Two people were arrested on separate charges late Wednesday morning, in Creston. Police say 41-year old Lindsey Woollums, of Creston, was arrested for Driving While Suspended. She was released from custody on a $300 bond. And, 43-year old Tommy Moad, of Mt. Ayr, was arrested in Creston on a Union County warrant for Violation of a No Contact or Protective Order. The charges were summarily dismissed, and Moad was released from the Union County Jail.

SOLDIER, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a man shot his wife in western Iowa after mistaking her for an intruder trying to get into their home. Monona County Sheriff Jeffrey Pratt says in a news release that 48-year-old Jackie Krier had been outside the family home about 3 miles west of Soldier when she was shot Tuesday evening by 49-year-old Brian Krier.

Jackier Krier was taken to an Onawa hospital and then transferred to a hospital in Sioux City. The shooting is being investigated.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A man who had said he was only defending himself when he beat another man at a central Iowa bar has been given 50 years in prison. Polk County District Court records say 49-year-old Rodney Henricksen was sentenced last week for killing Joshua Sadlon. Sadlon, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, died a day after the incident at the Escape Lounge in Urbandale in January 2018. A jury found Henricksen guilty of second-degree murder.

Henricksen had said he’d tried to de-escalate threats made by the drunken Sadlon and said Iowa’s “stand your ground” law protected him from prosecution. The law says a person doesn’t have to retreat before using deadly force if he or she reasonably thinks his or her life is being threatened.

The jury rejected his claim of self-defense. Prosecutors called it a bar beating, not a bar fight.

(Radio Iowa) — A monthly report from the Iowa Association of Realtors finds almost 32-hundred homes were sold in Iowa last month, down about 200 homes from April of last year. Association president John Goede, of Spencer, says there are several reasons for the drop. “One of them, a big one is the flooding here,” Goede says. “For the last two months, we’ve had many home sales cancelled because there’s no home anymore or it’s not in a condition to be transferred and that’s made a big difference.”

There were more homes on the market statewide during April, almost 63-hundred compared to 54-hundred a year ago. The average price statewide was almost 194-thousand dollars, up from 187-thousand last year, while the median price also rose from 157-thousand to 164-thousand. Goede says, “Average sales price has increased about 3% as has the median sales price, up about 3% also, and that’s been fairly steady for the last four years.”

Houses sold a little faster in Iowa during April, spending an average of 73 days on the market versus 79 a year ago, which he says has a lot to do with the change in seasons.  “As the weather warms up, people are more anxious and more amenable to looking at properties and making offers,” Goede says. “There’s usually about a month-and-a-half difference between making an offer and actually having a closing.”

Goede says he’s booked to show homes all four days of Memorial Day weekend as interest is picking up. May and June will be strong for sales, he predicts, adding, central Iowa is best for new construction. “We are having more new properties, new builds being built, at a great rate and most of that is happening along I-35,” Goede says. “You can’t build homes fast enough in Ankeny and the Des Moines suburbs.”

While the sale of single-family homes fell 8.5 percent statewide last month, the sale of townhomes and condos rose 8.1 percent.