STATE-BY-STATE

News from across the USA

ALABAMA Birmingham: The area has issued an air quality alert.

ALASKA Bethel: John Active, an Alaska Native broadcaster who translated news from English to Yup’ik and vice versa, has died at 69. Active worked at KYUK public radio and television stations for about 47 years.

ARIZONA Phoenix: The state has been named the deadliest for pedestrians, a safety study says.

ARKANSAS Little Rock: House Speaker Jeremy Gillam is resigning to take a job with the University of Central Arkansas.

CALIFORNIA Redlands: Fire has damaged a large Amazon distribution center.

COLORADO Durango: Warm, drier and windy weather is behind a 1,000acre increase in a wildfire burning.

CONNECTICUT Danbury: The city has been ordered to rehire a police officer who was fired in 2014 after being accused of using excessive force during an arrest.

DELAWARE Lewes: Experts say an unusually high number of bottlenose dolphin carcasses have washed up on shores recently.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: A driver crashed completely inside a closed Wendy’s early in the morning. The driver suffered a minor injury.

FLORIDA Cape Coral: A new proposal would ban beer sales in the city before a hurricane.

GEORGIA Atlanta: The state attorney general’s office does not intend to criminally charge Atlanta in an investigation of alleged open records violations at City Hall.

HAWAII Hilo: A 5-foot-long python was discovered near a landfill. It was transported to the state’s plant quarantine branch.

IDAHO Boise: More than 30% of registered voters participated in this year’s primary election, the highest turnout in 16 years.

ILLINOIS Granite City: U.S. Steel Corp. says it will restart the second of two shuttered blast furnaces and bring back about 300 workers.

INDIANA Anderson: A coroner says the parents of a 3-year-old girl who died in a hot car thought she was asleep inside their home.

IOWA Des Moines: An 18-year-old was given a suspended prison sentence and probation for torching a famed covered bridge that was featured on the cover of the novel The Bridges of Madison County.

KANSAS Lawrence: A group hoping to form a moderate party didn’t collect enough signatures to get candidates on this year’s ballot.

KENTUCKY Frankfort: Gov. Matt Bevin wants a judge he calls an “incompetent hack” removed from a case challenging the state’s new pension law.

LOUISIANA New Orleans: Darron Breeden of Virginia slurped down 40 dozen oysters to win the World Oyster Eating Championship.

MAINE Portland: Police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found on a city street in the middle of the day.

MARYLAND Baltimore: Former vice president Joe Biden is scheduled to give the keynote speech at a Democratic Party unity event June 30.

MASSACHUSETTS Boston: Residents are being asked to record any turkey sightings as the state conducts a count.

MICHIGAN Lansing: The state will close one of its 30 prisons to save $19 million in the next budget.

MINNESOTA Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota has proposed a tuition freeze at campuses in Crookston, Duluth and Rochester.

MISSISSIPPI Jackson: The release of English Assessment Scores shows reading scores for thirdgraders continue to rise in the state.

MISSOURI St. Louis: Two construction workers died after a safety cable snapped and they fell down an elevator shaft.

MONTANA Bozeman: U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will speak to the Montana Police Protective Association on Thursday.

NEBRASKA Lincoln: The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has formed a commission to recommend what the school should look like in 2033.

NEVADA Carson City: The Nevada State Museum will celebrate World Doll Day on Saturday.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Tilton: Thousands of gallons of milk spilled onto Interstate 93 when a tanker rolled over.

NEW JERSEY South Jersey: Hospital chains Virtua Health and Lourdes Health System have agreed to merge.

NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: Teachers in two school districts will receive raises: Albuquerque Public School 2.5% and Gallup-McKinley County 5%.

NEW YORK New York: The Seattlebased Museum of Pop Culture is looking to expand to Manhattan, the Wall Street Journal reports.

NORTH CAROLINA Charlotte: A man was arrested and charged for going online to hire a hit man to poison another man.

NORTH DAKOTA Minot: Understaffing at the Ward County Veterans Service Office is causing delays for veterans seeking help with benefits.

OHIO Columbus: Medical marijuana will not be available in the state by the September deadline.

OKLAHOMA Claremore: A woman has died after she was kicked in the chest by a horse at Will Rogers Downs racetrack.

OREGON Eugene: State Police say fatal crashes are up 19% from last year.

PENNSYLVANIA Harrisburg: The state’s newest prison near Philadelphia – the State Correctional Institution at Phoenix – will start receiving inmates this month.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: Trucks will have to start paying tolls Monday when they drive through the state.

SOUTH CAROLINA Mount Pleasant: The James B. Edwards Bridge that closed when inspectors found a snapped support cable has reopened.

SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: Philanthropist T. Denny Sanford has donated $100 million to a nonprofit that focuses on education.

TENNESSEE Nashville: Authorities are on the lookout for a man they say killed his former boss with a hatchet.

TEXAS San Antonio: The cremated remains of eight military vets that were stored for years when they went unclaimed were interred at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery.

UTAH Park City: A teacher is on leave after instructing students to read the lyrics of an Eminem song that slams President Trump.

VERMONT East Montpelier: U-32 Middle and High School has become the third school in the state to raise a Black Lives Matter flag.

VIRGINIA Portsmouth: A series of threatening messages – including a bomb threat – has been found in restrooms at Norfolk Naval Shipyard.

WASHINGTON Olympia: Washington State Parks has published its first comprehnsive parks guide.

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: The state is on pace to have a budget surplus at the end of the fiscal year.

WISCONSIN Madison: Only four of the 10 Democrats running for governor will be allowed to participate in a July debate.

WYOMING Cody: Caleb Salzmanm snagged a state-record 11.51 pound, 24.5 inch largemouth bass.