Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Officials say no one was hurt when a deer slammed into the window of a restaurant in Sioux City. The City Journal reports the 4-point buck hit the exterior glass of a double-paned window at Rebos yesterday afternoon. The interior window did not break and the deer did not enter the restaurant. Sioux City Animal Control officials say the deer was badly wounded in the incident. It was later euthanized.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The head of Iowa’s workforce agency is defending herself against accusations of mismanagement. Iowa Workforce Development Director Teresa Wahlert came before the Senate Government Oversight Committee on Wednesday. During two days of hearings, a former workforce judge has said he was unfairly fired and staffers questioned why they were told to keep quiet about the agency’s decision to grant unemployment benefits to people who didn’t seek them earlier this year.

CHARLES CITY, Iowa (AP) — A man in northern Iowa has been arrested after authorities say he made threatening statements against school children. Acting Floyd County Attorney William Baresel said Wednesday that Loren Saxon was arrested Sunday. He faces charges of terroristic threats and public intoxication.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s appeals court has upheld the murder conviction of a Waterloo man linked to a 2011 gang-related shooting. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier says the Iowa Court of Appeals ruled in a decision issued Wednesday that gang evidence and a police interview were properly used in the trial of Montez Caples.