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USA TODAY THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013

STATE-BY-STATE
News from across the USA
ALABAMA Montgomery: The Equal Justice Initiative has found corrections workers are abusing inmates at three Alabama mens prisons. The group said it has uncovered dozens of cases at the Elmore Correctional Facility, Bibb Correctional Facility and Donaldson prison. ALASKA Anchorage: A man helping ACROSS THE USA

Adventurers go extra mile for a cause

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Homeowner Jimmie Moore will be eulogized Saturday. There will be a joint funeral for six members of the Kuhns family Tuesday. exterior of the states tallest building will no longer be illuminated at night beginning this week, a decision made to save money as it sits vacant. The 26-story Art Deco-style skyscraper is known to some as the Superman building for its similarity to the Daily Planet headquarters in the old TV show.
SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: RHODE ISLAND Providence: The

Sandhya Kambhampati

to move a house near Palmer was run over by the structure. Paul Wolski, 50, suffered a broken pelvis. Greenstreet General Contracting was towing the 4,000-square-foot ranch home with a loader and had a valid permit.
ARIZONA Tucson: The National Weather Service says the city hit 100 degrees Tuesday, which tied a record with 39 consecutive days of 100 degrees or higher. The 39-day streak of the century mark in Tucsons temperature was set in 1987 and rst tied in 2005. ARKANSAS Little Rock: The Mac-

Arthur Museum of Arkansas Military History will host a free day-long display of vintage military vehicles from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday. The vehicles will span from World War I to Operation Desert Storm.
CALIFORNIA Long Beach: After

years of noise complaints from residents, the City Council voted unanimously to have the city attorney write an ordinance forbidding ice cream trucks from playing amplied music while parked and selling treats. trying to contain the spread of a virus that threatens the state pork industry. Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus was once thought to exist only in Europe and China, but Colorado and 12 other states began reporting the virus in April. the United Klans of America were meant to deter criminals who have been breaking into cars, said Bradley Jenkins, the imperial wizard of the white supremacist group. Mayor Benjamin Blake condemned the iers, saying the town doesnt tolerate hate groups.
DELAWARE Wilmington: Youre really not supposed to give your co-star a big slurpy kiss unless the script calls for it, but Zoe just couldnt help herself last Friday as she, in the great Shakespearean tradition, impersonated a male in her rst rehearsal as understudy for the Shakespeare Festival production of Two Gentlemen from Verona. The playful 8-monthold pit bull mix is one of six dogs from the Faithful Friends Animal Society cast in the production. Performances start Friday. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: The D.C. Council will consider decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana. Council member Tommy Wells planned to introduce the bill. FLORIDA Melbourne: The Brevard County Commission is considering creating a 15-member task force on homelessness, Florida Today reported. Among its tasks would be nding ways to expand the availability of emergency shelters in the county. GEORGIA Atlanta: Insurance and CONNECTICUT Milford: Fliers from COLORADO Pueblo: The state is

Running or pedaling through rain and shine, thousands of people are crossing the USA under their own power this summer in an annual grass-roots ritual that blends personal challenge, wanderlust and volunteerism. Hundreds are a part of groups like One Run for Boston, 4K for Cancer and Bike and Build, who are working collectively to raise almost $9 million and traveling more than 92,000 miles, according to USA TODAY research on these travelers. Scores more plan and do it alone or in pairs. They raise money for organizations such as Childrens Miracle Network and the Wounded Warriors Project. After saving for months and relying on family and friends to help them raise anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000 to make the trip, they may travel up to 100 miles a day and spend months on the road. One of them is cyclist and animal lover Floyd Lampart, 67, of Lake Clear, N.Y., who is biking 12,000 miles over six months for Best Friends Animal Society. His goal: pedal to the four most extreme points in the 48 contiguous states and document it by stopping at a local post office to pick up a stamp. He also hopes to raise $100,000 for homeless animals through friends and family on his website. Its like building a boat, says more e-mails on the chicken issue than any tax issue thats come up in his rst term. of Cub Scout Pack 184 here are searching for a new meeting place after losing their sponsor over the Boy Scouts of America vote to allow gay youth in the troops. Sue BovardKentner, committee chair and mother of a 9-year-old in the pack, said she was told Tuesday that Arlington Avenue Baptist Church would close its doors to the troop. I think its the wrong decision, Bovard-Kentner said. Theyre just little boys.
IOWA Sioux City: The INDIANA Indianapolis: The 11 boys

Residents of Richland County are getting some free tips on ways to prevent armed robbery. Sheriff Leon Lotts Community Action Team is offering an armed robbery prevention seminar. partment of Tourism hopes to draw Chinese visitors to the Mount Rushmore state. Tourism officials recently hosted their rst Chinese familiarization tour of the state for Chinese tour operators.
TENNESSEE Johnson City: East Tennessee State University has received approval to offer a degree option that includes the doctor of pharmacy and master of business administration. SOUTH DAKOTA Pierre: The De-

Alec Bernard and Allie Wills say weather was the biggest challenge in pedaling 3,500 miles from Westport, Conn., to San Francisco. Lampart, who started planning six years ago and got serious when he retired two years ago. Youve got to look at each day as putting down a new plank to build the boat. If you look at the whole picture of the boat at once, youd go nuts. Lampart and many other trekkers say the mental challenge trumped the physical one. Cornell University students Allie Wills and Alec Bernard say weather was their biggest challenge. They faced rain on 18 of their rst 20 days, dodged a tornado, detoured around Colorado wildres and faced extreme winds along the mond plans to use more than 6,700 balloons in 24 hours.
MINNESOTA Dorset: Supporters of the mayor here can stuff the ballot box all they want as he seeks reelection. The mayor a short guy is known for his fondness of ice cream and shing. Say hello to Mayor Robert Bobby Tufts. Hes 4 years old and not even in school yet. Bobby won election last year as mayor of the town (pop. 22 to 28, depending on whether the minister and his family are in town). MISSISSIPPI Jackson: The Pothole

3,500 miles from Westport, Conn., to San Francisco. They raised money for Citta, which funds clinics and schools in Nepal, India and Mexico. Many of these adventurers plan their trips in detail, including lodging, food and routes. One was 2011 summer traveler Dave Wolfsen of Fremont, Mich., known as Tractor Dave, who drove 4,000 miles across 48 states in his 1937 Coop No. 2 tractor to raise money for the Food Resource Bank and the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee. He said he couldnt believe how many farmers waited to see him. nancial assistance in recovering from wildres sparked during the past three years.

public boil water notice stemming from the deadly fertilizer plant blast April 17, judging it safe to drink water from all public supplies.
UTAH St. George: On Monday, 100 years to the day after the rst hospital building opened in Washington County, Utah, the current medical center invited residents out to celebrate that centennial of care. VERMONT Brattleboro: A group of investors has completed a deal to start rebuilding a 142-year-old building damaged by re. The Brattleboro Reformer reported that Mesabi LLC plans a groundbreaking ceremony July 17 for the Brooks House, which was built in 1871.

TEXAS West: Officials rescinded the

city agreed to settle an age discrimination lawsuit led by a reghter. The Sioux City Council passed a resolution to settle 48-yearold Brian Thieles lawsuit for $45,000.

Patchman has roamed the streets for weeks, lling in the crater-heavy roads with buckets of asphalt and his own sweat. Now, Ron Chane (pronounced Chaney) is hanging up his asphalt-lled buckets after meeting his personal goal of 100 repairs Monday night.
MISSOURI St. Joseph: Conserva-

shuttle Enterprise reopened to visitors after an eight-month hiatus caused by damage from Superstorm Sandy. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on the ight deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum to unveil the temporary pavilion housing NASAs retired shuttle. Beach: More than 20 people were taken to hospitals after a secondstory deck on a condominium collapsed onto a patio below.
NORTH DAKOTA Watford: The NORTH CAROLINA Ocean Isle

NEW YORK New York: The space

led by a man who was arrested after stripping to his running shorts at an airport checkpoint to protest security procedures was settled. Aaron Tobey of Charlottesville claimed airport police violated his free speech rights.
WASHINGTON Spokane: A Lakewood school official accused of vandalizing the posh Davenport Hotel during an education conference blamed a negative reaction to a prescription sleeping pill for his behavior. James Paxinos, assistant superintendent from the Clover Park School District, is accused of climbing through the ceiling panel of a restroom the night of June 25 to reach the roof of the hotel. WEST VIRGINIA Clarksburg: Federal authorities say that police chief Marshall Goff and Lt. Tim Smith have resigned to avoid charges related to the delayed arrest of a city councilman in a domestic assault case.

VIRGINIA Richmond: A lawsuit

KANSAS Pittsburg: Residents will vote in September on a proposed half-cent sales tax increase to help fund police and re operations. If the proposal is approved, the tax would take effect on Jan. 1, 2014. Police Chief Mendy Hulvey said the police department is understaffed and the city sorely needs a narcotics unit.

tion officials issued citations to 16 people accused of illegally catching catsh. The Department of Conservation said in a news release that the misdemeanor citations were issued for hand shing, also known as noodling or grabbing.
MONTANA Kalispell: Wildlife expert Jack Hanna and his wife, Suzi, are hosting a fundraiser for grizzly bear research at their home in Bigfork on Friday evening. The Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks Foundation is organizing the Grizzly Bear Rendezvous, which raises money for research, population counts, management and capturing and relocating grizzly bears to increase their numbers in the Cabinet Mountains.

visitor center in the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park is being closed because of unstable soil. The centers functions were moved to a cottage at the units campground.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Gov. Fallins secretary of Education, Phyllis Hudecki, will resign July 15 to resume fulltime duties as head of the Business and Education Coalition. She is the third Cabinet member to step down in three months. OREGON Medford: Two

shear, a Democrat, announced Wednesday that 96 school districts have decided to increase the dropout age incrementally over the next four years from 16 to 18. teachers are continuing to retire at higher-than-usual numbers more than 7,500 in the past two years. The number of retirements in 2013 increased from the 24% increase last year.
MAINE Augusta: The federal government awarded $1.4 million to 19 Maine health centers on Wednesday to boost staff as the previously uninsured seek health care coverage under the Affordable Health Care Act. MARYLAND Glen Arm: Shane Volk, LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: State

KENTUCKY Frankfort: Gov. Be-

Safety Fire Commissioner Ralph Hudgens and two senior staffers accepted $100-per-head meals and, in one case, a round of golf funded by the industry they oversee, according to nancial disclosures.
HAWAII Wailuku: The Maui Police

was ooded after a vandal or vandals smashed open the re sprinkler system. Principal Mitch Bartholomew said water spread throughout the school, including the gym. stroll through the Sin City of yesteryear at a museum full of the towns retired neon signs. The 2-acre Neon Museum and its visitors center has added nighttime hours. The outdoor lot boasts 150 signs, including one dating to the 1930s that marked a restaurant for Hoover Dam construction workers. Tickets start at $12 for Nevada residents on a daytime tour and run up to $25 for nighttime tours. co users will be paying a little more beginning Aug. 1 because of an increase in the state tax triggered by a drop in revenue. The tax on a pack of cigarettes will rise a dime to $1.78. The rate on other products, except premium cigars, will be 65% of the wholesale sales price.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: TobacNEVADA Las Vegas: Tourists can

NEBRASKA York: York High School

Whitewater: A new report from the University of Wisconsin says growing and processing sweet corn contributes $130 million to the state economy each year. National Weather Service warned of possible ash oods in many of the areas burned by wildres last year.
Compiled from staff and wire reports by Tim Wendel and Dennis Lyons. Design by Michael B. Smith. Graphics by Bob Laird.

WISCONSIN

sheep on the loose were captured after nearly a year on the lam. The sheep had been crossing Interstate 5 and interfering with traffic. al services are set for seven people killed in a Fourth of July house re.
PENNSYLVANIA Lancaster: Funer-

WYOMING Casper: The

Department has acquired a Lenco BearCat armored vehicle that will protect the departments Special Response Team. The vehicle carries the ability to repel a .50-caliber projectile. Its also touted for its high maneuverability.
IDAHO Nampa: A school

an off-duty Baltimore police officer, died after his car struck an embankment and crashed into two mailboxes.
MASSACHUSETTS

IN FOCUS: OHIO A CACHE OF WEAPONS AND ALLEGED HIT LIST

search warrants. TOLEDO An alleged neo-Nazi symAt least seven high-capacity pathizer faces up to 10 years in ammunition magazines were found prison after he pleaded guilty to at Schmidts sports memorabilia illegally having a cache of weapons store in Bowling Green, according and counterfeit merchandise in to an FBI affidavit led that month. northwest Ohio. The FBI alerted black and JewRichard Schmidt, 47, of Toledo, ish leaders in the Detroit pleaded guilty Tuesday area that their names in federal court to poswere on a list kept by session of rearms and Schmidt, who had previbody armor by a convictin America ously served 13 years in ed felon and trafficking prison for voluntary in counterfeit goods, manslaughter. according to court recThe notebook is among evidence ords. Schmidt is scheduled to be that federal investigators said sentenced Oct. 31. showed Schmidt might sympathize Edward Bryan, a federal public with neo-Nazis. defender representing Schmidt, That issue did not come up durcalled the move a conditional ing the Tuesday plea hearing, The guilty plea, The Blade in Toledo Blade said. reported. Bryan said hell appeal the courts refusal to suppress eviThe Associated Press dence seized in December through

district reeling from budget problems has lost 20% of its teachers in the past few months. Nampa School District Superintendent Pete Koehler said 151 teachers have left since the end of the school year far more than the usual 5% annual turnover rate. City Council voted Tuesday to end a ban on keeping chickens within the city limits. The move will allow city residents to keep hens in their back yards for egg production. According to The NewsGazette, Mayor Don Gerard said he received
ILLINOIS Champaign: The

Boston: Welfare recipients who accumulate high balances on their electronic benet transfer cards will have those cards shut down under new state rules. Cash assistance recipients with balances above $1,500 will be notied to see if they still need assistance, and EBT cards with balances exceeding $2,500 will be closed.
MICHIGAN Brighton: A man will attempt to set a record for blowing up balloons and turning them into sculptures at the Taste of Brighton festival Friday and Saturday. Tim Thur-

NEW JERSEY Jersey City: The Port Authority honored two people who came to the aid of a woman who fell on the PATH rail tracks in April. Port Authority Police Chief Louis Koumoutsos presented Lalit Moorjani of Piscataway and Stanley Eady of Bayonne with certicates of appreciation. NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: The

federal government is accepting applications through July 19 from farmers and ranchers seeking -