STATE-BY-STATE

ALABAMA Macedonia: Federal transportation officials are investigating after a small plane crashed between two houses, killing the pilot.

ALASKA Juneau: Scientists are seeing if great white sharks are responsible for attacks on seals in waters off Alaska in recent years.

ARIZONA Flagstaff: Twenty-three rescue personnel and other emergency staff rescued an injured hiker who couldn’t walk out of a mile-long cave.

ARKANSAS Conway: The Oxford American, a nonprofit literary magazine, has paid off $700,000 worth of debt it owed the University of Central Arkansas after more than a decade. The magazine has been financially troubled over the years.

CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: The Los Angeles County Metro system plans to phase out over the next six years some of the fabric seat coverings used on subway, rail and bus lines. Vinyl is the new material of choice.

COLORADO Colorado Springs: Two 13-year-old boys accused of plotting to kill people at Sabin Middle School will be tried as adults.

CONNECTICUT West Springfield: Rapper and actor Ice-T will put on a free show at the Big E’s Xfinity Arena on Sept. 22.

DELAWARE Ellendale: Eric B. Whitman is accused of stealing 50 crab traps along with some scrap metal and cash from an empty home whose owner was on vacation.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: The D.C. Council has withdrawn the “Amplified Noise Amendment Act of 2018,” a bill that would have made it illegal for street performers to use amplification.

FLORIDA Miami: A passenger with a python hidden inside an external hard drive was stopped from boarding a plane headed to Barbados. A TSA spokeswoman said the snake was “obviously not an imminent terrorist threat,” but its interception prevented a possible wildlife threat. The passenger was fined and didn’t make the flight.

GEORGIA Kingsland: The Internal Revenue Service has filed a lien against Camden County’s Public Service Authority for $1.5 million and an estimated $500,000 of sales tax money spent on unapproved projects.

HAWAII Honolulu: Gov. David Ige plans to veto legislation that would expand the state’s hotel tax.

IDAHO Preston: Junior high science teacher Robert Crosland, accused of feeding a sick puppy to a snapping turtle in front of several students, has pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor charge of animal cruelty. Crosland faces up to six months in jail and a $5,000 fine.

ILLINOIS Springfield: Mayor Jim Langfelder wants to keep homeless people from camping at the city’s Lincoln Library by banning anyone from spending a significant amount of time on the grounds from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m.

INDIANA Ashley: Hartland Winery was named Indiana Winery of the Year at the Indy International Wine Competition.

IOWA Iowa City: The University of Iowa plans to carry out “permanent furloughs” of 33 full-time staffers, sell property in Des Moines and make other moves in response to state funding reductions.

KANSAS K ansas City: Phyllis Lanning pleaded guilty to stealing $150,000 from a customer at a bank where she worked. She admitted to creating and mailing falsified documents to conceal the theft.

KENTUCKY Owensboro: Two broken mains have caused a water outage in Daviess County, leading to the declaration of a state of emergency.

LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: Ronald Kimble has been fined $10,000 plus $250 in attorneys’ fees for killing a Louisiana black bear. There is no hunting season for that animal.

MAINE Augusta: The Augusta Police Department threw a celebration for an 8-year-old girl after no one showed up to her birthday party. Larriah Binns received a birthday card signed by the police department and several gift cards.

MARYLAND Annapolis: Alice Sophocleus has been appointed to finish the term of her deceased husband, Ted Sophocleus who died last month after serving 22 years in the Maryland House of Delegates.

MASSACHUSETTS

Boston: A family’s search for a stuffed animal lost at Logan International Airport ignited a wave of social media support. Erica Fletcher says her 9-year-old daughter lost Hornzy Twigs at Terminal B and posted on Twitter about how her daughter was “heartbroken.” The Boston Globe reports several Twitter users promised to help look for the pink baby giraffe, creating the hashtag #BringHornzyHome.

MICHIGAN Grand Rapids: The Michigan State Employees Association that represents state park officers says they should be allowed to have guns and bulletproof vests to handle unruly visitors.

MINNESOTA Minneapolis: A building near the University of Minnesota campus had to be evacuated due to a carbon monoxide leak from a generator being used for a power washer in the basement.

MISSISSIPPI West Point: Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. says it has fired 29 employees for using fake worker certifications to get jobs.

MISSOURI Springfield: Missouri State will offer a commercial drone licensing course next month.

MONTANA Kalispell: Cheyenne Long won the lottery twice in one day, winning $2,000 off the Power Play Gold Crossword and $75,000 more after buying three more tickets.

NEBRASKA Lincoln: Opponents of a measure to expand Medicaid coverage filed a lawsuit to try to keep the issue from appearing on the November general-election ballot.

NEVADA Las Vegas: Two teachers are petitioning to have an elementary school named after Officer Charleston Hartfield, who died in the Las Vegas mass shooting.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Rindge: The state’s attorney general’s office says the unidentified body of a man has been found off the side of a road.

NEW JERSEY Atlantic City: Hard Rock has signed a deal with British online gambling company Bet365 to offer sports betting as soon as the arrangement is approved by state gambling regulators.

NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: James Langenberg is the new head of the FBI’s Albuquerque Field Office.

NEW YORK New York: The overall crime rate has fallen in the city, but compared with this point last year murder is up more than 8 percent and rapes have risen more than 33 percent, according to the New York Police Department.

NORTH CAROLINA Carolina Beach: The Carolina Beach Town Council is considering whether to continue with a lake dredging process that was halted after an Army complaint.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: Sen. Heidi Heitkamp and Republican challenger Rep. Kevin Cramer have agreed to at least three debates in the month leading up to the November election.

OKLAHOMA Tulsa: Officials plan to reveal a rendering of the design of the future Oklahoma Museum of Popular Culture on Monday.

OREGON Portland: The police oversight agency has launched a probe into how officers interact with homeless people following an analysis by The Oregonian/OregonLive. The report found that one in two arrests made by Portland police was of a homeless person but less than 3 percent of city residents are considered homeless.

PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia: David Sommers has been indicted on charges of trafficking more than 3,500 protected turtles.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: The city has launched a system to allow individuals or groups to apply for permits online.

SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: The South Carolina Secessionist Party flew the Confederate flag on a temporary pole for several hours Tuesday, the third anniversary of its removal on the Statehouse front lawn.

SOUTH DAKOTA Rapid City: A former Oglala Sioux judge is suing tribal leaders in tribal court, saying she was illegally terminated. The tribal council fired Chief Judge Kimberly Craven and two other judges in 2016 following complaints about their handling of a 2-year-old boy’s custody case. The boy later was killed by his mother.

TENNESSEE Gatlinburg: Authorities say E. coli bacteria caused the sickness that affected more than 500 people at a zipline attraction.

TEXAS Houston: Houston Methodist Hospital will shut down the FondenBrown operating rooms in August and move into the Paula and Joseph C. “Rusty” Walter III Tower.

UTAH Salt Lake City: Militia group leader William Keebler, who pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a federal cabin in Arizona, was ordered to be released on time served after spending two years in jail.

VERMONT Burlington: The number of deaths from last week’s heat wave has reached four, the Vermont Health Department says.

VIRGINIA Goochland: Beck Garnett, a 13-year-old Boy Scout, sold nearly $52,000 worth of popcorn last year, making him the state’s top seller and second in the nation. The rising eighth-grader has raised more than $110,000 worth of popcorn since he joined the scouts in first grade.

WASHINGTON Seattle: Pierce County and Island County will implement burn bans this week.

WEST VIRGINIA Morgantown: Police say Preston Smith, 24, is accused of faking his own kidnapping in order to get money from his family.

WISCONSIN Madison: Apple production increased almost 20 percent in the state between 2016 and 2017, but cranberries and tart cherries dipped over that time.

WYOMING Cheyenne: The Wyoming Secretary of State’s Office says absentee voting is now open for the August primary election.