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ALABAMA Montgomery: A House committee has passed a bill establishing investigation and compensation procedures for victims of police misconduct, amid a murder case involving a white police officer charged with killing a black man last year. ALASKA Ketchikan: A statue of William Seward, the man who helped arranged the purchase of Alaska 150 years ago, is being cast by a foundry in New York state. It will be erected in Juneau. ARIZONA Phoenix: The state Legislature has approved a proposal to expand Arizona’s terrorism laws to include more crimes and add a mandatory 10- year minimum sentence. ARKANSAS Little Rock: A circuit judge dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the state’s lethal injection law, the latest setback for efforts to block the state’s unprecedented plan to conduct four double executions over a 10- day period next month. CALIFORNIA San Jose: A federal judge has sentenced Davis Kiryakoz to six years in prison following his conviction on a conspiracy charge stemming from the theft of more than $ 500,000 worth of wine from famed restaurant The French Laundry.

COLORADO Durango: A vote Tuesday on whether Durango’s water should continue to be fluoridated is drawing big bucks from both sides of the campaign.

CONNECTICUT Vernon: Frederick Baruzzi, the former schools superintendent in Mansfield, has been sentenced to six months in prison for bilking at least $ 89,000 from taxpayers by submitting bogus mileage reimbursements. DELAWARE Wilmington: A 21- year- old captain with the Lewes Fire Department suffered first- and second- degree burns to 80 percent of his body after an explosion Tuesday. Jake Slater was cutting open a waste oil tank when a spark from his chop saw ignited vapors in the tank, The News Journal reported. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Authorities have charged El Hadji Alpha Madiou Toure, 28, with first- degree murder in the death of North Carolina artist Corrina Mehiel, 34, who was helping with an exhibit at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design. FLORIDA Tallahassee: A House panel on Tuesday voted for a bill that would require all lottery tickets to say “Warning: Gambling can be addictive.” GEORGIA Atlanta: Georgians licensed to carry concealed weapons could take handguns onto college campuses under legislation approved Tuesday by the state Senate. HAWAII Honolulu: The remains of 94 unidentified Marines and sailors killed in the Battle of Tarawa in 1943 are being dug up in hopes that they can be identified through DNA technology. IDAHO Boise: High water is threatening a fish hatchery in southwestern Idaho that raises endangered Snake River sockeye salmon, and plans are in place to evacuate 4,000 fish if power gets knocked out. ILLINOIS Petersburg: The Illinois Historic Preservation Agency is looking for volunteers to help recreate life in the 1830s log village where Abraham Lincoln lived for six years as a young adult. The site includes a reconstructed village, complete with a blacksmith, a rail splitter, homes and a country store. INDIANA Bloomington: Indiana University has honored Car- rie Parker Taylor, its first black female student, with a scholarship and a permanent exhibit in the Indiana Memorial Union.

IOWA Iowa City: Neighbors who had sued to try to prevent an Iowa City couple from building a nearly 7,500- square- foot home modeled after the University of Iowa’s Kinnick Stadium say they will not appeal last week’s dismissal of the lawsuit, The Press

Citizen reports. The house Reed and Sandy Carlson plan to build will include brick siding and a replica of the press box.

KANSAS Topeka: State legislators are considering a new proposal to raise personal income taxes that would move to a single 5% rate for all filers. Lawmakers have considered rolling back past personal income tax cuts championed by GOP Gov. Sam Brownback. Supporters say it would raise $ 871 million over two years.

KENTUCKY Louisville: The city’s waste management district is suing over a new state law that changes how garbage and recycling are regulated in the city and Jefferson County. Mayor Greg Fischer’s office says the changes would roll back the city’s ban on plastic bags for yard waste.

LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: Fifteen credit card “skimming” devices have been found on gasoline pumps in nine Louisiana parishes in the past month, state Secretary of Agriculture Mike Strain said. The devices are used by thieves to steal credit card information from motorists.

MAINE Augusta: A bill that could restrict foragers’ ability to gather wild food on other people’s property is up for a potential vote in a legislative committee. Republican Sen. Thomas Saviello says he’s concerned about wild pickers who gather large amounts of food for a commercial business without permission.

MARYLAND Annapolis: Former U. S. senator and Navy secretary Jim Webb says he will not accept a Naval Academy Alumni Association award amid protests from other alumni. In 1979, Webb wrote an essay for Washingtonian magazine called “Women Can’t Fight.” Webb says his position has been “wrongly characterized.”

MASSACHUSETTS Boston: Former secretary of Defense Ash Carter has been hired as a professor and as director of Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Carter taught at Harvard from 1996 to 2009 and once led an earlier version of the Belfer Center.

MICHIGAN Lansing: State Supreme Court Justice Robert Young, 65, plans to retire and return to his former law firm.

MINNESOTA St. Paul: Minnesota farm incomes marginally improved in 2016, but more than 30% of the state’s farmers were in the red last year amid the third straight year of declining commodity prices, according to a report from University of Minnesota Extension and the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system. Livestock producers generally fared worst as milk, pork and beef prices hit new lows.

MISSISSIPPI Aberdeen: A single- engine plane crashed Tuesday while taking off from Monroe County Airport. Pilot Richard Arlin Justice, 73, and an unidentified passenger were killed.

MISSOURI Jefferson City: A state appeals court panel says utility regulators had no authority to grant conditional approval for a high- voltage power line across northeastern Missouri. The ruling overturns an April 2016 decision by the Missouri Public Service Commission.

MONTANA Butte: The city’s homeless shelter may soon be homeless. The Butte Rescue Mission must vacate the house it uses by Monday after inspectors found code violations and safety concerns. The local zoning board denied the mission a permit to move to a vacant school.

NEBRASKA Papillion: Sarpy County officials are planning to switch control of the jail from the sheriff’s office to a civilian corrections staff and director.

NEVADA Reno: A Reno man who had been appointed guardian of his father’s affairs has pleaded guilty to exploitation of an older person after prosecutors say he siphoned nearly $ 90,000 from trust accounts. Yohannes Habtemicael, 27, could face two to 20 years in state prison.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: A former child psychologist convicted of fondling a 12- year- old patient has been granted a new trial. A judge ruled that Foad Afshar of Bow did not receive a fair trial because two jurors revealed during deliberations that they were victims of child sexual abuse, but this was not disclosed. Jannarone, a member of a New Jersey environmental panel, is suing 14 people over negative comments posted on her business Facebook pages regarding her support for a proposed South Jersey Gas pipeline. In her lawsuit, she alleges damage to her real estate business and personal reputation. NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico is delaying its search for a new president until at least this fall because the search committee wants more time to evaluate candidates. UNM President Bob Frank left in December. NEW YORK Potsdam: Fire crews are trying to determine what caused a blaze at an apartment building at Clarkson University. Thirteen students were displaced; no one was hurt. NORTH CAROLINA Fayette

ville: A federal judge has ruled that a videographer can proceed with a lawsuit charging that state officials illegally copied his videos of the shipwreck of Blackbeard’s flagship, then passed a law to legalize their actions. NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: North Dakota’s coal industry is applauding an executive order by President Trump that rolls back former president Obama’s plan to cut climate- changing emissions, which was bitterly opposed by coal companies and many voters. OHIO Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University has suspended a professor after sexually explicit stories were included in computer files he returned to the Ohio Department of Transportation after a research project. Investigators say he indicated he didn’t write the stories involving adults, children, and animals, but read them for entertainment. OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Oklahoma County is in the midst of the largest syphilis outbreak in recent state history. The Oklahoman reports that 80 residents between 14 and 47 have been infected in the past few months.

OREGON Portland: A woman who suffered an injured knee during an Easter egg hunt last year is suing the event organizers. Rachel Townsend of Hillsboro is seeking $ 112,000 in damages. The suit accuses The Hatter’s Easter Extravaganza organizers of failing to control the crowd.

PENNSYLVANIA Harrisburg: A doctor has received a sentence of five to 16 years for secretly recording women in bathrooms at his podiatry practice and his home. David Todoroff, 58, told the court that his brain had been “hijacked” by his sex addiction, Pennlive. com reports.

RHODE ISLAND East Provi

dence: A plan to replace a bridge is getting underway this weekend. WPRI- TV reports the Pawtucket Avenue Bridge will be closed from 7 p. m. Friday until 6 a. m. Monday and for the next seven weekends. The new bridge should be in place in four months. SOUTH CAROLINA Beaufort: Geismar, a French company that makes specialty railroad cars and other rail equipment, is opening a plant in Beaufort County that will employ about 50 people. SOUTH DAKOTA Pierre: A 38year- old woman accused of persuading three juveniles to set a bed on fire at a Pierre motel, causing $ 500,000 worth of damage, has avoided prison. Tracy St. John’s attorney argued she has fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. She received a suspended sentence but will have to spend three more months in jail. TENNESSEE Nashville: Memphis and Nashville police could lose their ability to avoid charging people criminally for carrying small amounts of marijuana under legislation passed by the Republican- led General Assembly. GOP Gov. Bill Haslam’s office says he’s deferring to the legislature’s will on the proposal. TEXAS Grapevine: A mother says she and her special needs son were “treated like dogs” and detained for more than an hour after her request for alternative screening at Dallas- Fort Worth International Airport led an officer to closely pat down the teenager. The Transportation Security Administration says approved procedures were followed to resolve an alarm on the passenger’s laptop. UTAH Salt Lake City: Gov. Gary Herbert has signed a bill that toughens Utah’s polygamy law by adding harsher penalties for polygamists convicted of other crimes such as domestic abuse. VERMONT Woodstock: Nintendo gamers beat two dairy farmers at Billings Farm & Museum in a new milking video game on Wednesday. The two sides also were expected to milk a real cow, but the Nintendo contestants declined after trying it. VIRGINIA Richmond: Danielle Turner, 25, of Richmond pleaded no contest in the beating death of her 3- year- old goddaughter. Turner was watching the girl while her mother was at a hospital giving birth. WASHINGTON Olympia: Democrats in the legislature want to halt tuition increases at state colleges and universities, while Republicans are proposing increases of about 2 percent a year. WEST VIRGINIA Huntington: The city has hired 22- year department veteran Jan Rader as its fire chief. Rader is believed to be the state’s first female fire chief. WISCONSIN Madison: Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel has settled a case with no fine after years of declining penalties for polluters. 3M Co. will spend about $ 665,000 to improve pollution control equipment at two plants in Wausau. WYOMING Jackson: Crews are spreading out a 55- foot snow mountain, built from snow cleared off city streets, so it can thaw, the Jackson Hole News & Guide reports. The pile is the city’s largest in years.