OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Figures from a survey of supply managers in nine Midwest and Plains states have risen slightly but still suggest slow or no economic growth ahead. A report issued Thursday says the Mid-American Business Conditions index inched up to 47.8 in August from 47.6 in July. The survey results are compiled into a collection of indexes ranging from zero to 100. Survey organizers say any score above 50 suggests economic growth. A score below that suggests decline.

Creighton University economist Ernie Goss oversees the survey, and he says he expects the regional economy to underperform the national economy because of the region’s heavy dependence on manufacturers linked to the weak sectors of agriculture and energy.

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

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

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A judge has suspended the prison sentence of a Sioux City woman serving 10 years for selling synthetic marijuana that caused the death of another teen. The Sioux City Journal reports that 19-year-old Rose Mouw, who was sentenced in May, had her remaining prison term suspended Wednesday. She was placed her on four years’ probation. For the death last year of 18-year-old Austin McCloud.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Linn County supervisors have taken a first step toward increasing the county’s minimum wage. KCRG-TV reports the supervisors voted Wednesday for a Linn County increase of the state’s current minimum wage of $7.25 an hour to $8.25 on Jan. 1, 2017. The wage would increase by a dollar in January 2018 and another dollar in January 2019, when it would remain at $10.25 an hour. Officials must vote twice more at meetings Sept. 6 and 12 before the wage increase would become law.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Arrests have been made during protests against the construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota and Iowa. Authorities cut free a man who bound himself to construction equipment and arrested two protesters Wednesday near St. Anthony, North Dakota. The site is about 20 miles west of the main protest near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, where construction has been halted for days. In Iowa, arrests were made after protesters blocked access to a construction staging site.

EVANSDALE, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say no one was injured in an Evansdale metal recycling business in eastern Iowa where a fire broke out. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that the fire started sometime after 6 p.m. Tuesday, after the business had closed for the day. No one was in the building at the time of the fire.

A man from Nebraska was injured Wednesday afternoon during a collision on Interstate 29, in Fremont County. The Iowa State Patrol says 26-year old Wilmer Hernandez Gonzalez, of Lincoln, NE., was a passenger in a 2007 Mazda that was rear-ended on I-29 northbound near Hamburg, just before 2-p.m., Wednesday.

A pickup, driven by 80-year old Charles Cook, of Sherwood, AR, was coming up from behind the car, when Cook misjudged the speed of the Mazda. His 2011 Chevy Silverado struck the car, causing the collision. The car came to rest on the traveled portion of the road, while the pickup ended-up in the north ditch.

Hernandez-Gonzalez, who was wearing a seat belt, was transported by Hamburg Rescue to Grape Community Hospital in Hamburg, for treatment of non-life threatening injuries. No other injuries were reported.

The Iowa State Patrol was assisted at the scene by the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office, along with Hamburg Fire and Rescue.