STATE-BY-STATE

ALABAMA Mobile: A $6.5 million Airbus Aviation Center will be built in Mobile to inspire people wanting to pursue a career in the state’s aerospace cluster, Al.com reports. Airbus has an assembly line at Brookley.

ALASKA Kodiak: Alaska groups are increasing efforts to make sure shellfish are clean enough to be eaten, The Kodiak Daily Mir

ror reports. A third of the state’s reported cases of paralytic shellfish poisoning, like those caused by algae blooms, come from Kodiak Island. ARIZONA Prescott: Officials are ready to sell a fire station that became a memorial for fallen firefighters. The Daily Courier reports that Prescott officials will sell Station 7 in hopes of putting the money toward employee retirement. Nineteen of the station’s Granite Mountain Hotshots team lost their lives in a 2013 wildfire. ARKANSAS Little Rock: Two Arkansas colleges that face declining enrollment must submit improvement plans to the state’s Department of Higher Education, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports. Northwest Arkansas Community College and the University of Arkansas Community College fell below minimum scores in performance-based funding. CALIFORNIA Oroville: California is borrowing up to a halfbillion dollars to pay for repairs to the badly damaged spillways at the Oroville Dam. Craters in both spillways forced the evacuation of 188,000 people last winter. Repairs are expected to take two years.

COLORADO

Denver: Denver’s Colorado Mills Mall was evacuated Monday after a strong spring storm dropped hail throughout the metro area, causing serious damage and leaving the interior flooded. CONNECTICUT Kent: The Kent Memorial Library is bringing back its car auction fundraiser, offering a 1998 Porsche Boxter convertible, The Republican

American reports. DELAWARE Wilmington: Two airmen stationed at Dover Air Force Base have pleaded not guilty to sexually abusing a teenage runaway they allegedly harbored on base. Court records indicate the girl told a social worker that she stayed on the base and had sex with service members. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: District of Columbia lawmakers are considering whether to exempt police officers and firefighters from city income taxes if they live in Washington. Most of the district’s firefighters live outside the city. FLORIDA Lake Buena Vista: Pandora-World of Avatar at Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom outside Orlando will open in late May. The marquee attraction is Flight of Passage, a 3-D simulator ride. GEORGIA Waynesboro: A Burke County Sheriff ’s deputy was hospitalized after being attacked by a fox, The Augusta

Chronicle reports. Deputy Misty May was bitten after trying to subdue the animal with a spray. It will be tested for rabies. HAWAII Hilo: Authorities are asking for the public’s help in finding out who painted graffiti on rocks within a protected area in Hawaii’s Mauna Kea Ice Age Reserve. Adjacent rocks were painted with the words “stop” and “bombing.” IDAHO Nampa: A candidate for Idaho’s Canyon County Highway District Board has a criminal history, including admissions to grand theft, burglary and methamphetamine use, The Idaho

Statesman reports. Samuel Clagg is able to run because he’s completed prison, jail and probation time. ILLINOIS Chicago: Data from Chicago police show that the number of tickets officers have issued for distracted driving has plummeted, the Chicago Tribune reports. Police gave out 25,884 tickets for motorists using mobile devices in 2015. That fell to 186 in 2016.

INDIANA Muncie: Indiana’s Delaware County jail hopes to buy a full-body digital scanner to combat prisoners smuggling in drugs, The Star

Press reports. So far in 2017, the jail has seen an average of one inmate drug overdose per week, mostly heroin. IOWA Fort Madison: The Hawk

Eye reports that thousands of people lined up last weekend to get a look at the historic Iowa State Penitentiary. A nonprofit is raising funds to preserve the landmark, parts of which date to 1839. KANSAS Wilson: Authorities are investigating a weekend blaze that destroyed an abandoned flour mill in Wilson, The Salina

Journal reports. KENTUCKY Hodgenville: The death of a LaRue County woman whose body was found in a home with 30 dogs is under investigation. Authoritites say the woman’s nephew and his wife, who lived with her, are charged with animal abuse, WAVE-TV reports. LOUISIANA New Orleans: Protesters on opposite sides of the Confederate monuments debate faced off in dueling weekend demonstrations. New Orleans plans to take down a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee and two other memorials. MAINE Augusta: Maine officials say they need more foster homes as more children come into state custody because of parental substance abuse. Last year, 905 children entered state custody. MARYLAND Deale: Maryland Natural Resources Police rescued two deer over the weekend from a mud pit in Anne Arundel County, WMAR-TV reports. Officers used boards to cross the mud to reach the bucks, and then tow ropes and an ATV to pull them out. MASSACHUSETTS Northamp-

ton: Police say the suspect in a weekend bank robbery in Northampton may have used the city’s gay pride parade as cover to wear a masked costume. Police say Jennifer Brumer was arrested about 15 minutes after a TD Bank branch was robbed. MICHIGAN Munising: Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Michigan is cautioning hikers to stay away from the park’s dune and cliff edges after a pair of large-scale erosions in April and May, MLive reports. MINNESOTA Glyndon: Authorities say finishing chemicals likely caused a weekend fire that destroyed a wood carving business in Glyndon. The fire at Andy Lake Woodworks destroyed three log sheds and a shop building, KFGO-AM reports. MISSISSIPPI Jackson: Transportation officials reopened an Interstate 20 bridge in Mississippi a day early after workers completed repairs. Authorities say the span was damaged by fires set by vagrants. MISSOURI Springfield: A man allegedly stole several items last month from a Springfield home, including a box containing the ashes of the victim’s grandfather, The Springfield News-Leader reports. Carl Jackson is charged with first-degree burglary. MONTANA Twin Bridges: A fire that burned through a Montana fly rod shop knocked out electricity at some houses for hours, The

Montana Standard reports. The R.L. Winston Rod Co. building was gutted. NEBRASKA Lincoln: With the raising of a 400-megawatt wind farm, Nebraska has sailed past 1,000 megawatts — or 1 gigawatt — of wind-generated capacity,

The Lincoln Journal Star reports. Wind now accounts for over 10% of electricity generated in the state. NEVADA Las Vegas: At least two Nevada schools temporarily closed amid reports of a possible norovirus outbreak. KLASTV reports that Imagine Schools at Mountain View and Somerset Academy North Las Vegas reportstudents being ill.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Hooksett: The New Hampshire Department of Transportation is closing northbound and southbound open road toll lanes at the Hooksett Toll Plaza on Interstate 93 for routine maintenance work this week. NEW JERSEY Trenton: Gov. Chris Christie has signed legisla- tion with a $10,000 limit on how much New Jeresey universities can pay speakers using state money. Christie says the law is essentially symbolic, since institutions mostly use student activity fees for speaking guests. NEW MEXICO Reserve: Firefighters were battling a wildfire this week in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest. Officials say lightning set off the blaze on May 1. NEW YORK Albany: New York lawmakers are considering a ban on state pension fund investments in big oil, gas and coal companies to send Wall Street a signal about the need to address climate change.

NORTH CAROLINA Fayette

ville: Three people face charges in the bust of an illegal video gaming operation in Fayetteville, WNCN-TV reports. Cumberland County sheriff ’s deputies found at least five video poker machines. NORTH DAKOTA Minot: Police are investigating anti-Semitic and racist graffiti scrawled on the door of a Minot church last weekend, The Minot Daily News reports. The Church of the Living God congregation is primarily black but with some white and Native American members. OHIO Cedarville: Cedarville University could become the first college in Ohio to allow concealed weapons on campus, The Dayton

Daily News reports. The proposal would allow faculty and staff with permits to carry concealed weapons. OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Oklahoma City schools are suspending fewer students than last year, but more minority students than white students are being sent home, The Oklahoman reports. OREGON Pendleton: MiltonFreewater is getting its first new school since 1922, The East Oregonian reports. A ceremonial groundbreaking was held last week. PENNSYLVANIA Pittsburgh: A woman accused of fatally stabbing her physician father told police she was motivated by the movie The Mummy Returns. Police say Christina Nicassio’s parents were trying to take her to a hospital because she was distraught over a relationship breakup when she stabbed her father, a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center internist. RHODE ISLAND Westerly: Po- lice in this Rhode Island town are asking residents to help them build a registry of surveillance cameras to help with criminal investigations, The Westerly Sun reports. SOUTH CAROLINA Folly Beach: Charleston officials want state regulators to reconsider if frozen ice pops made with alcohol should be treated like beer and liquor instead of food. The Post

and Courier reports that a business called Booze Pops is selling frozen alcoholic pops from a van along with non-alcoholic treats for children. SOUTH DAKOTA Pierre: A paddleboat moored in a South Dakota marina leaked fuel oil and diesel when water came over the back of the boat and sunk its lower end into shallows. Authorities say only a small amount of oil-diesel mix leaked into the water last week. Booms contained the spill, The Capital Jour

nal reports. TENNESSEE Nashville: A bill that would require Tennessee school buses to have seatbelts has been withdrawn for the year, The

Times Free Press reports. The measure was prompted by a deadly school bus crash in Chattanooga last November. TEXAS Austin: A Texas judge was reprimanded for a social media post that said a “tree and a rope” were needed for the suspect in the fatal shooting of a San Antonio police detective, The

Austin American-Statesman reports. James Oakley said his comment reflected his view that the killing “should qualify for the death penalty.” UTAH Salt Lake City: Emergency crews rescued a man who fell into a mine shaft while he was riding an off-road vehicle in Toole County. KUTV reports that it took rescuers several hours to pull out the man last weekend using a rope and pulley system. VERMONT Newfane: Phone hackers making long-distance international calls have left this Vermont town stuck with a bill over $3,000, The Brattleboro

Reformer reports. Officials say the calls are virtually untraceable, and Vermont State Police say it’s unlikely the perpetrators will be found.

VIRGINIA Richmond: City officials are debating whether a memorial to Richmond’s slave trade should include a slave trader’s name, The Richmond Times

Dispatch reports. Historical records say Robert Lumpkin’s slave jail was known for its brutality. One official suggests calling the site what black residents call it: “The Devil’s Half Acre.” WASHINGTON Olympia: Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is leaving next week for a nearly weeklong trade mission to Mexico. Inslee will lead a delegation of 40 people to Guadalajara, Jalisco and Mexico City. WEST VIRGINIA Montgomery: The West Virginia University Institute of Technology has held its final commencement ceremony on its Montgomery campus, with nearly 180 graduates. The university is completing its move of Tech’s operations from Montgomery to Beckley this summer. WISCONSIN Greenfield: A group that skipped out on a $105 bar tab returned to pay up after the suburban Milwaukee bar shamed them on Facebook. The Brass Tap posted a warning for the group to “come back in and pay or prepare to be prosecuted,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. WYOMING Cheyenne: A new Wyoming State Geological Survey study says certain hydraulic fracturing and directional drilling techniques are the secrets to tapping a previously unprofitable oil deposit. Six companies have produced oil at the Codell Sandstone from 119 wells over the past five years, the report says.