Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:00 a.m. CDT

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — About 180 Army Reserve Soldiers based in Sioux City are preparing to be deployed to the Middle East. Maj. William Geddes says soldiers in the 960th Quartermaster Company will deploy to Kuwait and Iraq on Sunday. A send-off ceremony is set for 1 p.m. Saturday at East High School in Sioux City. The company’s mission will be to supply ammunition, fuel and portable water purification.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A judge has suspended prison sentences for two women who pleaded guilty in connection to a staged Sioux City bank robbery. Nineteen-year-old Heaven Zevenbergen and 19-year-old Angelica Perez had been sentenced to five years in prison in February after pleading guilty to second-degree theft as part of a plea agreement. District Judge Jeffrey Neary suspended the remainder of their sentences Tuesday, and placed them on five years of probation. Neary said the original prison terms were meant to be “shock sentencing,” which is used to deter offenders from future criminal behavior. He said he always intended to reconsider the women’s sentences.

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — A Dubuque man is charged with child endangerment after authorities say he let his 7-year-old son drive a car that later crashed into a utility pole. The vehicle had left the scene of the crash in Dubuque by the time authorities arrived Saturday afternoon. Court documents say when police later located the damaged car in an alley, 28-old Wesley Rainer told police his son wanted to drive the car.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — The City Council again has effectively rejected a plan to seek a National Park Service grant to help fund a $2.6 million white-water park and kayak course near downtown Waterloo. The council voted 3-2 Monday to seek the $750,000 grant, but the resolution required four votes to pass. The council first voted 3-1 last week to seek the grant, with Councilman Jerome Amos Jr. absent. He requested the reconsideration.