Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:35 a.m. CDT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to make his first visit to Iowa since he acknowledged he’s considering seeking the 2020 Democratic nomination for president. Biden is planning to headline a rally in Cedar Rapids on Tuesday for in support of Democratic candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and Congress. The candidates include Abby Finkenauer, a House candidate who worked for Biden during his unsuccessful 2008 campaign for the presidential nomination.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Native American tribe plans to open a casino on the Iowa-Nebraska border next week, despite a pending legal challenge from both states. The Omaha World-Herald reports that the Prairie Flower casino in Carter Lake will open at noon on Nov. 1. The Ponca Tribe announced the opening in a press release Thursday. The project’s first phase will include 9,500 square feet of space, 200 slot-style games and a full-service bar and snack bar.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An eastern Iowa hospital is suing the insurance companies that oversee the Iowa Medicaid program claiming they have cost the small rural hospital thousands of dollars in patient revenue by refusing to fully reimburse the hospital for services provided to Medicaid-covered patients. Virginia Gay Hospital located in Vinton also alleges the ineffective appeals process set up by Amerigroup, UnitedHealthcare and AmeriHealth Caritas was “virtually a sham.”

BAGLEY, Iowa (AP) — A Guthrie County mother charged after her 11-month-old son drowned in a bathtub has pleaded not guilty. Court records show Seaira Briceno entered her pleas earlier this month to child endangerment. The Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office says Briceno’s baby drowned Aug. 10 when she left him and his 2-year-old brother in the tub at their Bagley home. Briceno told investigators she left the boys for about five minutes, but deputies believe the children were left alone longer.

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — A Dubuque man has been given two years of probation for lying to Medicaid about care he provided for his father. The Telegraph Herald reports that 35-year-old Nicholas Brown also was recently sentenced to a two-year prison term, suspended, and told to pay more than $1,000 in damages to the Iowa Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.