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Carfax, a company that sells vehicle history reports to dealers and car buyers, searched recalls and state registration databases and found that more than 46 million cars on U.S. roads have recalled parts that have yet to be repaired.

Here is a state-by-state breakdown of cars with unfixed recalls in 2014:

State    Cars with unfixed recalls

Alabama    806,456

Alaska    119,581

Arizona    983,363

Arkansas    453,421

California    4,923,308

Colorado    817,869

Connecticut    499,074

Delaware    143,964

Florida    2,778,369

Georgia    1,482,696

Hawaii    196,880

Idaho    232,936

Illinois    1,917,440

Indiana    999,964

Iowa    513,600

Kansas    449,270

Kentucky    692,582

Louisiana    682,206

Maine    204,143

Maryland    878,308

Massachusetts    954,570

Michigan    1,579,969

Minnesota    855,222

Mississippi    496,480

Missouri    923,443

Montana    177,425

Nebraska    297,006

Nevada    337,990

New Hampshire    222,560

New Jersey    1,284,260

New Mexico    343,956

New York    2,116,136

North Carolina    1,327,578

North Dakota    117,246

Ohio    1,898,505

Oklahoma    707,367

Oregon    506,337

Pennsylvania    1,997,334

Rhode Island    137,479

South Carolina    755,874

South Dakota    143,704

Tennessee    944,972

Texas    4,102,575

Utah    427,741

Vermont    100,904

Virginia    1,225,118

Washington    949,641

Washington, D.C.    52,398

West Virginia    295,709

Wisconsin    894,650

Wyoming    114,133

Source: Study of 2014 state registration data by Carfax.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — European river cruise giant Viking announced Tuesday that it will make its first North American home port in New Orleans, with Mississippi River cruises expected in 2017.

The move means hundreds of jobs and a boost to the city’s tourism industry, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said at a news conference with Viking River Cruises officials.

The company, which runs tours in Europe and Asia and has expanded rapidly in the past few years, plans to build six boats over three years — each capable of hosting up to 300 passengers for the new American cruises.

In New Orleans, the boats will dock near the French Quarter. Cruises will head north to Memphis, St. Louis and St. Paul, Minnesota, depending on the season.

“New Orleans is on a roll, and this investment is yet another example of the continued growth across industries in our city,” New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said in a news release.

River cruising in general has exploded in popularity in recent years, offering a more traditional way to experience cruising than the mass-market megaships that carry thousands of people and are loaded with attractions such as rides and Broadway shows. Some travelers say river ships are a welcome throwback to an earlier era of cruising.

River cruising is also more destination-oriented, with boats navigating narrow waterways to port cities that massive ships could never reach.

Carolyn Spencer Brown, editor-in-chief of CruiseCritic.com, called Viking’s move “terrific news.”

“As we’ve seen in Europe, especially, when Viking enters a market, it truly helps to broaden awareness,” she said. “The Mississippi River is one of the most magical and charming rivers to explore, so we’re looking forward to seeing more and more travelers experiencing one of America’s most intriguing cruise regions.”

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Associated Press writer Beth Harpaz in New York contributed to this report.

GARDEN TOWNSHIP, MI – One semi-truck driver is injured after crashing into the back of another semi-truck filled with 40,000 pounds of dynamite.

Luckily the dynamite did not ignite during the crash.

Deputies from the Delta County Sheriff’s Department say the crash happened Tuesday morning at 9:22 a.m. on US-2, just east of M183.

Deputies say an eastbound semi-truck driven by 60-year-old Erik Somirs of Long Lane, Missouri was in the process of making a left turn into the Garden Rest Stop when a second eastbound semi-truck, driven by 59-year-old William Watson of Hawks, Michigan, rear-ended it.

Somir’s semi was loaded with the dynamite. He was unharmed in the accident and his truck sustained minor damage.

Watson had to be extracted by the Jaws of Life and was airlifted to Marquette General Hospital. His injuries are unknown at this time.

US-2 was closed for a short time to allow the helicopter to land.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald says integrity and character “is part of who I am” and apologized anew for erroneously claiming he served in the military’s special forces.

At a news conference outside VA offices Tuesday, McDonald told reporters he made the misstatement in a conversation with a homeless veteran he was trying “to connect with.”

McDonald added: “I apologize for that. I have no excuse for it.”

The VA secretary has drawn expressions of disappointment, but no demands for his resignation. He served five years in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, qualified as an Army Ranger but did not serve in a Ranger regiment.

He was never part of the special forces — elite units that are trained to perform unconventional missions including covert operations, hostage rescue and other high-risk actions.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Gov. Scott Walker’s administration says nearly 27,500 private-sector jobs have been added in Wisconsin over the 12-month period that ended in September.

Walker’s Department of Workforce Development released the preliminary numbers Tuesday in advance of them being published officially by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on March 19. By releasing them early, Wisconsin’s numbers can’t be compared with job growth in other states.

Walker has been releasing the numbers ahead of the BLS routinely now for years. The quarterly numbers are based on a survey of nearly every business in the state and more accurate than monthly figures based on a census of just 3.5 percent of employers.

The latest figures reflect growth between September 2013 and September 2014.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Congress should launch an investigation into what the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is doing to prevent additional superbug infections after a deadly outbreak at a Los Angeles hospital linked to tainted medical scopes, a lawmaker said Monday.

U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., sent a letter asking the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to hold a hearing on the issue, which he said “poses both health and national security risks.” The committee oversees the FDA.

Lieu noted that the Obama administration has made fighting antibiotic-resistant bacteria a national security priority.

The FDA issued an alert last week after seven patients at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center became infected with antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, or CRE, during endoscopic procedures. Two died.

The hospital notified 179 patients who may have been exposed between October and January and offered a free home test kit. Results will take several weeks.

Similar outbreaks have occurred in hospitals in Pennsylvania, Illinois and Washington in recent years.

Between January 2013 and December 2014, the FDA received 75 reports involving 135 patients in the U.S. who may have been infected by contaminated scopes. The FDA has acknowledged that the complex design of the devices known as duodenoscopes can make them hard to clean. The agency has said taking the scopes off the market “would prevent hundreds of thousands of patients from access to this beneficial and often life-saving procedure.”

About 500,000 people across the country each year undergo procedures involving duodenoscopes, which are threaded down the throat to examine organs such as the liver and pancreas.

UCLA has said it cleaned the scopes to manufacturer’s standards. After the outbreak, the hospital returned two contaminated scopes to the maker and adopted a more stringent disinfection process that involves putting the devices in a machine and then sending it off campus for a second cleaning.

On Monday, the Carolinas HealthCare System said it has increased efforts to prevent the spread of CRE, which killed two patients in the Charlotte, North Carolina, area in recent months. CRE infections typically strike people in hospitals and other health care settings and are usually not a threat to healthy people.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Wesleyan University’s president on Monday urged students to come forward with knowledge of anybody distributing drugs on campus following a rash of hospitalizations among people who took a party drug known as Molly.

A total of 12 people — 10 Wesleyan students and two visitors — received medical attention over the weekend, including some who attended a rave music show Saturday night.

“If you are aware of people distributing these substances, please let someone know before more people are hurt,” President Michael Roth wrote in a letter to campus.

The school became aware of the problem early Sunday after several students showed up seeking treatment at a Middlesex Hospital near campus, university spokeswoman Lauren Rubenstein said. Two students listed in critical condition Sunday were airlifted for treatment in Hartford, 20 miles north of the campus in Middletown. Two others were taken by ambulance to Hartford Hospital in serious condition.

Four others were expected to be released from Middlesex on Monday, Roth said.

Molly is a term used to describe a refined form of Ecstasy, a synthetic drug also known as MDMA. It can drive up body temperature and cause liver, kidney or cardiovascular failure.

Dr. Mark Neavyn, chief of toxicology at Hartford Hospital, said users who believe they are taking Molly are often receiving different kinds of designer drugs, with ranges of purity and potency making the health risks unpredictable. He said testing is underway to confirm what drugs the Wesleyan patients took.

“When we see these people in the emergency department and they claim to have taken Molly, we don’t pay attention to that word anymore. It’s so commonly not MDMA, we just start from square one and say it’s some sort of drug abuse,” Neavyn said.

It was not the first such episode this year at the private school of nearly 3,000 students.

Wesleyan health officials said in a campus-wide email on Sept. 16 that students had been hospitalized the previous two weekends after taking Molly. Students were urged to visit the school’s health center if they had questions or concerns.

In his Monday letter to campus, Roth included a telephone number students can call to make a confidential report.

“These drugs can be altered in ways that make them all the more toxic. Take a stand to protect your fellow students,” he wrote.

Some of the students who required medical attention attended a rave at the school’s Eclectic Society social house on campus, Rubenstein said. The show featured disc jockeys from New York who go by the name Swim Team. They did not immediately return an email seeking comment.

“Some of the students were there but not all of them, and there is not necessarily a connection there,” Rubenstein said. “They are really looking all over campus.”

The hospitals and the school declined to provide updated patient conditions Monday, citing privacy concerns.

Middletown police Chief William McKenna said his department was pursing information about a “bad batch” of the drug.

“Our first and foremost goal is to obtain information on the batch of Molly that was distributed to the students on the campus,” McKenna said. “This information is critical in ensuring the recovery of those students affected.”

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Associated Press writer Michael Melia contributed to this report.

For years, parents of babies who seem likely to develop a peanut allergy have gone to extremes to keep them away from peanut-based foods. Now a major study suggests that is exactly the wrong thing to do.

Exposing infants like these to peanuts before age 1 actually helped prevent a peanut allergy, lowering that risk by as much as 81 percent, doctors found. Instead of provoking an allergy, early exposure seemed to help build tolerance.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, called the results “without precedent” and said in a statement that they “have the potential to transform how we approach food allergy prevention.”

His agency helped fund the study, the largest and most rigorous test of this concept. Results were published online Monday in the New England Journal of Medicine and discussed at an American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology conference in Houston.

A big warning, though: The babies in the study were checked to make sure they didn’t already have a peanut allergy before they were fed foods that included peanuts, so parents of babies thought to be at risk for an allergy should not try this on their own.

“Before you even start any kind of introduction these children need to be skin-tested” to prevent life-threatening reactions, said Dr. Rebecca Gruchalla, an allergy specialist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

Also, small children can choke on whole peanuts, so smooth peanut butter or other peanut-based foods are safer, said Gruchalla, who wrote a commentary on the study in the journal.

The main finding — that early exposure to a problem food may keep it from becoming a long-term problem — should change food guidelines quickly, she predicted.

“Isn’t it wild? It’s counterintuitive in certain ways and in other ways it’s not,” she said.

Peanut allergies have doubled over the last decade and now affect more than 2 percent of kids in the United States and growing numbers of them in Africa, Asia and elsewhere. Peanuts are the leading cause of food allergy-related severe reactions and deaths. Unlike many other allergies, this one is not outgrown with age.

Food allergies often are inherited, but research suggests they also can develop after birth and that age of exposure may affect whether they do.

Researchers at King’s College London started this study after noticing far higher rates of peanut allergies among Jewish children in London who were not given peanut-based foods in infancy compared to others in Israel who were.

The study involved more than 600 children ages 4 months to 11 months old in England. All were thought to be at risk for peanut allergy because they were allergic to eggs or had eczema, a skin condition that’s a frequent allergy symptom.

All had been given skin-prick tests to make sure they were not already allergic to peanuts. They were put into two groups — 530 who did not show signs of peanut allergy and 98 others with mild-to-moderate reactions, suggesting an allergy might be developing.

Half of each group was assigned to avoid peanuts and the other half was told to consume them each week, usually as peanut butter or a snack called Bamba, a peanut-flavored puff.

The results at 5 years of age:

—Among children with no sign of allergy on the skin test: Only 2 percent of peanut eaters developed a peanut allergy versus 14 percent of abstainers.

—Among children with some reaction to peanuts on the skin test: Only 11 percent of peanut eaters developed an allergy versus 35 percent of abstainers.

Hospitalizations and serious reactions were about the same in all groups.

Questions remain: How much peanut protein do infants need to consume, how often and for how long, to avoid allergy? If a child stops eating peanuts for a while, will an allergy develop? Would the same approach work for other foods such as milk, eggs and tree nuts?

“These questions must be addressed, but we believe that because the results of this trial are so compelling, and the problem of the increasing prevalence of peanut allergy so alarming, new guidelines should be forthcoming very soon,” Gruchalla and Dr. Hugh Sampson of Mount Sinai Hospital in New York write in the medical journal.

American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines used to recommend against giving children foods with peanuts before age 3, but that advice was dropped in 2008 because there was no evidence it was preventing allergies. Now, most parents introduce peanut-based foods as is appropriate for the child’s age, like other solid foods.

Gruchalla thinks that babies with some signs of a peanut allergy risk, such as parents who are allergic, should have a skin test between 4 and 8 months of age. If it’s negative, they should be started on peanut products as the babies in this study were. If they show some sensitivity to peanuts, a “food challenge” monitored by a doctor experienced at this should be tried.

For children who already have peanut allergies, researchers have been experimenting with small regular amounts of exposure to try to train them to tolerate those foods. But these are still experimental and must be done with the help of a doctor.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Anxious to escape a trap of their own making, Republicans proposed on Tuesday that the Senate vote on a Department of Homeland Security funding bill stripped of immigration provisions strenuously opposed by President Barack Obama and fellow Democrats.

“We could have that vote very quickly,” Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said, just days before a threatened partial shutdown at DHS, which has major responsibility for thwarting terrorist attacks.

McConnell said he did not know how the Republican-controlled House would respond if a stand-alone spending bill passed.

The leader of Senate Democrats, Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, said he wouldn’t agree to a deal unless it had the backing of House Speaker John Boehner.

Boehner’s office issued a statement that avoided accepting or rejecting the proposal.

“The speaker has been clear:  The House has acted, and now Senate Democrats need to stop hiding. Will they continue to block funding for the Department of Homeland Security or not?” said a spokesman, Michael Steel.

Senate Republican officials said McConnell’s offer of a vote on a stand-alone funding bill also envisions a vote on a separate measure to repeal a directive issued by Obama last fall that shields about 4 million immigrants from deportation even though they live in the United States illegally.

At the same time, the proposal would eliminate attempts to repeal an earlier presidential order that allows tens of thousands of immigrants to remain in the country if they were brought here illegally as youngsters by their parents.

OXNARD, Calif. (AP) – An investigator tells The Associated Press the commuter train accident northwest of Los Angeles occurred when a truck became stuck on the tracks when the driver turned before the crossing.

The investigator says the driver is not from the area and made a premature right turn. His box truck, with a trailer, was struck by the train at 5:45 a.m. Tuesday in Oxnard.

Three rail cars flipped onto their sides and 28 people were injured. The driver is being questioned by police.

The investigator is not authorized to speak publicly and provided the information only on condition of anonymity. A fire official also not authorized to speak publicly who was briefed on the investigation confirmed the sequence of events.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Budget cuts forced the IRS to reduce the number of tax audits last year to the lowest level in a decade, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said Tuesday. And the number of audits could be even lower this year.

“The math is pretty simple,” Koskinen said in a speech to the New York State Bar Association. “There are fewer audits because we have fewer auditors.”

“Audits fell in virtually every individual category and across income levels,” Koskinen said. “This continues a long-term trend that carries serious implications for our tax system and the nation.”

Koskinen’s speech comes in the middle of tax season, just as millions of Americans are filing their annual returns.

Last year, the IRS audited 1.2 million individual tax returns. That’s less than 1 percent of the returns that were filed, the lowest rate since 2004.

Koskinen said the IRS is down more than 2,200 revenue agents since 2010. Last year, a little more than 11,600 revenue agents examined returns, and Koskinen is warning that the number of agents will decline again this year.

Congress has cut the agency’s budget by $1.2 billion since 2010. The IRS will receive $10.9 billion for the budget year that ends in September.

President Barack Obama has proposed a $12.9 billion budget for the IRS in the coming budget year – about an 18 percent increase. The proposal, however, was not well-received by Republicans who control Congress.

The agency’s budget cuts have come as the IRS is starting to play a bigger role in implementing Obama’s health care law. For the first time, taxpayers have to report on their tax returns whether they have health insurance.

Millions of taxpayers who are receiving tax credits to help pay insurance premiums have to report them as well.

Some Republicans in Congress have vowed to cut IRS funding as a way to stifle implementation of the health care law.

Koskinen has said it won’t work. He said the IRS is required to enforce the law, so other areas will have to be cut, including taxpayer services and enforcement.

The agency projects that about half the people who call the IRS for assistance this filing season won’t be able to get through to a person. The agency is also considering shutting down operations for two days later this year – after tax season – resulting in unpaid furloughs for employees and service cuts for taxpayers, Koskinen said.

Surveillance images of a vehicle Oneida police are looking for in connection with a Feb. 14, 2015 beating at the Oneida One Stop.

GREEN BAY – Police are seeking the public’s help in locating the vehicle of a suspect allegedly involved in a battery incident at the Oneida One Stop – Westwind on West Mason Street.

The incident happened on Feb. 14 around 6:35 p.m.

Surveillance images show the male suspect getting into a small two-tone SUV. It appears to be a dark colored Hyundai Santa Fe around the 2005 range.

If anyone has any information, please call the Oneida Police Department at 920-869-2239 or to remain anonymous, call Crimes Stoppers at 920-432-7867.

Photos of a debate over right-to-work legislation inside the state Capitol and protests outside the hearing room, Feb. 24, 2015.

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department says George Zimmerman will not face federal civil rights charges in the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin.

The department announced its decision Tuesday, saying that there was not enough evidence to bring federal civil rights charges, which would have required proof that the killing was motivated by racial animosity.

Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch volunteer, was acquitted of second-degree murder in July 2013. He has said he shot Martin in self-defense during a confrontation inside a gated community in Sanford, Florida.

The case created a national conversation about race and self-defense gun laws. Martin, who was unarmed when he was killed, was black. The teen’s relatives have accused Zimmerman of starting the fight and racially profiling Martin.

STAFFORD TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) – A natural gas explosion leveled a house and injured five workers who were trying to contain a gas main break Tuesday in a neighborhood at the New Jersey shore.

Video from WPVI-TV showed smoke billowing from the explosion site and piles of debris in the road next to where the house once stood in Stafford Township. The windows of a home across the street were shattered by the force of the blast.

Five New Jersey Natural Gas workers were hospitalized, spokesman Michael Kinney said. Their conditions weren’t immediately known. Mayor John Spodofora said one of the workers was critically injured and was given CPR at the scene.

About 75 to 100 homes were evacuated, and Kinney said utility workers were shutting off the gas main.

“We are working to make the situation safe right now,” he said.

Police advised residents earlier Tuesday that a gas main had broken in the area, and Kinney said the workers were at the scene trying to fix the problem when the house exploded.

“It looks like a war area,” said Max Von Ness, a plowing contractor who was nearby when the explosion occurred. “It’s just destruction. There’s debris all over the place.”

Von Ness, of Stafford Township, said he was driving in the area when he heard a loud explosion and felt the ground shake.

“It was kind of like a mini-earthquake,” he said. “You were thinking it was like a bomb.”

Police said no schools are near the site and none was affected by the explosion.

The explosion comes almost a year after a fatal gas explosion in Ewing that destroyed at least 10 houses, killed one woman and injured seven people in March 2014.

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama will veto a Republican-backed bill on Tuesday that would have approved construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, the White House said, putting a freeze on a top GOP priority – at least for now.

The contentious legislation arrived at the White House on Tuesday morning from Capitol Hill, where Republicans pushed the bill quickly through both chambers in their first burst of activity since taking full control of Congress. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Obama would veto it in private “without any drama or fanfare or delay.”

Obama’s veto notwithstanding, the White House said there was no “final disposition” on whether a permit will be issued for the pipeline, which has become a major flashpoint in the national debate over climate change. Rather, Obama is rebuffing a congressional attempt to circumvent the executive branch’s “longstanding process for evaluating whether projects like this are in the best interests of the country,” Earnest said.

The move sends the politically charged issue back to Congress, where Republicans have yet to show they can muster the two-thirds majority in both chambers needed to override Obama’s veto. Sen. John Hoeven, the bill’s chief GOP sponsor, said Republicans are about four votes short in the Senate and need about 11 more in the House.

Although the Keystone bill is the first that Obama has vetoed since Republicans won full control of Congress in November, it was not likely to be the last. GOP lawmakers are lining up legislation rolling back Obama’s actions on health care, immigration and financial regulation that Obama has promised to similarly reject.

First proposed more than six years ago, the Keystone XL pipeline project has sat in limbo ever since, awaiting a permit required by the federal government because it would cross an international boundary. The pipeline would connect Canada’s tar sands with refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast that specialize in processing heavy crude oil.

Republicans and the energy industry say the $8 billion project would create jobs, spur growth and increase America’s independence from Mideast energy sources. Democrats and environmental groups have sought to make the pipeline a poster child for the type of dirty energy sources they say is exacerbating global warming.

For his part, Obama says his administration is still weighing the pipeline’s merits, but has repeatedly threatened to veto any attempts by lawmakers to make the decision for him.

The GOP-controlled House passed the bill earlier in February on a 270-152 vote, following weeks of debate and tweaks in the Senate to insert language stating that climate change is real and not a hoax. Republican leaders in Congress delayed sending the bill to the White House until they returned from a weeklong recess, ensuring they would be on hand to denounce the president when he vetoed the bill.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the looming veto showed how the White House refuses to listen and find common ground with Republicans.

“It’s the same kind of top-down, tone-deaf leadership we’ve come to expect and we were elected to stop,” the GOP leaders wrote in an op-ed article Tuesday in USA Today.

Republican leaders were mulling a number of potential next steps. In addition to trying to peel off enough Democrats to override Obama’s veto – an unlikely proposition – Republicans were considering inserting Keystone into other critical legislation dealing with energy, spending or infrastructure in hopes that Obama would be less likely to veto those priorities, said Hoeven, R-N.D.

Obama last wielded his veto power in October 2010, nixing a relatively mundane bill dealing with recognition of documents notarized out of state. With the Keystone bill, Obama’s veto count stands at just three – far fewer than most of his predecessors. Yet his veto threats have been piling up rapidly since Republicans took control of Congress, numbering more than a dozen so far this year.

The president has said he won’t approve Keystone if it’s found to significantly increase U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas blamed for global warming. A State Department analysis found that the tar sands would be developed one way or another, meaning construction of the pipeline wouldn’t necessarily affect emissions. The Environmental Protection Agency earlier this month called for that analysis has to be revisited, arguing that a drop in oil prices may have altered the equation.

WASHINGTON (AP) – A man who the Secret Service says scaled a White House fence and dashed into the executive mansion before being caught inside carrying a folding knife is expected to take a plea deal.

An attorney for Omar Gonzalez said in court Tuesday that lawyers are close to resolving the case with a plea. The lawyer, David Bos, said he expects his client will accept a plea at a March 13 hearing. He did not say what the plea deal would entail.

The Sept. 19 incident in which Gonzalez reached the East Room of the White House contributed to the resignation of Secret Service head Julia Pierson.

Gonzalez is an Army veteran from Copperas Cove, Texas.

GREEN BAY – A New Jersey man is the 17th member of the Packers FAN Hall of Fame.

Steve Schumer of Gillette, N.J., was announced as the inductee Tuesday morning at Lambeau Field.

As the inductee, Schumer receives four club seats to a 2015 Packers home game, a $500 Packers Pro Shop gift certificate, a trip for two to a 2015 Packers away game and a one-year subscription to “Packer Plus.”

His name will also be prominently displayed in the Packers Hall of Fame.

Packers officials said more than 30,000 fans voted in this year’s balloting.

GREEN BAY – A man accused of having thousands of child pornography images was ordered Tuesday to stand trial.

John Beauchamp will enter a plea April 7 to 20 child porn possession charges, according to online court records. He waived a preliminary hearing Tuesday.

According to a criminal complaint, Beauchamp told investigators he’s lived at the home with his wife for the past 25 years. Beauchamp said he has stayed in the basement the past 10 years. In the complaint, Beauchamp referred to the basement as his nursery, telling deputies “it’s just a fetish that I have.” Beauchamp also said he sucks on a pacifier and drinks from a baby bottle while watching child porn.