STATE-BY-STATE

ALABAMA Infinity Property Birmingham: and Casualty Auto insurer of Birmingham has been acquired by Kemper Corp. for $1.4 billion. ALASKA Bethel: The Bethel Winter House shelter is looking for volunteers to cook meals, KYUK-AM says. ARIZONA Phoenix: Gov. Doug Ducey wants $2 million to replace dilapidated housing and offices for troopers who live and work in remote areas. ARKANSAS Little Rock: The state mustpay some $71,000 to the lawyer for same-sex couples who won a U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down Arkansas’ birth-certificate law.

CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: City health officials point out that state law bars dog meat sale for human consumption. A website posted a claim that a Los Angeles restaurant serves it. COLORADO Denver: Developers submitted plans to the city for an 81story skyscraper, Denver Post reports. CONNECTICUT Hartford: The state’s top election official wants to block marketers from buying voter lists. DELAWARE Wilmington: The public defender for man who pleaded guilty to impersonating an FBI agent is seeking a time-served sentence. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Work began this week on a $1 billion revitalization project at Reagan National Airport. FLORIDA Panama City Beach: In a rare sighting, authorities confirm that a humpback whale was swimming in the Gulf off the Florida Panhandle. GEORGIA Hiram: Authorities say arson caused a fire that destroyed five homes and damaged 14 others. HAWAII Honolulu: The private Kamehameha School system has agreed to pay $80 million to 32 victims of a doctor accused of sexual abuse. IDAHO Boise: A proposal to let the governor appoint directors of state corrections, parks and transportation was spiked by a House committee.

ILLINOIS Chicago: The Department of

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MISSOURI Kansas City: A lawsuit says city schools let a violent felon pick up a 14-year-old girl who was taken to a motel and raped in 2010. MONTANA Billings: Fire officials say no one was hurt in a weekend

blaze NEBRASKA among at the a bronze-casting ideas Omaha: considered A pay business. raise to help is Douglas to manage County jail keep inmates. enough officers NEVADA a woman Sparks: suspected Police of taking are seeking a $4,000 necklace from a pawn shop. NEW lawmakers HAMPSHIRE rejected Concord: a mandate State to give and drug 5% of abuse liquor prevention. profits to alcohol NEW JERSEY Trenton: A report shows that the number of defendants detained before trial dropped 20% in the year since New Jersey overhauled its bail system. NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: National Guard members helped break up a melee among fans at state high school wrestling tournaments. NEW YORK Syracuse: The New York State Fair is running a one-day online sale Thursday on packages for admission, rides and games. NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: State prison officials have a new policy for pregnant inmates after getting complaints that two women were restrained during delivery. NORTH DAKOTA Minot: Surveys of state high school students show the use of e-cigarettes is surging. OHIO Cleveland: State environmental officials awarded Cleveland Metroparks $4.15 million to buy 73 acres that include wetlands.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: A resolution to oust a judge who gave probation to a man who admitted raping a 13-year-old girl at a church camp has been put on hold. OREGON Portland: The city’s apartment-building binge appears to be ending as applications for new housing projects have slowed. PENNSYLVANIA State College: Hundreds of Penn State students raised more than $10 million for pediatric cancer patients in an annual 46-hour dance marathon.

RHODE High Jaime School Crowley ISLAND Assistant has Newport: died Principal after Rogers a yearlong SOUTH battle CAROLINA with blood Gaffney: cancer. Responding chain-link to vandalism, fence topped officials with put barbed up a wire tower around painted an like Interstate a peach. 85 water SOUTH DAKOTA are expected Pierre: to hear State testimony lawmakers refugee Wednesday resettlements on a bill from to suspend countries on federal travel bans. TENNESSEE Nashville: Authorities say a man who bought 11 head of cattle with a worthless check is charged with theft after selling them. TEXAS San Antonio: Police say a family waiting for a table at a steakhouse was attacked by a gunman who wounded 4 adults and a child. UTAH Salt Lake City: President Trump has endorsed Mitt Romney in Utah’s U.S. Senate race. VERMONT Middlesex: State Police say a house fire was caused by too many electrical devices in a circuit. VIRGINIA Richmond: After years of opposition, state GOP lawmakers are embracing Medicaid expansion to cover 300,000 low-income residents. WASHINGTON Centralia: Three pot retailers sued Lewis County over a requirement that such businesses in unincorporated areas get federal approval. The feds don’t give OKs. WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: A jury ruled that the city Sanitary Board pay a contractor $1.3 million for breaching a deal involving sewer work. WISCONSIN Appleton: Passengers on a Delta SkyWest flight safely got off the plane Sunday after a carry-on suitcase began smoking in the cabin.

WYOMING Cheyenne: State lawmakers are considering a bill to set work, school or volunteer requirements of 20 hours a week on at least 2,500 state Medicaid recipients.

Compiled from staff, wire reports.