STATE- BY- STATE

ALABAMA Montgomery: The Alabama Public Charter School Commission has approved two more schools. University Charter School will be operated by the University of West Alabama in Sumter County. Infinity Learning Center will accept at- risk students in Montgomery County.

ALASKA Fairbanks: The manager of the Charles Georgeson Botanical Garden in Fairbanks says theft has become a big issue. The Fairbanks Daily News- Miner reports three recent cases. In the latest, 80% of the garden’s honeyberries were stolen.

ARIZONA Tucson: The Tucson Unified School District’s leadership has become uncertain. The Arizona Daily Star reports that the language on 18 directors’ contracts was modified to allow their removal without cause after December as the district searches for a new superintendent.

ARKANSAS Clarksville: The municipal utility in Clarksville is planning to build a solar power plant. Clarksville Light & Water will partner with Scenic Hill Solar on the 40- acre project.

CALIFORNIA Sacramento: A federal judge blocked a California law barring gun owners from possessing ammunition magazines that take more than 10 bullets. The law was to take effect last weekend.

COLORADO Colorado Springs: A man having an argument with his girlfriend is accused of throwing the two pet rabbits of her son at a wall, killing them. The boyfriend was arrested, and the boy now has a new pet rabbit, thanks to Colorado Springs police.

CONNECTICUT Hartford: Connecticut’s governor has signed a bill that could lead to a new tribal casino. The Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes say the proposed jointly owned and operated casino will help them compete with the MGM Resorts Casino being built in Massachusetts.

DELAWARE Wilmington: City officials plan to discuss the idea of a gun offender registry, The News Journal reports. Such a measure would require residents with gun convictions to periodically check in with police.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Police are investigating a homicide in the District of Columbia’s Trinidad neighborhood. Police responding to a report of an unconscious man say the victim suffered trauma to the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene, The Washington Post reports.

FLORIDA Marathon: A woman told Florida sheriff’s deputies she killed her 12- year- old Chihuahua because she was tired of the dog biting her. Alice Evans was arrested on a charge of cruelty to animals.

GEORGIA Martinez: A woman is accused of driving while intoxicated following a crash that injured six children, The Augusta Chronicle reports. Authorities say the children were unrestrained when Tara McConnell failed to yield to oncoming traffic.

HAWAII Honolulu: Computer problems disrupting driver licenses and motor vehicle registrations in Hawaii have been resolved. Service was affected statewide because all of Hawaii uses Honolulu’s computers.

IDAHO Caldwell: The bitterly cold winter snapped a lot of wine grape vines in Idaho. Officials say this year’s harvest is expected to be down significantly as a result of January temperatures that fell to as low as 18 degrees below zero.

ILLINOIS DeKalb: A DeKalb County Board member has sued Northern Illinois University’s trustees to void a $ 600,000 severance payment to the school’s departing president. Misty HajiSheikh claims inadequate public notice was given about the meeting for NIU President Doug Baker.

INDIANA Fort Wayne: “Jake the Diamond Dog” is a hit with baseball fans — and the umpires. Jake was at the minor league Fort Wayne TinCaps game last week, carrying a basket filled with water bottles to the umps, The Indianapolis Star reports.

IOWA Cedar Falls: The Army Corps of Engineers has given final approval to an estimated $ 6.6 million project to improve the flood control levee in Cedar Falls, Mayor Jim Brown tells the Waterloo- Cedar Falls Courier. The project would raise the levee in the downtown area by three feet.

KANSAS Manhattan: Kansas State University has closed its display of a rare stench- emitting “corpse flower” now that the plant has closed its first- ever bloom, The Topeka Capital- Journal reports. An estimated 1,000 people turned out to see the Titan Arum for the bloom.

KENTUCKY Lexington: The city has a high- tech police dog specially trained to sniff out small amounts of explosives on moving objects. Police say Tilly, a 2- yearold black Lab, will work major community events in Lexington to give crowds an extra sense of security.

LOUISIANA Cypremort Point: A Louisiana wildlife agent rescued a man and two boys from a sinking shrimp boat. Officials say a submerged object in Vermilion Bay ripped a hole in the boat about five miles from Cypremort Point.

MAINE Augusta: A man accused of drunken driving in a fatal Maine crash told police he was driving because he was the “most sober” among those in the car, The Kennebec Journal reports.

MARYLAND Towson: Prosecutors say police were justified in shooting a man who opened fire while on a bus in Dundalk. Police say Blaine Erb was fleeing an armed robbery June 7 when he jumped on the bus and fired at officers, who returned fire. Erb died at the scene.

MASSACHUSETTS Worcester: The city’s legal battle to defend its ban on panhandling has cost an additional $ 475,000, The Telegram & Gazette reports. Worcester cut a check for that amount last month to American Civil Liberties Union lawyers who successfully sued.

MICHIGAN Traverse City: Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette has called for shutting down twin oil pipelines beneath the Straits of Mackinac where Lakes Huron and Michigan meet. Environmentalists say the lines that have been there since 1953 are unsafe.

MINNESOTA St. Paul: State Auditor Rebecca Otto says she’s stepping up her fight against a controversial 2015 law limiting her office’s duties. Otto has lost several legal battles over the law that allows counties to hire private firms for annual financial audits.

MISSISSIPPI Columbus: A truck driver spilled catfish parts on a Mississippi highway — and kept driving, The Commercial Dispatch reports. No one was injured, but state transportation workers had to cover their noses as they cleaned the stinky, slimy mess.

MISSOURI Jefferson City: Gov. Eric Greitens is signing a bill to allow farm equipment with proper lighting on Missouri highways at night.

MONTANA Helena: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana and Life Flight Network have reached an agreement on air ambulance service. Life Flight will base one of its helicopters in Bozeman. It already has a helicopter in Missoula and a helicopter and fixedwing plane in Butte.

NEBRASKA Lincoln: Officials say a wheat virus outbreak has reached epidemic levels in the Nebraska Panhandle. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that the wheat streak mosaic virus is spread by mites and can reduce yields. As many as 85% of fields in some areas are affected.

NEVADA Las Vegas: Nevada casinos posted their third monthly year- over- year revenue increase in a row in May. The casinos won more than $ 991.6 million.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Hooksett: Police say a man shot and killed a large dog that jumped through the open window of his vehicle at a rest stop to attack the driver’s smaller dog. The incident started off Interstate 93 when the larger dog broke free from its owners at the Hooksett rest stop.

NEW JERSEY New Brunswick: Coming out of a time of financial uncertainty, Rutgers University has received a rating upgrade, NJ. com reports. Moody’s Investor Service says the university is now viewed as stable.

NEW MEXICO Elephant Butte: Elephant Butte Lake State Park managers are warning that toxic blue- green algae might be present in the lake along Three Sisters Cove, KOAT- TV reports. Officials say the algae could be harmful if consumed.

NEW YORK New York: Proclaiming an emergency, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is asking the new leader of New York City’s troubled public transit system for urgent reviews of its management and aging infrastructure. The city’s subways and commuter trains are plagued by delays and poor service.

NORTH CAROLINA Winston-Salem: A federal judge has given final approval to a settlement in a class- action lawsuit filed by three former employees of Yadkin Valley Community Hospital, The Winston- Salem Journal reports. The hospital shut down in May 2015, costing 142 employees their jobs.

NORTH DAKOTA Devils Lake: The federal agency that oversees credit unions has taken over management of a troubled North Dakota credit union. The action affects Citizens Community Credit Union in Devils Lake, the Devils Lake Journal reports. Officials say customers can still conduct business.

OHIO Middletown: An Ohio man who overdosed and fell between a set of railroad tracks was revived by paramedics with naloxone after 26 freight train cars passed over him. The man, who faces disorderly conduct and inducing panic charges, said he didn’t remember the train.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: The head of the Oklahoma prison system says the state is lucky it hasn’t had a major riot. Department of Corrections Director Joe Allbaugh cites aging facilities, low staffing, skyrocketing medical costs for inmates and no budget increases to handle growing inmate populations.

OREGON Eugene: A man who robbed a medical marijuana grow operation at gunpoint was sentenced to almost 17 years in prison. Delonte Brooks and another man stole more than 40 pounds of marijuana at the Oregon operation, The Register- Guard reports.

PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia: The Philadelphia Archaeological Forum wants the city to stop work at a construction site where bones and coffins were found, Philly. com reports. The group cites “credible” reports of more remains at the site.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: Experts say heavy spring rain ended Rhode Island’s gypsy caterpillar infestation. A University of Rhode Island researcher tells WJAR- TV that rain activated an invisible Japanese fungus that kills the caterpillars.

SOUTH CAROLINA Simpsonville: A former South Carolina police chief is charged with robbing a bank. Investigators say Richard Inman, who resigned in 2011 as Williamston chief, handed a teller a note demanding money and saying he was armed.

SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: The ACLU is suing South Dakota over the forced use of a catheter to take a urine sample from a 3- year- old boy. The toddler was being tested for exposure to drugs as part of a child neglect investigation.

TENNESSEE Nashville: Mayor Megan Barry may privatize the operations of city- owned Nashville International Airport to generate funds for mass transit, The Tennessean reports.

TEXAS San Antonio: A Texas man was sentenced to 30 years in prison for what prosecutors say was his 11th drunken driving conviction. San Juan Garcia was convicted by a jury involving a January 2014 crash.

UTAH Salt Lake City: A judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by a woman who was pulled out of her car by a Utah state trooper when she refused to get out on her own. Kara Lynn Castaldo sought at least $ 100,000 in damages.

VERMONT Rutland: The owner of a bull that caused a fatal car crash when it wandered onto a Vermont road was sentenced to probation and community service. Craig Mosher pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment. He had been charged with involuntary manslaughter.

VIRGINIA Charlottesville: University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan is urging students and faculty to stay away from an upcoming Ku Klux Klan rally in Charlottesville. The Loyal White Knights are coming July 8 to protest the city’s decision to remove a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

WASHINGTON Bellingham: Police in Bellingham are mourning the loss of their bomb- sniffing dog. Brick, a German shepherd, suffered a body twist injury while playing with his handler, The Bellingham Herald reports.

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: This coal- mining state will get almost $ 1.3 million in federal funding for clinics that treat black lung disease. More than 7,900 residents get services from the nine clinics across the state.

WISCONSIN Madison: The state chamber of commerce in Wisconsin is opposed to raising taxes on heavy trucks to help pay for roads. A chamber official calls such a step “anti- business and anti- consumer.”

WYOMING Green River: A Wyoming man caught a record 28- pound catfish in the Flaming Gorge Reservoir, The RocketMiner reports.