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ALABAMA Huntsville: Gov. Kay Ivey says Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin will build its BE-4 rocket engine in Huntsville.
ALASKA Anchorage: Two more Alaskans were mauled by bears over the weekend, bringing the number of bear attacks in the state to four in less than a week.
ARIZONA Tucson: A year after Tucson Greyhound Park ran its last race, Southern Arizona Greyhound Adoption is still looking for permanent homes for 14 dogs, The Arizona Daily Star reports.
ARKANSAS Pocahontas: The Army Corps of Engineers is expected to begin levee repairs along the Black River, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports.
CALIFORNIA Sacramento: State lawmakers have approved borrowing $6 billion to pay down massive debt in California’s largest publicemployee retirement program.
COLORADO Fort Collins: A former Army medic accused of breaking glass doors and throwing a Bible into a Colorado mosque has been arrested after skipping another court appearance, The Fort Collins Coloradoan reports.
CONNECTICUT Hartford: Unions for Connecticut state workers have agreed to put proposed concessions to a vote by their rank-and-file members.
DELAWARE Wilmington: A city swimming pool has been renamed for former vice president Joe Biden, who worked there as a lifeguard when he was a teenager.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Police arrested a teenager in connection with 11 District of Columbia robberies that involved guns, knives, a baton and nunchucks.
FLORIDA Daytona Beach: Authorities arrested a suspect in a stolen boat crash. The 36-foot boat was pilotless when it ran aground.
GEORGIA Atlanta: The Georgia Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to a program offering tax exemptions in trade for private school scholarship contributions.
HAWAII Honolulu: A man whose behavior prompted a New Yorkbound flight to return to Honolulu last November was sentenced to three years of probation.
IDAHO Jerome: Jerome County may rent 50 jail beds for detained immigrants, The Times-News says.
ILLINOIS Chicago: Fifty-six city police recruits visited the DuSable Museum of African American History as part of an effort to improve relations with minorities.
INDIANA Linton: State wildlife officials are urging birdwatchers to steer clear of nesting sites of the interior least tern, an endangered bird.
IOWA Cedar Falls: A diverse high school group spent a week living on the University of Northern Iowa campus to learn what it’s like to be an educator, The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports.
KANSAS Wichita: A suspect admits driving a getaway car from a Topeka convenience store robbery while wearing a monitoring device from a previous crime.
KENTUCKY Rabbit Hash: For the fourth time, this Kentucky town has elected a dog as mayor, WDRB-TV reports. A 3-year-old pit bull beat out a cat, a chicken and a donkey, among others.
LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: Two Louisiana State University researchers will get nearly $1 million for a two-year study of how stress affects honeybee health.
MAINE Portland: The Portland Science Center is playing host this summer to pirate artifacts, the Portland Press Herald reports.
MARYLAND Ocean City: The Army Corps of Engineers’ planned replenishment of Ocean City’s beach has been moved up a year, The Daily Times reports.
MASSACHUSETTS Boston: A 20-pound live lobster was spotted in luggage at Boston’s Logan International Airport. The TSA doesn’t prohibit transporting lobsters.
MICHIGAN Detroit: Officials will begin design and construction on a 7.5-mile railroad property to complete a bike and pedestrian path.
MINNESOTA Glyndon: Authorities are investigating gunfire that narrowly missed a police officer at a traffic stop, WDAY-TV reports.
MISSISSIPPI Jackson: The Eudora Welty Library in downtown Jackson is getting soaked. A leaky roof is causing black mold and an eroding floor, WAPT-TV reports.
MISSOURI St. Louis: Crews are dismantling a Confederate monument near downtown St. Louis after the city and Missouri Civil War Museum reached an agreement to have it moved by Friday.
MONTANA Stanford: Montana wildlife officials euthanized two grizzly bears for killing livestock, The Great Falls Tribune reports.
NEBRASKA Ashland: A University of Nebraska-Lincoln herpetologist will make several presentations about state snakes the weekend of July 22-23.
NEVADA Las Vegas: Fireworks went on sale this week at 100-plus fundraiser locations.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Epping: State police say shooting ranges at Sig Sauer Academy facing Route 101 are shut down for now to investigate a bullet that went through a driver’s windshield in Epping.
NEW JERSEY Camden: A caretaker who stole at least 40 works from an art collector was sentenced to a year in prison. William Reed III must also pay restitution.
ranchers hope the Trump administration will shrink a recently designated national monument in New Mexico. The Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument is on land where outlaw Billy the Kid and Apache leader Geronimo once sought refuge.
NEW YORK Buchanan: One of two nuclear power plants at Indian Point in Westchester County is shut down to fix a water pump.
NORTH CAROLINA Gastonia: Rising North Carolina fifth-grader Lilly Floyd led efforts to buy a swing set for younger students at Belmont Elementary School after noticing they didn’t have one, The Gaston Gazette reports.
NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: State officials have lifted a moratorium on industrial water permits, The Bismarck Tribune reports.
OHIO Sandusky: An Ohio man is accused of using one of his prosthetic legs to hit his wife. Richard Wilson Sr. was arrested on a charge of domestic violence.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: A Native American flute and official state lapel pins are among items placed in a 100-year time capsule buried at the Oklahoma Capitol.
OREGON Portland: A woman says she used a car jack to break a Mercedes window after spotting a dog stuck inside in 89-degree weather, The Oregonian/ OregonLive reports.
PENNSYLVANIA Honesdale: A bed and breakfast owner in the Pocono Mountains discovered the decomposed body of an 80-yearold woman who lived there.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: Lawmakers sent Gov. Gina Raimondo a bill to allow criminal background checks for church workers or volunteers who routinely have contact with children.
SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: South Carolina could lose about 7,500 public workers when an incentive program keeping them on the job past their normal retire-
ment ends, The State reports.
SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: A revised ordinance under consideration in Sioux Falls would make it illegal to feed stray dogs, cats or other animals without owners.
TENNESSEE Oak Ridge: Environmental groups are challenging the Tennessee Valley Authority’s plan to use a nuclear reactor design site abandoned in the 1970s to develop small modular reactors, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reports.
TEXAS Del Rio: Former Crystal City mayor Ricardo Lopez and former city manager William James Jonas III were convicted in a federal corruption case.
UTAH West Valley City: Police are investigating a prank call alleging a double murder, causing a SWAT team to go to an elderly woman’s home, KSL-TV reports.
VERMONT St. Johnsbury: Vermont State Police investigating a convenience store burglary got some help from an unfortunate deer that was hit by the car of two suspects trying to flee.
VIRGINIA Norfolk: The city’s Greyhound station could move from its longtime home, freeing the site for an emerging arts district, The Virginian-Pilot reports.
WASHINGTON Spokane: A study says the Spokane Police Department needs another 44 officers on the streets, The Spokesman-Review reports.
WEST VIRGINIA New Martinsville: This West Virginia city has filed a federal lawsuit seeking a $20 million insurance claim to cover damages at its hydroelectric plant, The Intelligencer reports.
WISCONSIN Madison: State business leaders say tolls to help pay for road work could hurt the economy, The Wisconsin State Journal reports.
WYOMING Casper: A 17-year study of Wyoming mule deer concludes that the animals haven’t become accustomed to oil and gas wells on their winter range, the Casper Star-Tribune reports.