DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A 26-year-old Des Moines father has been arrested and charged after investigators say he left his 4-month-old daughter with a serious head injury last year. Station WHO-TV reports that Zachary Wallace was arrested early Friday morning and booked into the Polk County Jail. He’s charged with child endangerment causing serious injury and neglect or abandonment of a dependent person.

Police say medics were called to Wallace’s home on Aug. 10 for an unresponsive infant. Doctors say the baby was exhibiting seizure-like symptoms and had suffered a brain bleed. Wallace told investigators she fell from a bed, but doctors say she would not have been able to inflect such a severe injury on herself.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines has announced its newest addition: a 6-foot, 125-pound giraffe. The zoo says in a news release that the male calf was born Monday to Skye, a 6-year-old giraffe that has lived at the zoo since 2015. The father is Jakobi, a 15-year–old giraffe that has sired several calves over the years. Beginning Jan. 28, the zoo will release several possible names and will ask the public to vote on their favorite.

Voting will be free, although people will be able make a donation in honor of the new calf. The Blumenthal indoor giraffe viewing area is currently closed to the public to allow mother and calf to bond.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The jackpot for the Mega Millions lottery game has grown to $1 billion ahead of Friday night’s drawing after more than four months without a winner. That record drought is thanks to bad luck, poor odds and reduced play partially blamed on the coronavirus pandemic. It’s only the third time a lottery jackpot has grown so large, but much has changed since the last time such a big prize was up for grabs in 2018.

And even as the huge Mega Millions prize and a $731.1 million Powerball jackpot won Wednesday by a single ticket sold in Maryland have juiced sales for the games, Maryland lottery director Gordon Medenica noted: “We’re not out of the woods yet.”

The Page County Sheriff’s Office reports a traffic stop in Essex a little after 12-a.m., Thursday, resulted in an arrest. During the stop 21-year-old Quinn Robert Hall, of Red Oak, was arrested for OWI/1st Offense. Hall was transported to the Page County Sheriff’s Office for further testing, and booked into the Page County Jail on $1,000 bond, pending further court proceedings. Hall was also cited for Speeding.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A right-wing conspiracy theorist from Iowa seen prominently in videos taunting a U.S. Capitol police officer and pursuing him up stairs during the Jan. 6 riot may be released from jail as he awaits federal court hearings in Washington. U.S. Magistrate Judge Celeste Bremer said in an order signed Thursday that Douglas Jensen may be released but he must remain in jail until Jan. 27 to give federal prosecutors time to appeal her decision.

This photo provided by Polk County (Iowa) Jail shows Douglas Jensen. Authorities have arrested Jensen from Des Moines, Iowa, who allegedly took part in the riot at the U.S. Capitol building by supporters of President Donald Trump. Police Sgt. Paul Parizek said Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021, that officers assisted the FBI in arresting Jensen on Friday night at his home. (Polk County (Iowa) Jail via AP)

If there is no appeal, Jensen will be released that day to home confinement in Des Moines and electronic monitoring by probation officers. His federal public defenders asked for his release until his next court hearing.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The jackpot for the Mega Millions lottery game has grown to nearly $1 billion ahead of Friday night’s drawing after more than four months without a winner. That record drought is thanks to bad luck, poor odds and reduced play partially blamed on the coronavirus pandemic. It’s only the third time a lottery jackpot has grown so large, but much has changed since the last time such a big prize was up for grabs in 2018.

And even as the huge Mega Millions prize and a $731.1 million Powerball jackpot won Wednesday by a single ticket sold in Maryland have juiced sales for the games, Maryland lottery director Gordon Medenica noted: “We’re not out of the wood yet.”

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The former CEO of Make-A-Wish Iowa has been arrested and charged with first-degree theft and unauthorized use of a credit card. Records show that 40-year-old Jennifer Woodley, who now lives in North Carolina, was booked at the Polk County Jail in Des Moines on Thursday evening and released. The criminal complaints against her weren’t immediately available.

This Jan. 21, 2021, photo provided by the Polk County Jail in Des Moines, Iowa shows Jennifer Woodley. Former Make-A-Wish Iowa CEO Jennifer Woodley is charged with first-degree theft and unauthorized use of a credit card. The organization announced last summer that she had been terminated as CEO after it discovered financial irregularities during a compliance review. (Polk County Jail via AP)

The organization announced last summer that it had discovered financial irregularities during a compliance review and that Woodley had been dismissed after serving as CEO for one year.