STATE-BY-STATE

News from across the USA

ALABAMA Montgomery: The historic Murphy House downtown will be sold for more than $2 million, The Montgomery Advertiser reports. The building dates to 1851.

ALASKA Anchorage: Tens of thousands of dollars worth of ivory and native art were stolen from an antique store, the Anchorage Daily News reports.

ARKANSAS Little Rock: The boyhood home of country music icon Johnny Cash is being nominated to the National Register of Historic Places, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports.

ARIZONA Prescott: The historic Castle Hot Spring resort, which was damaged in the 1970s by a fire, is to reopen Oct. 1.

CALIFORNIA Victorville: Firefighters and mechanics rescued two people from an amusement park ride that got stuck 165 feet in the air.

COLORADO Denver: A coalition of Colorado business groups has endorsed a $5 billion transportation measure moving through the legislature.

CONNECTICUT Hartford: Several hundred members of the Connecticut National Guard were welcomed home Sunday from deployment to south- west Asia.

DELAWARE Dover: A federal judge says a Vaughn Correctional Center inmate who claims he’s severely mentally ill may have legitimate mistreatment claims and can file an amended lawsuit alleging failure to receive proper treatment.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: There are still 260 families at D.C.’s largest homeless shelter, which is set to close at the end of September.

FLORIDA Delray Beach: Authorities say a man struck by a high-speed Brightline train was killed Sunday. Three others have been struck by the trains since service began this year but survived.

GEORGIA Macon: The bond rating for Macon-Bibb County has been downgraded by Moody’s from AA2 to A1, WMAZ-TV reports.

HAWAII Hilo: Scientists are teaming up with students at the Volcano School of Arts and Sciences to study ambrosia beetles, a potential transmitter of the tree-killing disease rapid ohia death.

IDAHO Boise: The state Department of Education has awarded $1.5 million in grants to 10 schools and communities to help fund after-school and summer learning programs.

ILLINOIS Decatur: The Millikin University baseball team will be playing on a new on-campus field next spring thanks to $5 million in private donations.

INDIANA Crown Point: Judges in Lake County are seeking money to hire staffers they say are needed to help shift to a new online filing system.

IOWA Dubuque: Workers have been spending the last two months refurbishing seven statues that for more than a century have adorned the Dubuque County Courthouse.

KANSAS Hutchinson: The renovation of The Cosmosphere space museum will include four mission control consoles, once used by NASA engineers to guide astronauts to the moon.

KENTUCKY Frankfort: Kentucky State Parks are offering a weekday discount for golfers this spring, a 20% discount off the normal rate.

LOUISIANA Lafayette: The popular Festival International de Louisiane will issue electronic bracelets instead of selling tickets for fairgoers to buy drinks and festival merchandise.

MAINE Bangor: Police officials are warning of bad batches of heroin following a spate of overdoses. Offi- cials assume the heroin was laced with fentanyl, which is far more powerful than heroin.

MARYLAND Annapolis: State lawmakers have approved a measure to require science researchers to take reasonable steps to offer dogs and cats for adoption once they’re no longer needed for research.

MASSACHUSETTS Boston: Several former governors from around the country will take part in a Harvard University School of Public Health forum Thursday to discuss the nation’s ongoing opioid addiction crisis.

MICHIGAN Detroit: A video documenting a year of weather in Detroit will be displayed throughout April on a big screen outside Cobo Center downtown.

MINNESOTA Minneapolis: A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by two Minnesota wineries over a law that restricts the source of grapes they can use.

MISSISSIPPI Starkville: Mississippi State University senior physics major Nicholas Ezzell will receive a Barry Goldwater Scholarship to continue research at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory on quantum computing software.

MISSOURI Jefferson City: The state is getting nearly $280,000 in federal funding for housing for homeless veterans.

MONTANA Helena: Fish and wildlife regulators are proposing to cap the number of commercial fishing guides on the Madison River. Commercial outfitter use has increased by 72 percent since 2008, officials say.

NEBRASKA York: Authorities seized 260 pounds of marijuana and arrested a driver in York County. The estimated street value is $1 million.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: The state is seeking more flexibility in how it assesses student performance under a federal program that allows different assessment approaches in some districts rather than statewide standardized tests.

NEW JERSEY Mount Laurel: The president of Rowan College will resign Sept. 1, months after he was placed on leave following an EEOC complaint.

NEW MEXICO Sante Fe: The state’s Supreme Court is weighing whether two remaining death row inmates – Robert Fry and Timothy Allen – still can be executed after the state’s abolition of capital punishment.

NEW YORK West Point: Military cadets from around the world will compete Friday and Saturday at West Point in the annual Sandhurst Military Skills Competition, featuring events such as marksmanship and grenade throwing.

NORTH CAROLINA Asheville: A collection of four rare star rubies found near here in 1990 will be sold at the New York auction house Guernsey’s, where they could fetch $90 million or more.

NORTH DAKOTA Hebron: The High- way Patrol says a semi-tractor collided with a state Transportation Department snowplow on Interstate 94. No one was hurt.

OHIO Akron: Police say three women whose bodies were found last weekend in an Akron home are believed to have died of drug overdoses.

OKLAHOMA Covington: The Oklahoma Corporation Commission directed a wastewater disposal well to reduce its volume of injection after more than a dozen earthquakes rattled the northwest part of the state since Friday.

OREGON Salem: Gov. Kate Brown signed a bill withholding state business from Internet providers who throttle traffic, making the state the second to finalize a proposal aimed at thwarting moves by federal regulators to relax net neutrality requirements. PENNSYLVANIA East Pittsburgh: The collapse of an apartment building also brought down a section of Route 30 last weekend. Authorities say the road will be closed for months.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: The city’s bumper-cars-on-ice attraction downtown has proven more popular than officials anticipated, easily bringing in enough revenue to cover the cost of buying the 16-car fleet.

SOUTH CAROLINA North Myrtle

Beach: Authorities say a masked man tried to rob the Turtle Market with a sticky note demanding the money in the register, then went next door to the 39th Avenue Bar and Grill. When he didn’t get anything, he later fled on a blue moped, The Sun News reports.

SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: An Allegiant Air passenger carrying 155 passengers and six crew members skidded off a snowy runway after touching down. No one was injured.

TENNESSEE Nashville: A bill that would allow liquor sales on Sunday has passed the House.

TEXAS Hurst: Five people, including two police officers, were injured when an SUV that crashed into a home and hit a natural gas line exploded. The driver, who told officers the brakes failed, was charged with driving without a license.

UTAH Salt Lake City: Billy Idol, Sheryl Crow and the Counting Crows are scheduled for this year’s Red Butte Garden Outdoor Concert Series. The 30-show schedule begins May 23 and ends Sept. 17.

VERMONT Rutland: Green Mountain National Forest officials say between 200 and 600 acres of the forest will be burned this spring to cut back on accumulations of grass and brush to reduce the risk of wildfires.

VIRGINIA Stafford: Authorities say a woman chasing her dog on Interstate 95 after she wrecked her car was struck and killed last weekend. Her dog also was struck and killed.

WASHINGTON Seattle: State regulators tentatively denied a request by Willapa Bay oyster growers to use a pesticide to control shrimp that burrow in oyster and clam beds and make it hard for the shellfish to grow.

WISCONSIN Madison: Federal officials have approved Gov. Walker’s request to establish new economic opportunity zones in 44 Wisconsin counties.

WYOMING Cheyenne: A $20 million international competition to make profitable products from carbon dioxide is down to 10 finalists. The contestants will collect $500,000 apiece.

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: The state Supreme Court says two of Gov. Jim Justice’s coal companies weren’t responsible for contaminating the wells of more than a dozen families.