STATE-BY-STATE

ALABAMA

Montgomery: Payday lending customers would have longer to repay loans under a bill approved Thursday by the state Senate.

ALASKA

Juneau: Tiffany Zulkosky became the 19th woman in the Legislature on Friday, a record for Alaska.

ARIZONA

Phoenix: The state jobless rate ticked up to 4.8% in January.

ARKANSAS

Little Rock: State lawmakers approved a $5.6 billion budget Friday.

CALIFORNIA

Anaheim: The Orange County Public Works department says 404 tons of debris was removed from a former homeless camp.

COLORADO

Denver: Richard Wyatt,

54, star of the show “American Guns,” was sentenced to 6 1⁄ years in prison

2 for failing to report $1.1 million in income to the IRS, conspiracy and dealing firearms without a license.

CONNECTICUT

Hartford: Gov. Dannel P. Malloy says he plans to get more involved in the legislative effort to increase the state’s minimum wage.

DELAWARE

Claymont: State police say a Pennsylvania man died in a collision shortly after fleeing the scene of another crash.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA:

Immigration rights activists are protesting the detention in Arizona of Alejandra Pablos, 32, a prominent organizer.

FLORIDA

Orlando: Federal officials are ending a program that paid for hotels for more than 27,000 Florida households after Hurricane Irma.

GEORGIA

Athens: A “rowdy inebriate” injured a 22-year-old woman when he did a backflip in a bar and landed on her table, police say.

HAWAII

Honolulu: The state plans to evict residents from Oahu’s largest homeless camp as early as June.

IDAHO

Post Falls: Developers hope to lure technology and aerospace manufacturers with a 245-acre tech park.

ILLINOIS

Harrisburg: The Shawnee National Forest is closing a road so snakes and amphibians can migrate from limestone bluffs to a swamp.

INDIANA

Terre Haute: Researchers at Indiana State University will get a $900,000 grant to study endangered gray bats in North Carolina.

IOWA

Ankeny: A woman who says she was forced to view sexually explicit photos of her examiner during a driving test is suing the Iowa Department of Transportation.

KANSAS

Topeka: A bill under consideration would legalize self-service beer taps at bars and clubs.

KENTUCKY

Frankfort: Teachers rallied outside public schools Thursday to protest proposed cuts to their retirement benefits.

LOUISIANA

Kaplan: The state attorney general has sued the Vermilion Parish School Board over a meeting disrupted by the arrest of a teacher who criticized the superintendent’s pay raise.

MAINE

Augusta: Maine emergency room visits for opioid overdoses increased 34% in the last year.

MARYLAND

Towson: A former Baltimore County schools superintendent pleaded guilty to perjury for failing to disclose nearly $147,000 he earned from consulting jobs.

MASSACHUSETTS

Cambridge: Harvard University professor Jorge Dominguez, accused of repeated sexual misconduct, is retiring.

MICHIGAN

Detroit: Wayne State University reversed a decision to decertify the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship for requiring its leaders to embrace its religious beliefs.

MINNESOTA

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota College of Design researchers are working on clothing that better fits female firefighters.

MISSISSIPPI

Jackson: A new state law says ambulances may transport police dogs that are injured on duty.

MISSOURI

Columbia: The Missouri Students Association presidential election was canceled after offen- sive tweets by three former candidates were found.

MONTANA

Butte: Five of eight small, bronze gargoyles meant as “protectors” of a new parking garage in Butte have been stolen.

NEBRASKA

Lincoln: State lawmakers will begin debate Tuesday on an $8.8 billion, two-year budget that imposes cuts on higher education.

NEVADA

Reno: The Washoe County School District has banned guns from auctions at school fundraisers.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Concord: A plan to continue the state’s expanded Medicaid program cleared the Senate on Thursday night.

NEW JERSEY

Sparta: A man suspected of DWI told police he fled the scene of a crash in Sparta because he felt scared in “redneck country.”

NEW MEXICO

Farmington: Two area residents are on life support after being stricken by hantavirus, a rare virus carried by rodents.

NEW YORK

Clifton Park: Police say two men have been charged in connection with 20,000 unstamped cigarettes found in their vehicle.

NORTH CAROLINA

Sylva: Work has started on two new bridges for the World Equestrian Games this fall.

NORTH DAKOTA

Fargo: Fargo’s first needle exchange program could be operational within a month.

OHIO

Columbus: Eight people are accused of laundering money after prosecutors say they created false profiles on dating sites and asked suitors to fund investments.

OKLAHOMA

Oklahoma City: Teachers plan a statewide work stoppage April 2 unless they get a raise for the first time since 2008.

OREGON

McMinnville: A $6 million gift will help Linfield College expand its wine studies program.

PENNSYLVANIA

Allentown: Mayor Ed Pawlowski resigned after he was convicted on charges that he traded city contracts for campaign cash.

RHODE ISLAND

Providence: Former secretary of state Matt Brown will run for governor as an independent.

SOUTH CAROLINA

Sumter: Authorities say a woman was arrested after she shoved two teachers aside to slap a 7-year-old girl who her daughter said had thrown pencils at her.

SOUTH DAKOTA

Pierre: Gov. Dennis Daugaard has signed bills that impose 12-year term limits on members of the state Board of Regents and the Board of Education Standards.

TENNESSEE

Nashville: A House panel killed a bill to ban child marriage.

TEXAS

Austin: A contractor is suing the city after officials accused it of building a $161 million downtown tunnel with structural problems.

UTAH

Salt Lake City: Legislators adjourned Thursday after passing bills to expand Medicaid and give teens fleeing polygamous communities more legal rights.

VERMONT

Montpelier: More than three dozen communities in Vermont have voted to support a statewide effort to combat climate change.

VIRGINIA

Richmond: The House of Delegates has rejected legislation to require drivers to use turn signals when pedestrians are present.

WASHINGTON

Olympia: The Legislature adjourned Friday after sending Gov. Jay Inslee a supplemental state budget that raises teacher salaries.

WEST VIRGINIA

Clarksburg: Former football coach Joshua Nicewarner, whose teams won three state titles, faces up to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to child solicitation.

WISCONSIN

Madison: Emergency room visits for suspected opioid overdoses increased 109% from July 2016 to September 2017, officials say.

WYOMING

Cheyenne: The first grizzly bear hunting in the lower 48 states in more than 40 years could happen in Wyoming this fall.