STATE-BY-STATE
ALABAMA Guntersville: Two teens face corpse abuse and criminally negligent homicide charges. Police say they posted photos on social media of an overdosed girl’s body.
ALASKA Juneau: A federal judge set a Nov. 5 trial date for a man accused of killing his wife on a cruise.
ARIZONA Phoenix: Census data show that Maricopa County is the fastest-growing in the USA.
ARKANSAS DeQueen: Inmates are tending to 200 roosters at the local sheriff ’s office pending their use as evidence in a cockfight raid.
CALIFORNIA Stockton: Former Mayor Anthony Silva was arrested for having a firearm in violation of a protective order issued against him.
sarney, COLORADO 36, pleaded Denver: guilty Jaquon to felony Mucfraud and identity theft charges in a tax fraud scheme while in prison.
CONNECTICUT Hartford: The mayors of New Haven and Bridgeport raise fairness questions about a state plan to pay $550 million of Hartford debt.
DELAWARE Wilmington: A man convicted of fatally stabbing his mentally disabled girlfriend was sentenced to life in prison.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: The Justice Department is opposing release of a 911 call connected to the fatal shooting of a man by U.S. Park Police.
FLORIDA Tampa: A Confederate monument was relocated from courthouse grounds to a private cemetery.
GEORGIA Young Harris: Former U.S. senator and Georgia governor Zell Miller has died at age 86.
HAWAII Honolulu: A report by an advocacy group found that about 1 in 24 Hawaii homes is a vacation rental.
IDAHO Idaho Falls: The Idaho Falls Zoo euthanized Dahoma, its male 14-year-old African lion, due to agerelated health problems.
ILLINOIS Belleville: A construction worker preparing to demolish a hos-
pital found nurse Sheryl Rehmer’s wallet that she lost more than 20 years ago, and she now has it back.
INDIANA LaPorte: A man faces a reckless driving charge after he was accused of driving his Dodge Challenger Hellcat in excess of 160 mph on the Indiana Toll Road.
IOWA Clinton: The M.L. Kapp Generating Station will close June 1, six years earlier than scheduled.
KANSAS Kansas City: The Schlitterbahn water park and a former executive face involuntary manslaughter and other charges in the decapitation of Caleb Schwab, 10.
KENTUCKY Frankfort: A bill declaring that emails and texts sent on officials’ private devices aren’t public records cleared a Senate panel, Louisville Courier Journal reports.
LOUISIANA Shreveport: Union Pacific plans to invest $87 million in state rail improvements this year.
MAINE Augusta: A state watchdog panel voted to investigate lumber diversion to a logging company.
MARYLAND Baltimore: Two rare
$1,000 bills from the 1800s fetched
$960,000 each at auction.
MASSACHUSETTS Boston: State Police say 18 troopers were either suspended without pay or retired following an overtime abuse audit.
MICHIGAN Jackson: A murder trial is underway for Anthony Gelia, accused of breaking into a home and shooting a woman while streaming the attack on Facebook.
MINNESOTA Buffalo: Police say a 17-year-old girl taking her driving test crashed into the exam station.
MISSISSIPPI Vicksburg: Vicksburg National Military Park wants volunteers for historical reenactments.
MISSOURI Jefferson City: Gov. Eric Greitens’ office says an investigation flagged 436 Blind Pension Fund users who have driver’s licenses.
MONTANA Columbia Falls: Battery
manufacturer ViZn Energy furloughed more than 60 workers after a key investor left the business.
NEBRASKA Lincoln: With the arrival of spring, the State Patrol warns motorists to keep an eye out for tractors and other farm equipment.
NEVADA Las Vegas: Prosecutors say they expect to decide by the end of March whether to seek the death penalty for an ex-police officer facing murder and sex assault charges.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: Authorities say two University of New Hampshire researchers are accused of misusing credit cards provided for federal research grant expenses.
NEW JERSEY Jersey City: A man who fatally stabbed a good Samaritan he mistakenly thought had injured his friend was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: Authorities are searching for the suspect in a road-rage shooting that wounded a 15-year-old boy.
NEW YORK Albany: Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he remains “cautiously optimistic” of getting congestion tolls for busy Manhattan streets.
NORTH CAROLINA Chapel Hill: The family of former University of North Carolina play-by-play announcer Woody Durham will join the school in a celebration of his life on April 8.
NORTH DAKOTA Bismark: Gov. Doug Burgum wants the state to be the first to get 1-gigabit Internet connectivity for all school districts.
OHIO Akron: University of Akron President Matthew Wilson will step down and rejoin the law school.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Health officials say a record 242 Oklahomans died of flu this season.
OREGON Sutherlin: A man allegedly attacked McDonald’s golden arches when workers refused to make him 30 double cheeseburgers.
PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia: The rural Blue Mountain School District
is arming classrooms with buckets of rocks to fend off an armed intruder.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: Some of the thousands of drivers who got tickets from school zone speed cameras are suing to end the program.
SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: Documents released by state regulators show SCANA Corp paid $529 million to investors with money collected from South Carolina Electric & Gas customers as its nuclear effort failed.
SOUTH DAKOTA Rapid City: Voters will decide in June whether to renovate Barnett Arena for $25 million.
TENNESSEE Knoxville: Reports of sexual misconduct rose from 64 to 115 from 2016 to 2017 at the UT Knoxville.
TEXAS Dallas: A preliminary federal report indicates natural gas leaks were first detected in a neighborhood some two months before another leak led to a fatal house explosion.
UTAH Salt Lake City: A survey found that middle and high school students try e-cigarettes as often as alcohol.
VERMONT South Burlington: Swedish clothing retailer H&M will open its first Vermont location this fall.
VIRGINIA Richmond: Former governor Douglas Wilder is suing Virginia Commonwealth University, where he teaches, saying his personal assistant was harassed and mistreated.
WASHINGTON Everett: A memorial will honor the 43 people who died in a mudslide four years ago.
WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: Michael Brumage, appointed Feb. 5 as director of the state Office of Drug Control Policy, resigned Friday.
WISCONSIN Madison: State Republicans refused to hold special elections to fill two vacant legislative seats, calling lawmakers back to Madison to rewrite election laws.
WYOMING Casper: Economists say that by mid-2017, Wyoming had lost 8,300 people in the preceding fiscal year during the fossil fuel downturn.