STATE-BY-STATE

ALABAMA Montgomery: Payday lending customers would have longer to repay loans under a bill approved Thursday by the state Senate.

ALASKA Juneau: Tiffany Zulkosky became the 19th woman in the Legislature on Friday, a record for Alaska.

ARIZONA Phoenix: The state jobless rate ticked up to 4.8% in January.

ARKANSAS Little Rock: State lawmakers approved a $5.6 billion budget Friday.

CALIFORNIA Anaheim: The Orange County Public Works department says 404 tons of debris was removed from a former homeless camp.

COLORADO Denver: Richard Wyatt, 54, star of the show “American Guns,” was sentenced to 6 1⁄2 years in prison for failing to report $1.1 million in income to the IRS, conspiracy and dealing firearms without a license.

CONNECTICUT Hartford: Gov. Dannel P. Malloy says he plans to get more involved in the legislative effort to increase the state’s minimum wage.

DELAWARE Claymont: State police say a Pennsylvania man died in a collision shortly after fleeing the scene of another crash.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Immigration rights activists are protesting the detention in Arizona of Alejandra Pablos, 32, a prominent organizer.

FLORIDA Orlando: Federal officials are ending a program that paid for hotels for more than 27,000 Florida households after Hurricane Irma.

GEORGIA Athens: A “rowdy inebriate” injured a 22-year-old woman when he did a backflip in a bar and landed on her table, police say.

HAWAII Honolulu: The state plans to evict residents from Oahu’s largest homeless camp as early as June.

IDAHO Post Falls: Developers hope to lure technology and aerospace manufacturers with a 245-acre tech park.

ILLINOIS Harrisburg: The Shawnee National Forest is closing a road so snakes and amphibians can migrate from limestone bluffs to a swamp.

INDIANA Terre Haute: Researchers at Indiana State University will get a $900,000 grant to study endangered gray bats in North Carolina.

IOWA Ankeny: A woman who says she was forced to view sexually explicit photos of her examiner during a driving test is suing the Iowa Department of Transportation.

KANSAS Topeka: A bill under consideration would legalize self-service beer taps at bars and clubs.

KENTUCKY Frankfort: Teachers rallied outside public schools Thursday to protest proposed cuts to their retirement benefits.

LOUISIANA Kaplan: The state attorney general has sued the Vermilion Parish School Board over a meeting disrupted by the arrest of a teacher who criticized the superintendent’s pay raise.

MAINE Augusta: Maine emergency room visits for opioid overdoses increased 34% in the last year.

MARYLAND Towson: A former Baltimore County schools superintendent pleaded guilty to perjury for failing to disclose nearly $147,000 he earned from consulting jobs.

MASSACHUSETTS Cambridge: Harvard University professor Jorge Dominguez, accused of repeated sexual misconduct, is retiring.

MICHIGAN Detroit: Wayne State University reversed a decision to decertify the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship for requiring its leaders to embrace its religious beliefs.

MINNESOTA Minneapolis: University of Minnesota College of Design researchers are working on clothing that better fits female firefighters.

MISSISSIPPI Jackson: A new state law says ambulances may transport police dogs that are injured on duty.

MISSOURI Columbia: The Missouri Students Association presidential election was canceled after offensive tweets by three former candidates were found.

MONTANA Butte: Five of eight small, bronze gargoyles meant as “protectors” of a new parking garage in Butte have been stolen.

NEBRASKA Lincoln: State lawmakers will begin debate Tuesday on an $8.8 billion, two-year budget that imposes cuts on higher education.

NEVADA Reno: The Washoe County School District has banned guns from auctions at school fundraisers.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: A plan to continue the state’s expanded Medicaid program cleared the Senate on Thursday night.

NEW JERSEY Sparta: A man suspected of DWI told police he fled the scene of a crash in Sparta because he felt scared in “redneck country.”

NEW MEXICO Farmington: Two area residents are on life support after being stricken by hantavirus, a rare virus carried by rodents.

NEW YORK Clifton Park: Police say two men have been charged in connection with 20,000 unstamped cigarettes found in their vehicle.

NORTH CAROLINA Sylva: Work has started on two new bridges for the World Equestrian Games this fall.

NORTH DAKOTA Fargo: Fargo’s first needle exchange program could be operational within a month.

OHIO Columbus: Eight people are accused of laundering money after prosecutors say they created false profiles on dating sites and asked suitors to fund investments. OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Teachers plan a statewide work stoppage April 2 unless they get a raise for the first time since 2008.

OREGON McMinnville: A $6 million gift will help Linfield College expand its wine studies program.

PENNSYLVANIA Allentown: Mayor Ed Pawlowski resigned after he was convicted on charges that he traded city contracts for campaign cash.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: Former secretary of state Matt Brown will run for governor as an independent.

SOUTH CAROLINA Sumter: Authorities say a woman was arrested after she shoved two teachers aside to slap a 7-year-old girl who her daughter said had thrown pencils at her.

SOUTH DAKOTA Pierre: Gov. Dennis Daugaard has signed bills that impose 12-year term limits on members of the state Board of Regents and the Board of Education Standards.

TENNESSEE Nashville: A House panel killed a bill to ban child marriage.

TEXAS Austin: A contractor is suing the city after officials accused it of building a $161 million downtown tunnel with structural problems.

UTAH Salt Lake City: Legislators adjourned Thursday after passing bills to expand Medicaid and give teens fleeing polygamous communities more legal rights.

VERMONT Montpelier: More than three dozen communities in Vermont have voted to support a statewide effort to combat climate change.

VIRGINIA Richmond: The House of Delegates has rejected legislation to require drivers to use turn signals when pedestrians are present.

WASHINGTON Olympia: The Legislature adjourned Friday after sending Gov. Jay Inslee a supplemental state budget that raises teacher salaries.

WEST VIRGINIA Clarksburg: Former football coach Joshua Nicewarner, whose teams won three state titles, faces up to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to child solicitation.

WISCONSIN Madison: Emergency room visits for suspected opioid overdoses increased 109% from July 2016 to September 2017, officials say.

WYOMING Cheyenne: The first grizzly bear hunting in the lower 48 states in more than 40 years could happen in Wyoming this fall.

From staff, wire reports