CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A Cedar Rapids woman accused of breaking the leg of a baby in her care has been charged with child endangerment causing serious injury.

Cedar Rapids television station KCRG reports that 21-year-old Victoria Stastny was operating a child day care when the 1-year-old boy was injured on July 18. The boy’s mother reported that he was screaming when she picked him up from the day. She took him to a hospital, which discovered a spiral fracture in his left femur.

Police say Stastny admitted becoming frustrated with the boy and tossing him “from one couch to another.”

If convicted, Stastny faces up to 10 years in prison. Court records indicate she is representing herself in the case.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A federal judge had ordered the appointment of a receiver to manage a 12-story historic art deco building in downtown Sioux City while foreclosure proceedings against the building’s owner and developer continue.

The Sioux City Journal reports that the order was issued Friday for the historic Badgerow Building. The move came after a federal judge in California earlier this month dismissed a bankruptcy filing by developer Mako One Corp., of Carlsbad, California.

Cedar Rapids Bank and Trust filed for foreclosure on the Badgerow Building in April, saying Mako and its partners defaulted on a $6 million bond agreement to help renovate the building. The bank said at the time that it was owed more than $4.4 million.

The Badgerow Building was built in 1933 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

BELLEVUE, Iowa (AP) — Police officers from around the country are reaching out to support a fallen Iowa officer’s son. Anamosa police Officer Mitch Kelchen died in a car crash over Labor Day weekend while off duty. After his death, Kelchen’s oldest son, Shane, collected business cards from other officers. But someone at his school destroyed the cards. Since then, police departments have sent Shane more than 10,000 cards.

Des Moines television station KCCI reports that officers from Kansas City, Kansas, got involved and presented a special gift to the family Friday in Bellevue, Iowa. They gave him two frames full of more than 150 business cards, including one of Mitch Kelchen’s cards.

Shane’s mom, Tina Kelchen, says the support her family has received since her husband’s death has been more than she expected.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs officials say an unauthorized, secret waiting list for psychotherapy appointments at Omaha’s VA hospital delayed care for 87 veterans this year.

The Omaha World-Herald reported Saturday that letters addressed to Iowa Sens. Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley and Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse blamed the unauthorized list on “training deficiencies” involving the hospital’s medical support assistants.

The VA’s response to Sasse said no employees were fired, but one employee who was involved retired and another resigned. It also said no bonuses were paid based on performance data implicated in the investigation of the secret lists.

Officials said the investigation is continuing into whether lower-ranking employees in the VA’s Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System were responsible. That should be completed by the end of the month.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — This week’s high winds in Iowa blew in a first for one electric utility. MidAmerican Energy officials tell Des Moines television station KCCI that winds blew hard enough on Monday and Tuesday for wind turbines to provide all the power needed to meet its customers’ needs for the state.

MidAmerican spokeswoman Tina Hoffman says the utility’s experts noted the wind was strong enough to produce the energy needed to power 670,000 electric customers in the state.

MidAmerican’s goal is to eventually produce 100 percent of its power with renewable resources. The company is upgrading its old wind turbines and building new ones to help reach that goal.

Much of the state saw sustained winds around 25 mph and gusts of around 40 mph on Monday and Tuesday.

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A traffic stop at around 2:50-a.m. today (Saturday) near the intersection of Corning Carl Road and 200th Street in Adams County, resulted in an arrest. The Adams County Sheriff’s Office reports Matthew Christopher Avila, of Corning, was placed under arrest for OWI/1st offense. Two passengers in his vehicle were cited for Open Container/Passenger (Over 21).

Sheriff’s officials in Montgomery County say a rural Villisca man was arrested Friday night following a traffic stop at the intersection of 155th Street and V Avenue. 62-year old Rodolfo Morales, Jr., was arrested at around 8:30-p.m. for Driving while License Revoked. Morales, Jr., was transported to the Montgomery County Jail and held on a $300 bond.

Early this (Saturday) morning, three people were arrested on drug charges in Fremont County. Sheriff Kevin Aistrope reports the Fremont County K9 Unit made contact with three individuals in the parking lot of the Sapp Brothers Truck Stop, in Percival.

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During an investigation, the three persons, two men and a woman, were arrested for possession of a controlled substance. Authorities say 29-year old Donald C. Brown, of Kansas City, MO., along with 26-year old Deandre Hodges, and 29-year old Letangdra Haggins, both from Kansas City, KS., were taken into custody and brought to the Fremont County Law Enforcement Center, where they were unable to post bond.