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ALABAMA Montgomery: A judge is refusing to dismiss murder charges against an Alabama man who has been held in jail for a decade without a trial. Houston County Circuit Judge Kevin Moulton says there’s no evidence the state purposely delayed the case.

ALASKA Anchorage: A mobile phone app is helping Anchorage police locate illegal homeless camp sites, KTUU- TV reports. The public app calls on Alaskans to report sightings of homeless camp sites. Officers then investigate the tips.

ARIZONA Glendale: Luke Air Force Base will resume flights of F- 35 fighter jets Wednesday after experts investigated a series of reported symptoms of oxygen deprivation. Officials say no specific root cause was identified.

ARKANSAS Harri

son: A series of Arkansas earthquakes last week is being blamed on the weight of extra water at floodswollen Bulls Shoals Lake. Ten small quakes were recorded over five days, the Springfield NewsLeader reports.

CALIFORNIA Fresno: Fresno Humane Animal Services is caring for nearly 1,000 small animals that were seized from a truck trailer where the temperature was 107 degrees, The Fresno Bee reports.

COLORADO Glenwood

Springs: Medical calls at Colorado’s Hanging Lake are straining the Glenwood Springs Fire Department’s limited staff, the PostIndependent reports. Authorities are considering imposing a fee for trail access to cut the number of hikers.

CONNECTICUT Waterbury: Three city and school district administrators were suspended after a student involved in an after- school program was left behind at a Waterbury park, the Republican- American reports. The boy fell ill and was moved into Chase House Park to lie down. Staffers forgot him.

DELAWARE Wilmington: More than 1,100 animals have a new home following a weekend “mega” adoption event in Delaware, The News Journal reports. Upward of 7,000 people attended the event at Bellevue State Park.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Pell Grants for low- income college students can now be used for summer studies. The U. S. Education Department announced this week that year- round Pell Grants will be available starting July 1.

FLORIDA Lakeland: Florida Polytechnic University is now accredited. The Lakeland school can award college and graduate school degrees, The Ledger reports.

GEORGIA Roswell: Dozens of dumped domesticated rabbits were captured over the weekend at Georgia’s Big Trees Forest Preserve, WSB- TV reports. The Georgia House Rabbit Society is offering a $ 1,000 reward to find and prosecute the rabbit dumpers.

HAWAII Hono

lulu: Domestic violence cases in Honolulu spiked 615% from 2013 to 2016, The Honolulu Star- Advertiser reports. Officials have a “no drop” policy to prosecute cases even when the victim refuses to testify.

IDAHO Boise: Idaho’s watchdog squirrel, Joey, has returned to the wild. Joey, raised as a pet, made headlines in February when police nabbed a burglary suspect who reported fleeing a home after being attacked by a squirrel.

ILLINOIS Charleston: Forty- two Illinois counties are designated as the Looking for Lincoln heritage area. The federal designation is intended to promote tourism about Abraham Lincoln.

INDIANA Bloomington: The private Lighthouse Christian Academy is the focal point of debate over whether schools that participate in taxpayer- funded voucher programs can discriminate against LGBT children. Lighthouse officials say they’ve never turned anyone away based on sexual orientation.

IOWA Burlington: Authorities have identified a human foot found in Lake West as belonging to a man who went missing in 2015, The Hawk Eye reports. Police say DNA evidence confirms that the foot belonged to Steven Leasure.

KANSAS Vinland: Shareholders who worked to restore a 138year- old Kansas church have put the property on the market, The

Lawrence Journal- World reports. Stephens Real Estate held an open house last weekend for the Vinland Presbyterian Church, which is listed at $ 249,000.

KENTUCKY Hazard: A Kentucky nonprofit plans to open four more transitional youth centers by this fall to serve homeless teens and young adults, WYMTTV reports. Kentucky River Community Care has two centers already in operation.

LOUISIANA Franklin: A Louisiana man was convicted on 221 counts of theft for his role in taking $ 1.8 million from an investment company over 15 years. Armond Duhon also was found guilty of two counts of money laundering and one of racketeering, The Daily Review reports.

MAINE Brunswick: Police say thousands of dead bait fish found floating in Maine bays over the weekend resulted from a fishing vessel catching more than it could handle. Brunswick officials are encouraging fishermen and lobstermen to collect the dead fish to use as lobster bait and crab bait.

MARYLAND Annapolis: Maryland offered police training this week to help endangered children. The course makes troopers aware of resources available to determine the status of a child who may be missing, exploited or at risk of exploitation.

MASSACHUSETTS Boston: Critics of solitary confinement are urging Massachusetts lawmakers to restrict its use in jails and prisons. Proposals include limiting the practice to cases where an inmate poses a clear threat to the general prison population.

MICHIGAN Mackinac Island: A half- acre of land on Mackinac Island is for sale, MLive. com reports. The land is one of the island’s few remaining private parcels.

MINNESOTA Hastings: A man who killed one customer and wounded another in a dispute last November with a Dollar Tree store employee has been sentenced to 32 years in prison. Grant David Hendrickson did not know either victim.

MISSISSIPPI Jackson: Two state agencies, the Department of Mental Health and the Public Service Commission, are moving ahead with layoffs as Mississippi budget cuts take hold.

MISSOURI St. Louis: A judge issued an injunction this week that temporarily prevents St. Louis from removing a Confederate monument from Forest Park. A hearing is set for July 6 on whether the city or the Missouri Civil War Museum owns the monument.

MONTANA Hamilton: Several nonprofits that have been staples at the Ravalli County Fair will be absent this year because of changes in accounting and insurance procedures, The Ravalli

Republic reports. The changes include requiring vendors to take debit and credit cards.

NEBRASKA Omaha: Authorities say two volunteer firefighters were injured when their firetruck rolled over on the way to a weekend blaze. Waterloo Fire Chief Travis Harlow says water sloshing in the back of the truck may have caused it to roll as it turned a corner.

NEVADA Las Vegas: One man died and medical calls soared at the Electric Daisy Carnival outside Las Vegas last weekend. A heat wave brought triple- digit temperatures to the area. Nearly 1,100 people sought medical help during the music festival’s three days.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Wolfeboro: Police and animal welfare workers in New Hampshire seized 84 neglected Great Danes, most from an eight- bedroom mansion that had floors covered with feces. An emergency shelter was set up for the animals.

NEW JERSEY Ringwood: A report says a chemical detected in groundwater near a New Jersey Superfund site could pose a threat to a nearby reservoir. The

Record reports that dioxane, a probable cancer- causing substance, could harm the Wanaque Reservoir that provides as many as 3.5 million people with drinking water.

NEW MEXICO Lordsburg: A 25- car pileup caused by blowing dust prompted authorities to close a stretch of Interstate 10 from this New Mexico town to Wilcox, Arizona earlier this week. Authorities say the crash resulted in several deaths and injuries.

NEW YORK Webster: Authorities are investigating the death of a man whose riding lawnmower plunged off a 30- foot- high bluff overlooking Lake Ontario. Relatives of the man found him last weekend at the bottom of the bluff.

NORTH CAROLINA Charlotte: Police say the mother of a 1- year old boy tried to suffocate her son in his hospital room. Maggie Dixon was arrested after nurses at Levine Children’s Hospital in Charlotte began watching monitors when they noticed the boy had trouble breathing when Dixon was alone with him.

NORTH DAKOTA Minot: Roosevelt Park Zoo in Minot is now home to a black- footed ferret. Only about 300 black- footed ferrets live in the wild, The Minot Daily News reports.

OHIO Columbus: An Ohio man was killed by a tree limb after trying to cut it down with a chain saw. Police say the man likely was killed on impact last weekend in Columbus when the limb hit his head from behind, WCMH- TV reports.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Officials are considering revising the city ordinance on dogs running loose and adding more behaviors to what constitutes a menacing dog, The Oklahoman reports. The proposals result from a dog mauling in April that killed an 82- year- old woman and her dog.

OREGON Salem: Steelhead fish in the Santiam and Willamette rivers in Oregon have hit low levels not seen in over 40 years, The Statesman Journal reports. State fish and wildlife officials say the low counts are due to years of poor ocean conditions and drought.

PENNSYLVANIA West Pittston: A high school valedictorian had his microphone silenced when

RHODE ISLAND Providence: Work to repair the surface of Rhode Island’s Mount Hope Bridge is almost done. The state Turnpike and Bridge Authority says concrete repair of the deck that began in mid- March is scheduled to be completed by Friday.

SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: South Carolina’s education superintendent is again taking over Allendale County’s four schools from the locally elected school board, 18 years after the last emergency declaration failed to turn the state’s worst school system around.

SOUTH DAKOTA Yankton: The head of South Dakota’s mental health hospital in Yankton is resigning just a year after taking the job. The Argus Leader reports that Jones’ departure leaves state officials searching for the center’s fourth administrator since 2011.

TENNESSEE Memphis: Tennessee’s Shelby County wants an end to federal oversight of its juvenile court system, The Commercial Appeal reports. The oversight began in 2012 after a report found discrimination, unsafe confinement conditions and lack of due process.

TEXAS Houston: A new study says oil and gas drilling in Texas is linked to pollution and earthquakes, The Houston Chronicle reports.

UTAH Cedar City: Two Utah firefighters are recovering from injuries at a wildfire that forced the evacuation of more than 700 people and shut down part of a state highway. One home was destroyed and another damaged.

VERMONT Whitingham: Firefighters saved a horse but weren’t able to save a three- story barn from being destroyed in a weekend blaze. Ten chickens died in the fire, The Brattleboro Reformer reports.

VIRGINIA Manassas: A woman is trying to pay off school lunch debts owed by students in Prince William County, WTOP- FM reports.

WASHINGTON Walla Walla: Walla Walla General Hospital will close July 24, leaving the city with Providence St. Mary Medical Center as its only acute care facility.

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: A West Virginia lawmaker wants state agencies to review the licenses of four men who admitted taking part in a kickback scheme involving the Division of Highways, The Charleston GazetteMail reports.

WISCONSIN Beaver Dam: Officials say thousands of fish died in Beaver Dam as a result of a culvert project. The water level was lowered last week so construction could be done near the river.

WYOMING Jackson: Mayor Pete Muldoon has lost the presidential portrait battle. Muldoon stirred a furor when he removed President Trump’s portrait from the Jackson Town Hall. The Town Council voted 3- 2 this week to put Trump’s portrait back up. Muldoon cast one of the two “no” votes, but apologized for how he handled the situation, The Jackson Hole News & Guide reports.