WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is keeping track of Commerce Secretary John Bryson’s condition after the Obama cabinet member was involved in three minor accidents and was found unconscious in a car in San Gabriel, Calif. Obama tells television station KTIV in Sioux City, Iowa, that the incident appears to be health related and that he hopes Bryson is “doing all right.”

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The continued hot and dry weather is taking a toll on Iowa’s crops. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says in yesterday’s weekly report that while most of the corn and soybeans are in good shape, conditions have declined. More than half of the topsoil and subsoil is dry.

SPENCER, Iowa (AP) — A 6-year-old boy who was unresponsive when pulled from a pool in northwest Iowa last week has died. Police say Michael Rohan died Sunday. He was found floating in the water at the Spencer Aquatic Center on Wednesday.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A federal report suggests Nebraska’s economy was sluggish last year despite increases in personal income and tax collections and a further drop in the state’s unemployment rate. The state was near the bottom of a Commerce Department report on the growth of gross domestic product in each state.