News from across the USA Billings:

ALABAMA Montgomery: Lawyers for a man who has been jailed for a decade in the shooting death of another man say his constitutional right to a speedy trial has been violated and charges should be dropped. Prosecutors say Kharon Davis contributed to the delay by firing a replacement lawyer after his first lawyer was removed. ALASKA Juneau: Research by a Juneau scientist has helped discover the existence of a new species of flying squirrel, The

Juneau Empire reports. ARIZONA Tempe: Police in Tempe are trying to identify a baby girl found abandoned in a city parking lot. The infant was found in a shopping cart, wrapped in a blanket inside a backpack. ARKANSAS Little Rock: Officials have reopened a ramp off Little Rock’s Broadway Bridge that was closed since last year. The state tore down the previous Broadway Bridge that was deemed structurally deficient and replaced it with a $98.4 million span this spring. CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: The California Supreme Court is considering a challenge to a narrowly approved ballot measure to speed up executions. California hasn’t executed an inmate in more than a decade. COLORADO Woodland Park: Police in this Colorado town rescued a bear cub that got trapped in a car, likely searching for a snack, The Gazette in Colorado Springs reports. CONNECTICUT Farmington: The University of Connecticut has been hosting a national conference this week to explore the ethics of genomic research. Among the issues is what access people should have to information about susceptiblity to disease. DELAWARE Dewey Beach: Beachfront rentals in Delaware are getting harder to find as more properties are converted to fulltime homes, The News Journal of Wilmington reports. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: An oral history archive of Marion Barry’s 1978 campaign for mayor of the District of Columbia has made its debut. Barry won that year and went on to serve four terms as mayor. FLORIDA Marathon: A massive marina fire Monday closed U.S. 1, the only road in or out of the Florida Keys. GEORGIA Gainesville: More than 160 coyotes have been killed since Georgia’s “coyote challenge” for hunters and trappers began in April, The Times reports. The program gives hunters and trappers the chance via monthly raffles to win a lifetime sporting license.

HAWAII Honolulu: A monk seal that researchers were studying since its birth was found dead after getting stuck in a fishing net on the coast of Oahu, KHON2-TV reports. IDAHO Boise: Department of Labor officials say Idaho still has pockets of severe nursing shortages. Part of the reason, they say, is that surrounding states offer better paying jobs to nursing graduates. ILLINOIS Bloomington: The Miller Park Zoo is seeing increased attendance and revenue for the second year in a row, The

(Bloomington) Pantagraph reports. Zoo attendance was more than 123,000 in the fiscal year that ended April 30. INDIANA Mishawaka: Martin’s Greenhouse in South Bend stepped up with a donation after vandals destroyed hundreds of flowers in Mishawaka’s Battell Park, The South Bend Tribune reports. IOWA Cedar Falls: Holmes Junior High students have made quilts to give to dementia patients at UnityPoint Health-Allen Hospital’s hospice unit, The Cou

rier reports. KANSAS Osawatomie: Kansas officials are struggling with the future of Osawatomie State Hospital and the people treated there. The hospital lost its Medicare certification more than a year ago after a patient was accused of raping a staff member,

The Kansas City Star reports. KENTUCKY Frankfort: The FBI says a Kentucky disability lawyer scheduled to be sentenced next month for defrauding the government of nearly $600 million has disappeared. The FBI says Eric Conn removed his electronic monitoring device and his whereabouts are unknown. LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: You won’t need a license to fish in Louisiana this weekend. The state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is holding its annual Free Fishing Weekend on Saturday and Sunday. MAINE Portland: A University of Maine marine scientist says the number of young lobsters is declining in the Gulf of Maine, despite years of record-breaking harvests. MARYLAND Baltimore: The Coast Guard posthumously honored a World War I veteran with a Purple Heart. Seaman 1st Class Francis Leroy Wilkes died in September 1918 when the cutter Tampa was torpedoed, killing the entire crew.

MASSACHUSETTS

Boston: A review of Boston’s food trucks finds that they’re more likely to be temporarily shut down for serious health violations than bricksand-mortar restaurants,

The Boston Globe reports. MICHIGAN Leland: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore has outlined a $1 million plan to address severe shoreline erosion next to the South Manitou Island Lighthouse. MINNESOTA Minneapolis: Health care workers are seeking help from imams and other religious leaders to control a measles outbreak. The disease has hit Minnesota’s Muslim Somali community the hardest, Minnesota Public Radio reports. MISSISSIPPI Biloxi: Mississippi’s 2017-18 shrimp season in state waters opens Wednesday. The recreational and commercial shrimp season north of the Intracoastal Waterway will close Dec. 31. South of there and west of the Gulfport Ship Channel, the season will close next April 30. MISSOURI Kansas City: The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear State Technical College of Missouri’s challenge of a ruling that its mandatory drug testing policy is unconstitutional when applied to all students. The ACLU argues that universal drug testing is unconstitutionally invasive. MONTANA Montana revenue officials are working on the rollout of the latest medical marijuana program with a gross sales tax, the Billings Gazette reports. Providers will put that 4% tax on the books for one year starting July 1. NEBRASKA Grand Island: Albert Einstein, Mark Twain and St. Francis of Assisi will grace Grand Island this summer. A statue of Einstein will be placed at the airport. Twain’s statue will hold a book outside the city library. The statue of St. Francis will sit outside St. Mary’s Cathedral, The Grand Island Independent reports. NEVADA Las Vegas: Federal and local officials are investigating a fire that destroyed a Las Vegas church. Firefighters called early Tuesday to Zion United Methodist Church found the building engulfed in flames. NEW HAMPSHIRE New Ipswich: Nine people were injured last week in New Ipswich while using sparklers. The fire marshal’s office says sparklers were set inside a glass bottle that exploded when they were lit, scattering glass fragments. NEW JERSEY Ocean Township: A deer darting across New Jersey’s Garden State Parkway last weekend set in motion a series of crashes that hospitalized five people. None of the injuries are believed life-threatening, The

Asbury Park Press reports. NEW MEXICO Las Cruces: The Dona Ana County Sheriff ’s Department’s “Project Lifesaver” issues location devices to assist first-responders in locating anyone who becomes lost. The spe- cial wristbands are intended for people who may wander off due to dementia, Alzheimer’s disease or certain forms of autism. NEW YORK Auburn: A man who killed his parents two decades ago says he hatched a plan to escape a maximum-security New York prison by burying himself alive in a coffin-like box hidden under sawdust. Gordon “Woody” Mower told The Post-Standard of Syracuse that the plan failed in 2015 when another inmate tipped off guards. NORTH CAROLINA Greenville: The Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity’s charter has been revoked at East Carolina University for what officials call “risk management violations.” The violations include a keg being thrown over a fence and damaging a vehicle. NORTH DAKOTA Fargo: Federal prosecutors have recovered more than $389,000 from a scheme to defraud investors in a North Dakota oil patch trucking business. Sarah Creveling, co-owner of a Minot trucking company, faces up to 20 years in prison. OHIO Hamilton: The 111-yearold Soldier, Sailors and Pioneers Monument could soon reopen for public tours after more than two years of repairs, The HamiltonMiddletown Journal-News reports. OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Transportation officials say a decision by Oklahoma lawmakers to divert about $150 million in road and bridge funding is expected to delay starting some projects. But ongoing construction projects won’t have to be suspended, as initially feared. OREGON Portland: Two signs claiming that Jewish people were responsible for 9/11 were found hanging over an Oregon highway last weekend, The Oregonian/ OregonLive reports. PENNSYLVANIA Pittsburgh: Police say a masked gunman robbed a restaurant and pepper sprayed employees before fleeing with cash from the safe. The heist happened just before midnight Sunday at the Eat’n Park restaurant at Waterworks Mall. RHODE ISLAND Providence: The state is asking for the public’s help in tracking Rhode Island’s wild turkey population. The number of birds is estimated at about 3,000. SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: A Chinese tire manufacturer plans to invest at least $400 million in a South Carolina plant. Wanli Tire Corp. plans to build a plant in Orangeburg County employing at least 400 people. SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: Motorists cited by the South Dakota Highway Patrol are driving faster since lawmakers increased the maximum highway speed limit to 80 mph in April 2015. Data analyzed by the Argus

Leader shows that prior to the increase, motorists ticketed in 75 mph zones were on average driving 86 mph. Since the increase, the average speed ticketed in 80 mph zones increased to 88 mph. TENNESSEE Manchester: Tennessee’s Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is at a crossroads as organizers deal with last year’s plummeting ticket sales, The

Knoxville News Sentinel reports. Ticket sales fell by 28,000 in 2016, reaching an all-time low of 45,553. But officials say sales are up this year. TEXAS Galveston: An online petition is asking Galveston leaders to help avoid another freak incident blamed for the deaths of nearly 400 migratory birds during a storm. The Galveston County

Daily News reports that hundreds of songbirds died in May after hitting the side of the 23-story One Moody Plaza, possibly confused by building lights left on during migratory season. UTAH Salt Lake City: Authorities say a woman pulled two of her son’s teeth in a Walmart restroom in Utah. The woman, who had bought hand sanitizer and needle-nose pliers from the store, didn’t use any kind of anesthetic. She was charged with felony child abuse. VERMONT Montpelier: Vermont wildlife biologists encourage gardeners and landscapers to go native with plants. Biologist Jon Kart encourages gardeners and landscapers to promote pollinator insects like bumblebees and monarch butterflies with their plants, such as wild bergamot and black-eyed Susans. State botanist Bob Popp recommends sugar maple or red maple for colorful fall foiliage. VIRGINIA Tangier: A blue crab pulled from the Chesapeake Bay has two oysters growing on either side of its head near its eyes. The crab was found in a crab pot that belongs to the mayor of Tangier Island. The oysters are about six months old, The Washington Post reports. WASHINGTON Bellingham: A skier was rescued from Mount Baker after falling into a 60-foot crevasse last weekend, The Bel

lingham Herald reports. Authorities say the man suffered possible head, rib and wrist injuries after falling while coming down Coleman Glacier. WEST VIRGINIA Welch: Welch Community Hospital is no longer delivering babies now that its only obstetrician has retired, the

Bluefield Daily Telegraph reports. Pregnant women will have to rely on hospitals about an hour away in Bluefield or Princeton. WISCONSIN Madison: Legislative hunting committees are set to vote this week on a woodchuck hunting and trapping season. The bill would remove woodchucks from the state’s protected species list and establish a hunting and trapping season from July through December, with no bag limits. WYOMING Jackson Hole: Conservationists have filed a lawsuit challenging an elk-feeding operation at the Alkali Feedground in the Bridger-Teton National Forest. The suit says the feeding could allow the deadly chronic wasting disease to spread to the National Elk Refuge and the Jackson Elk Herd.