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STATE-BY-STATE

- From staff and wire reports

ALABAMA Hazel Green: No damage was reported after a minor earthquake (magnitude 2.1) rattled northern Alabama at 7:22 a.m. Monday.

ALASKA Juneau: NOAA officials are meeting this week to develop priorities for marine navigation in the Arctic and around Alaska.

ARIZONA Phoenix: State prosecutor­s say Jon Richard Rattray has been indicted in a real estate loan fraud scheme estimated at $6 million.

ARKANSAS Gould: A state official says three inmates have died in less than 24 hours at a southeast Arkansas prison, possibly from drug use.

CALIFORNIA Fullerton: Police Chief David Hendricks has been placed on leave over a disturbanc­e involving a Lady Antebellum concert.

COLORADO Aspen: Aspen Skiing Co. will be recruiting about 1,200 new employees at $13.50 an hour.

CONNECTICU­T Stamford: An artist who created a sculpture of a heroin spoon and placed it in front of the Purdue Pharma headquarte­rs can get it back, a judge has ruled.

DELAWARE Felton: A Kent County woman died last week after being exposed to rabies.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Toray Lamond Guider, 43, was hospitaliz­ed after jumping off a Beltway bridge to avoid oncoming traffic after escaping a rollover crash with minor injuries.

FLORIDA Key West: The U.S. Coast Guard has rescued Robert Vonnegut, 62, whose boat was reported overdue by a day in the Florida Keys.

GEORGIA Atlanta: A judge sentenced Kai Brockingto­n, 36, to 3 1⁄2 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to bilking $668,000 in a charity scheme.

HAWAII Honolulu: The Navy is destroying munitions recovered at Pearl Harbor in controlled detonation­s.

IDAHO Lewiston: Horizon Airlines made its last flight into the LewistonNe­z Perce County Regional Airport.

ILLINOIS Urbana: The University of Illinois is offering free tuition and fees to qualified in-state students whose family income is below $61,000 annually.

INDIANA South Bend: Country star Garth Brooks has set Oct. 20 for his University of Notre Dame show, the first concert at the football stadium.

IOWA Des Moines: The General Services Administra­tion bought the former Riverfront YMCA property for $6.5 million.

KANSAS Salina: The Smoky Hill Museum is launching “Notorious,” featuring 13 figures with Kansas ties.

KENTUCKY Frankfort: Investment­s in Kentucky’s state worker pensions earned more than $1.4 billion during the 2018 fiscal year.

LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: Outdoorsme­n are being asked to help stem the spread of an insect they believe is killing off Roseau cane.

MAINE Brunswick: Walter Skold, founder of the Dead Poets Society of America, was buried under a special tombstone he commission­ed.

MARYLAND Annapolis: David Trone, Total Wine & More co-owner who is running for Congress, expects to recover from cancer.

MASSACHUSE­TTS Amherst: Amherst College is changing the name of the Lord Jeffrey Inn to disassocia­te itself with an 18th-century British general.

MICHIGAN Monroe: The River Raisin National Battlefiel­d Park is undergoing a $100 million upgrade.

MINNESOTA Duluth: A public works crew has unearthed several wooden coffins, but officials say they contain no remains.

MISSISSIPP­I Oxford: A historical marker is planned to honor Elwood Higginbott­om, the last black person killed by lynching there in 1935.

MISSOURI Columbia: Leishi Tang voluntaril­y surrendere­d her Corgi named Rou Rou after she was seen beating the dog on a video.

MONTANA West Glacier: Glacier National Park officials have deployed a camera and empty “decoy” tent to watch for a bear that’s believed to have torn into a tent.

NEBRASKA Kearney: A new $89 million veterans home welcomed hundreds at an open house.

NEVADA Las Vegas: McCarran Internatio­nal Airport had its busiest month in July with 4.4 million passengers.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: The city is cutting down 22 white pine trees due to needle blight.

NEW JERSEY Trenton: Gov. Phil Murphy rejected a bill imposing a 5-cent fee on plastic carry-out bags.

NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: The last memorials to Confederat­e President Jefferson Davis have been removed from rest areas on I-10.

NEW YORK New York: New York City is poised to reactivate 140 speed cameras in school zones. NORTH CAROLINA Holly Springs: Democrat Sydney Batch says she’ll remain in her race for a state House seat despite breast cancer.

NORTH DAKOTA Watford: Pipeline company Taga Resources is promoting the use of microbes as an alternativ­e method to clean up spills.

OHIO Fairborn: The faculty union at Wright State University has set Oct. 1 as a strike date if its members reject a fact-finder’s report.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: The new half of the U.S. Highway 77 bridge over the South Canadian River is open, KTOK radio reported.

OREGON Eugene: The Eugene Police Department intends to lease or purchase surveillan­ce cameras in a trial project.

PENNSYLVAN­IA Yardley: Henry Guzikowski Jr., 54, faces animal cruelty charges after dead and live animals were found covered in feces at the New Jersey farm he owns.

RHODE ISLAND South Kingstown: A research vessel in the Canadian Arctic carrying a 36-member University of Rhode Island team ran aground Friday, but officials say all are safe.

SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: Two funeral home workers were indicted after officials say they left a body to rot for nearly three years because the woman’s family owed them money.

SOUTH DAKOTA Buffalo: The state may spend $1.2 million to plug 40 wells that have been idle since a natural gas project fell dormant.

TENNESSEE Knoxville: Peyton Manning has donated $1 million to the University of Tennessee to establish an experienti­al learning endowment.

TEXAS Seagoville: Police Officer Sam Click’s body camera captured Click and a neighbor rescuing a family from their burning home.

UTAH Salt Lake City: Bonnie Foerster, 74, cried when a state judge declared her and her longtime lesbian partner, Beverly Grossaint, legally married. Grossaint died in May at 82.

VERMONT Montpelier: Con Hogan, a longtime state official, has died at 77.

VIRGINIA Fredericks­burg: Discussion­s are being focused on how to tell a more complete history of the city’s controvers­ial slave auction block.

WASHINGTON Spokane: U.S. Highway 395 has been renamed for former U.S. House Speaker Tom Foley.

WEST VIRGINIA Marietta: The steam-powered W.P. Snyder will mark its 100th anniversar­y Sept. 15 at the Ohio River Museum.

WISCONSIN Madison: Foxconn Technology Group says it will invest $100 million in innovation research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

WYOMING Laramie: University of Wyoming officials say they expect about 1,750 freshmen to attend classes this fall, up 3 percent from 2017.

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