Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A woman accused of leaving her children home alone, including one child covered in feces, has pleaded guilty to one of the charges against her as part of a deal with prosecutors. The Des Moines Register reports that 26-year-old Destinee Miller, of Des Moines, appeared Thursday in Polk County District Court and pleaded guilty to neglect or abandonment of a dependent person. She faces up to 10 years in prison when she’s sentenced March 26.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A Lake City farmer has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for committing fraud to get bank loans, crop insurance proceeds and ease a bankruptcy burden. Federal prosecutors say 36-year-old Clint Devries was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty in September to two counts of making false statements and one count of bankruptcy fraud.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa mother accused of leaving her four children home alone while traveled to Germany could avoid a prison sentence. The Des Moines Register reports that prosecutors have offered to drop a gun charge against 31-year-old Erin Macke and give her a deferred judgment if she pleads guilty to four counts of child endangerment. Macke is currently charged with the four counts plus one count of making a firearm available to a person under 21. Police say she left four kids all 12 and under alone.

KENSETT, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa State Patrol says one person was killed and two were injured, including a sheriff’s deputy, in separate crashes on Interstate 35 in north-central Iowa. The Mason City Globe Gazette reports that the crashes both happened Friday night on the same stretch of the southbound lanes of the interstate near Kensett. A semitrailer driver was injured when his rig hit a bridge support. Later, a driver rear-ended a sheriff deputy’s SUV at the crash site. That driver died, and the deputy was hurt.