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Buttery space shuttle featured in Ohio State Fair

COLUMBUS

Cows aren’t jumping over the moon in this year’s Ohio State Fair butter sculptures, but the refrigerated exhibit does have a space- travel theme.

Fair officials said Tuesday the usual cow and calf made of butter are accompanied this year by a butter space shuttle and astronaut.

The American Dairy Association says the display pays tribute to the shuttle program’s 30-year legacy. The last space-shuttle flight ended Thursday with the landing of the Atlantis.

The trade group says in a news release that the butter sculptors “had a blast” creating the exhibit. The work took 475 hours and used 1,550 pounds of butter, about 6,200 sticks.

Last year’s fair featured two NFL players and a giant football made of butter.

The 158th Ohio State Fair opens today.

Take a seat? Pittsburgh-area transit agency already has

PITTSBURGH

Take a seat? No thanks — a Pittsburgh-area transit agency already has done that dozens of times over.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was reporting Tuesday that some Port Authority of Allegheny County riders have been boarding buses that have seats removed from the front of the vehicles.

Transit authority spokesman Jim Ritchie explains that 22 buses have had their seats removed to accommodate wheelchair users expected in the city for next week’s 31st National Veterans Wheelchair Games.

Ritchie says some of the modified buses have been pressed into service because half of the authority’s fleet is undergoing semiannual inspections. Ritchie says the modified buses are being used only as a last resort.

About 600 athletes from the United States, Puerto Rico and Great Britain will compete in the wheelchair games Monday to Aug. 7.

Mother, daughter get big lottery jackpot 3 times

CHARLOTTE, N.C.

A mother and daughter in the Carolinas have three big lottery wins in the last 20 years between them.

The Charlotte Observer reports that Kimberly McCauley won $100,000 this month playing a new instant-scratch-off game, 10X the Money.

The North Carolina Education Lottery says that in 2007, McCauley’s mother, Amy McCauley, who’s from Fort Mill, S.C., won more than $160,000 in the Carolina Cash 5 game. But the family’s big win came in 1991, when Amy McCauley won $15.5 million in the New York Lotto. She also snagged two $1,000 prizes playing the North Carolina lottery’s $130 Million Blockbuster game in 2009.

Kimberly McCauley says she thought her mother had all the lottery luck, so she’s overwhelmed with the $100,000 win.

Associated Press