News from across the USA

ALABAMA Birmingham: Checked baggage operations were temporarily suspended at Birmingham- Shuttlesworth International Airport when Transportation Security Administration officials found four 40mm grenade rounds in a passenger’s luggage.

ALASKA Anchorage: A new study of polar bears says faster-moving sea ice brought on by rapid global warming is adding to the animals’ physiological stress. Researchers say the already atrisk bears burn more calories, and thus kill one to three more seals per year.

ARIZONA Phoenix: A Frank Lloyd Wright house in Phoenix that the famous architect designed for his son was donated last week to the architecture school that Wright founded. The house offers 360- degree views of Camelback Mountain and others that loom over the city.

ARKANSAS El Dorado: A planned $ 100 million entertainment district in El Dorado has a new name. A grand opening for the Murphy Arts District is set for later this year, The El Dorado News- Times reports.

CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: After a quarter century, a victim of the Los Angeles riots has a name. Police say John Doe No. 80 is Miguel Armando Quiroz Ortiz. His body was found in May 1992 in a Pep Boys store that burned down.

COLORADO Denver: The state has ordered Heritage Cremation to close, KCNC- TV reports. The company’s Colorado registration was suspended last week for “deliberate and willful violations of the Mortuary Science Code.”

CONNECTICUT Simsbury: A bear that scratched a woman who was walking her dog in a local park was captured and euthanized. State officials say it’s standard policy to put down bears that are aggressive toward humans.

DELAWARE Dover: A proposal to open Delaware’s environmentally protected coastal zone to new heavy industry has cleared its first legislative hurdle.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Authorities have ruled that the death of a man in a District of Columbia apartment fire was a homicide, The Washington Post reports. A medical examiner determined that the victim died from smoke and soot inhalation plus “multiple blunt force injuries.”

FLORIDA Merritt Island: Authorities say a man wanted to go to a Florida Hooters so much that he told 911 dispatchers he needed a ride there because his grandmother had just suffered a stroke in the parking lot. Deputies located his grandmother, who said she didn’t have a stroke.

GEORGIA Atlanta: The remains of Army 1st Lt. Robert Eugene Oxford were laid to rest last weekend in his Georgia hometown of Concord. Oxford’s plane, was headed for India on a supply mission in 1944 but never arrived. Wreckage was discovered by a hiker in 2006.

HAWAII Honolulu: A wildfire on the north shore of Oahu could harm endangered Hawaiian tree snails, The Honolulu Star- Advertiser reports. The fire was headed last week toward the Mokuleia Forest Reserve and Pahole Natural Area Reserve.

IDAHO Idaho Falls: Officials are concerned that cellphone communications could be obstructed when crowds flock to Idaho for the solar eclipse in August, The Post Register reports. Emergency managers may use ham radios as backups.

ILLINOIS Elmhurst: A massive hole in the ground in suburban Chicago is being fitted with facilities normally associated with the Grand Canyon. An observation deck is being built for the Elmhurst Quarry Flood Control Facility, The ( Arlington Heights) Daily Herald reports.

INDIANA Indianapolis: Construction has begun on a $ 1 million skylift for the Indiana State Fair. The Subaru Skyride will span about 1,400 feet, the Indianapolis Star reports.

IOWA Cedar Falls: An agreement between the University of Northern Iowa and Drake University Law School will allow students to shave a year off the time it normally takes to earn both bachelor’s and law degrees, The Courier reports.

KANSAS Lawrence: A fisherman reeled in a 62- pound flathead catfish from the Kansas River last week, The Wichita Eagle reports. That’s just over half the size of the state record for a flathead catfish: 123 pounds.

KENTUCKY Frankfort: The Kentucky Public Service Commission has approved Duke Energy’s plan to close and empty a coal ash pond in Boone County. The two- phase closure will end in April 2020.

LOUISIANA New Orleans: A federal judge says he’s confident that efforts to reform the New Orleans jail are “on the right track.” But U. S. District Judge Lance Africk also said improvements will take time and “future tragedies and tears are inevitable.”

MAINE Skowhegan: Police in Maine are investigating a Facebook video of a woman talking on her cellphone while driving with her unbuckled toddler playing in the passenger seat, WLBZ- TV reports. The video sparked outrage on social media.

MARYLAND Ocean City: Women who sunbathe topless in Ocean City used to get a scolding from beach patrol officers. Now, WBOC- TV reports that-officers are told not to approach topless women, but document any complaints made.

MASSACHUSETTS Boston: Jewelry that belonged to Al Capone as well as Bonnie and Clyde, along with legal documents pertaining to the infamous gangsters, is on the block at Boston’s RR Auctions. Online bidding begins Thursday.

MICHIGAN Niles: The Berrien County prosecutor has decided not to file charges in the carbon monoxide poisoning death of a 13- year- old boy in the pool area of the Niles Quality Inn & Suites. Officials say the poisoning likely resulted when a pool heater ventilation pipe disconnected from the heater.

MINNESOTA Redwood Falls: A bow angler landed the largest invasive carp ever recorded in Minnesota. The bighead carp caught in a private gravel pit near Reedwood Falls weighed 61.7 pounds.

MISSISSIPPI Jackson: Mississippi’s health department will begin charging for STD and HIV tests, The Clarion- Ledger reports. Starting July 1, the department will charge $ 25 for the testing.

MISSOURI Springfield: Missouri is the only place in the country without statewide prescription drug tracking, but Springfield is about to develop its own local system, The Springfield News- Leader reports. The program is meant to prevent people from “doctor shopping” to abuse drugs.

MONTANA Bozeman: Fisheries biologists in Montana found fewer large trout in a stretch of the Yellowstone River that was hardest hit by a fish- killing parasite last summer. The number of brown trout between 13 and 20 inches long was down by about 50% in sampled areas.

NEBRASKA Omaha: The Creighton University Medical Center has stopped taking patients after 40 years but opened a new emergency room a few blocks away, The Omaha World- Herald reports.

NEVADA Elko: The Elko County School District is considering tighter social media policies for student- staff interaction after a teacher’s arrest on sex charges, The Elko Daily Free Press reports. A fourth- grade teacher is accused of engaging in sexual conduct with two high school students. She is on paid administrative leave.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Berlin: Two men are recovering from injuries suffered when their ATVs collided at Jericho Mountain State Park. Both drivers were treated at Androscoggin Valley Hospital.

NEW JERSEY Glassboro: Rowan University’s Phi Psi fraternity has doubled its reward to $ 4,000 for information leading to the arrest of the person who torched a home where some of its members lived. No one was injured in the May 16 blaze.

NEW MEXICO Silver City: A man was ordered to pay the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish $ 4,000 for illegal possession of a set of trophy elk antlers, The Silver City Sun- News reports. Game wardens found the antlers in the bed of the man’s pickup during a traffic stop.

NEW YORK Albany: New York lawmakers have voted to raise the legal age of marriage to 17. The state has allowed 14- year- olds to marry with parental and judicial consent.

NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: GOP lawmakers in North Carolina have refused to hold a special session demanded by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper to redraw legislative districts declared invalid because of racial gerrymandering.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: The North Dakota Industrial Commission has revoked Apollo Resources’ permit for illegally dumping waste. The Bismarck Tribune reports that the commission also ordered the site cleaned by October.

OHIO Cleveland: An Ohio woman was sentenced to seven years in prison in the death of her neglected husband. Debora Brichacek, 60, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the December 2015 death of Richard Brichacek, who was bedridden and weighed just 93 pounds when he died.

OKLAHOMA Wyandotte: No one was injured when a Wyandotte school bus carrying high school football players to a summer camp burst into flames last week. The Miami News- Record reports that the coaches quickly got everyone off the bus.

OREGON Warrenton: The Clatsop County Sheriff’s Office says a broken, militarystyle headstone was found near a boat launch. Officials are trying to determine the identity of the veteran it belonged to, but the dates of birth and death are missing.

PENNSYLVANIA Pittsburgh: Pictures of young refuges from Syria and Iraq were defaced by spray paint at Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Arts Festival. Organizers believe the vandalism was random rather than politically motivated. The two defaced pictures had the children’s faces X- ed out with spray paint.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: A Rhode Island rebellion against British rule that preceded the American Revolution is being turned into a virtual reality game by a group of Brown University students. The Gaspee Affair took place in June 1772 when colonists set fire to a British ship in Narragansett Bay.

SOUTH CAROLINA Charleston: A South Carolina woman was ticketed after six dogs died in her hot car at an animal clinic. The woman told police she left the air conditioner on but the car stopped running.

SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: Police removed a 10- year- old girl from a Sioux Falls house with no electricity or running water and arrested her parents, The Argus Leader reports. Police found drugs and animal feces inside.

TENNESSEE Murfreesboro: The president of Middle Tennessee State University says the institution anticipates enrollment growth this fall, The Daily News Journal reports. Sidney McPhee says the growth also encompasses top students, reflected by increases in average GPA and ACT scores.

TEXAS Dallas: Dallas County elections officials say at least 17 people listed as deceased applied for a ballot to vote in local elections last month. None of those ballots were issued, WFAA- TV reports.

UTAH Salt Lake City: Internet retailer Amazon will build a facility in Salt Lake City with help from a $ 5.6 million Utah tax incentive. The facility is expected to create at least 130 jobs in the next eight years and involve a capital investment of $ 200 million.

VERMONT Burlington: Medical coverage provided through telemedicine will soon expand in the state. Vermont Public Radio reports that the law expands telemedicine coverage to include insured video calls from a patient’s home or workplace. The previous law required video calls to take place between two health care facilities.

VIRGINIA Richmond: Virginia’s horse racing industry is considering Powhatan Plantation in King George County as a site to race thoroughbreds, The Richmond Times- Dispatch reports. Horse racing in the state has struggled since Colonial Downs in New Kent County closed in 2014.

WASHINGTON Seattle: The Washington chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has sued the state, claiming it fails to ensure that students with behavioral disabilities get an education. The suit contends that districts suspend and expel special- education students at more than twice the rate of their peers.

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: Bluefield State College has signed an agreement with the state to offer health science pathways to more quickly launch careers in medicine. According to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, the demand for registered nurses will be among the national job growth leaders through 2024.

WISCONSIN Milwaukee: The Medical College of Wisconsin has received a nearly $ 38 million gift to create an institute to develop new models for training medical students.

WYOMING Cheyenne: Rivers in Wyoming were on the rise through the weekend from melting snow. The Wind River reached a new record high level late last week at Riverton, according to the National Weather Service.