Tuesday,  June 12, 2012 • Vol. 12--No. 334 • 17 of 36 •  Other Editions

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rainfall amounts greater than an inch at several places. But much of the northeast and southeast received little to no precipitation.
• Development advanced for all crops, but conditions remained relatively stable with hope for future rain.
• Corn had an average height of 12 inches, ahead of the five year average of 6 inches, with 83 percent of the crop cultivated or sprayed once.
• Soybeans were at 89 percent emerged, ahead of the five year average of 51 percent.
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Sheriff: Man writing book on kindness shot in Mont
MATTHEW BROWN,Associated Press
• BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- A West Virginia man who told authorities he was hitchhiking across the country and writing a memoir about kindness was injured in a seemingly random drive-by shooting near Montana's booming Bakken oil patch.

• Ray Dolin, 39,

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