LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Several top choirs will share the stage Saturday at the Lied Center for Performing Arts to celebrate the Lincoln facility’s 25th anniversary.

The choirs will also present a newly commissioned work called “Let There Be Music” that Nebraska composer Kurt Knecht wrote.

Lied Center executive director Bill Stephan says the performance is a fitting way to celebrate the performing arts center.

More than 250 singers will participate in the show. The choirs include contemporary, gospel, youth, college and adult groups.

Details of the performance are available online at www.liedcenter.org.

SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (AP) — Three people have been arrested in South Sioux City after police say they led law enforcement officers on a chase across four northeast Nebraska counties.

The three people, all in their 20s, were arrested Friday.

The chase began with reports of a burglary in Niobrara on Friday morning, then later a carjacking in the Crofton area. Investigators say the suspected pushed a person out of a minivan and sped away in it.

Sheriff’s deputies and the Nebraska State Patrol caught up with the stolen van, and the chase reached speeds of up to 100 mph on U.S. Highway 20 until the van crashed into a South Sioux City discount store. There were no serious injuries.

ST. PAUL, Neb. (AP) — A 29-year-old man who caused a crash last year that killed another man has been sentenced to five to seven years in prison.

Justin Arrowsmith, of Arcadia, was sentenced Friday in Howard County District Court for one count of manslaughter.

Prosecutors say Arrowsmith was high on methamphetamine and other drugs when he drove in the wrong lane of Highway 92 on July 20 and hit the car of 21-year-old Derek Holt, of St. Paul. Holt died at a nearby hospital.

Judge Karin Noakes said during Arrowsmith’s sentencing that he had made little effort to receive treatment for his drug addiction.

ODELL, Neb. (AP) — A 52-year-old Cortland man has died following a motorcycle crash near Odell in southeastern Nebraska.

Jeffrey Fischer was driving the motorcycle east on Nebraska Highway 8 near Odell at 4 p.m. Friday when he went into a ditch and flipped.

The Gage County Sheriff’s Office says Fischer was taken by helicopter to Bryan West Campus in Lincoln, where he died.

Investigators say Fischer was wearing a helmet.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A woman convicted of lying to police about being the victim of an anti-gay attack had acknowledged that she violated her probation and now faces possible jail time.

Charlie Rogers on Friday told Lancaster County Judge Thomas Fox that she did not report to jail on Jan. 15 to finish a 90-day jail sentence.

Fox found Rogers violated her probation. Rogers faces up to a year behind bars if the judge revokes her probation.

Rogers, a former University of Nebraska-Lincoln basketball player, was convicted of lying to police about being attacked by masked men and having anti-gay slurs carved into her skin.

Prosecutors say Rogers faked the attack because she thought it would inspire change in the treatment of gay people.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a Sarpy County inmate smuggled drugs into the jail and gave some to another inmate, and both now face new drug possession charges.

The Sarpy County Sheriff’s Office said a 24-year-old inmate smuggled methamphetamine into the jail when she was booked Wednesday.

The next day, deputies learned that the woman and another inmate — a 20-year-old woman — had drugs. A search turned up meth in a shampoo bottle.

In a strip search room, the 20-year-old pulled a small wrapper containing meth from a body cavity and said she got the drugs from the other inmate.

Authorities say the other inmate ate meth in an attempt to hide it, then tried to spit it out. She was still hospitalized Friday.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A judge has denied a request for freedom by a 51-year-old man serving life for having his grandmother killed in 1984, despite the new testimony of two doctors who say she most likely died from a lung disease, not suffocation.

Lancaster County District Judge Steven Burns on Friday denied James Saylor’s motion for post-conviction relief.

Prosecutors say he hired another man, Michael Sapp, to kill 83-year-old Lena Saylor for a $25,000 inheritance. Sapp, who prosecutors say smothered the woman, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 13 to 40 years. He has since been released.

Burns said the doctors’ testimony did not outweigh other evidence in the case — including Saylor’s recorded admission that he had hired someone to kill his grandmother.