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

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Regulators have found serious workplace safety violations at a state-run psychiatric hospital in Iowa where combative patients have assaulted employees. A recent inspection found that employees at the Independence Mental Health Institute struggle to manage violent outbursts due to inadequate emergency plans, low staffing, ineffective communication and dissatisfactory safety shields. Inspectors ordered the state to fix seven serious safety violations and proposed a $72,770 fine.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A half-dozen or so of the Democrats running for president are languishing at the bottom of polling less than three months before the Iowa primaries. Yet they are continuing to campaign, a resolve bolstered in part by some concerns over the lineup of top contenders and the belief that the race could be upended. One of those candidates, Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, says everyone goes up and down in polls and that he needs to be organizing and catching fire as the voting begins.

LE MARS, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a man burned in a fire at a northwest Iowa hog confinement has died. Le Mars Fire-Rescue says 38-year-old Jorge Orozco died Saturday at St. Elizabeth Burn Center in Lincoln, Nebraska. He’d been flown there after being taken in a private vehicle on Sept. 30 to Floyd Valley Healthcare in Le Mars. The hog confinement sits about 5 miles northwest of Le Mars. Orozco lived in Sioux City.