Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CDT

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — The city with Iowa’s highest black population has settled lawsuits against white police officers who roughed up three African-American residents, including a 13-year-old girl who was handcuffed after yelling at a passing officer to “slow down.” The cases reveal how Waterloo’s overwhelmingly white police force has an often-rocky relationship with black residents. The city’s insurer is expected to pay $170,000 to settle three lawsuits, and an unspecified additional amount to the girl’s family.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A National Park Service report says the agency is “astonished” that superintendents at a Native American burial site in Iowa were able to break the law and damage its resources over two decades. The agency released a 50-page review Thursday examining what went wrong in two high-profile debacles at Effigy Mounds National Monument in northeast Iowa.

BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — A Des Moines County jury has found a former Burlington city councilman guilty of four felony counts of sexual abuse involving teenage girls. The Hawk Eye reports that after two days of deliberations, the jury found Chris King guilty on Thursday. King had maintained that sex with the girls was consensual, but prosecutors said the girls were incapacitated by alcohol King provided and unable to consent to sex.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Authorities in North Dakota have arrested a dozen people protesting the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline. Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said the 12 arrests as of Thursday evening were for disorderly conduct or criminal trespass. The pipeline would start in North Dakota and pass through South Dakota and Iowa before ending in Illinois.