STATE-BY-STATE

ALABAMA Double Springs:

Authorities say it could take months to determine what killed a woman whose body was found inside a vehicle in the Bankhead National Forest. Jennifer Marshell White had been missing for a month.

ALASKA Bethel:

The tribal commission that co-manages Lower Kuskokwim’s fish voted down a resolution to allow larger nets that would catch bigger salmon, choosing instead to rebuild stocks, KYUK-AM reports.

ARIZONA Phoenix:

Two women who filmed themselves using hate speech and removing pamphlets from a Tempe mosque will stand trial in September on burglary and criminal damage charges.

ARKANSAS Texarkana:

The final phase of an eight-year St. Edward Catholic Church restoration project is underway. The work is expected to be completed by September, the Texarkana Gazette reports.

CALIFORNIA Guerneville:

Investigators arrested a man on suspicion of stealing rainbow flags and threatening bomb attacks against gay people and sheriff’s deputies in this Sonoma County resort town.

COLORADO Pueblo:

City students are back in school after teachers voted overwhelmingly to accept a new contract that includes a 2% cost-of-living increase retroactive to January and a 2.5% increase next school year.

CONNECTICUT Wolcott:

Police say a state trooper who died in an off-duty crash in February had a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit.

DELAWARE Bear:

Authorities say a man stole nearly $90,000 worth of property from apartments that had been vacated following a fire, The News Journal reports.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA:

Police accused a Virginia man of fatally shooting two people at a suburban Washington strip-mall’s hookah lounge early Monday.

FLORIDA Miami:

Administrators at the private Christopher Columbus High School are defending having a live tiger in a cage at a jungle-themed prom last week. But some students, parents and teachers went on social media to allege animal abuse.

GEORGIA Fort Stewart:

Four soldiers based at this Army post won the “best tank crew” title after a weeklong competition.

HAWAII Wailuku:

Maui County has cleared a backlog by testing more than 100 rape kits dating to 1999, The Maui News reports.

IDAHO Hailey:

The $16 million Animal Shelter of the Wood River Valley is set to open at the end of the year, The

Times-News reports.

ILLINOIS Springfield:

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum foundation is selling a black dress once owned by Marilyn Monroe to repay a loan, the

Chicago Tribune reports.

INDIANA Anderson:

Officials say a project to remodel and remove asbestos from the Madison County government center is running more than $600,000 over budget and might not be finished on schedule, The Herald

Bulletin reports.

IOWA Dubuque:

Work is beginning on a $2.2 million restoration of the former St. Mary Catholic Church’s steeple, The Telegraph Herald reports.

KANSAS Wichita:

A federal judge has delayed until Sept. 6 the sentencing of three men who plotted to bomb a mosque and apartment complex housing Somali refugees.

KENTUCKY Fort Knox:

Soldiers, civilian employees and community residents will mark the 100th anniversary next week of Fort Knox.

LOUISIANA New Roads:

The Louisiana National Guard has unveiled a memorial at the local armory to honor four soldiers killed in Iraq in 2004 and 2005.

MAINE Biddeford:

Maine’s secretary of state will host informational meetings on the new rank voting system that’ll be used for the first time in June’s primaries.

MARYLAND Cascade:

Police say a man who used the name “VenomMan20” on YouTube pleaded guilty to two counts of illegal possession of venomous snakes.

MASSACHUSETTS Boston:

A man who forced a school bus to stop on a highway and jumped on its hood when he couldn’t see students through its tinted windows lost his driver’s license at state police request. No students were on the bus.

MICHIGAN Flint:

Authorities say a fire on the roof of the vacant Washington Elementary School may have been intentionally set.

MINNESOTA Minneapolis:

State health officials report 172 deaths last year involving the synthetic opioid fentanyl.

MISSISSIPPI Hattiesburg:

The state’s first Gold Star Families Memorial Monument was unveiled Wednesday at the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum at Camp Shelby, WDAM-TV reports.

MISSOURI Cameron:

Authorities are investigating a weekend disturbance at the Crossroads Correctional Center when more than 200 inmates began throwing food and other objects.

MONTANA Missoula:

Fishing sites in the Missoula area were closed earlier this week as debris from Clark Fork River flooding posed a danger.

NEBRASKA Lincoln:

The Lincoln Homeless Coalition says the city’s homeless population has reduced by half since 2012, The Lincoln Journal Star reports.

NEVADA Las Vegas:

The mother of a man who died in a police officer’s chokehold last year has sued the city police department, saying other officers failed to intervene when her son was restrained.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord:

The state’s spring moose survey has closed. The survey designed to evaluate tick loads wrapped up Tuesday.

NEW JERSEY Ridgewood:

Authorities say a woman faces a false imprisonment charge for allegedly leaving a cable TV worker briefly stranded in the air by turning off the ignition in the worker’s van that was idling near her home.

NEW MEXICO Alamogordo:

The city is working to restore Bonito Lake, which was damaged by debris runoff from a 2012 wildfire, The Alamogordo Daily News reports.

NEW YORK New York:

State officials busted the Red Hook Winery in Brooklyn for allegedly making illegal moonshine – the first bootlegger bust in New York since 1960.

NORTH CAROLINA Elizabeth City:

The head of the University of North Carolina system supports extending an admissions flexibility program for three historically black schools: Elizabeth City, Fayetteville State and N.C. Central.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck:

State horse owners are on alert for a neurological disease caused by a form of equine herpes. Several rodeos were canceled, Bismarck Tribune reports.

OHIO Greenville:

The Darke County Jail has reopened, weeks after a methamphetamine spill sickened more than a dozen sheriff’s deputies.

OKLAHOMA Crescent:

A series of earthquakes was recorded near this central Oklahoma town from Sunday night through Monday morning. The strongest was magnitude-4.1.

OREGON Portland:

City transportation director Leah Treat is leaving to work for a transportation consulting firm. Treat has been an advocate for bicycling, and she pushed for a gas tax that was approved by Portland voters.

PENNSYLVANIA Hatboro:

Authorities say residents here woke up last weekend to find bags of candy hearts attached to pamphlets advocating the Ku Klux Klan strewn over their lawns. Police are investigating.

RHODE ISLAND Providence:

The state is mailing more than 8,000 checks worth a combined $1.3 million to residents who have unclaimed property from such things as forgotten bank accounts, uncashed paychecks and unreceived refunds.

SOUTH CAROLINA Charleston:

The Citadel Foundation has passed its 175th anniversary fundraising campaign’s goal, bringing in $250 million, The Post and Courier reports.

SOUTH DAKOTA Pierre:

Residents have until Monday to register to vote in South Dakota’s June 5 primary.

TENNESSEE Nashville:

An analysis by USA TODAY NETWORK-Tennessee found that the state Department of Children’s Services investigated 647 allegations of child abuse or neglect involving students at more than 460 schools over 20 months.

TEXAS Sutherland Springs:

A Nov. 5 Texas church massacre that left more than two dozen people dead set off 222 gun license applications by the end of that month, a 167% increase from a year earlier, the San Antonio

Express-News reports.

UTAH Logan:

The state Board of Regents will make interviews for university presidents public in an effort to make the search processes more transparent, The Herald Journal reports.

VERMONT West Burke:

Investigators are seeking the cause of a weekend garage fire that caused a propane explosion, spreading the flames to two houses that also were destroyed,

The Caledonian Record reports.

VIRGINIA Jamestown:

Tidal conditions have delayed to July 1 or later the start of power line tower construction across the James River near historic Jamestown Island. Conservation groups have sued to halt construction.

WASHINGTON Spokane:

Rising floodwaters from melting snow are threatening the nearly century old Eightmile Lake Dam in the Cascade Range, and downstream residents were told to be prepared to evacuate.

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston:

A health audit requested by the city’s mayor of a needle exchange program recommends suspending the program’s certification, The Charleston GazetteMail reports.

WYOMING Casper:

The state Oil and Gas Conservation Commission has received about 10,000 applications for permits to drill over the last year.