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Green Bay authorities on Thursday gave troublemakers a final warning — because beginning next week, police are skipping the warnings and going straight to the citations.

Cracking down on smaller crimes such as loitering, loud stereos and mufflers, prowling and curfew violations that especially aggravated neighbors last summer, police on Monday will shift into "zero-tolerance" mode for summer 2006. A series of two-officer police teams and occasional squads of up to 20 officers will fire off citations in problem areas while patrol cops citywide toughen up.

According to [Agent Charles] Poston, Woodson picked the Packers because head coach Mike McCarthy agreed to let him play on offense as well as play cornerback.

"I think the fact that Brett committed to another year, that was one thing Charles was interested in," Poston said. "Another point is that they agreed to let Charles play offense as well as defense. That proved to be very beneficial to them. They wouldn't let him do that in Oakland."

Mumps has been diagnosed in a 20-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student who lives in an apartment located off campus. That student has been asked to stay away from school until he or she is no longer contagious.

The university joins a growing list of institutions in the state to be affected by the infection. In Milwaukee, cases have also been identified at Marquette University, MATC, UW-Milwaukee and three Milwaukee Public Schools -- Longfellow and Cooper elementary schools, and the Academy of Accelerated Learning.

UW-Madison health officials have sent e-mails to all faculty, staff and students, encouraging them to update their vaccinations.

Three more suspected methamphetamine waste sites were found in ditches along northern Clark County roads after the sheriff's department asked for the public's help in spotting them.

About 40 containers, most of the them plastic, two-liter soda bottles, have been found, said Clark County Sheriff's Department Chief Deputy Jim Backus.

Authorities said last week they had found four sites in the previous month in the town of Green Grove, mostly in ditches near Highway 29, Cardinal Avenue and Oak Road.

Later, discarded waste sites were found in the towns of Hoard and Colby, Backus said.

Distracted drivers were involved in nearly eight out of 10 collisions or near-crashes, says a study released Thursday by the government.

Researchers reviewed thousands of hours of video and data from sensor monitors linked to more than 200 drivers, and pinpointed examples of what keeps drivers from paying close attention to the road.

"We see people on the roadways talking on the phone, checking their stocks, checking scores, fussing with their MP3 players, reading e-mails, all while driving 40, 50, 60, 70 miles per hour and sometimes even faster," said Jacqueline Glassman, acting administrator of the government's highway safety agency.

A driver's reaching for a moving object increased the risk of a crash or potential collision by nine times, according to researchers at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute.

They found that the risk of a crash increases almost threefold when a driver is dialing a cell phone.

The retractable roof is translucent, allowing in light even when it is closed, which it will be when temperatures hit triple-digits early in the coming season.

The most intriguing feature, though, is the field itself. Made of natural grass, it will sit outside under the desert sun 340 days a year, Bidwill said. For games, it will slide into the stadium like a kitchen cutting board.

"It's a tray. I call it a cake pan about 3 feet deep," [Cardinals vice president Michael] Bidwill said, "a single unit that rolls into place in 45 minutes. It weighs about 17 million pounds and rolls on about 500 wheels on 13 rails."

When the field is rolled outside, it leaves 152,000 square feet of space for conventions, trade shows or other events.

A principal trying to prevent walkouts during immigration rallies inadvertently introduced a lockdown so strict that children weren't allowed to go to the bathroom, and instead had to use buckets in the classroom, an official said.

Worthington Elementary School Principal Angie Marquez imposed the lockdown March 27 as nearly 40,000 students across Southern California left classes that morning to attend immigrants' rights demonstrations. The lockdown continued into the following morning.

Marquez apparently misread the district handbook and ordered a lockdown designed for nuclear attacks.

Tim Brown, the district's director of operations, confirmed some students used buckets but said the principal's order to impose the most severe type of lockdown was an "honest mistake."

"When there's a nuclear attack, that's when buckets are used," Brown told the Los Angeles Times. The principal "followed procedure. She made a decision to follow the handbook. She just misread it."

What the UW needs to do, suggested Nicole Birringer, a sophomore business major from McFarland, is to come up with a slogan that distinguishes it from other schools - something like: "We play hard and party hard."

There are lots of colleges, she notes, that have great academic reputations but don't offer "the full college experience" - certainly nothing like Bucky Badger does.

"I mean, you're only in college once, so you really should enjoy it."

Carlos Carrera, a construction worker from Mexico, held a banner that read: "We are not criminals. Give us a chance for a better life."

"We would like them to let us work with dignity. We want to progress along with this country," said Carrera, who said he has been in the United States for 20 years.

The discovery team called the fossils the most compelling examples yet of an animal that was at the cusp of the fish-tetrapod transition. The fish has been named Tiktaalik roseae, at the suggestion of elders of Canada's Nunavut Territory. Tiktaalik (pronounced tic-TAH-lick) means "large shallow water fish."

"The origin of limbs," Dr. Shubin's team wrote, "probably involved the elaboration and proliferation of features already present in the fins of fish such as Tiktaalik."

In an interview, Dr. Shubin, an evolutionary biologist, let himself go. "It's a really amazing, remarkable intermediate fossil," he said. "It's like, holy cow."

Vice President Dick Cheney's former top aide told prosecutors President Bush authorized the leak of sensitive intelligence information about Iraq, according to court papers filed by prosecutors in the CIA leak case.

Mike Meyers is shocked when City Clerk Deb Hall tells him there was a mistake in the initial vote tally, reversing the election's outcome in his favor.