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ALABAMA Prattville: The sole remaining co- defendant in a high- profile child abuse case has pleaded guilty. The case involved seven victims under the age of 2, three codefendants and 44 charges. The codefendants were former workers at the Journey Church daycare center.
ALASKA Anchorage: Police in the city are now carrying naloxone, a drug that reverses overdoses, Alaska Public Media reports.
ARIZONA Phoenix: A third- party vendor for the NFL Experience that opened Saturday reported the theft of several items, a value of about $ 100,000.
ARKANSAS Newport: One person is dead and four others are injured following a shooting at a rap concert early Sunday, police told KAIT- TV in Jonesboro.
CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: A SWAT officer who was recorded on bodycamera video telling his team “happy hunting” before a fatal police shooting last year has received a two- day suspension after an internal investigation, according to LAPD disciplinary records.
COLORADO Fort Collins: Colorado State University issued an apology for a small group of people who chanted “Russia” at a Utah State basketball player from Ukraine.
CONNECTICUT Hartford: A University of Hartford student was arrested and banned from campus after police said he made threatening posts on social media, the Hartford Courant reports.
DELAWARE Milton: A 20- year- old man who was taken to a local hospital after crashing his vehicle into a home has died, police said.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington: A man died in his jail cell a few hours after being arrested on suspicion of armed kidnapping, WUSA- TV reports.
FLORIDA Tallahassee: A major regional hospital system resumed seeing patients at its clinical practices on Monday, days after a security problem forced it to take its IT network offline.
GEORGIA Atlanta: An owner of a nightclub was shot and killed at his establishment over the weekend, authorities said. Police did not say what led to the shooting, which remains under investigation.
HAWAII Honolulu: Kamehameha Highway near Waimea Bay was reopened after a rock slide, Hawaii News Now reports.
IDAHO Boise: A House committee recently heard several proposals on property tax relief, a top legislative issue, the Idaho Press reports.
ILLINOIS Chicago: Laurence Msall, the longtime president of a nonpartisan tax and budget watchdog group and a former aide to two governors, died following complications from surgery. He was 61.
INDIANA Indianapolis: The city and its police department have been sent a legal demand for financial compensation by a man who says officers shot him multiple times at the same time they were asking him to put his hands up.
IOWA Altoona: The ride at an amusement park where an 11- year- old boy was killed in 2021 will never reopen, the park’s owners said.
KANSAS Topeka: The House Education Committee is considering a bill that would require school districts to adopt and enforce certain anti- bullying policies and enact procedures for schools to designate specific individuals to investigate bullying claims and protect any victims.
KENTUCKY Frankfort: Bourbon tourism reached new heights last year, where visitors flocked to large and small distilleries as the attractions recovered quickly from pandemic- era restrictions.
LOUISIANA Monroe: A restaurant owner was arrested in connection with drug and extortion charges.
MAINE Augusta: A speedy warship bearing the name of Maine’s capital city will likely be commissioned into service in the state. The future USS Augusta already has been christened at the Austal USA shipyard on the Alabama coast, and the ship could be ready to formally enter service this fall.
MARYLAND Baltimore: A woman conspired with a neo- Nazi leader to carry out an attack on several electrical substations, officials said.
MASSACHUSETTS Cambridge: A crash on the top floor of a parking garage left a car hanging precariously off the edge and injured at least one, according to firefighters.
MICHIGAN Lansing: Each tax filer would share in the state’s record budget surplus by receiving a check for $ 180 under a proposal from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Democratic majority leaders in the House and Senate.
MINNESOTA St. Cloud: Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to visit the city this week. She is expected to speak about electric- vehicle usage.
MISSISSIPPI Jackson: The state Senate voted to ease some restrictions on community- owned hospitals by letting them consolidate or collaborate with health care facilities outside their current service areas.
MISSOURI Springfield: Police say a man arrested last week was running a scheme that involved collecting dozens of stolen older- model cars and selling them to a scrap yard.
MONTANA Wolf Creek: Officials have announced that a $ 40 million rehabilitation project on Interstate 15 is set to begin, the Independent Record reports.
NEBRASKA Omaha: The federal government is providing $ 34.3 million to the city to help reduce lead contamination, the Omaha WorldHerald reports.
NEVADA Las Vegas: Experts say growth at Harry Reid International Airport is on a trajectory to reach its capacity of between 63 million and 65 million annual passengers by around 2030.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Exeter: A woman is facing a drunken driving charge after police say she crashed a vehicle into a tree.
NEW JERSEY Trenton: Gov. Phil Murphy has ordered all U. S. and New Jersey flags to be flown at halfstaff at state buildings on Wednesday to honor Eunice Dwumfour, the Sayreville councilwoman who was shot and killed last week.
NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: The National Museum of Nuclear Science and History now has a rare addition to its collection – a Sovietbuilt SA- 2 surface- to- air missile first built in the 1950s and used up through the 1980s by the Russians.
NORTH CAROLINA Wilmington: A national motorcycle gang leader who authorities say often used violence was sentenced to 75 years in prison for drug trafficking, money laundering and other crimes.
NORTH DAKOTA Jamestown: The school district has disciplined some students after racist taunts were allegedly aimed at basketball players from Bismarck during a game.
OHIO Cincinnati: The city’s Citizen Complaint Authority said that a police officer violated departmental policy when he sued protesters who accused him of racism in 2020.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: A federal judge has ruled that a federal law prohibiting people who use marijuana from owning firearms is unconstitutional, the latest challenge to firearms regulations after the U. S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority set new standards for reviewing the nation’s gun laws.
OREGON Salem: Twelve health insurance providers failed to fully comply with the state’s Reproductive Health Equity Act, according to the Division of Financial Regulation at Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services.
PENNSYLVANIA South Lebanon: Police are looking for the person or persons who fired shots at a Wells Fargo Bank, the third shots- fired incident to occur in the last month in the township.
RHODE ISLAND Foster: State Sen. Gordon Rogers says that he fought off an intruder who entered his home.
SOUTH CAROLINA Spartanburg: Officers shot and killed a man who stabbed a police dog during a raid on a home, authorities said. The dog is expected to survive, Spartanburg County Sheriff Cpl. John Burgess said.
SOUTH DAKOTA Rapid City: Authorities say a police officer shot and killed a man after he took a gas station clerk hostage with a knife.
TENNESSEE Nashville: Police arrested a 19- year- old man in the investigation of a shooting of a 26- year- old woman.
TEXAS Houston: A fire at Bush Intercontinental Airport delayed flights and forced passengers and employees to temporarily evacuate a terminal, officials said. No injuries were reported.
UTAH Little Cottonwood Canyon: A man died while skiing after reportedly losing control and falling to the bottom of the mountain, KSTU reports.
VERMONT Burlington: A new app created by the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department and VTrans allows motorists to report roadkill, WCAX reports.
VIRGINIA Arlington: The family of an inmate who died in a jail has reached a wrongful death settlement with the county sheriff and the jail’s former health care provider.
WASHINGTON Suquamish: Firefighters stopped a fire in a home after a dog woke up a resident, alerting her to smoke in the home.
WEST VIRGINIA Huntington: The police chief has resigned after a little more than a year on the job, the mayor announced. Mayor Steve Williams said Karl Colder resigned for undisclosed family reasons.
WISCONSIN Milwaukee: Gov. Tony Evers appointed the former public health leader in Milwaukee as secretary of the state Department of Health Services. Kirsten Johnson, who formerly served as Milwaukee’s health commissioner for two years, will become the third secretary of the state agency under Evers when she takes the position on Feb. 27.
WYOMING Cheyenne: Data shows more people moved to Wyoming during the pandemic than left the state, the Wyoming Tribune Eagle reports, and most came from Colorado.
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