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News from across the USA

ALABAMA Huntsville: AL.com recounted the greatest moments in Southern rock history, including the choice of Frank Frazetta’s fearsome artwork to adorn Molly Hatchet’s album covers and Ronnie Van Zant’s iconic appeal to “turn it up” on Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Sweet Home Alabama.

ALASKA Juneau: A truck rolled over on Egan Drive, spilling thousands of pounds of chum salmon onto the highway and blocking inbound traffic for almost three hours, the Juneau Empire reported.

ARIZONA Gilbert: Multiple dead bodies were found inside a home, according to The Arizona

Republic. Homicide detectives investigated at the house.

ARKANSAS Hampton: Brooke Haney, 25, was accused of abusing prescription drugs and putting her children at risk,

ArkansasOnline reported. Her 3-year-old daughter died inside a washing machine last year.

CALIFORNIA Bolinas: A helicopter rescued three hikers trapped by rising tides on the Marin National Seashore, the

Marin Independent Journal reported. The three hikers used their cellphones to call for help when they realized rising tides trapped them in a cove.

COLORADO Fort Collins: The Larimer Humane Society rescued 63 Chihuahuas from a home where they were being bred without a license.

CONNECTICUT Bridgeport: Montalvo Orlando Jr., 36, is in custody after police said he angrily dared officers to shoot him as he ran up Main Street, the Con

necticut Post reported. He was charged with second-degree reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and weapons in a motor vehicle.

DELAWARE Milford: Jeffrey Hatch was charged with trying to run over a Grotto Pizza employee.

The News Journal reported that Hatch, 52, was eating and drinking at the restaurant but refused to pay and took more items in a to-go box. An employee tried to stop him when Hatch allegedly accelerated his vehicle toward the employee’s legs.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: A D.C. Public Schools program places 500 students in six-week “careerready internships,” The Washing

ton Post reported.

FLORIDA Naples: About 70 kids from the Boys and Girls Club of Collier County joined sheriff ’s deputies and the NAACP to pack more than 30,000 meals for food pantries at the Meals of Hope office, the Naples Daily News reported. The Christmas-themed meal packing event kicked off a Holidays Without Hunger campaign to serve 300,000 meals on Christmas Eve.

GEORGIA Atlanta: Demolition of the Georgia Dome is scheduled to be completed before college football’s national championship game comes to the new Falcons stadium next door in January 2018, The Atlanta JournalConstitution reported.

HAWAII Kilauea: The lava flow from Kilauea’s Puu Oo vent reached the ocean early Tuesday, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said. Officials said hikers also should be cautious of additional hazards created from lava entering the ocean, including hydrochloric acid, West Hawaii

Today reported.

IDAHO Island Park: A 26-year-old male grizzly bear that had recently killed seven sheep was euthanized.

ILLINOIS Chicago: Demolition of Oprah Winfrey’s former Harpo Studios on the Near West Side began, clearing the way for McDonald’s new corporate headquarters to be constructed on the site by spring 2018, the Chicago

Tribune reported.

INDIANA Muncie: The state’s first tiny home village for the homeless was trucked to the city,

The Star-Press reported. The six Amish-built homes, purchased for $2,614 each, provide 96 square feet of living space, include front porches and were built in the state.

IOWA Hartford: Two tubers were returned to safety after being stranded along the Des Moines River in Warren County, KCCI-TV reported.

KANSAS Salina: One man entered a plea in the mistakenidentity shooting death of a 17year-old girl while another sought to withdraw his plea, The

Salina Journal reported.

KENTUCKY Aurora: The Egg ners Ferry bridge, which opened to traffic in March 1932, has been demolished. The Paducah Sun reported about 5,000 people showed up to watch the demolition, which was part of the $133 million project.

LOUISIANA New Orleans: The amount of lead found in the blood of children age 5 and younger and in soil was dramatically lower 10 years after Hurricane Katrina than just before the storm, according to a scientific study cited by The Times-Picayune.

MAINE Portland: Some health care organizations oppose a proposed rule change by the state Center for Disease Control and Prevention that would provide the agency more leeway to withhold information regarding the locations of communicable disease outbreaks, the Portland

Press Herald reported.

MARYLAND Annapolis: With only a blowtorch and a toaster, Scott Herbst will open an eatery downtown that’s stripped of many modern cooking conveniences, the Capital Gazette reported. The Sailor Oyster Bar, in a renovated early 1900s row house, will hark back to vintage food preservation techniques. MASSACHUSETTS

Boston: The state Association of Realtors said the median price of a single-family home reached $380,000 last month. That’s the highest median price ever in the state. The number of homes sold last month was up nearly 6% from June 2015, according to the Realtors.

MICHIGAN Traverse City: A non-profit group is developing plans for a 29-mile water trail along the Boardman River, the

Traverse City Record-Eagle reported. The idea is designed for people using small boats and will include access points near significant historical, environmental or cultural points of interest and include restaurants and campgrounds.

MINNESOTA Minneapolis: The contractor for the $50 million redesign of Nicollet Mall is selling salvaged granite pavers on Craigslist, the Star Tribune reported. The city, meanwhile, is hoping to sell 18,000 pavers that it has kept in storage for repair jobs.

MISSISSIPPI Gulfport: A holiday scrooge has struck early, stealing up to $80,000 worth of lights and equipment from the city, WLOXTV reported. A city storage site was recently burglarized three times in two days.

MISSOURI St. Louis: A man was critically injured after driving a go-kart into the side of a police cruiser, KMOV-TV reported.

MONTANA Billings: Authorities considered criminal charges against the operator of a drone that hampered firefighting efforts during a wildfire, the Billings

Gazette reported. Yellowstone County Sheriff Mike Linder said a firefighting aircraft had to be grounded, and the incident cost firefighters several hours of air support.

NEBRASKA Omaha: A $5.5 million grant from the Helmsley Charitable Trust to the University of Nebraska Medical Center will pay for four Simulation in Motion trucks, which will travel the state delivering training to fire and rescue departments as well as rural health care clinics, the Lincoln Journal Star reported.

NEVADA Ely: Bureau of Land Management spokesman Chris Hanefeld said a wildfire about 15 miles southeast of Eureka was contained. No injuries were reported, and Hanefeld said no private property was damaged.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Bethlehem: Construction of the Arlington Hotel neared completion, and the 65-room business was on track to begin taking guests in late August.

The Caledonian Record reported the project replaces the old Arlington Hotel, which stood for a century and a half across from the Country Club and golf course. NEW JERSEY Camden: The city’s homicide toll more than doubled in the first half of 2016, helping to fuel a 13.9% increase in overall violent crime from 2015 levels. The Courier-Post reported there was also an increase in rapes, assaults and motor vehicle thefts during the first six months of 2016.

NEW MEXICO Sunland Park: Officials in Doña Ana County urged residents and businesses in the border communities of Sunland Park and Santa Teresa to conserve water. Water supplies are critically low because of a well problem.

NEW YORK Albany: In an effort to encourage more young women to hunt, minors are allowed to wear fluorescent pink while hunting. The Poughkeepsie Journal reported that Gov. Cuomo signed a law allowing young hunters to wear the color rather than the traditional orange. Under previous state law, hunters were required to wear at least 250 square inches of fluorescent orange clothing.

NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: Lou Mitchell, a member of the State Capitol Foundation, convinced legislators to direct $923,000 from the repair and renovation fund toward improvements at the state Capitol, The

News & Observer reported.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: Former city commissioner Steve Schwab filed a complaint with the state Health Department accusing the city of neglecting to address sewer wastewater and storm water problems on the south side for decades, The Bis

marck Tribune reported.

OHIO New Lexington: After more than 65 years missing in Korea, the remains of Cpl. Charles A. “Perky” White Jr., 20, were returned earlier this week, and more than 20 members of his extended family were there to accompany him home, the Times

Recorder reported. His funeral is Friday, and he’ll be buried next to his parents.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: E. Melvin Porter, Oklahoma’s first black state senator, died Tuesday. He was 86. Born in Okmulgee in 1930, Porter was a member of the first class including blacks at Vanderbilt University Law School, The Oklahoman reported.

OREGON Roseburg: The City Council voted to ban smoking at five city-owned parking lots. The

News-Review reported that six of seven councilors supported the move.

Seven passengers were taken to hospitals with “relatively minor” injuries after the transit bus they were on rear-ended a car.

RHODE ISLAND Warwick: A 76-year-old man was killed after the car he was driving struck a series of boulders on the shoulder of the road.

SOUTH CAROLINA Parris Is

land: Archaeologists have finally located a 16th-century Spanish fort after more than 20 years of searching, the Beaufort Gazzette reported. San Marcos was founded in 1577 by Pedro Menendez Marquez.

SOUTH DAKOTA Sturgis: Charges were pending against four inmates who allegedly tried to escape from the Meade County Jail here, injuring two guards. It was the first escape attempt in 20 years at the jail, which houses about 50 inmates, according to the Rapid City Journal.

TENNESSEE Nashville: More than 125,000 Tennesseans already have taken advantage of early voting or absentee voting for the Aug. 4 state primary and county general election, according to the state Secretary of State’s Office. The opportunity ends Saturday.

TEXAS Galveston: A barge being towed to a scrapyard sunk east of the Galveston Causeway railroad bridge, prompting some ship traffic restrictions. Nobody was hurt.

UTAH Provo: A 28-year-old man died while rock climbing in Rock Canyon. Authorities tried to determine how he fell.

VERMONT Westminster: The $6.8 million State Police dispatch center began operations, WCAXTV reported. The Department of Public Service consolidated dispatching of emergency services to locations in Williston and the new site in Westminster.

VIRGINIA Richmond: Joshua Wiener, a Colorado-based sculptor hired by the city for a riverfront art installation, proposed building and installing a series of 17-foot-tall rings he titled “The Path Untraveled,” the Richmond

Times-Dispatch reported.

WASHINGTON Tri- Cities: Buddhist monks planned to lead an annual prayer walk Thursday to the Hanford nuclear reservation as part of an effort to bring an end to nuclear weapons, The

Tri-City Herald reported. The walk will begin at John Dam Plaza, where the monks will hold a brief ceremony with participants at 1 p.m.

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: A legislative audit tried to determine whether there was really a need for 7,700 state-owned vehicles, the Charleston Gazette-Mail reported.

WISCONSIN Milwaukee: Milwaukee native Jarob Ortiz, 33, has been chosen as the next photographer for the National Park Service, Milwaukee Journal Senti

nel reported. “This is, realistically, the exact job that I would like to do for the rest of my life,” said Ortiz. The NPS — a century old next month — posted an opening for “Photographer, GS-1060-11/ 12” in December. Photography and news blogs were abuzz about what some called “Ansel Adams’ job,” also noting that the salary range topped out near $100,000.

WYOMING Cheyenne: The state unemployment rate increased slightly from 5.6% in May to 5.7% in June. The national rate is 4.9%. Around the state, unemployment rates rose in 13 counties and fell in eight counties.