DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Dubuque will spend $1.5 million over seven years to buy and rehab housing in some of the community’s poorest neighborhoods. The Telegraph Herald reports that City Council approved an agreement Monday with True North Community Development Corp. to work on up to 50 residential properties in the city’s low-income neighborhoods, such as the North End.

The rehabbed homes will be sold to those making 80 percent or less of the area’s median income, which would be no more than $53,100 for a family of four. The city will also provide homebuyers with up to a $25,000, no-interest loan. Homeowners would be required to keep the property a single-family home for 21 years.

Council Member Jake Rios cast the only dissenting vote. He says he’s worried about gentrification and displacing low-income residents.

ALGONA, Iowa (AP) — A northern Iowa man accused of stabbing to death his live-in girlfriend has pleaded not guilty. Kossuth County District Court records show 45-year-old Chad Dietrick entered a written plea Friday to a charge of first-degree murder. His trial is scheduled to begin May 15. The records say deputies and medics sent March 3 to handle a domestic dispute found 38-year-old Krista Hesebeck had died at the home she and Dietrick shared in Lakota. He was found at his parents’ Lakota home. The records say he told deputies that he’d stabbed Hesebeck, who had also lived in Atlantic prior to moving to Lakota.

Sheriff’s officials in Mills County report 61-year old Thomas Harry Lebischak, of Randolph, was arrested near Highway 275 and Keys Avenue, Monday evening. Lebischak was taken into custody for Eluding, and Use of an Electronic Communication Device. His bond was set at $1,000.

CHARLES CITY, Iowa (AP) — A woman has pleaded guilty to stealing from a bank and a bank customer in northern Iowa. Court records say 34-year-old Cassandra Lane, of Charles City, entered the written pleas to two felony counts of theft. Her sentencing is scheduled for May 14. Court documents say she stole $13,300 from the customer and nearly $4,000 from the bank while working from October 2016 to August 2017 at the First Security Bank and Trust branch in Charles City.

The documents say her plea deal includes five years of probation and suspended fines and deferred judgments. Under deferred judgments, Lane’s convictions may be removed from her record if she successfully completes the terms of her probation. The judge is not bound by the plea agreement.