MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) – A Des Moines Area Community College administrator has been chosen as president of North Iowa Area Community College.  The Mason City Globe Gazette reports  the North Iowa Area Community College board of directors approved a contract for Steven Schulz on Thursday. His salary will be $165,000. Schulz has worked as provost at the Carroll campus of Des Moines Area Community College since 2006.  He replaces Debra Derr, who left North Iowa for a position in Oregon.

Schulz attended the board meeting with his wife and two daughters, who are students at Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa.  Schulz grew up in Franklin County and says he’s honored to be chosen for the position.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – A 25-year-old man won’t be prosecuted on charges that he shot a foreign exchange student outside a Sioux City bar last year.  The Sioux City Journal reports that authorities say Solomon Harris has been found mentally incompetent to stand trial.

Harris had yet to enter pleas to the charges, which included assault. Harris is accused of shooting 20-year old Natacha Butera, who is from Rwanda. Police say Harris fired the gun while arguing with another man on Nov. 18, but the bullet struck Butera in the chest and an arm.

Harris’ attorney, Greg Jones, says he and prosecutors met with a district judge on Thursday to discuss where Harris should be committed for treatment and safekeeping. Another judge has ruled that Harris poses a danger to the public.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – A Lincoln, Nebraska man has admitted robbing two banks in Nebraska and one in western Iowa. The Lincoln Journal Star says 53-year-old Cameron Mitchell made his guilty pleas Thursday in a federal courtroom in Lincoln after making a deal with prosecutors.

While being questioned by U.S. Magistrate Judge Cheryl Zwart, Mitchell acknowledged robbing a Union Bank branch in Lincoln on July 16, 2012, a First National Bank branch in Omaha on Aug. 13, 2012, and an American National Bank branch in Council Bluffs, on Aug. 24, 2012.  Prosecutors say Mitchell carried a small-caliber gun during each robbery.

Mitchell agreed that restitution of more than $74,000 would be ordered as part of his sentence. He’s scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 14.