STATE-BY-STATE

ALABAMA Mobile: Three people were convicted on child abuse charges linked to Saving Youth Academy, a private Alabama church school. Authorities say teens at the Christian, boot camp-style residential school were locked in an isolation room for days at a time. ALASKA Anchorage: A man who tried to drive a snowmobile from Kotzebue to Fairbanks was found dead near Selawik Hot Springs. Alaska State Troopers say it appears Travis Loughridge broke through ice and died of hypothermia. ARIZONA Phoenix: Arizona lawmakers are advancing a bill that would provide lawsuit protections for people who break into a hot car to rescue a child or animal. The proposal got a shoutout from Gov. Doug Ducey in his state of the state address. ARKANSAS Monticello: Monticello Mayor Zackery Tucker has resigned. Tucker faces charges of tampering with a public record and abuse of office. CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: The operator of a Los Angeles fortune teller business is charged with stealing thousands of dollars from clients. Melissa Lori Lee pleaded not guilty last week to four felony counts of grand theft. COLORADODenver destroyed Denver:a motorcyclePolice in that porarily was closed seized part after ofa rally Interstatetem25 motorcyclelast summer. faces The charges owner of of speedthe exhibition and reckless driving. CONNECTICUTAuthorities say a Colchester:bobcat that jumpedand scratchedon a Connecticuttwo others tested woman positive for rabies. The bobcat was shot and killed after the attack. DELAWARE Dover: Gov. John Carney may revamp Delaware’s economic development efforts, possibly replacing a cabinet-level state office with a public-private partnership that would include business leaders. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland is back in his judge’s robe. The chief D.C. Circuit judge stopped hearing cases last March after being nominated to fill the vacancy left by Justice Antonin Scalia’s death. But Senate Republicans blocked his confirmation. FLORIDA Tallahassee: The Florida Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit filed by the state’s main teachers’ union against a private school voucher program that serves nearly 98,000 children, mostly from low-income families. GEORGIA Oakwood: A 55,000pound excavation truck was partially swallowed last week by a Georgia sinkhole. Officials believe the collapse of an old storm drain caused the sinkhole. HAWAII Honolulu: Six scientists will spend the next eight months living in a man-made dome on a remote Hawaii volcano for a human-behavior study. The NASA-funded project is directed at sending astronauts on long missions to Mars. IDAHO Boise: A federal judge has ordered Idaho to destroy all information collected from collars placed illegally on elk and wolves. U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill ruled that the U.S. Forest Service broke environmental laws when it authorized helicopter landings for collar placements in an area where engines are prohibited. ILLINOIS Chicago: A Chicago nature museum says a 10-yearold endangered alligator snapping turtle is being transferred to a new home. The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum plans to move “Patsy” from a 75-gallon tank to a 300-plus-gallon tank to accommodate her growth. INDIANA Evansville: Officials planning to open a World War II museum in Evansville expect to open it this spring in a local airport hangar, The Evansville Couri

er and Press reports. IOWA Neola: The Neola Lions Club plans to illuminate a trio of crosses for people driving along Interstate 80 at night. The Daily

Nonpareil reports that the crosses were erected last June. KANSAS Topeka: Parts of the Emporia State University president’s residence will be sold at Topeka’s Habitat for Humanity ReStore. The Topeka Capital

Journal reports that the 1960 house will be torn down and replaced with a new university house. KENTUCKY Lexington: University of Kentucky officials have pledged to reduce carbon emissions on campus by 25% by 2025, The Lexington Herald-Leader reports. LOUISIANA New Orleans: Mayor Mitch Landrieu says New Orleans is expanding plans for a terminal to replace the airport’s current one built in 1959. The facility will have 35 gates instead of 30. It’s scheduled to open in October 2018. MAINE Waterville: The Waterville City Council passed over the daughter of Maine Gov. Paul LePage to fill a vacant seat. Instead, Colby College anthropology professor Winifred Tate was selected. MARYLAND Annapolis: The president of the Maryland Senate is vowing to restore state budget money for the planned Prince George’s Regional Medical Center. The legislature, controlled by Democrats, and Republican Gov. Larry Hogan have disagreed over how to pay for the hospital. MASSACHUSETTS Boston: A Massachusetts sheriff who offered to send inmates from his jail to help President Trump build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border is joining a federal im- migrationon how to flag program anyone for who training may be in the U.S. illegally. MICHIGAN Detroit: Mayor Mike Duggan visited a Detroit bus terminal that was damaged by fire to thank transit employees and firefighters who worked to save dozens of buses from the flames. Duggan said 75 buses were driven out of the terminal before the fire could spread. MINNESOTA Bloomington: The Mall of America plans to show movies in a renovated space that offers oversized reclining chairs, gourmet food and wines and cocktails, The Star Tribune reports. It’s set to open this fall. MISSISSIPPI Natchez: Police recaptured a rogue cow that had roamed near Natchez for three months, but not before it seriously injured a woman who was raking leaves outside her home.

The Natchez Democrat says victim Dorothy Echols likely will need hip replacement surgery. MISSOURI Mount Vernon: A Missouri farmer pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor in a fork loader assault. The Joplin Globe reports that Ronald Wilson, 70, drove the dual spears of the machine through the pickup truck windshield of his sister and her husband in a dispute about jointly owned property. No one was hurt. MONTANA Billings: Three Canadians are banned from federal lands for five years after pleading guilty to walking on a sensitive hot spring in Yellowstone National Park and other violations at U.S. parks. NEBRASKA Omaha: A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by a man against doctors at a Nebraska psychiatric hospital. John Montin was held for 20 years on a misdiagnosis. He was released in 2013. NEVADA Las Vegas: A federal judge in Las Vegas sentenced a man who admitted to illegally importing and selling counterfeit contact lenses without a prescription to nearly four years in prison. Prosecutors say some lenses were contaminated with potentially dangerous bacteria. NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: WMUR-TV reports that redesigned New Hampshire driver’s licenses will feature a more colorful background with a profile of the Old Man of the Mountain, an outline of the state and a purple lilac — the official flower. NEW JERSEY Newark: A laboratory firm salesman who took part in a bribes-for-test referrals scheme has received a 20-month prison sentence and must forfeit $247,000. Michael Zarrelli plead- ed guilty to conspiring to bribe a doctor and money laundering charges. NEW MEXICO Carlsbad: There will be no elevator service at Carlsbad Caverns National Park for 10 days next month because of scheduled safety maintenance. Park officials say steel hoist cables are being replaced. NEW YORK Mineola: Police are searching for a man who used a crossbow to kill a red fox at Robert Moses State Park on Long Island. A woman was photographing the fox when she saw a man take a crossbow from his car and shoot it. The man fled when he saw her. NORTH CAROLINA New Bern: A request for more North Carolina shrimp trawling regulations may be sinking. The Sun Journal of New Bern reports that five state fishing panels voted last week to recommend that the North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission reject the request to cut the number of days shrimp trawlers can fish and limit where they can trawl. NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: Residents in a rural corner of North Dakota are fighting a plan to move them into the same time zone as the rest of the state. A bill in the Legislature would move the area from Mountain time to Central time — and it would scrap daylight savings time altogether. OHIO Columbus: The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has ordered Arco Recycling to remove acres of construction and demolition debris from a residential neighborhood in East Cleveland. The Plain Dealer reports that the agency determined the site was an open dump rather than a recycling facility. OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Oklahoma teachers would get a $10,000 pay raise by 2021 under a bill in the legislature. Teachers also would be exempt from state income taxes. OREGON Grants Pass: Four animal enclosures at Oregon’s Wildlife Images center were damaged by days of snow and rain. The Daily Courier reports that no animals were harmed and all are in temporary housing. PENNSYLVANIA Tarentum: A mall that was foreclosed on after its owners failed to repay $143 million has been auctioned for $100. The Galleria at Pittsburgh Mills is slightly more than half occupied. RHODE ISLAND Providence: Seventeen Rhode Island lawmakers oppose a plan to build an Amtrak line to speed up rail travel between Boston and New York. The legislators sent a letter to the Federal Railroad Administration expressing concern about the proposed bypass. SOUTH CAROLINA Charleston: Some South Carolina school districts are increasing teacher recruiting efforts. The Post and

Courier reports that Winthrop University research shows that more than 6,000 state teachers didn’t return to their current jobs this year. SOUTH DAKOTA Pierre: South Dakota’s tourism industry attracted a record number of visitors last year. The South Dakota Department of Tourism said tourism supported more than 53,000 state jobs last year. TENNESSEE Nashville: A Tennessee sheriff accused of profiting from e-cigarette sales to inmates pleaded guilty to three charges, each carrying a potential prison term of up to 20 years at his May 8 sentencing. TEXAS Corpus Christi: Dan McQueen’s turbulent tenure as mayor of Corpus Christi ended after just 37 days. McQueen, who resigned last week after announcing his plans to quit on Facebook, had used his Facebook account to criticize city staff and City Council members. UTAH Ogden: A Utah man faces federal charges of making machine-gun converter devices for AR 15-style rifles. The Standard

Examiner reports that Scott Ray Bishop, 47, faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine on each charge if convicted. VERMONT St. Johnsbury: The town is working on a plan with the Department of Corrections to increase the number of inmates held in what is now an underused prison work camp. The

Caledonian Record reports that the St. Johnsbury camp contains 112 beds, but holds only about 50 inmates. VIRGINIA Richmond: A record number of people visited Virginia’s 37 state parks in 2016. Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s office says attendance rose 12% from the year before, with more than 10 million visitors. WASHINGTON Olympia: New data shows that nearly 618 million gallons of crude oil moved on trains through Washington state from October to December 2016. No spills were reported during the quarter. WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: A former water testing lab employee was sentenced to two years in prison for participating in a false sampling scheme for West Virginia coal mines, The Charleston

Gazette-Mail reports. WISCONSIN Milwaukee: A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee instructor hopes his students can help find a solution for Milwaukee’s lead water pipes. William Kort tells WUWM-FM that students will explore the decentralization of the public water supply. WYOMING Cheyenne: The biggest onshore wind development in the works in the U.S. has received two critical federal approvals. The Bureau of Land Management approved the 500turbine first phase of the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre wind project in Wyoming. Meanwhile, the Fish and Wildlife Service approved permits allowing some eagles to be killed during construction.