Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CST

URBANDALE, Iowa (AP) — A central Iowa couple face charges after police say they left their 9-month-old baby home alone for hours to go to a bar. Television station KCCI reports that police arrested 22-year-old Bryan Austin McCrea Bozarth and 20-year-old Ashley Lee Routh King on Friday. Each has been charged with child endangerment, and King also faces an underage drinking charge.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A lawsuit has been filed seeking to represent hundreds of victims of a former Iowa youth basketball coach now facing 15 to 180 years in prison for sexually exploiting them. The lawsuit was filed Friday by law firm Grefe & Sidney and names as defendants former Iowa Barnstormers coach Greg Stephen, the Barnstormers organization and its supervising organization, the Amateur Athletic Union. Stephen pleaded guilty last month to sexual exploitation and child porn charges and is awaiting sentencing.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Officials in Iowa City are reminding residents to compost their fall pumpkins and leftover Halloween jack-o-lanterns instead of trashing them. To do this, residents are asked to put pumpkins with yard waste collection, which is composted. Residents who do not receive curbside services can take pumpkins at no cost to the City’s compost facility located at the Iowa City Landfill and Recycling Center.