A rollover accident within the City limits of Atlantic Friday night resulted in one person being sent to the hospital. Atlantic Police said a juvenile was driving the vehicle and had been backing up near the Schildberg Rec Area bike trail construction site, when the teen turned too sharply, causing the vehicle to roll onto its top.

Photo courtesy Cass County Emergency Mgmt Coordinator Mike Kennon.

Four people were in the SUV when the accident happened at around 10:40-p.m., north of 4th and State Streets. One of the individuals suffered from head and leg pain and reportedly had difficulty breathing. They were transported to the Cass County Memorial Hospital by Medivac Ambulance.

The names of the individuals who were in the vehicle, have not yet been released.

Data from Realtor-dot-com (www.Realtor.com) finds Iowa’s capital city has a higher percentage of so-called “millennials” buying a home than any other city in the country. In the first six months of this year, 59 percent of the borrowers who took out a loan to buy a home in the Des Moines metro were between the ages of 25 and 34. Iowa State University finance professor Tracy Turner says home ownership rates are rising faster in mid-sized cities like Des Moines where there’s plenty of housing available.

“Is it supply or demand?” Turner asks. “Demand in the sense of: Is there something unique about millennials at this point in time in their life that gives them the incentive and the ability to buy? Maybe. Or is it that the housing stock is still recovering and the millennials happen to be here at the right moment to buy when prices are relatively low?” According to the National Association of Realtors, the median age of a first-time home buyer, nationally, was 31 last year and 65 percent of first-time home buyers were married. Turner says people tend to marry earlier in Midwestern cities.

“Married households are far more likely to purchase,” Turner says. “Among first-time home buyers, they will be disproportionately married and what often happens is that young people in less urbanized places, we tend to see them marrying at younger ages. They’re more likely to marry.” The total number of homes sold throughout the state of Iowa is higher so far this year compared to last. And homes that are up for sale are on the market for a shorter period of time.

(Radio Iowa)

Officials with the Iowa Public Information Board (IPIB), this past week, dismissed a complaint filed by a patron of the Red Oak Community School District, that alleged the district failed to provide adequate notice for a meeting of its School Improvement Advisory Committee, or SIAC. According to the Daily NonPareil, the complaint, which was filed by Red Oak resident Margaret Stoldorf, alleged the district failed to provide a 24-hour notice to the media about the meeting, which was held in January.