BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — A judge has sentenced a second man to life in prison for the 2016 killing of a gender-fluid Iowa teenager. The Des Moines Register reports a judge Monday sentenced 26-year-old Jaron Purham to life in prison, which was mandatory because of his October conviction of first-degree murder.

Another man, Jorge Sanders-Galvez, already is serving a life term for the March 2, 2016, fatal shooting of 16-year-old Kedarie Johnson of Burlington. Johnson’s relatives say he identified as both male and female.

Prosecutors said Sanders-Galvez and Purham saw Johnson at a store and followed him in their car before taking the teen to a Burlington home. Police say Johnson was sexually assaulted and tortured before being shot to death in an alley.

With the Thanksgiving Holiday approaching, city leaders in Atlantic have decided to hold the City Council meeting Tuesday evening, this week, instead of the normal, Wednesday. The Council will gather at City Hall for their meeting that begins at 5:30-p.m.

On their short agenda, is recognition by the Mayor and Council, of the Atlantic High School Girls Swim Team. The honor is an ongoing effort by the Mayor to bring attention to the positive achievements of young people in the community. For the fifth-year in a row, the Atlantic Girls Swim Team made it to the State Competition this year, and finished strong, ranking 12th out of 40 teams.

In other business, the Council will act on approving the Fiscal Year 2018 Urban Renewal Report. City Administrator John Lund says every year, cities in Iowa are required to submit the report to the Iowa Department of Management. The report, he says, details everything relating to the City’s Tax Increment Financing (TIF) districts and projects. Approval of the report is routine, and a formality, and reflects the projects and numbers already approved by the Council, through the Urban Renewal Plans, Development Agreements and the Annual Budget.

(Radio Iowa) — The state’s three investor-owned utilities will spend half as much next year to help low-income Iowans weatherize their homes. San Wong is director of the Iowa Department of Human Rights, the state agency that oversees the program. “For this next year, we anticipate there will be about a 50 percent cut based on the plan submitted by utility companies,” Wong says. About 12-hundred Iowa homeowners got help last year to make their homes more energy efficient in the winter.

“Once they do that then, obviously, the savings they receive annually — I think the average savings is $262 — but they will realize that savings, obviously, through the life of the home,” Wong says. Last year the federal government provided about 13 million dollars and the state’s investor-owned utilities provided nearly six-and-a-half million for the weatherization program.

A new state law significantly lowered how much utilities may spend on energy efficiency programs. Critics argued electric customers were unaware how much of their bill was being spent on energy reduction efforts.