested for Driving under a suspended driver’s license.  MacVenn was transported to the Page County Jail as he was unable to post bond.  He was also issued citations for other traffic infractions.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Authorities have charged a Council Bluffs woman who they say tried to help her daughter fraudulently claim a lottery scratch-off ticket prize of $50,000. Court records say 61-year-old Michelle Lett is charged with lottery theft or forgery — the same charge her 19-year-old daughter, Katelyn Dolezal, faces. Lett’s attorney, Christopher Roth, says she intends to plead not guilty.

Iowa law requires players to be 21 or older. Authorities say Dolezal was 19 when she bought the winning ticket Nov. 18. Court records say her mom went to the Iowa Lottery office in Council Bluffs to claim the prize, and a check was issued in Lett’s name.

Police say Dolezal later called the lottery office for help, saying her mother wasn’t going to share the money with Dolezal.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court is allowing a woman to sue her boss and the small insurance agency company he led for sex discrimination and emotional distress.
The decision released Friday (Today) lets Joanne Cote take her case to a jury, but it’s more broadly significant because it means incorporated small businesses in Iowa cannot avoid compliance with the Iowa Civil Rights Act.

The case centers on the Derby Insurance Agency in Sioux City, its owner Kevin Dorn and Cote, the office manager. Cote alleged Dorn repeatedly showed his genitals at the office. Cote sued in 2014 but Dorn tried to dismiss the lawsuit, citing a 1965 Iowa law exempting businesses with fewer than four employees, excluding family members, from Iowa Civil Rights Act compliance.

The court says incorporated businesses can’t use that law to escape civil rights actions.

OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) — Police say a 16-year-old who took a loaded handgun into Ottumwa High School has been charged with a felony. The Ottumwa Courier reports that the school resource officer and a school administrator found the gun and a knife blade in the student’s backpack Thursday morning. He was arrested and charged with carrying a weapon on school grounds. The Associated Press generally doesn’t name juveniles accused of crimes.

The school district says the boy showed the gun to another student, who then notified a teacher who alerted the resource officer. The officer and the administrator removed the boy from a classroom and then searched the backpack. His parents were notified. It’s unclear why the boy was armed.

The Mills County Sheriff’s office reports today (Friday), 56-year old Scott Michael Mathews, of Glenwood, was arrested Thursday afternoon. Mathews was taken into custody for Harassment in the 1st Degree. His bond was set at $2,000.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities in Nebraska say a man traveling from California to Des Moines (IA) was arrested following a traffic stop on eastbound Interstate 80 in eastern Omaha at around 10:30-p.m. Thursday, after drugs were found in his sport utility vehicle. The Douglas County (Nebraska) Sheriff’s Office says the deputy who pulled over the SUV became suspicious and deployed his patrol dog. The office says the dog alerted the deputy to the presence of drugs in the SUV.

A search turned up 23 bags containing nearly 27 pounds of marijuana and 2,000 vials of what deputies suspect is hash oil. The Sheriff’s Office says the driver was arrested on suspicion of possession for sale and of other crimes.