STATE-BY-STATE

ALABAMA

Montgomery: Maxwell Air Force Base held a ceremony this week for a Medal of Honor winner on the 50th anniversary of his death. Richard Etchberger died during the Vietnam War in 1968.

ALASKA

Juneau: Students at Thunder Mountain and Juneau-Douglas high schools are reconsidering the nickname they chose for their combined sports teams, Thunder Bears. A website says it’s a derogatory term for people who drink too much.

ARIZONA

Marana: Police say a bride was arrested on suspicion of impaired driving after she was involved in a crash on the way to her wedding.

ARKANSAS

Little Rock: Efforts are underway in at least 18 of the state’s 75 counties to reform juvenile justice, including reducing the number of children in detention, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports.

CALIFORNIA

Anaheim: Lawyers for the family of a man who died after a struggle with police say they believe officers’ actions stopped him from breathing, The Orange County Register reports.

COLORADO

Minturn: Authorities are looking for a stolen Sno-Cat fitted out to look like the “General Lee,” the car featured in the TV show “Dukes of Hazzard.” It was on a trailer when someone hitched it up and drove off.

CONNECTICUT

Hartford: A white former University of Hartford student who was accused of spreading bodily fluids on her black roommate’s belongings was given probation. If she completes it, charges will be erased.

DELAWARE

Dover: State police spent nearly $185,000 in overtime pay and helicopter costs related to the response to a deadly inmate uprising last year and ensuing investigation, the Delaware State News reports.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA:

Home sellers jumped into the D.C. housing market in February, with new listings up 25.4%, WTOP Radio reports. A lack of properties has driven up prices.

FLORIDA

Daytona Beach: For couples looking to get hitched during Daytona Bike Week, Volusia County’s courts clerk will oblige Friday, The Daytona Beach News-Journal says.

GEORGIA

Pooler: The City Council has hired one of its own as police chief. Ashley Brown, elected to the council in 2015, spent 24 years as an officer in neighboring Savannah, The Savannah Morning News reports.

HAWAII

Lihue: Police report an increase in the use of black tar heroin, with 526 grams seized last year, up from less than 1 gram in 2015, The Garden Island reports.

IDAHO

Boise: State legislators rejected a proposed “pet friendly” specialty license plate that would have helped fund spay and neutering programs.

ILLINOIS

Springfield: Gov. Bruce Rauner signed a Medicaid funding plan that changes the way hospitals are reimbursed for treating low-income patients. The plan now goes to the federal government for approval.

INDIANA

Indianapolis: A Saudi Arabian citizen living in the U.S. despite a terminated student visa faces a federal gun charge. Authorities say he had a rifle equipped with a scope and bump stock outside a downtown hotel, The Indianapolis Star reports.

IOWA

Cedar Rapids: Officials say about 40 jobs will be lost with the April 13 closing of a Goldman Sachs call center, KCRG reports.

KANSAS

Topeka: State lawmakers are choosing an official rock, mineral, gem and fish for Kansas. The honorees include limestone, galena, jelinite and channel catfish.

KENTUCKY

Frankfort: State road crews are at work this week killing weeds. The annual effort means doom for Johnson grass, giant foxtail, Canada thistle and kudzu that sprout along highways.

LOUISIANA

New Orleans: The University of New Orleans canceled classes Monday after a student who lives on campus threatened to shoot several people. Students on campus were told to stay in their rooms.

MAINE

Windham: Recent algal blooms at Highland Lake are prompting concerns over its health, The Portland Press Herald reports. Interested parties plan a forum next week to discuss the issue.

MARYLAND

Annapolis: A new round of medical marijuana licensing intended to increase diversity favored already-licensed companies, The Baltimore Sun reports.

MASSACHUSETTS

North Adams: A golden key to the city of Worcester is in the hands of North Adams police, who found it March 5 in a case with the name of a mayor who left office in 1953 and died in 1970.

MICHIGAN

Ann Arbor: The 1997 Heisman Trophy winner Charles Woodson will give the keynote address at the spring University of Michigan commencement April 28.

MINNESOTA

Mazeppa: The cause of a fire that destroyed historic W.D.’s Bar and Grill downtown is under investigation. The building dates to 1900.

MISSISSIPPI

Hattiesburg: The Coney Island Cafe, founded in 1923, is back in business this week with a fourth generation of the Fokakis family in charge, WDAM-TV reports.

MISSOURI

Cape Girardeau: Police say a 13-month-old girl died after being mauled by a dog at her babysitter’s home. The dog was taken to a shelter to be euthanized.

MONTANA

Helena: Authorities say the Green Party handed in just enough signatures Monday to qual- ify as a political party on Montana ballots this year and in 2020.

NEBRASKA

Lincoln: Seeking an investigation, the ACLU of Nebraska says prison officials may have misled authorities by indicating that four execution drugs obtained by the state were intended for medical purposes.

NEVADA

Las Vegas: A man was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison on conspiracy and other charges in a false-prize scheme. Prosecutors say thousands of mostly elderly victims were bilked out of more than $20 million.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Manchester: The American Red Cross is seeking volunteers for its May 5 “Sound the Alarm” event aimed at promoting smoke alarm installations in homes.

NEW JERSEY

Boonton: Boonton High School will be closed for several weeks to repair damage caused by a transformer fire that occurred during last week’s nor’easter.

NEW MEXICO

Albuquerque: Oil producers set a state record last year with 172 million barrels, and industry experts say output from the Permian Basin is expected to double over the next several years.

NEW YORK

Mount Vernon: Mayor Richard Thomas was arrested in a public corruption probe by the state attorney general’s office, the Journal

News reports. Thomas says he expects full vindication.

NORTH CAROLINA

Raleigh: State Board of Education Vice Chairman Buddy Collins is resigning to run for the Forsyth County Commission.

NORTH DAKOTA

Bismarck: Officials have signed off on proposed rules for the state’s developing medical marijuana program. The rules cover such things as testing, security and transportation requirements.

OHIO

Euclid: Authorities say an unresponsive 4-year-old pronounced dead at a suburban Cleveland hospital had burn marks and was emaciated and bruised, WEWS-TV reports. The death is under investigation.

OKLAHOMA

Oklahoma City: Legislators are looking into giving teachers pay raises or bonuses without raising taxes by tapping into $2.4 billion in trust funds managed by the Commissioners of the Land Office.

OREGON

Portland: A fire Monday at an auto-wrecking yard spread to an apartment building and a duplex. No injuries were reported, but firefighters said more than a dozen cats died.

PENNSYLVANIA

North Franklin: Authorities rescued a man who was trapped in chest-high mud for several hours after a trench he was digging at a home collapsed. The man was flown to a hospital.

RHODE ISLAND

Westerly: Military officials have awarded a Purple Heart to Stephen Macomber, a professor and Rhode Island legislator who served in France during World War I and was injured in a mustard agent attack, The Westerly Sun reports.

SOUTH CAROLINA

Columbia: Authorities say a man trying to smuggle drugs into the Perry Correctional Institution by throwing hollowed out footballs over the fence was arrested.

SOUTH DAKOTA

Sioux Falls: City Fire Rescue is preparing a new approach to emergency response by permitting trained firefighter EMTs to administer advanced life support when ambulance paramedics are tied up.

TENNESSEE

Johnson City: Authorities say a man working in a silo to clean up after a fire was killed when the silo collapsed, burying him under 30 feet of sawdust.

TEXAS

Dallas: Two people were killed when winds up to 80 mph toppled trees last weekend in East Texas. The storms also produced hail the size of baseballs.

UTAH

Salt Lake City: Video released this week shows a 2014 incident in which a U.S. marshal shot four times at a defendant who rushed a shackled witness testifying in a gang-related federal court case and swung at him with a pen. The marshal was cleared of wrongdoing.

VERMONT

Brandon: Officials say a broken sewer pipe spewed over 1 million gallons of raw sewage into the Neshobe River that flows into Lake Champlain, WPTZ-TV reports.

VIRGINIA

Roanoke: The U.S. Forest Service is closing parts of the Jefferson National Forest in Virginia and West Virginia through which the Mountain Valley Pipeline will run, The Roanoke Times reports.

WASHINGTON

Port Orchard: Two female firefighters are suing South Kitsap Fire and Rescue, alleging sexual harassment by a battalion chief who retired last year, The Kitsap Sun reports.

WEST VIRGINIA

Hamlin: Lincoln County’s school board will get more than $440,000 for video conference technology for distance learning from eight sites.

WISCONSIN

Green Bay: State lawmaker Eric Genrich says he won’t run for re-election and wants to be the mayor of Green Bay, his hometown, WLUK-TV reports.

WYOMING

Sheridan: The state Department of Environmental Quality is expected to begin cleanup this summer of asbestos and other contamination around a former power plant north of Sheridan.