STATE-BY-STATE
ALABAMA Montgomery: The city’s Kress Building that dates to 1898 won a national award as the best historical renovation under $25 million. The Montgomery Advertiser reports that reopening is set for April 12.
ALASKA Anchorage: One of three marijuana testing labs in the state has closed, leaving only two options for state-mandated testing, The Juneau Empire reports.
ARIZONA Payson: A wildfire covering some 60 acres in the Meades Ranch area is being blamed on fireworks.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: Two new species of crawfish were discovered by state Game and Fish biologist Brian Wagner while researching rare salamander in the Eleven-Point River.
CALIFORNIA Lincoln: Police say suspects arrested with counterfeit $100 bills kept receipts tying them to purchases made with the phony cash, The Sacramento Bee reports.
COLORADO Littleton: Donations helped Shiloh Academy School replace stolen outdoor equipment, KMGH-TV reports. Someone took more than $4,000 in fishing and camping gear from a storage shed at the school amid a remodeling project.
CONNECTICUT Bristol: The American Clock and Watch Museum will open a “Scandals and Scoundrels: Tales from the Dark Side of the Clock & Watch Industries” exhibit Saturday.
DELAWARE Wilmington: The state Division of Social Services has a social worker and supervisor at the New Castle County parole and probation office to make it easier for exoffenders to receive such services, The News Journal reports.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Howard University trustees have agreed extend the deadline to submit a $200 student housing deposit to May 1. Amid a student sit-in, officials also will review a policy requiring freshmen and sophomores to live on campus or with a parent or guardian.
FLORIDA Orlando: Authorities say Fertility Pharmacy’s owner was sentenced to 13 years in a kickback case.
GEORGIA Savannah: The city is preparing to charge homeowners a $256 annual fee for firefighting services.
HAWAII Kailua-Kona: A hotel built in 1969 has been demolished to make way for an education center. The Keauhou Beach Hotel has been closed since October 2012.
IDAHO Ketchum: Planning commissioners will meet next week to hear concerns about a $12.5 million expansion of The Community Library, The Idaho Mountain Express reports.
ILLINOIS Macomb: Western Illinois University has a food pantry open to any student regardless of income.
INDIANA Jasper: Leaders of St. Joseph Catholic Church are raising funds to fix stained-glass windows installed more than a century ago by German settlers. The cost is estimated at nearly $800,000.
IOWA Cedar Rapids: Natural resources crews stocked 1,500 rainbow trout at Prairie Park Fishery. Another 500 will be stocked April 21 during a family trout fishing event sponsored by the city and state.
KANSAS Hutchinson: Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy is recalling employees laid off from its wind turbine parts plant last year, The Hutchinson News reports.
KENTUCKY Roxana: Rep. Hal Rogers says officials have given the green light for a Letcher County prison on a 700-acre site of reclaimed mine land.
LOUISIANA New Orleans: The University of New Orleans says an endowment will provide awards of $1,000 a year to a graduate and undergraduate student in physics.
MAINE Orono: The University of Maine says wild blueberry horticulturist David Yarborough will retire early next year. The fruit is one of Maine’s biggest agriculture products and the source of a handful of summer festivals.
MARYLAND Baltimore: State lawmakers are poised to pass a bill allowing school districts to extend their calendars without state approval to make up snow days, The Baltimore Sun reports.
MASSACHUSETTS Norton: Police say a driver was injured by flying glass when her car hit a wild turkey on Interstate 495, shattering its windshield.
MICHIGAN Ann Arbor: Two University of Michigan donors have given their collection of Inuit art and $2 million to the school to create a program to support related exhibitions, education and outreach.
MINNESOTA Rochester: A growing number of state students are taking part in competitive shooting, The Post Bulletin reports. Officials say the Minnesota State High School Clay Targets League added 15 to 20 teams this year.
MISSISSIPPI Gulfport: A Sonic restaurant here says people smoking marijuana in its drive-thru won’t be served after a customer blew smoke in an employee’s face, The Sun Herald of Biloxi reports.
MISSOURI Jefferson City: The state Senate is considering a mandate on the use of paper ballots while still allowing electronic voting. The move is intended to prevent hackers from hijacking elections.
MONTANA Great Falls: Researchers may have found a rare young T-rex fossil in Hell Creek Formation. The find is described as “fabulously complete.”
NEBRASKA Ashland: Wildlife Safari Park is open for the season. The park has elk, black bears, wolves and bald eagles.
NEVADA Las Vegas: A legal settlement in a 2014 suit by The Las Vegas Review-Journal requires Clark County prosecutors to disclose records of payments made to witnesses in exchange for their testimony.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Durham: The Governor’s Cup Challenge robotics competition offers a semester of tuition at a state university or community college, WMUR-TV reports.
NEW JERSEY Fort Lee: State lawmakers are considering restoring tax credits for TV, movie and digital media productions through 2023. Gov. Christie suspended the incentives in 2010.
NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: Commissioners approved a downtown sculpture to commemorate an 1882 case that gave Chinese Americans the right to testify in court.
NEW YORK Albany: The state’s trout fishing season is underway for an estimated 647,000 anglers. Officials expect to stock more than 2 million trout in 315 lakes and ponds and 2,800 miles of streams.
NORTH CAROLINA Shelby: Authori- ties say four men were wounded in a “running gun battle” between two cars near Kings Mountain.
NORTH DAKOTA Mandan: The city is considering using vacant space for an entertainment district dubbed “The Railyard,” The Bismarck Tribune reports. Commissioners are open to suggestions.
OHIO Delaware: A jury says the Buckeye Valley school district should pay $229,000 for the Haunted Hoorah spooky house attraction that it wants for a bus turnaround. The owners wanted more than $300,000. The district offered $100,000.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma: Nearly 150 law enforcement agencies in the state haven’t complied with an order to report untested rape kit totals, six weeks after an extended deadline expired, The Oklahoman reports.
OREGON Bend: The Deschutes Historical Museum is seeking comment on proposed designs for a Klondike Kate memorial sculpture, The Bulletin reports. Klondike Kate was the stage name for a Gold Rush entertainer.
PENNSYLVANIA York: Investigators say the cause of a fire that preceded a building collapse, killing two firefighters, remains undetermined, but there’s no indication it was arson. Several potential accidental causes are being studied.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: Eight University of Rhode Island students will answer questions on oceanography in live broadcasts this week from the school’s research vessel, the RV Endeavor.
SOUTH CAROLINA Greenville: A state trooper helped residents escape a weekend apartment complex fire,
The Greenville News reports. Eight people were displaced but no injuries were reported.
SOUTH DAKOTA Fort Pierre: Horse races will come to the Stanley County Fairgrounds this spring after resolution of funding issues, The Capital Journal reports.
TENNESSEE Knoxville: Two of the state’s largest insurers report major reductions in opioid prescriptions, The Knoxville News Sentinel reports.
TEXAS Fort Worth: An ex-tax preparer on probation for inflating client refunds was sentenced to five years in prison for voting in the 2016 presidential election while still ineligible, Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports.
UTAH Salt Lake City: Officials are going after a pair of oil and gas firms that allegedly failed to report production figures for more than a year, The Salt Lake Tribune reports.
VERMONT Castleton: The Green Lantern Group hopes to build a 150kilowatt solar project here, The Rutland Herald reports.
VIRGINIA Richmond: A warehouse and distribution project is proposed for a Chesterfield County site previously intended for a Chinese paper manufacturing plant that fizzled.
WASHINGTON Seattle: Leo, a 360pound gorilla at Woodland Park Zoo, has died after a brief illness.
WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: Gov. Jim Justice appointed former schools superintendent David Roach to head the state School Building Authority that handles school construction.
WISCONSIN Madison: Some police agencies are returning mine-resistant vehicles on loan from the Pentagon and replacing them with smaller armored vehicles they say are more appropriate for law enforcement.
WYOMING Casper: The Bureau of Land Management may raise fishing guide permits issued for a 30-mile stretch of the North Platte River upstream from Casper, the Casper Star-Tribune reports.