DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — An eastern Iowa school superintendent says he intends to resign this week, saying he’s failed to adequately address issues regarding minority students. Davenport Superintendent Art Tate also said Friday that he’d become a liability in the district’s dealings with the state. The district is under state supervision because a disproportionate number of minority students have been identified for special education and subject to disciplinary actions. Also, the Iowa Board of Education Examiners reprimanded Tate in August for intentionally overspending. He’s said was trying to make up for discrepancies in the state per-pupil funding.

Last week the district received unwelcome attention following a report that one of its elementary teachers wore blackface to a public Halloween party. In April Tate announced his intention to retire next June .

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A trial is scheduled to start Dec. 3 for a man accused of robbing a bank in the northwest Iowa community of Moville. Court records show that 43-year-old Brendon Reed pleaded not guilty Friday in U.S. District Court in Sioux City to bank robbery. Authorities say he robbed United Bank of Iowa in Moville of nearly $14,000 on March 30. He was apprehended later that day after crashing a stolen car during a chase by officers near Salix.

He’s pleaded guilty to stealing the car and has been sentenced to 10 years in an Iowa prison.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A former Omaha Tribal official who admitted using federal funds to give himself a bonus has been sentenced to probation and ordered to pay restitution. The Sioux City (Iowa) Journal reports that former council member Doran Morris Jr. was given five years of probation at his sentencing Friday in U.S. District Court in Omaha. Morris was ordered to pay restitution of more than $13,400. He’d pleaded guilty to misapplication of health care benefit program funds.

Prosecutors say nine former and current officials misused federal funds by awarding themselves nearly $389,000 in bonuses. Officials say the bonuses were paid from Indian Health Service funds meant to provide health care to members of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska, who reside on the Omaha Reservation in Macy in northeastern Nebraska and in western Iowa.

Police in Creston report four arrests. Taken into custody Friday afternoon, was 29-year old Eric Shinn, of Creston. Shinn was arrested for Possession of a Controlled Substance/Methamphetamine – 1st offense. He was being held in the Union County Jail on a $1,000 bond. Saturday morning, a Creston man reported to police, that sometime overnight Friday into early Saturday morning, someone broke out the window to his vehicle, while it was parked in the 500 block of S. Oak Street. The damage was estimated at $500.

Creston Police arrested 37-year old Brian Smith, of Creston, Saturday night. Smith was arrested at the Union County LEC (Law Enforcement Center), for OWI/1st offense. He was later released on a $1,000 bond. At around 12:40-a.m. Sunday, police in Creston arrested 28-year old Ryan Wortman, of Shannon City. Wortman was charged with Public Intoxication and later released on a $300 bond. And, at around 2:25-a.m. Sunday, 30-year old Matthew Clucas, of Van Buren, AR, was arrested in Creston, also for Public Intox. Clucas was released from the Union County Jail after pleading guilty to the charge.