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ALABAMA Mobile: Mayor Sandy Stimpson fired 10 employees who staged a “sick out” over working conditions, WALA-TV reports.
ALASKA Fairbanks: People wanting to fight wildfires will have to submit to a medical exam before working for the federal Alaska Fire Service.
ARIZONA Flagstaff: A federal appeals court has revived a challenge to a company’s right to mine uranium near the Grand Canyon.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: The Arkansas Board of Health says three clinics violated a state law barring them from charging for related services during the abortion wait period.
CALIFORNIA Sacramento: Dialysis companies contributed an extraordinary $111 million to defeat a California ballot initiative capping their profits.
COLORADO Boulder: Officials say contaminated water released from a Superfund site in the county is likely to blame for a fish kill last week.
CONNECTICUT Wolcott: Authorities say a man shot and killed a bear that was attacking his goats.
DELAWARE Dover: A former Delaware State College president has been honored with a campus statue.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: The Lockkeeper’s House, the oldest structure on the National Mall, has reopened after renovations, WTOP reports.
FLORIDA Melbourne: The Brevard Zoo announced the arrival of a baby giraffe, 158 pounds and 6 feet tall.
GEORGIA Atlanta: BlackRock’s new Innovation Hub will create roughly 1,000 jobs, Gov. Nathan Deal tweeted.
HAWAII Honolulu: The state plans to protect thousands of acres in central Oahu from development after acquiring the property from Dole Food Co.
IDAHO North Fork: Exploratory drilling has begun to find anchor points for a bridge over the Salmon River.
ILLINOIS Chicago: Enrollment at the city’s public schools fell by 10,000 a
year after the district reported a drop of 11,000 students.
INDIANA Corydon: Conservation officers say they’ve arrested a man for stealing ginseng.
IOWA Des Moines: A man convicted in the shooting death of his estranged wife has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.
KANSAS Kansas City: A crane as tall as the Verruckt water slide is in position to dismantle the attraction where a boy died two years ago.
KENTUCKY Murray: Murray State University is offering tuition discounts for military students.
LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: The University of Louisiana will boost student fees this spring across eight of its nine campuses.
MAINE Presque Isle: University of Maine at Presque Isle received $1 million from Mary Barton Akeley Smith, the largest gift in its history.
MARYLAND Baltimore: A spotted lanternfly was found in Cecil County, the Baltimore Sun reported. The insects destroy and damage crops.
MASSACHUSETTS Worcester: The College of the Holy Cross is moving forward with plans for a $92 million center that will become its main performing arts venue.
MICHIGAN Flint: A teen accused of throwing a rock from an overpass that killed a man below pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
MINNESOTA Minneapolis: Minnesota judges frequently failed to impose mandatory fines on convicted sex traffickers and buyers, according to a TV station’s analysis.
MISSISSIPPI Jackson: New government data show Mississippi young people aren’t getting fatter but remain the fattest nationwide.
MISSOURI Columbia: Missouri’s multimillion-dollar bingo game industry could find relief under a ballot proposal that aims to alleviate a shortage of bingo workers.
MONTANA Missoula: A World War I memorial is being cleaned after over 90 years of wear and tear.
NEBRASKA Grand Island: Workers at a wastewater treatment plant spent the month removing fish unintentionally caught every summer.
NEVADA Las Vegas: The state could reap over $1 billion in the first seven years of recreational pot sales, an industry group’s analysis finds.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Durham: Students in 4-H programs will be eligible for scholarships to the University of New Hampshire.
NEW JERSEY Bellmawr: A 1774 Philadelphia newspaper with the “Unite or Die” snake design on the masthead turned up at a Goodwill.
NEW MEXICO Angel Fire: Gov. Susana Martinez has dedicated a new $3.2 million veterans’ cemetery.
NEW YORK Shokan: One of the primary aqueducts carrying drinking water to New York City is being shut down for 10 weeks.
NORTH CAROLINA Durham: Starbucks locations in the city will be the first in the region to be “Safe Places” for LGBTQ people.
NORTH DAKOTA Jamestown: A man working at a landfill was killed when a dump truck and a payloader struck and ran over him.
OHIO Kent: The president of Kent State University says she’ll be stepping down next year.
OKLAHOMA Stillwater: Officials dedicated a memorial to the four people killed and 50 injured in a 2015 homecoming parade crash at Oklahoma State University.
OREGON Salem: It’s been a good year for onion farmers in Oregon, with an “exceptional” harvest.
PENNSYLVANIA Steelton: Police charged four adults after an officer spotted a toddler running across the street carrying an open beer.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: Sen.
Jack Reed says over $23 million in federal funding is available to help Rhode Island families and seniors keep warm this winter.
SOUTH CAROLINA Lancaster: Nutramax Laboratories is expanding operations in the state and will add 225 jobs.
SOUTH DAKOTA Deadwood: Construction can begin on a longplanned downtown square project after a funding boost from the state.
TENNESSEE Memphis: The University of Memphis has reached a research agreement with the Czech Academy of Sciences.
TEXAS Dallas: Researchers found spearheads in Central Texas thought to be the oldest hunting tools discovered so far in North America, according to a report in Science Advances.
UTAH Salt Lake City: State regulators denied a nuclear waste processing company an exemption to bury depleted uranium munitions.
VERMONT Rutland: Two people died in a fire in a vacant house, and a second fire was reported at another vacant structure in the city soon after.
VIRGINIA Chesapeake: Education officials have been sued over a game of tag in gym class by a student who says it caused him serious injuries.
WASHINGTON Spokane: The state decided to kill the last two wolves in a pack that has repeatedly preyed on cattle in the Kettle River Range.
WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: The governor’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Four-Year Higher Education recommends a $10 million annual funding hike for the state’s small colleges.
WISCONSIN Madison: Agricultural experts say wet weather this year has delayed Wisconsin’s grain harvest and led to widespread mold in fields.
WYOMING Byron: Wildlife officials say a grizzly bear and her two cubs were trapped and euthanized far outside the animals’ core habitat.