FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. (AP) — Songs composed by imprisoned musicians in a World War II concentration camp will be performed by University of Iowa professors at Michigan’s Holocaust Memorial Center . The Sunday concert in Farmington Hills is called Songs of the Holocaust. Soprano Rachel Joselson and pianist Rene Lecuona will perform pieces from the Theresienstadt (thuh-REEZ’-ee-ehn-stadt) camp in occupied Czechoslovakia.

A release says Joselson used resources from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and help from colleagues in Israel and Germany to find scans of unpublished or out-of-print music. She, Lecuona and others recorded an album.

Tickets, which are $10 for the general public, are expected to be available at the door. Separately, a University of Michigan ensemble recently performed an arrangement not heard since being played by Auschwitz prisoners. The manuscript for “The Most Beautiful Time of Life” was discovered by music theory professor Patricia Hall.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A man convicted of killing a woman in her Cedar Rapids garage and setting it on fire has been sentenced to life in prison. Television station KCRG reports that 39-year-old Timothy Evans pleaded guilty to first-degree murder for the April death of 38-year-old Gina Frederiksen. In exchange for his plea, charges of robbery, burglary and arson were dropped.

Prosecutors say Evans broke into the detached garage of a Cedar Rapids home on April 29 and violently assaulting Frederiksen. Police say he then set fire to the garage. Frederiksen was pulled from the burning garage, but died at a hospital.

Evans, who was homeless, had been released from jail just two days before the violent break-in. He was being held on car burglary charges when he was released.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services has reported the state’s first flu-related deaths of the current flu season. The department said Friday that two people, both over 65, have died from flu-related causes. One was from an area covered by the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department and the other was from the North Central District Health Department region that includes the cities of Valentine, O’Neill and Neligh.

Last season, 90 people died of the flu in Nebraska. Iowa state health officials say no flu-related deaths have been reported in Iowa yet this season. Health officials say the very young, the elderly and those with compromised immune systems are at greater risk of complications from the respiratory illness.

ELDRIDGE, Iowa (AP) — A 12-year-old Iowa boy accused of unsuccessfully trying to shoot his teacher will be tried in adult court as a youthful offender. The Quad-City Times reports that a judge made that ruling Friday just before the boy made his first appearance on charges of attempted murder and weapons counts. The boy remains in a youth detention center on $50,000 bond.

If convicted as a youthful offender in adult court, the boy would remain under juvenile court supervision until he’s 18. The case would then return to adult court, where a judge could dismiss it or sentence the offender to adult prison.

Police say the boy entered a North Scott Junior High classroom on Aug. 31 with a .22-caliber handgun and tried to shoot the teacher. Investigators say when the loaded gun jammed, the teacher wrestled it away from him.

The Red Oak Police Department reports the arrest of a Red Oak man on Friday on a Nebraska warrant. At 2:35pm Officers arrested 37-year-old Quinton Scott Swanberg of Red Oak on a valid Dodge County, NE warrant for Probation Violation. Swanberg was taken to the Montgomery County Jail and held on no bond.

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Des Moines police earlier this week announced an arrest in the September shooting death of a man. Now, they say the suspect’s dropped wallet near the scene led them to his doorstep.

The Des Moines Register reports that investigators found a black and green wallet in a backyard where witnesses saw the shooting suspect run. Inside the wallet were an Illinois driver’s license and a Social Security card belonging to 28-year-old Tyrone Hughes Jr.

Hughes was arrested Tuesday in Chicago and charged with first-degree murder for the death of 28-year-old Aaron Ross.

Ross was found Sept. 30 with gunshot wounds near a white car.

A Union County man arrested earlier this week on warrants for reckless driving and failure to appear on a 3rd degree harassment charge, was arrested again, on Friday. 29-year old Eric Shinn, of Creston, was arrested at around 8:45-p.m., on an Adams County Warrant for Failure to Appear on the original charge of Harassment 1st Degree.

At around 11:30-p.m. Friday, Deputies in Adams County conducted a traffic stop near the intersection of 3rd Street and 4th Avenue in Nodaway. Upon further investigation, Dusty Bebout of Lenox was placed under arrest for Driving Under Suspension and Failure to File SR-22 Insurance as Required.

Atlantic Police say one-person was transported to the Cass County Memorial Hospital following a collision that happened at around 2:07-p.m. Friday, at the intersection of 5th and Locust Streets. Authorities say it appears an eastbound Dodge Durango (SUV) collided with a southbound passenger car, after the car pulled out into the intersection.

The airbags on the car deployed, causing unknown/possible injuries to the female driver. She was taken by Medivac Ambulance to CCMH. A male passenger in the car escaped injury. The driver of the SUV was checked by medics at the scene but did not require transport.

The names of the drivers were not immediately released.

(Radio Iowa) — Iowa Senator Joni Ernst, a Republican from Red Oak, says there is no doubt she will seek a second term in 2020. Ernst says, “I am running again, so to anyone who would like to step up and enter into that race, I say bring it on.” Ernst became the first woman elected to Congress from Iowa in 2014 when she defeated then Congressman Bruce Braley for the Senate seat left open by the retirement of Tom Harkin.

“I love Iowa, I love the people of Iowa,” Ernst says, “we have of course I believe the best people in the nation — and I am very proud to represent them. So, I am very excited about the opportunities coming up in 2020.” Ernst says she will join her fellow Republican Senator Chuck Grassley and support President Donald Trump in 2020. “He is our sitting president and I do believe his policies are working for the United States. We have seen significant growth in our economy — and if you ask folks out there what is the number one issue — most Iowans’ typically state that it is the economy,” according to Ernst.

Trump is likely to face a challenge within the Republican Party, and Ernst says she would agree with Grassley and not campaign with them if they come to Iowa. “We have seen an incredibly accessible president to the likes that I did not see from the former administration,” Ernst says. “So I think that we have a solid path forward with President Trump. I think his policies, if you focus on those policies, a lot of Iowans support those. So, I wouldn’t welcome any other contenders.”

Ernst was elected last month as vice chair of the Senate Republican Conference. She now ranks sixth on the leadership roster for Senate Republicans. She’s the first woman to be elected to Senate G-O-P leadership since 2010. Senator Grassley’s term ends in 2022. He says he is undecided about seeking another six-year term, as he would be 89.  Ernst made her comments in a conference call with reporters.