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STATE-BY-STATE

- From staff and wire reports.

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.

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