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News from across the USAALABAMA Montgomery: Gov. Kay
Ivey is not ready to issue a shelter-in-
place order as other governors have, a
spokeswoman said Wednesday, argu-
ing the state has taken aggressive
action to curb the spread of the new
coronavirus.
ALASKA Juneau: The state accused
an Anchorage man of buying respira-
tors and selling them at “unconscio-
nable prices” online to profit off coro-
navirus concerns. The complaint
against Juan Lyle Aune alleged vio-
lations of a law barring unfair trade
and commerce practices. It seeks
financial penalties.
ARIZONA Phoenix: Some shooting
ranges in metro Phoenix are closing
to the public or restricting hours in
response to the coronavirus pandem-
ic. The Arizona Game and Fish De-
partment announced that Ben Avery
Shooting Facility in north Phoenix is
closed to the public until further no-
tice.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: The Buffalo
National River was temporarily
closed Thursday because of coro-
navirus concerns. The National Park
Service said the closure takes
effect immediately and includes the
river, trails, campgrounds and open
spaces.
CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: A British
man accused of smuggling a phony
coronavirus cure into the United
States was charged with a federal
crime, prosecutors said.
COLORADO Colorado: In the past
two weeks, Northern Colorado shel-
ters and rescue groups have seen
dramatic spikes in adoption and fos-
ter applications. As adoptions soar
during the coronavirus epidemic,
fewer pets are being surrendered to
the Larimer Humane Society, said
Tylor Starr, marketing and communi-
ty outreach program manager.
CONNECTICUT Hartford: Two mem-
bers of the Connecticut National
Guard are among the latest state
residents to test positive for CO-
VID-19.
DELAWARE Wilmington: Trout fish-
ing season started Tuesday, instead
of the traditional first Saturday in
April, “to help minimize crowds and
accommodate responsible outdoor
recreation during the current coro-
navirus (COVID-19) period,” the state
Department of Natural Resources and
Environmental Control said.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washing-
ton: Mayor Muriel Bowser said a
COVID-19 testing site opens Friday at
United Medical Center, WUSA-TV
reported.
FLORIDA Melbourne: The Brevard
Zoo is welcoming a baby male giraffe,
which was born on Sunday. The calf
weighed 125 pounds and was 6-feet
tall at birth.
GEORGIA Marietta: A kitten stuck on
a roof in the cold was saved by fire-
fighters. The 6-week-old kitten was
nursed back to health Wednesday
after her rescue, Cobb County Fire
and Emergency Services said.
HAWAII Honolulu: A school has dis-
tributed laptops to students who
need the computers to take part in
online education during the coro-
navirus outbreak.
IDAHO Boise: U.S. officials are using
the coronavirus pandemic to force
through a long-delayed livestock
grazing allotment decision in critical
sage grouse habitat for a powerful
agribusiness, an environmental
group claimed.
ILLINOIS Carbondale: Southern Illi-
nois University has suspended the
Delta Chi fraternity for violating the
chancellor’s order banning in-person
activities to slow the spread of CO-
VID-19, officials said.
INDIANA Indianapolis: An April
Fools’ Day prank making the rounds
on social media suggested that Indi-
ana students will have to repeat their
current grade because of the coro-
navirus crisis. The joke, created by
prank websites that can be used to
generate social media posts that re-
semble real news stories, used Gov.
Eric Holcomb’s image and claimed
that he announced the move during a
news conference. That did not hap-
pen.
KANSAS Topeka: The state expects
an influx of coronavirus tests in the
coming weeks that should help with
efforts to bring the pandemic under
control, the state’s top health official
said.
KENTUCKY Frankfort: The Ken-
tucky National Guard already has
been posted at local hospitals, but
they soon will be at food banks
amid the coronavirus pandemic.LOUISIANA Shreveport: Gov. John
Bel Edwards reported a “jarring”
uptick in coronavirus cases
Thursday, though the state health
department’s top COVID-19 expert
said the spike is the result of a log-
jam of test results finally released to
the state.
MAINE Portland: Unemployment
claims in Maine have reached a new
high, surpassing a previous record
attributed to the coronavirus out-
break.MARYLAND Salisbury: In the span
of a week, Hardwire went from
building armor to help protect sol-
diers from improvised explosives to
trying to protecting health care
workers from an enemy invisible to
the naked eye.
MASSACHUSETTS Boston: The New
England Patriots private team plane
was expected to return to Boston
from China on Thursday carrying
more than 1 million masks crucial to
health care providers fighting to
control the spread of the new coro-
navirus.MICHIGAN Lansing: Gov. Gretchen
Whitmer on Thursday urged state
lawmakers not to come to the Capi-
tol on Tuesday, as planned, saying it
is too dangerous to convene a ses-
sion during the coronavirus pan-
demic. But she later clarified her
remarks through a spokeswoman,
saying lawmakers should convene
briefly and in a safe manner to ex-
tend her emergency and disaster
orders, and then return to their
districts.
MINNESOTA St. Paul: Gov. Tim
Walz said he will deliver his post-
poned State of the State address at
7 p.m. Sunday, and added he’s look-
ing forward to speaking directly to
Minnesotans during this uncertain
time.MISSISSIPPI Jackson: A nonparti-
san special election to fill a state
House seat is being delayed by two
months because of concerns about
the new coronavirus. Gov. Tate
Reeves announced Thursday that
June 23 is the new date for the elec-
tion in District 88 in parts of Jasper
and Jones counties. If a runoff is
needed, it will be July 14.
MISSOURI Kansas City: Smaller
local governments are issuing stay-
at-home orders to slow the spread
of the new coronavirus in Missouri,
where the governor hasn’t issued a
statewide order.MONTANA Great Falls: Cascade
County commissioners voted 2-1 to
conduct an all-mail ballot election
for the June 2 primary to reduce the
chances of elderly election judges,
county employees and voters from
getting the new coronavirus.NEBRASKA Lincoln: The state saw
another record-setting surge in
unemployment claims last week as
the new coronavirus forced more
businesses to close and lay off
workers, according to new data
released Thursday.NEVADA Las Vegas: More than
20,000 people registered to vote in
March, but the rate of people sign-
ing up to vote slowed at the end of
the month, when state Department
of Motor Vehicles offices closed
because of the coronavirus epidem-
ic, according to Nevada Secretary of
State Barbara Cegavske.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: Some
county jail inmates who were con-
victed or accused of nonviolent
crimes have been released to help
prevent the spread of the new coro-
navirus, state corrections officials
said.NEW JERSEY Secaucus:Gov. Phil
Murphy toured a 250-bed field hos-
pital at the Meadowlands Exposi-
tion Center in Secaucus.The hospi-
tal is scheduled to field noncoro-
navirus cases. It’s one of four field
hospitals that are supposed to open
in New Jersey. There will be two
250-bed facilities in Edison, with
the fourth a 250-bed field hospital
in Atlantic City.
NEW MEXICO Doña Ana:Officials
with the Doña Ana County Deten-
tion Center reported that there are
no cases of COVID-19 at the facility,
and that they have initiated a quar-
antine for new detainees.NEW YORK New York City: Veteri-
narians are answering the call to
give up their ventilators to help fight
the new coronavirus in humans.
With city hospitals facing a ventila-
tor shortage as coronavirus cases
multiply, Mayor Bill De Blasio on
Tuesday urged vets, plastic sur-
geons and others who might have
the potentially life-saving equip-
ment to lend it for the duration of
the crisis.
NORTH CAROLINA Tarboro:A man
has been arrested after deputies,
who were responding to a call about
a shooting, found more than 70
people at a barn, a sheriff ’s office
said, violating Gov. Roy Cooper’s
order limiting gatherings.NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: One of
the state’s largest oil producers filed
for bankruptcy Wednesday, citing
the coronavirus pandemic on top of
plunging oil prices. Gov. Doug Bur-
gum said he expected more might
follow and would “create real pres-
sure on state budgets.”
OHIO Columbus: Ohioans are con-
fronted with an additional four
weeks in isolation as Gov. Mike
DeWine extended the state’s stay-
at-home order Thursday to under-
cut the coming peak of coronavirus
cases. The order issued by state
health director Dr. Amy Acton will
continue stay-at-home precautions
until May 1.OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Gov.
Kevin Stitt called Thursday for a spe-
cial session of the Legislature as part
of his declaration of a health emer-
gency in all 77 counties.OREGON Salem: A doctor at a veter-
ans home in Oregon used a malaria
drug to treat eight patients there for
the new coronavirus, but said a state
rule enacted last month would pre-
vent him from treating any more
veterans there. After pushback
against the Oregon Board of Pharma-
cy’s March 25 rule, the board amend-
ed it on Wednesday to allow the drug
to be used not only in hospitals for
confirmed COVID-19 cases, but also
long-term care facilities like the Ore-
gon Veterans’ Home in Lebanon.
PENNSYLVANIA Harrisburg: As ex-
pected, demand far exceeded the
capacity of Pennsylvania’s system of
state-owned liquor stores to process
online orders as sales resumed
Wednesday. Brick-and-mortar liquor
stores are closed because of the coro-
navirus pandemic, but nearly
278,000 people tried to place orders
on the Pennsylvania Liquor Control
Board website during the first day of
digital sales.RHODE ISLAND Providence: A coali-
tion of labor unions and social justice
organizations in Rhode Island is call-
ing on state leaders to pass their own
coronavirus relief package to help
workers and the newly unemployed.
SOUTH CAROLINA Columba:Public
health officials are creating a state-
wide database of addresses of known
positive COVID-19 cases, a secure tool
only made available to first respond-
ers who have argued the information
could help protect them.SOUTH DAKOTA Eagle Butte: The
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe said it is
setting up checkpoints on roads go-
ing into tribal land on Thursday to
prevent the spread of the new coro-
navirus.
TENNESSEE Memphis: As more peo-
ple get sick from the new coronavirus
in Tennessee, the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers has evaluated sites in the
Memphis area to convert to medical
care facilities to ease the burden on
hospitals facing an incoming wave of
patients.TEXAS Laredo: Residents are being
required to wear something that cov-
ers their nose and mouth when
they’re out in public during the coro-
navirus pandemic – or face a fine of
up to $1,000.
UTAH Salt Lake City: As the number
of coronavirus cases and deaths grew
in Utah, the governor announced a
freeze on evictions Wednesday and
advocates demanded more inmates
be released to prevent the spread in
jails and prisons.VERMONT Burlington: Members of
Chittenden County’s largest emer-
gency response agencies have so far
remained mostly healthy despite the
spread of the new coronavirus in
Vermont.
VIRGINIA Richmond: A long-term
care facility with one of the nation’s
worst-known coronavirus outbreaks
said Thursday that testing conducted
on all residents had more than dou-
bled the number of confirmed cases
of COVID-19 to nearly 100 as the
number of fatalities increased to 16.WASHINGTON Seattle: Federal au-
thorities have proposed a $611,000
fine for a Seattle-area nursing home
connected to at least 40 coronavirus
deaths.
WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: The
state’s attorney general on Thursday
said a ban on elective medical proce-
dures during the coronavirus pan-
demic will reduce abortions but will
be upheld in an eventual legal chal-
lenge.WISCONSIN Milwaukee: The United
States’ top infectious disease special-
ist is getting his own bobblehead. The
creation from the National Bobble-
head Hall of Fame and Museum in
Milwaukee features Dr. Anthony Fau-
ci. The museum will plans to donate
$5 from every $25 Fauci bobblehead
that’s sold to the American Hospital
Association in support of that group’s
effort to get masks and other per-
sonal protective equipment for health
care workers.
WYOMING Casper: Wyoming courts
are extending measures to discourage
spread of the coronavirus by another
seven weeks.
From USA TODAY Network and
wire reportsHIGHLIGHT: IOWA
Ballerina Lily Ungs, 17, of Urbandale, Iowa, performs in the parking lot of the
Summit House senior community in Des Moines, where her grandparents Jon
and Elaine Lindgren live. BRYON HOULGRAVE/THE REGISTERDes Moines: Lily Ungs, 17, of Urbandale performed a ballet for residents of the
Summit House senior community in Des Moines on Wednesday night. Since the
coronavirus epidemic began, Wednesdays are called “Balcony Night” in the com-
munity. Instead of gathering at each other’s apartments or various spots around
the building, the residents have taken to standing on their balconies and chit-
chatting across the gap. But Jon and Elaine Lindgren cajoled Ungs, their grand-
daughter, into performing a routine in the parking lot. Ungs studied at the presti-
gious Ballet West Academy in Salt Lake City, until her school year, like so many
others, was shortened by the pandemic.Her performance included “Dance of the
Sugar Plum Fairy” from “The Nutcracker.”