STATE-BY-STATE
ALABAMA Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama will provide schools over $12,000 in donated books, The Selma Times-Journal reports. ALASKA Kenai: Officials say a beluga whale rescued in Cook Inlet will go to SeaWorld San Antonio to live. ARIZONA Flagstaff: Guardian Air ambulance is testing an automated chest compression device for CPR. ARKANSAS Malvern: A youth center and an off-road bike trail are suggestions that Hot Spring County residents made to improve the region. CALIFORNIA Berkeley: The Coast Guard says more than 40 people were rescued from a water taxi that got stuck off the Berkeley Marina. COLORADO in the shooting Denver: death A of man a 19-year-old arrested woman him to kill told her investigators and provided she the hired gun. CONNECTICUT Supreme Court Hartford: has scheduled The state arguments have to March release 1 on some whether of Newtown police school killer Adam Lanza’s things. DELAWARE Wilmington: Two men were arrested in an investigation of counterfeit sports hat sales. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: The National Park Service has opened the home of Carter Woodson, the “Father of Black History,” for Black History Month, WTOP Radio reports. FLORIDA Jacksonville: The city attorney says an initiative intended to challenge a gay rights law can’t go on the November ballot. GEORGIA Atlanta: State transportation officials are considering a 40mile highway from Atlanta to Macon that would be for trucks only. HAWAII Honolulu: President Trump has named Vice Adm. John Aquilino as U.S. Pacific Fleet commander.
IDAHO Boise: The Bureau of Land Management is seeking an artist-inresidence to spend a week at Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area in Idaho.
ILLINOIS Urbana: University of Illinois researchers are using a $4 million grant to study how information moves across social media. INDIANA Jeffersonville: The remains of 17 Indiana settlers dating to the 1800s have been relocated for a road-widening project. IOWA North Liberty: Parents and staff at North Bend Elementary School have raised nearly $60,000 to build an “inclusive” playground accessible to kids with disabilities. KANSAS Speedway Kansas officials City: are offering Kansas a $10,000 thefts of reward two trucks for an and arrest some in tools. the KENTUCKY say the suspect Paintsville: in separate Authorities shootings is among 5 people found dead. LOUISIANA New Orleans: Three historically black universities in the city are getting millions of dollars in post-Katrina debt cleared in the congressional budget deal. MAINE Thorndike: Students from Mount View Middle School plan to visit every Maine state park in 2018. MARYLAND Annapolis: A new law requiring businesses with 15 or more workers to provide up to five paid sick leave days took effect Sunday. MASSACHUSETTS Boston: A special commission will meet Tuesday to consider whether state lawmakers should keep their exemption from Massachusetts’ open records law. MICHIGAN Detroit: Thieves stole a safe and prescription drugs by ramming an SUV through a pharmacy window, The Detroit Free Press says.
MINNESOTA Minneapolis: University of Minnesota student leaders are setting up a team to study minority and LGBT issues in campus policing, Minnesota Daily reports. MISSISSIPPI Piney Woods: Authorities have cleaned up debris that blocked U.S. 49 after a dam break. MISSOURI St. Louis: Two new sculptures are aimed at preserving
the city’s place in Olympics history. MONTANA is looking into Helena: the deaths A commission of children in child protective services. NEBRASKA Omaha: The Millard Public Schools board has voted to eliminate French and German classes, Omaha World-Herald reports. NEVADA Las Vegas: A fact-finding review is set Thursday in the fatal police shooting of a knife wielder. NEW HAMPSHIRE Manchester: The local VA Medical Center is hosting an Open House Recreation and Leisure Expo on Wednesday. NEW JERSEY Hackensack: Five city police officers involved in a warrantless narcotics search in 2016 have been fired, NorthJersey.com reports.
NEW MEXICO Santa Teresa: Customs agents stepped up searches this week for banned flowers meant for Valentine’s Day being smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico. NEW YORK Allegheny: State wildlife officials are asking anglers to report paddlefish sightings. NORTH CAROLINA Currituck: Officials are considering fees to visitors who park on off-road beaches. NORTH DAKOTA Mandan: The Dakota Leathernecks have nearly completed refurbishing a clubhouse after two years of work. OHIO Columbus: The Ohio History Connection has created an exhibit focusing on Poindexter Village, an early public housing project. OKLAHOMA Norman: The state is donating the overdose-reversing drug Narcan to sheriffs and deputies in each of Oklahoma’s 77 counties. OREGON Portland: Reed College President John Kroger will leave the post at the end of June after 6 years. PENNSYLVANIA Pittsburgh: A man was ordered to trial in the May 2016 shooting death of a motel owner. RHODE ISLAND Woonsocket: Woonsocket High School has un-
dergone pest control treatment following incidents of bed bugs.
SOUTH CAROLINA Charleston: A restored version of the 30-minute I Am Somebody documentary about a 1969 hospital workers strike will be available for purchase this month, The Post and Courier reports. SOUTH DAKOTA Sturgis: Efforts to put fire and ambulance tax districts on the April ballot came up short. The service is losing some $82,000 a year. TENNESSEE Clarksville: Police say a bank robbery suspect who barricaded himself in a motel room was arrested after tear gas was shot in the room. TEXAS Austin: An autopsy of a Texas State University fraternity pledge who died in an initiation found four times the legal alcohol limit to drive, Austin American-Statesman says. UTAH Salt Lake City: A state appeals court upheld a $2.5 million damage award to a mall and store from construction of a highway interchange. VERMONT Rutland: A wildlife biologist will talk March 8 at Community College of Vermont on rattlesnakes. VIRGINIA Richmond: State lawmakers are reviewing a bill to allow slotlike betting machines at the shuttered Colonial Downs horse track. WASHINGTON Seattle: School bus drivers returned to work Monday, ending a week-long strike, The Seattle Times reports. WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: The state Senate has advanced a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would authorize lawmakers to restrict abortion rights. WISCONSIN Conover: Authorities say a snowmobiler was killed in a weekend crash into a tree on the shoreline of Buckatabon Lake. WYOMING Sheridan: City officials are taking a look at affordable housing with firearms maker Weatherby’s decision to move operations here, The Sheridan Press reports.
Compiled from staff, wire reports.