News from across the USA

ALABAMA Montgomery: Authorities say a person was killed and three others were injured in a crash after a high speed chase in Montgomery County. ALASKA Fairbanks: A minimum- security prisoner who escaped from a halfway house here came back three hours later and tried to help other inmates flee the facility. ARIZONA Tucson: A pickup truck crashed into the front of a convenience store after the man driving the truck was shot by a person in another vehicle. ARKANSAS Dyess: The inaugural Johnny Cash Heritage Festival is set for Oct. 19- 21 here. The new event combines educational activities and entertainment events, Arkansas State University reported.

CALIFORNIA Stockton: A World War II veteran’s tombstone found underneath an overpass will finally be properly disposed of. The marker, among trash left behind by transients, was taken to an American Legion post by another veteran where it sat for months before being picked up by an employee of the Sacramento Valley Cemetery. COLORADO Vail: Vail’s Town Council has asked staff to write regulations for a trial of electric bikes on paved recreation paths, the Vail Daily reported. CONNECTICUT Bridgeport: A group of 15 students from Tisdale School in will perform with athlete- turned- musician Bernie Williams on Wednesday at the White House, the Connecticut

Post reported. The performance is part of first lady Michelle Obama’s Turnaround Arts Talent Show. DELAWARE Statewide: Multiple police agencies are investigating bomb threats received at six schools throughout the state on Monday, The News Journal reported. In all situations, the schools were evacuated and nothing out of the ordinary was found.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Two thieves on bicycles carried out a holdup at knife point last weekend on Capitol Hill, The Washing

ton Post reported. The robbers took a cellphone and iPad before fleeing. FLORIDA Cocoa: The city is offering retail giant Wal- Mart $ 2.92 million in economic incentives — including $ 2 million in cash — to open a 239- employee distribution center and refrigerated warehouse complex in the city, Florida Today reported. GEORGIA Savannah: State officials approved $ 7.5 million to be spent over the next three years toward building a new port terminal on the Savannah River that the state would operate in partnership with South Carolina. HAWAII Hilo: A state report shows about 25% of Hawaiians speak languages other than English at home, compared to about 20% for the rest of the USA, The

Hawaii Tribune- Herald reported. The most common languages spoken at home other than English are the Philippine languages of Ilocano and Tagalog. IDAHO Pocatello: State Historic Preservation Office Director Ken Reid says he and a team from Utah State University used modern technology and maps to find the exact location of the Bear River Massacre, the Idaho State

Journal reported. The 1863 massacre left up to 500 Northwestern Shoshone dead. ILLINOIS Springfield: The Illinois Secretary of State’s office says a plan to issue driver’s licenses and state identification cards in Illinois that are more secure won’t require additional state funding, The State Journal

Register reported. INDIANA Fulton County: Five

Amish teens are facing charges after they were caught driving 110 mph with alcoholic beverages, including a jug of whiskey, in the car, The Indianapolis Star reported.

IOWA Ankeny: Des Moines Area Community College is relying on the public to help name its new student activity and community recreation center on its Ankeny campus, The Des Moines Register reported. The suggested names are ARCH, or Ankeny Recreation & Community Health; ConneXion Aquatics & Recreation; COR Aquatics & Recreation; Trail Point Aquatics & Recreation; and The Trail Aquatics & Recreation. KANSAS Salina: A 33- year- old man was taken into custody in a deadly head- on crash here, The Salina Journal reported. KENTUCKY Louisville: The former leader of a military- style academy for teenagers has been sentenced to 90 days of home confinement for failing to report sexual child abuse, The CourierJournal reported. Former Bluegrass Challenge Academy director John Wayne Smith was also ordered to pay a $ 10,000 fine. LOUISIANA Amite: A Louisiana chapter of the NAACP wants a school superintendent and three school board members to resign after a high school valedictorian was blocked from participating in graduation for refusing to shave his beard, The Advocate reported. MAINE Bangor: The U. S. Department of Agriculture is giving the Maine Forest Service more than $ 380,000 to assist the state’s wood products industry. The USDA is supplying a pair of Wood Innovation Grants. MARYLAND Baltimore: Sam Davis, who climbed the ranks of The Baltimore Sun since starting as a clerk 36 years ago, is the publication’s new managing editor. Davis will be the first AfricanAmerican to hold the position in the newspaper’s 179- year history. MASSACHUSETTS Saugus: Lenworth “Kip” Williamson, 57, recently ran for the 10,000th consecutive day, The Daily Item reported. The Saugus resident made a New Year’s resolution on Jan. 1, 1989, to run every day. MICHIGAN Dexter: Technology specialist Brian Tungl, sentenced to six months in jail for stealing laptops, Apple products and other equipment from a Washtenaw County school district, was silent in court and the judge was not impressed, The Ann Arbor News reported. He pleaded no contest last month to embezzling more than $ 300,000 in equipment and also must perform 500 hours of community service. MINNESOTA Eveleth: Army Pvt. John Sersha, who was killed in the Netherlands during World War II, will be buried in Eveleth on Memorial Day weekend, the

Star Tribune reported. He was sent on an assault mission on Sept. 27, 1944, and never returned, according to Pentagon records. His remains were recently ID’d by DNA technology. MISSISSIPPI Oxford: The University of Mississippi plans to spend $ 12 million to buy 12 acres of land on the western edge of its campus, WREG- TV reported. The College Board voted to allow Ole Miss to advance $ 2.5 million to the University of Mississippi Educational Building Corporation. MISSOURI Marshall: Former Slater fire chief Levi Dennis has been ordered to spend 13 years in prison after pleading guity to various sex charges involving children, KRCG- TV reported. MONTANA Troy: A 37- year- old man was killed and a 36- year- old woman was injured in an allterrain vehicle crash on wet roads near here. NEBRASKA Omaha: Roncalli Catholic High senior Caleb Dempsey, 18, has had perfect school attendance for the 13th year in a row, the Omaha World

Herald reported. From kindergarten through 12th grade, Dempsey has been present for 2,340 days. “I don’t think I’ve been late, either,” he said. NEVADA Reno: A semi- trailer hauling thousands of watermelons overturned and closed parts of Interstate 80, the Reno Gazette Journal reported. NEW HAMPSHIRE Whitefield: State regulators in charge of granting approval for the proposed Northern Pass project pushed back their final decision to Sept. 30, 2017. The state Site Evaluation Committee was scheduled to issue a decision on whether it would grant a certificate in December. The project would bring Canadian hydropower to the power grid and run a 192- mile electric transmission line through New Hampshire. NEW ship: JERSEYEleven ducklings Neptune trappedTownin anda storm returned drainto their were mother. rescued All the harmed. ducklings were rescued unNEW Authorities MEXICO say Albuquerque:over a dozen Bernalilloface new charges County followingjail inmatesa disturbance.were reported, No but serioustwo correc- injuries tionalwent to officersthe hospitaland two for inmates treatment. NEW YORK Albany: The number of opioid- related deaths rose 47% in the state between 2010 and 2014, fueled by a surge in heroin abuse, The Journal News reported. NORTH CAROLINA Wilson: Police say a man was shot and killed while trying to break into a home. NORTH DAKOTA Minot: Work began on local flood protection projects in the Souris River Basin. The local projects eventually will be melded into a larger flood control project, according to the Minot Daily News. OHIO Columbus: A 34- year- old Sumatran orangutan named Sally, one of a critically endangered species, died at Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, The Columbus Dispatch reported. OKLAHOMA Mangum: A man was arrested in the July 2015 death of a 51- year- old woman in Greer County. OREGON Eugene: Lane County officials are seeking public input on a long- term management plan for the Howard Buford Recreation Area. The Register- Guard reported that the park attracted an estimated 400,000 visitors last year. PENNSYLVANIA Pittsburgh: St. John Vianney Manor, a home for retired priests here, is getting a $ 5 million makeover that includes a new kitchen, dining room, living room and exercise facility, the Pittsburgh Post- Gazette reported. Officials say 29 residents live in the facility. RHODE ISLAND Pawtucket: Police are investigating after a swastika was spray- painted on a welcome sign posted outside Ohawe Sholam temple on East Avenue. SOUTH CAROLINA Charleston: A colony of Africanized bees, known commonly as “killer” bees was found in Charleston County and destroyed, The Greenville News reported. The colony was found during research for the National Honey Bee Survey. State apiary officials plan to search a 2- mile area to make sure there are no more of the aggressive bees. Samples of bees from the hive were analyzed and revealed an “almost 100% probability” that they were a hybrid of the more aggressive Africanized and European honey bees, said state apiary inspector Brad Cavin. SOUTH DAKOTA Yankton: The amount of unwanted Asian carp that anglers are dumping along the Missouri River in the local area has increased in recent years, the Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan reported. The piles of rotting fish can lead to odor problems TENNESSEE Gatlinburg: A black bear that rangers at Great Smoky Mountains National Park euthanized earlier this month was not the one that attacked a hiker sleeping in his tent near a shelter off the Appalachian Trail, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported. The determination was made after officials received DNA analyses comparing samples from bears found near the shelter where the attack occurred May 10. TEXAS Austin: A 32- year- old man was killed in the parking lot of a local grocery store during what police say was a drug deal gone wrong, the Austin AmericanStatesman reported. UTAH Bountiful: Lightning struck the angel Moroni statue on top of the Mormon temple here, the Deseret News reported. The gold statue lost part of its head and back in the Sunday afternoon lightning strike. VERMONT Stowe: Each summer, a few truck drivers spend more time in Smugglers Notch than they’d planned as rigs get wedged between the boulders atop Mount Mansfield. A new law would fine tractor- trailer and semi- trailer trucks $ 1,000 for using the road — or $ 2,000 if the incident impedes traffic flow, Burlington Free Press reported. VIRGINIA Richmond: The state is preparing to launch an aggressive public awareness campaign and distribute thousands of Zika prevention kits to pregnant women. WASHINGTON Seattle: A Metro bus driver was stabbed multiple times in the Rainier Beach neighborhood, KCPQ- TV reported. A man has been arrested in connection with the attack.

WEST VIRGINIA Hinton: Camp Brookside is now open to the public, The Register- Herald reported. National Park Service District Supervisor David Bieri says the camp is opening as a residential center and environmental education center for locals. WISCONSIN Manitowoc: A white- winged tern, a shorebird native to Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa that was last recorded in Wisconsin in 1873, has been spotted along the Lake Michigan shoreline in Manitowoc, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. WYOMING Casper: Authorities say the number of people killed in crashes on state roads has decreased by more than half this year compared to the same time in 2015, the Casper Star- Tribune reported. Compiled by Tim Wendel and Jonathan Briggs, with Carolyn Cerbin, Linda Dono, Mike Gottschamer, Ben Sheffler, Michael B. Smith, Nichelle Smith and Matt Young. Design by Tiffany Reusser. Graphics by Alejandro Gonzalez.