SCOTT CITY, Mo. (AP) — A southeast Missouri man is facing charges after one of his stepchildren shot video that allegedly shows him beating the child’s sibling.

The Southeast Missourian reports that 40-year-old Anthony Wayne Harris of Scott City is charged with second-degree domestic assault, child abuse and felonious restraint. He was arrested Monday after the biological father went to police and provided the cell phone video.

Police say the video shows Harris striking the 12-year-old child in the throat, repeatedly punching the child in the back, slapping the child in the face and other abuse.

Harris is jailed on $20,000 bond and does not yet have an attorney.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — State auditors say the Kansas Department for Children and Families is struggling to adequately oversee private foster care contractors, putting children in the system at risk.

Shortly after the 59-page audit was released Wednesday, two Democratic senators called for department Secretary Phyllis Gilmore to resign.

Among other things, auditors said the agency has implemented only one of nine recommendations in a 2013 assessment of services. It also said the department doesn’t ensure that background checks of individuals in foster homes are as frequent and thorough as they should be.

Some state lawmakers sought the audit in response to reports of children dying or being mistreated while in the agency’s care. The audit did not address allegations that the agency discriminates against same-sex couples when deciding where to place children.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A drug used to sedate elephants and other large animals that is 100 times as potent as the fentanyl already escalating the country’s heroin troubles is suspected in spates of overdoses in several states.

Authorities say they’ve found carfentanil mixed with or passed off as much weaker heroin.

A central Ohio man suspected of selling carfentanil as heroin was indicted this week on charges including murder in connection with 10 overdoses, including one death. Investigators are still trying to track down the source.

Carfentanil also has been suspected in overdoses or found in Akron and Cincinnati, central Kentucky and western Florida.

A coroner in Cincinnati warned that the overdose antidote naloxone might not be enough to save people overdosing on carfentanil.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former St. Louis police detective who admitted beating a handcuffed suspect faces more than four years in federal prison for a civil rights violation.

Thomas A. Carroll pleaded guilty earlier in St. Louis to a felony count of deprivation of rights under color of law. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Carroll was sentenced Wednesday to four years and four months in prison.

Authorities allege Carroll was on duty in July 2014 when he assaulted an arrested man who was found to have a credit card belonging to Carroll’s daughter and stolen from her car.

The case led to the resignation of a city prosecutor, Bliss Worrell, who pleaded guilty to charges accusing her of concealing her knowledge of Carroll’s assault. She awaits sentencing.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Court of Appeals has reversed a portion of the fraud convictions of a former lottery official accused of fixing a Hot Lotto game in Iowa in 2010.

The court on Wednesday upheld a fraud charge against Eddie Tipton related to tampering with lottery computers, but threw out the charge related to attempting to cash the lottery ticket.

Tipton contends that evidence at his July 2015 trial was insufficient to support allegations that he tampered with computers to enable him to buy a winning ticket.

A jury convicted him on both counts and he was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

The court’s ruling sends the case back to district court for dismissal of one count and resentencing likely to five years in prison.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — No one has matched the jackpot-winning numbers in Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing.

The prize has increased to an estimated $478 million.

The next drawing will be Saturday. Nearly three months have passed without a winner of the big prize.

The chance of winning the Powerball is incredibly small, at 292.2 million-to-1. But players have much better odds, of about 1 in 25, of winning smaller prizes ranging from $4 to $1 million.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A suburban Kansas City man has been sentenced to seven years in prison after a house fire killed his 14-month-old daughter and a friend.

Thirty-five-year-old Stephen Elijah of Grandview was sentenced Wednesday in Jackson County for two counts of involuntary manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a child. Elijah was acquitted in May of an arson charge.

The September 2014 blaze killed 14-month-old Se’Asia Elijah and 37-year-old Anika Hobley of Kansas City. Two girls in the home escaped and alerted a neighbor.

When fire crews arrived, they found Elijah trying to put out the fire with a garden hose. He told police when he poured gasoline on a fire that was about to go out, the gas can exploded. He threw the can against a wall and the fire spread.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Fire officials say an explosion that leveled an Omaha house and killed one person was an accident. Property inspector Clara Bender died at a hospital following the Monday afternoon blast that also heavily damaged four adjacent homes and injured two other people.

Interim Omaha Fire Chief Dan Olsen says the gas started flowing into the house on Saturday after people moving a clothes dryer didn’t properly shut off a natural gas line.

In a report released Wednesday, authorities say the movers reported the smell of gas to the tenant, who called Bender’s cellphone and left a message to report the gas smell. Officials say it’s not known whether Bender received the message before she entered the house on Monday.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An analyst at the Iowa state crime laboratory has been let go after posting a racist rant on her Facebook page saying she no longer trusts or feels safe around blacks.

The Iowa Department of Public Safety said Wednesday that criminalist Amy Pollpeter, a 10-year employee, was terminated Tuesday.

Pollpeter lashed out at the Black Lives Matter movement — and all blacks in general — in a Facebook post July 8, which was first reported by the Des Moines Register.

Her rant came one day after the killing of several police officers in Dallas by a black man who shot them during a protest over police brutality.

Pollpeter wrote that, “BECAUSE OF BLACKS” she now does notice skin color and “frankly, I no longer feel safe around them.”