STATE-BY-STATE

ALABAMA Samson: Wade Seago says he’s never seen anything like the 820-pound wild hog he shot and killed in his front yard. Seago tells al.com that it took three shots from his .38-caliber handgun to drop the hog. ALASKA Fairbanks: A group of 18 Alaskans have volunteered to clean the overrun outhouses at five Delta Junction state parks,

The Daily News-Miner reports. The parks no longer have the money to pay for outhouse cleaning. ARIZONA Phoenix: An Arizona grand jury indicted a maintenance man for allegedly stealing jewelry from residents at the Fellowship Square Senior Living Facility in Mesa. ARKANSAS Little Rock: The superintendent at one of Arkansas’ largest school districts was fired just weeks before the 201718 school year starts, The Arkan

sas Democrat-Gazette reports. The Pulaski County district’s board cited “backroom” and “side” deals that it didn’t know about. CALIFORNIA Rancho Cuca

monga: Nearly 5,000 weapons seized or collected by the Los Angeles County Sheriff ’s Department have been destroyed in the agency’s annual gun melt. The handguns, rifles and semiautomatic weapons were dumped into a steel mill furnace. COLORADO Longmont: Officials say it’s not in the public’s interest to release a 40-page investigation into warrantless searches at a subsidized housing complex, The Longmont Times

Call reports. City officials instead released a summary concluding that using police dogs in nowarrant drug searches deviates from police standards. CONNECTICUT Greenwich: Hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones says his Tudor Investment firm plans to relocate and sell its 43-acre Greenwich property to the private Brunswick School across the street. DELAWARE Wilmington: Police data shows that most firearm seizures in Wilmington were from carriers barred from possession, The News Journal reports. The No. 2 reason: it was used to commit a felony. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Police say 11 people were hit with paintballs in drive-by shootings at six Washington locations. Two victims went to local hospitals for treatment, but most declined medical attention. FLORIDA Fort Walton Beach: It was an unusual 911 call. Okaloosa sheriff ’s officials say David Blackmon called last weekend to report a bag of cocaine was stolen from his car, along with $50. The responding deputy spotted some of the drug and a crack rock on the console, and Blackmon was arrested. GEORGIA Johns Creek: A Georgia man is charged with aiming a laser pointer at a police helicopter. Authorities say Marius Lizunas told officers he wanted to “check the range” of his device when he saw the Gwinnett County police helicopter on July 5. HAWAII Honolulu: A human rights complaint is seeking an investigation of working conditions faced by foreign fishermen in Hawaii’s commercial fishing industry. A report last year said hundreds of men are confined to Hawaii boats and lack basic labor protections. IDAHO Rexburg: A former Brigham Young University-Idaho political science professor says she was fired after posting a critical view of Mormon church policies against same-sex couples. Ruthie Robertson posted the Facebook item in June in favor of equal rights for LGBTs. ILLINOIS Springfield: The Illinois Fairgrounds Foundation is looking to sell the naming rights of state fairground buildings to help pay a backlog of maintenance repairs. The repair estimate is $180 million, the State

Journal-Register reports. INDIANA South Bend: A park will be dedicated next week in honor of former Indiana Gov. Joe Kernan, who was elected three times as South Bend mayor, WNDU-TV and WSBT-TV report. IOWA Cedar Falls: A proposal to turn the Cedar Falls mayor’s job into a part-time position has run into opposition but remains alive. Supporters say there’s duplication in the jobs of mayor and city administrator, The WaterlooCedar Falls Courier reports. KANSAS Kansas City: Authorities say a woman suspected of stealing a car from a gas station as a 3-year-old girl slept in the back seat has surrendered. Authorities say Karri Reich and an alleged accomplice face kidnapping and other charges. KENTUCKY Louisville: The University of Louisville’s foundation fired Jason Tomlinson, its chief financial officer, this week. Last week, the Kentucky attorney general’s office said it’s launching a probe of the foundation, whose president resigned last September and secretary was terminated last month. LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: Louisiana is spending $277 million in federal money received after last year’s floods to fortify communities against future disasters. Plans include buyouts of flood-prone properties, improved drainage and home elevations. MAINE South Portland: Construction started this week on what’s expected to be Maine’s largest municipally owned solar array, The Portland Press Herald reports. The array is expected to be completed by September. MARYLAND Baltimore: Some Maryland school board members see a possible loophole in Gov. Larry Hogan’s order to start schools after Labor Day. The order allows a waiver for “at risk” schools. The Baltimore Sun reports uncertainty as to whether what is “at risk” has ever been established. MASSACHUSETTS Salem: Five women hanged during the Salem witch trials were remembered on Wednesday, the 325th anniversary of their deaths. Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, Susannah Martin, Rebecca Nurse and Sarah Wildes were hanged as witches on July 19, 1692. MICHIGAN Lansing: Officials say an invasive crayfish native to the Mississippi River and the Gulf Coast has made its way to Michigan. The state Department of Natural Resources says red swamp crayfish turned up recently in a retention pond and in Sunset Lake in the Kalamazoo County town of Vicksburg. MINNESOTA Duluth: The City Council has created a task force to research paid sick leave for workers, Minnesota Public Radio reports. Minneapolis and St. Paul recently adopted ordinances that require paid sick leave.

MISSISSIPPI Corinth: A former Alcorn County volunteer fire department treasurer has pleaded guilty to embezzlement, The Northeast Mississippi Daily Jour

nal reports. Barbara Ellen Fair received a suspended 20-year sentence, was placed on supervised probation for five years and must pay $21,000 in restitution. MISSOURI St. Louis: A federal agency is conducting three Title IX investigations at Washington University in St. Louis. Two probes are related to allegations of sexual assault and the third is a complaint about sexual harassment. MONTANA Helena: Another grizzly bear has turned up in a part of Montana that hasn’t seen grizzlies in as long as a century. Wildlife officials say a trail camera captured a picture last month of a 3½-year-old grizzly in the Big Belt Mountains west of White Sulphur Springs. NEBRASKA Omaha: The Omaha City Council has approved a special occupation tax for the under-construction Capitol District, The Omaha World-Herald reports. The tax will take effect in August. NEVADA Las Vegas: Las Vegas is getting a minor league soccer team. City officials have approved a 15-year lease agreement that allows a United Soccer League expansion team to use Cashman Field starting next year. NEW HAMPSHIRE Manchester: The Manchester VA Medical Center has flooding and severe water damage on five floors from a pipe failure. Health care services on the first and second floors weren’t affected. NEW JERSEY Florham Park: New Jersey officials have approved the New York Jets’ request for a helipad at their suburban training facility. The team has been seeking a landing zone since 2013, but Florham Park residents oppose it NJ.com reports. NEW MEXICO Las Cruces: A boy’s misstep on a family hike has given the world a prehistoric wonder. Jude Sparks, 10, tripped over what turned out to be the fossilized tusk of a 1.2 millionyear-old stegomastodon. A team from New Mexico State University dug up the skull, which eventually will go on display. NEW YORK Beek

mantown: More than 100 dairy cows and calves died in a large barn fire on a New York farm near the Canadian border. Clinton County officials say a few dozen cows set loose in a nearby field survived. NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: A state trooper resigned after a video showed him driving the wrong way on a highway while responding to reports of street racing. Meantime, seven people were charged in connection with the racing on U.S. 321 in Catawba County. NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: A North Dakota commission has chosen consultants to review a 1950s federal survey in an effort to clarify mineral ownership under the Missouri River, The Bismarck Tribune reports. OHIO South Euclid: Police in suburban Cleveland say a Steak ‘n’ Shake customer who was angry about the way his sandwich tasted and looked threatened to shoot somebody over it. The man, taken into custody on an aggravated menacing charge, didn’t have a gun. OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Authorities say an inmate died Tuesday after a fight involving several inmates in the Oklahoma County jail. The cause of death will be determined by the state medical examiner’s office. OREGON Portland: Oregon’s labor agency has proposed a $1 million award to a woman who worked as a dancer at the Stars Cabaret strip club in Beaverton when she was 15. The club recently agreed to pay $1.25 million to another dancer the club employed when she was 13. PENNSYLVANIA Bethlehem: Lehigh University officials suspended a fraternity following several alcohol-related code of conduct violations. Police cited more than 40 students for underage drinking at an event hosted by Kappa Sigma in April. RHODE ISLAND Warwick: State police issued what’s thought to be the biggest fine ever for a motor vehicle violation in Rhode Island: $57,000 for transporting a 560,000-pound load without a permit. The load was ruled too heavy for state bridges. SOUTH CAROLINA Greenville: Authorities say a woman and her mother were arrested after a newborn baby fell out of a trash bag being taken from the South Carolina restaurant where they worked. Police say the younger woman gave birth in the restaurant’s bathroom. SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: Officials are establishing a fund to speed up mental-health screenings for South Dakota criminal defendants, The Argus Leader reports. TENNESSEE Nashville: A former Wilson County Trustee’s Office clerk faces charges of stealing more than $14,000 from property tax payments. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says Shannon Marie Hodgin also doctored government records to hide the thefts. TEXAS Dallas: A third man has pleaded guilty to what federal prosecutors call a more than $6 million diamond investment scam. Craig Allen Otteson, like the two prior defendants, faces up to 20 years in prison. UTAH Salt Lake City: EPA head Scott Pruitt says the agency will reconsider a 2016 plan requiring pollution controls at two of Utah’s oldest coal-fired power plants. Environmentalists say the controls are needed to cut emissions. VERMONT Brattleboro: The New England Center for Circus Arts has resumed summer camp classes after a brief strike by instructors over the firing of its founders, The Brattleboro Re

former reports. Instructors demanded the return of founder-sisters Serenity Smith Forchion and Elsie Smith. VIRGINIA Roanoke: Amtrak is coming to Roanoke this fall. Daily passenger service will start Oct. 31 between Lynchburg and Roanoke. It’s the first time Roanoke will have intercity passenger rail service in four decades.

WASHINGTON Spokane: Student leaders at Washington State University want the school to adopt a policy that prevents recruiting any athlete who’s been convicted of a sex-related crime. WEST VIRGINIA Red House: Two brothers, ages 5 and 2, wanted to visit their grandfather. So they took their mother’s car for a three-mile ride on a winding West Virginia road before crashing. They weren’t hurt. WISCONSIN Madison: Students in the Madison Metropolitan School District are calling on administrators to hire more teachers of color, The Capital

Times reports. According to state data, nearly half of Madison West High School students are non-white. But less than 10% of teachers are people of color. WYOMING Cody: A psychiatrist is being held on bond after authorities say he violated court orders by drinking alcohol. Cody police say they arrested an intoxicated Matthew Hopkins on June 30, two days after he was placed on probation for backing into a parked car, The Powell Tribune reports.