STATE-BY-STATE

Power decrease ALABAMA Co. in customers Montgomery: power bills will because see Alabama slight of a federal ALASKA tax Fairbanks: cut given The to utilities. unpaved, 60-mile open for McCarthy public travel. Road has been

planted ARIZONA 24 Phoenix: drought-tolerant City workers trees in Cortez shade. Park to increase the amount of

will ARKANSAS study the Little possibility Rock: A of task raising force the while state’s creating sales an tax income on groceries tax credit or rebate for low-income families.

Bike CALIFORNIA to Work month, San Francisco: so users May can is check out a bike at a docking station and ride for up to 45 minutes for free.

COLORADO Colorado Springs: Two police officers who shot and killed a man in December 2017 have been cleared of any wrongdoing.

CONNECTICUT Hartford: The state house passed a bill banning bump stocks.

DELAWARE Dover: Lawmakers are taking another look at raising the state’s minimum wage.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: A woman had the D.C. flag painted across the roof of her home.

FLORIDA Tallahassee: An appeals court has temporarily blocked a man from growing medical marijuana.

GEORGIA Smyrna: Since December, five vehicles have run into the top of a warning beam erected just before entering the Concord Covered Bridge.

HAWAII Honolulu: The home of Abigail Kawananakoa, a 92-year-old Hawaiian heiress many consider a princess, was burglarized.

IDAHO Nampa: A woman received four years of felony probation and 30 day in jail for beating her four children for eating a tub of ice cream in October 2017.

ILLINOIS Springfield: Project funding

has has been approved to turn downtown one-way streets into two-way streets.

INDIANA Greenwood: Officials are calling for caution and safety upgrades following a day in which there were three separate crashes involving cars and trains.

IOWA Des Moines: The state house has passed a “heartbeat” bill that seeks to ban most abortions around six weeks of pregnancy.

KANSAS Hutchinson: Trevor Corbett, who’s serving life for the 2000 strangulation death of his ex-wife, wants DNA evidence retested.

KENTUCKY Louisville: Gov. Matt Bevin’s home and the 10 acres where it sits are valued at $2.9 million. That’s $1.3 million more than what a Bevin-owned company paid last year.

LOUISIANA Metairie: Morning Call, a 24/7 coffeehouse that has been in the area since 1974, is closing.

MAINE Westmanland: State officials say rising waters in the town of 62 people caused at least one person to be evacuated by airboat.

MARYLAND Bel Air: Five puppies that are genetically identical to a dog named Bruce Wayne may be the state’s first cloned dogs.

MASSACHUSETTS Boston: Amazon announced plans to open an office in 2021, creating 2,000 jobs.

MICHIGAN Troy: The police department has created a new rank of “pawfficer” for Badges, a cat that has joined the force.

MINNESOTA Delano: Authorities want to know why a motorist fired shots at an empty school bus.

MISSISSIPPI Jackson: The University of Mississippi Medical Center will stop accepting policies from Blue Cross & Blue Shield after June 30 unless it gets a revised contract.

MISSOURI Jefferson City: A bill passed to reduce fines for watercraft speeding in no-wake zones and

life-jacket violations to $25. MONTANA Missoula: The American Red Cross has opened a flood shelter at a local church.

NEBRASKA Fremont: A nonprofit is dedicating June to “plogging,” a Swedish fitness trend that has joggers pick up trash and litter during their exercise.

NEVADA Gardnerville: A man has been sentenced to 60 days in jail for the car crash that led to the death of a 21-month-old girl.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: The remains of a Marine Corps sergeant killed in World War II have been identified as David Quinn and will be returned to his hometown.

NEW JERSEY Atlantic City: The Ocean Resort Casino will open this summer at the same site where the short-lived Revel casino failed.

NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: An inmate has been sentenced to nearly 3 ½ years in prison for trafficking heroin while incarcerated.

NEW YORK New York: A cat that escaped from its owner at the airport was captured and will be shipped home to its owner — in China.

NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: A few thousand state employees could soon receive pay raises.

NORTH DAKOTA Minot: The YMCA has been working with county officials to refinance their bond a year earlier than scheduled.

OHIO Hubbard: Elementary school students raised $6,223 in April for teacher Jill Hoover, who has been diagnosed with stage-four cancer.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Insurance companies are offering discounts to Oklahomans who have built or retrofitted their homes to tornado-resilient standards.

OREGON Springfield: Authorities are warning people to be on the lookout for a cougar that has been spotted walking on a path.

has PENNSYLVANIA been charged McCandless: for attempting A man to build a meth lab in his apartment.

RHODE man was ISLAND electrocuted South to Kingstown:A death after coming in connect with a live wire.

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SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: Paul TenHaken was elected the new mayor of the city with 63% of the vote.

TENNESSEE Knoxville: A cybersecurity firm is investigating an attack that disabled Knox County’s election website.

TEXAS Houston: A deputy constable who stopped to assist motorists involved in an accident was chased around his patrol car by a cow that one of the cars had struck. The cow ran off, and the deputy wasn’t hurt.

UTAH Ogden: Pet food company American Nutrition says one of its workers died in a work accident.

VERMONT Barre: A new exhibit at the Vermont Historical Society celebrates 115 years of automobile racing in the state.

VIRGINIA Roanoke: A student expelled from Virginia Tech after being arrested on a gun charge is suing the school and police officials, claiming he was harassed because he is Asian and likes guns.

WASHINGTON Lyden: A settlement of nearly $2 million has been reached in lawsuit over an E. coli outbreak.

WEST VIRGINIA Wheeling: A body was discovered along the Ohio River over the weekend.

WISCONSIN Superior: The EPA says no elevated levels of toxians were found at the site of a recent oil refinery explosion.

WYOMING Riverton:

of Wyoming has a bachelor’s The University degree program works. in tribal leadership in the