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STATE-BY-STATE

- From staff and wire reports

ALABAMA Montgomery: Alabama’s recreation­al red snapper fishing season will be 47 days, beginning June 1.

ALASKA Anchorage: The state will try to recoup the $1.8 million repair of the Artillery Road overpass that was hit by an over-height truck.

ARIZONA Tucson: Lawyer Scott Lieberman was disbarred after he didn’t contest allegation­s that he failed to obey court orders, abandoned a client and solicited sex from a client.

ARKANSAS Hot Springs: Garland County officials say a man and a woman were found apparently shot to death in a trailer near Hot Springs.

CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: Police recovered an ambulance that was stolen while its crew was assessing a patient downtown.

COLORADO Denver: The Postal Service says fewer of its Colorado carriers were attacked by dogs last year.

CONNECTICU­T Hartford: A state lawmaker says a proposed surcharge on insurance policies to raise money for homeowners with crumbling foundation­s isn’t a dead issue.

DELAWARE Dover: A former Academy of Dover principal who pleaded guilty to embezzleme­nt will repay $145,480 and serve prison time.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: The student occupation of a Howard University administra­tion building has ended with a series of agreements.

FLORIDA Tallahasse­e: Frequent visitors to Florida state parks will be eligible for an annual family pass by collecting stamps from all 175 parks.

GEORGIA Atlanta: Gov. Nathan Deal has asked Piedmont Hospital and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia to continue negotiatio­ns after they failed to reach a contract.

HAWAII Honolulu: The state Supreme Court will decide whether online travel companies must pay general excise taxes for car rentals.

IDAHO Soda Springs: A 3.4-magnitude earthquake rattled eastern Idaho on Saturday.

ILLINOIS Rockford: Police are seeking the gunman in the fatal shooting last weekend of three people on a private entertainm­ent charter bus.

INDIANA Elkhart: The Army Corps of Engineers plans to remove an Elkhart River dam.

IOWA Sioux City: The owners of the former Belle of Sioux City riverboat casino have agreed to pay $1.5 million to the nonprofit Community Action Agency of Siouxland.

KANSAS Topeka: A court ruling invalidati­ng Topeka’s ordinance restrictin­g tobacco sales to people 21 and older has put into question similar measures in 15 metro Kansas City municipali­ties.

KENTUCKY Richmond: Eastern Kentucky University has suspended programs and cut more than 150 jobs to recoup $25 million in costs.

LOUISIANA Hammond: Peninsula Pacific is proposing to move its Bossier City casino license to build a casino in Tangipahoa Parish.

MAINE Portland: The Department of Labor’s 12 CareerCent­ers job fairs will run through June 19.

MARYLAND Annapolis: The U.S. Naval Academy Museum held a public viewing of a British flag captured in the War of 1812.

MASSACHUSE­TTS Boston: The City Council is holding a hearing on a merger that would form a 13-hospital network.

MICHIGAN Grand Rapids: The Gerald R. Ford Presidenti­al Museum has opened an exhibit celebratin­g the 100th birthday of Betty Ford. The former first lady died in 2011.

MINNESOTA Rochester: City police have been calling on a social worker in a program to help in situations involving mental health calls.

MISSISSIPP­I Biloxi: The city plans to launch a $260,000 fireboat.

MISSOURI Columbia: Central Bank of Boone County is hosting a series of “adulting” classes for Millennial­s.

MONTANA Helena: The state Supreme Court is weighing if to reinstate a ban on tax credits for donations that go to scholarshi­ps for students at religious schools.

NEBRASKA Kearney: The University of Nebraska-Kearney is launching a program to connect aspiring entreprene­urs.

NEVADA Reno: Lyon County activists filed a petition to repeal an ordinance that allows legal prostituti­on.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: Registrati­on has opened for the “Becoming an Outdoors-Woman” Deep Sea Fishing Adventure course June 2.

NEW JERSEY Gloucester Town

ship: A police officer seen on body cameras hitting a handcuffed 13year-old girl has been suspended and charged with assault.

NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: Plaintiffs in a defamation suit against Gov. Susan Martinez’s security detail say the case will be settled out of court.

NEW YORK Albany: The New York State Library will mark its bicentenni­al with special exhibition­s. NORTH CAROLINA Mount Airy: The Surry County clerk of court says she never meant to require her employees to work for her re-election, even though a leaked memo indicated otherwise.

NORTH DAKOTA Minot: A slow real estate market has shelved a project to provide affordable housing for residents displaced by the 2011 Souris River flood.

OHIO Cincinnati: The National Undergroun­d Railroad Freedom Center has two new exhibits on the Confederac­y.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: A man faces a potential death sentence if convicted in the death of a woman last September on Indian land.

OREGON Bend: Veterinari­ans say an opioid shortage has clinics using less potent anesthetic­s on pets.

PENNSYLVAN­IA Bethlehem: Lehigh University officials say a student was arrested in connection with “racist language” scrawled in a residence hall room.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: State lawmakers are working on a bill to prohibit mistreatme­nt of animals. SOUTH CAROLINA Fripp Island: Officials at the Fripp Island Resort are looking for the people who harassed an 11-foot alligator, calling the action “a new level of stupid.”

SOUTH DAKOTA Rapid City: The state game commission has reduced the number of hunting licenses available for the upcoming elk season.

TENNESSEE Memphis: Willie Herenton, 77, the city’s first black mayor has launched a campaign to return to the office.

TEXAS Houston: Authoritie­s are searching for a boy, 13, suspected of fatally shooting a man who got into a confrontat­ion with the boy’s brother.

UTAH St. George: A new Dixie State University exhibit showcases clothes that sexual abuse victims wore when they were assaulted.

VERMONT Rutland: The owner of the vacant Flory Plaza shopping center says it’s going to be partially demolished, the Rutland Herald reports.

VIRGINIA Abingdon: The publisher of Prison Legal News, is suing a regional authority that operates four southwest Virginia jails for blocking inmates from getting the publicatio­n.

WASHINGTON Wallula: The Simplot Feeders beef cattle feedlot has reached a settlement with the state over failure to manage air pollution.

WEST VIRGINIA Wayne: Some Wayne County residents spent a week without water while crews searched for a leak along Garretts Creek Road.

WISCONSIN La Crosse: Police are changing how they test potentiall­y fatal drugs, the La Crosse Tribune reports.

WYOMING Rozet: The post office here is temporaril­y closed after a pickup truck crashed into the building.

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