STATE-BY-STATE

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News from across the USA

ALABAMA Centre: Health officials warn Centre residents to consider alternative sources of drinking water because of unhealthy compounds in city water.

ALASKA Anchorage: Wells Fargo has dropped its sponsorship of the Iditarod sled dog race.

ARIZONA Phoenix: Crews are dismantling parts of Phoenix’s “Tent City” jail complex that helped make former Sheriff Joe Arpaio a national figure.

ARKANSAS Cotton Plant: Local police and firefighters are targets of suspicious fires, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports.

CALIFORNIA Newport Beach: This coastal community was flooded with ocean water after a seawall was damaged, The Orange County Register reports.

COLORADO Loveland: U.S. 34 between Loveland and Estes Park, partially obliterated in 2013 flooding, reopened this week for the summer season, The Daily Reporter-Herald reports.

CONNECTICUT Bridgeport: Councilor Mary McBride-Lee is seeking a civil protective order against an ex-city worker she says shows up at every meeting and starts “ranting and raving ” at her.

DELAWARE Dover: A judge upheld a 2015 Red Clay school district election that approved a property tax hike but said school officials went far beyond Delaware’s rules limiting advocacy.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: A man was sentenced to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to claiming that bombs were set to go off at Union Station.

FLORIDA Kissimmee: A raccoon is blamed for a power outage that left thousands here in the dark, the Orlando Sentinel reports.

GEORGIA Marietta: A gun fight between police and a man outside a bank branch left the suspect wounded, WSB-TV reports.

HAWAII Honolulu: Federal investigators say a USS Arizona Memorial worker accepted gifts from tour operators in violation of ethics rules. The U.S. attorney’s office declined to prosecute.

IDAHO Boise: The owners of two collapsing houses in Boise have been ordered to demolish them. Officials say the houses, no longer occupied, are unsafe.

ILLINOIS Chicago: A real estate firm will run a $1 billion overhaul of Chicago’s Union Station.

INDIANA Franklin: Workers are cleaning up at least a dozen toppled Greenlawn Cemetery headstones. Police are investigating.

IOWA Nevada: A former Iowa fire academy official was given two years’ probation for falsifying test scores used to improperly certify thousands of firefighters.

KANSAS Wichita: Federal law bars someone from owning a gun if they’ve been convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence under federal, state or tribal law. But that doesn’t apply to municipal laws, an appeals panel ruled in the case of a Wichita man.

KENTUCKY Frankfort: Ten public libraries in Kentucky are getting state construction grants totaling $20 million.

LOUISIANA New Orleans: New Orleans voters may be warming to the idea returning public school control to the local school board, according to a poll.

MAINE Benedicta: Gov. Paul LePage won’t install road signs for Maine’s new Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. But a banner for it was hung Wednesday by supporters.

MARYLAND Abingdon: Three first responders in Harford County were treated for overdose symptoms after possible exposure to opioids during a call, The Baltimore Sun reports.

MASSACHUSETTS Boston: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has raised its reward to $10 million for information leading to the return of 13 stolen pieces.

MICHIGAN Detroit: Detroit’s population keeps falling, with 672,795 residents last summer. That’s a loss of 3,541 since 2015.

MINNESOTA St. Paul: Almost 70 cases of measles have been confirmed in the state so far this year, Minnesota Public Radio reports.

MISSISSIPPI Vicksburg: The Coast Guard is investigating how a towboat pushing 14 barges hit the Old Highway 80 Bridge, The Vicksburg Post reports.

MISSOURI Raytown: Fourteen Raytown Middle School students saw a body hanging from a tree during their bus ride. Police say the person committed suicide, The Kansas City Star reports.

MONTANA Anaconda: A Montana man is accused of the stabbing death of his grandmother, The Montana Standard reports.

NEBRASKA Lincoln: A computer software problem kept people from parking in garages with plenty of empty spaces, The Lincoln Journal Star reports.

NEVADA Reno: A company that owns three downtown casino resorts will open a medical clinic for its insured workers next week.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Manchester: Police say an Uber driver’s dashcam video helped them identify people involved in a fight outside the Fire and Ice Hookah and Cigar bar in Manchester.

NEW JERSEY Lower Alloways Creek Township: Officials say a coding error caused a test emer- gency alert to be sent out about the Hope Creek nuclear plant.

NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico will raise tuition for upper-level courses and graduate students, The Albuquerque Journal reports.

NEW YORK New York: Federal investigators say fatigue played a part in a 2016 fatal tugboat accident on the Hudson River near where workers are building the new Tappan Zee Bridge.

NORTH CAROLINA Claremont: An acre-sized poppy field that could be used to make opium was discovered in Catawba County.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: A rash of counterfeit $5 and $20 bills has led to four arrests, The Bismarck Tribune reports.

OHIO Wilberforce: Wilberforce University is laying off workers and imposing steep pay cuts, The Dayton Daily News reports.

OKLAHOMA Tulsa: A man who triggered a chase across a Tulsa International Airport runway was caught after the vehicle plowed through a fence onto a highway, causing a fatal crash.

OREGON Salem: The Lone Rock timber firm plans to sue the state for $3.3 million after its plans to buy Elliott State Forest collapsed, The Coos Bay World reports.

PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia: City police are getting a new headquarters — the former home of The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: A textile company that a judge said discriminated against a woman because she uses medical marijuana says it plans to appeal to the Rhode Island Supreme Court.

SOUTH CAROLINA Spartanburg: The South Carolina ACLU says county jail officials denied its attorneys’ requests to interview inmates in an investigation into constitutional rights at the jail.

SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: Social service advocates are challenging the latest count of the city’s homeless that showed a drop of about 100 from last year, The Argus Leader reports.

TENNESSEE Memphis: A couple leaving a Memphis barbecue festival drove some 14 miles with a sleeping man on the trunk of their car without knowing it until they were pulled over by police.

TEXAS Austin: A study last year found that 600-plus Texas women died between 2010 and 2014 either while pregnant or within six weeks after giving birth. Now, the state may set guidelines for reporting maternal mortality.

UTAH Spanish Fork: An autopsy confirms that a skull found in a backyard cellar belongs to a woman missing since 1988.

VERMONT Hardwick: Officials are probing a blaze that destroyed a vacant three-story building.

VIRGINIA Norfolk: The Virginia Zoo’s new red panda, Masu, was born at the Denver Zoo last June.

WASHINGTON Sequim: A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service team is catching more invasive European green crabs on Dungeness Spit, The Peninsula Daily News says.

WEST VIRGINIA Glen Jean: Water safety instruction is set this weekend at New River Gorge National River in West Virginia.

WISCONSIN Madison: Gov. Scott Walker wants to require childless adults seeking Medicaid to undergo drug screening.

WYOMING Casper: A new report says government workers make up a larger percentage of Wyoming’s workforce than any other state in the country.