CORALVILLE, Iowa (AP) — A man convicted in 1994 of killing his girlfriend in Des Moines has died at the Iowa Medical and Classification Center in Coralville. The Des Moines Register reports that 79-year-old Ralph Carlson died Thursday. He’d been living in the facility’s hospice center because of an undisclosed illness. Court records say Carlson was found guilty of first-degree murder for killing Rita Young. Authorities say he stashed her body behind the furnace of his Des Moines home.

His first-degree murder conviction was upheld in 1996 by the Iowa Supreme Court.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) _ Rockwell Collins Inc. (COL) on Friday reported fiscal third-quarter profit of $275 million. On a per-share basis, the Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based company said it had profit of $1.66. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were $1.73 per share. The results missed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.89 per share. The aviation electronics company posted revenue of $2.21 billion in the period.

Rockwell Collins shares have increased roughly 2 percent since the beginning of the year, while the Standard & Poor’s 500 index has climbed 6 percent. The stock has risen 26 percent in the last 12 months.

CLIVE, Iowa (AP) — State regulators have approved plans for a psychiatric hospital in a Des Moines suburb. The Iowa Health Facilities Council voted 5-0 Thursday for Mercy Medical Center’s proposal to erect the 100-bed hospital in Clive. The Des Moines Register reports that some Clive residents had opposed the idea, raising concerns that the facility could pose a danger to their children. Three Clive residents filed written objections to the state council, compared with 13 letters of support. No one spoke in opposition at Thursday’s council meeting.

Mercy Medical plans to partner with a for-profit company, Universal Health Services. The new facility could open by June 2020.

(Radio Iowa) — An Iowa State University study finds if a man opens the door for a woman while on their first date or offers to pay for dinner, some women admire that behavior, while others find it insulting. Pelin Gul, a social psychologist and postdoctoral researcher at I-S-U, is the study’s lead author. Gul says some women find men who make those gestures more attractive, even though their actions may also be seen as “benevolent sexism.” “Women might perceive these men more likely to be patronizing and undermining,” Gul says, “however, because these behaviors imply willingness to protect, provide and commit, it is an important mate preference for women. That’s why they find these men more attractive.”

The results of the study may appear contradictory, Gul admits, and it sends a very mixed message to men about how they should behave. “Men are kind of in confusion,” Gul says. “They want to appear polite. They want to appear benevolent to women, but at the same time they are worried that they are going to come at girls as sexist if they do those gestures.”  Much of the research was done while Gul was studying at the University of Kent in England. She says the work confirmed women prefer men to be benevolent, but contradicting previous assumptions, they found women also recognized the potential harm. “If men know that women desire these behaviors when they are searching for a mate, men acting out those gestures could increase their chances of finding a mate,” Gul says, “however, they should be aware they are likely to be perceived as undermining.”

Gul is a native of Istanbul, Turkey, and has studied at several universities around the world. Being new to the United States and Iowa, Gul was asked what her perception is when people hold the door for her as she’s entering or exiting the buildings on the Ames campus. “Honestly, I haven’t had much experience with doors held for me, not because people don’t hold the doors — they do — but I haven’t had much social interaction here, especially in summer, I don’t see many people around.”

She says other studies have found that women tend to prefer men who make these gestures, and note that women aren’t aware of any negative consequences of men’s attempts at kindness.

Police in Red Oak, Thursday afternoon, arrested a man wanted on a Montgomery County warrant for Violation of Probation. 23-year old Brandon Michael Borgmyer, of Red Oak, was taken into custody on the felony offense and booked into the Montgomery County Jail and held on a $10,000 bond.