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STATE-BY-STATE
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.