OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Results from a monthly survey of business supply managers show a slight slip in the economic conditions in nine Midwest and Plains states. The Mid-America Business Conditions Index report released Monday says the overall economic index for the region dropped to 60.1 in March from 60.5 in February. It’s the first index decline in five months.

Creighton University economist Ernie Goss oversees the survey, and he says the figures still point to a healthy regional manufacturing economy. The survey results are compiled into a collection of indexes ranging from zero to 100. Survey organizers say any score above 50 suggests growth in that factor. A score below that suggests decline.

The survey covers Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – A man convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the heroin overdose death of a West Des Moines woman is scheduled to be sentenced next month. On Friday a Polk County jury also found 30-year-old Travis West guilty of delivery of a controlled substance. His sentencing is set for May 18.

Authorities say West provided the heroin to 26-year-old Bailey Jo Brady, who was found unconscious in an apartment on June 5, 2015. She died later at a hospital.

Police in Red Oak, Sunday night, arrested a man for Domestic Abuse Assault/1st offense. 40-year old Richard Allen Straw, of Red Oak, was taken into custody at around 8:25-p.m. in the 200 block of W. Washington Avenue. Straw was brought to the Montgomery County Jail and held without bond until making an appearance before a magistrate.

And, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports 21-year old Chase Paul Palmer, of Red Oak, was arrested at around 8:27-a.m. Saturday, for Interference with Official Acts.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:45 a.m. CDT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa union leaders approached this legislative session with apprehension but say they never envisioned lawmakers would approve such dramatic changes governing worker rights and pay. GOP legislators, with support from Republican Gov. Terry Branstad, tightened the workers’ compensation system, limited the scope of collective bargaining rights for public employee unions and banned local minimum wage increases. Republicans say the changes will spur business activity.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Prolonged protests in North Dakota have failed to stop the flow of oil through the Dakota Access pipeline, but they’ve provided inspiration for protests against pipelines around the country. Tactics used in North Dakota such as resistance camps, social media and online fundraising are now being used against pipeline projects in nearly a dozen states. Some people don’t think their efforts will pan out under the Trump administration, which strongly backs the fossil fuel industry.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say an Iowa man’s drowning in the Mississippi River might have been avoided if the 52-year-old had been wearing a life jacket. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports James Kenneth Freeman of Lansing, Iowa, drowned Friday after his fishing boat capsized and went under the dam gates near Genoa, Wisconsin.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police are investigating a shooting that injured five people in Des Moines early Sunday. Investigators found more than 40 shell casings and evidence of drug activity at the scene of the shooting near J&J Pizza.