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.

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.