STATE-BY-STATE
News from across the USA
ALABAMA Vestavia Hills: The city has captured 13 coyotes and says its traps are humane; People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals disagrees.
ALASKA Ketchikan: The Taku, a ferry that served in the state system for 52 years, has left for Singapore after being sold for $171,000.
ARIZONA Phoenix: Yolanda Young, 46, suspected of six bank robberies since last year, has been arrested.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: Sixty-one counties have been designated federal disaster areas, making farmers and ranchers eligible for assistance.
CALIFORNIA San Diego: Two Tasmanian devils from Australia are settling in at the San Diego Zoo.
COLORADO Denver: The administrator of the state Senate has warned staff, aides and interns that policy forbids them from speaking to journalists about workplace issues.
CONNECTICUT Hartford: A University of Connecticut medical official has been disciplined in the case of a professor who continued to receive payment for months after he was slain.
DELAWARE Dover: Two recent flurelated deaths brought Delaware’s season total to 30.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: The peak bloom period for the city’s cherry blossoms is March 27-31.
FLORIDA West Palm Beach: Officials say a 6-year-old kindergartner put his father’s loaded gun in his backpack and brought it into his class.
GEORGIA Savannah: Vice President Pence will attend the St. Patrick’s Day parade this weekend.
HAWAII Honolulu: Workers have begun replacing street lamp light bulbs with energy-efficient lights.
IDAHO Boise: Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter has signed a bill that would allow motorists or passers-by to humanely dispatch an injured animal.
ILLINOIS Rockford: A new elemen- tary school will be named for Constance Renick Lane, the city’s first black public school teacher.
INDIANA Kokomo: Six-year-old Malachi Fronczak’s lemonade stand raised more than $7,000 for the family of a slain Boone County sheriff ’s deputy, Jacob Pickett.
IOWA Des Moines: Senate Republicans have elected Jack Whitver of Ankeny as their majority leader.
KANSAS Lawrence: University of Kansas sororities say they support suspending social activities for fraternities until a safer environment is created.
KENTUCKY Owensboro: Former University of Kentucky board of trustees Chairman Billy Joe Miles has died.
LOUISIANA St. Joseph: The town’s tap water is safe to drink after $8.6 million in repairs.
MAINE Portland: Ready Seafood Co. plans to build lobster processing facilities in Saco, south of Portland.
MARYLAND Baltimore: University of Maryland men’s basketball coach Mark Turgeon is again the highestpaid state employee, earning $2.72 million last year.
MASSACHUSETTS Revere: Necco candy company will shut down unless it finds a buyer.
MICHIGAN Lansing: Schools Superintendent Brian Whiston is taking long-term disability leave.
MINNESOTA Minneapolis: A Minneapolis man who claimed his girlfriend distracted him with a kiss before he slammed his car into a stoplight, killing her, was convicted of criminal vehicular homicide.
MISSISSIPPI Biloxi: The city is closing the 88-year-old Saenger Theater for repairs, WLOX-TV reports.
MISSOURI Jefferson City: The state Senate gave initial approval to a bill that would prohibit pregnant prisoners in some jails from being restrained while giving birth.
MONTANA Helena: Timothy Adams, Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate, was on the state Republican Party payroll, documents show.
NEBRASKA Lincoln: Hundreds gathered Tuesday to celebrate the life of former governor Charley Thone, who died March 7 at 94.
NEVADA Carson City: Officials say Nevada’s population is quickly approaching 3 million.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Portsmouth: Preliminary designers for repair work on the Piscataqua River Bridge estimate construction could take until 2021.
NEW JERSEY Atlantic City: Revenue from table games and slot machines fell 6.5% last month compared with February 2017.
NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: State Democrats have 60 days to find a new leader after Richard Ellenberg resigned.
NEW YORK New York: The city’s first sake brewery has opened in Brooklyn.
NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: A judge is again delaying the trial of Basit Sheikh, accused of trying to join al-Qaeda-linked fighters in Syria.
NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: The federal Education Department has awarded grants to build elementary schools serving the Standing Rock and Spirit Lake Sioux communities.
OHIO New Miami: Ordered to repay $3 million in citations stemming from automated traffic cameras, New Miami has asked the Ohio Supreme Court to hear its appeal.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: A plan to give schoolteachers a pay raise has fallen short in the Senate.
OREGON Salem: The Oregon Supreme Court has suspended Marion County Circuit Court Judge Vance Day, who refused to marry gay couples in the state, for three years.
PENNSYLVANIA Harrisburg: Gov. Tom Wolf will be co-chairman with Auditor General Eugene DePasquale of the School Safety Task Force.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: The state House has passed a bill to allow children in public schools to bring in sunscreen without a doctor’s note.
SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: The Department of Corrections is subjecting prisoners to cruel and unusual punishment by not testing them for hepatitis C, an inmate’s lawsuit says.
SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: Emily Fodness, who survived a collapsed building in Sioux Falls, is suing its developer and construction company, the Argus Leader reported.
TENNESSEE Nashville: All 56 state parks will offer free hikes March 24.
TEXAS Austin: A new report says legislators in 2017 diverted attention from topics like education and taxes to focus on a failed “bathroom bill.”
UTAH Salt Lake City: Health officials say Utah pharmacies dispensed about 4,275 doses of naloxone, used to reverse the effects of overdoses, The Deseret News reported.
VERMONT Burlington: The University of Vermont has recovered a rhinoceros horn stolen last year.
VIRGINIA Alexandria: No one was hurt when a police officer accidentally fired his gun while at a middle school.
WASHINGTON Seattle: Gov. Jay Inslee directed state agencies to take steps to protect killer whales.
WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: A company building a natural gas pipeline was ordered to halt construction.
WISCONSIN Madison: Officials are launching the state’s first elk hunt this fall in Sawyer, Bayfield, Ashland and Price counties.
WYOMING Cheyenne: Gov. Matt Mead has vetoed a bill that would provide tougher penalties for protesters at facilities such as oil pipelines, The Casper Star-Tribune reports.