STATE-BY-STATE

ALABAMA Birmingham: City officials apologized after residents got a 5 a.m. robocall wake-up Friday with information about preparations for weather hazards. Officials said the call was supposed to go out at 5 p.m.

ALASKA Juneau: The state’s unemployment rate remained at 7.3 percent, the highest it’s been in Alaska since early 2012.

ARIZONA Yarnell: A statue honoring 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots firefighting team who died in a 2013 wildfire has been unveiled near the site where they died.

ARKANSAS Corning: State health officials say visitors to the Flash Market and Subway store here may have been exposed to hepatitis A. A worker tested positive for the virus.

CALIFORNIA Emeryville: Traffic was halted on a street after a baby raccoon crawled inside the engine compartment of an SUV stopped at a signal. A policeman used a pole to free the raccoon.

COLORADO Colorado Springs: The Joint Forces Space Command Component will move nearly 150 personnel to Schriever Air Force Base, the Colorado Springs Gazette reports.

CONNECTICUT New London: Vice President Pence has been tapped to speak at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s graduation ceremony May 2.

DELAWARE Wilmington: For the 19th year in a row, New Castle County has received a failing air quality grade, The Wilmington News reports.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Authorities say a house fire displaced 14 members of an extended family, but no one was hurt. The fire was accidental.

FLORIDA West Palm Beach: A longago boyfriend of a former ballerina faces up to 15 years in prison for stalking her, something he began doing 31 years ago, The Palm Beach

Post reports.

GEORGIA Douglasville: Deputies say human remains found along Interstate 20 were identified as those of a high school English teacher reported missing three years ago.

HAWAII Honolulu: A Hawaii National Guard unit that operates Chinook helicopters is deploying to Afghanistan after training in Texas, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports.

IDAHO Sandpoint: A man charged with hitting two women with his pickup truck as they walked along a road, killing one of them, has entered Alford pleas to felony manslaughter and misdemeanor reckless driving,

The Bonner County Daily Bee reports.

ILLINOIS Chicago: Union activity is increasing among non-tenured faculty and graduate students at several state schools, including the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois, the Chicago Tribune reports.

INDIANA Terre Haute: More than 100 people attended the dedication of the “Little Syria on the Wabash,” a historical marker that honors Syrian immigrants who flocked to the area.

IOWA Cedar Rapids: Meals from the Heartland will host its first Cedar Rapids Hunger Fight May 4-5. The goal is to package 250,000 meals.

KANSAS South Hutchinson: Residents have been warned not to rely on the city’s outdoor sirens to alert them to violent weather. The sirens will be activated by hand until system updates are completed.

KENTUCKY Frankfort: County voting officials are getting cybersecurity training as the state bolsters efforts to protect elections from hacking threats.

LOUISIANA Covington: Prosecutors say a woman who used another woman’s ID to get a high-paying manager job was convicted of identity theft after being tripped up when the company realized she was delegating everything.

MAINE Augusta: Gov. Paul LePage has signed a bill creating a specialty license plate for The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital in Maine.

MARYLAND Annapolis: The growing use of palm-sized vaping devices that look like USB drives has prompted Broadneck High School to remove doors from half of its bathrooms, The Capital Gazette reports.

MASSACHUSETTS Peabody: Police are warning residents to watch out for someone posing as a city employee to steal from their home. The

Salem News reports that a man posing as a water agency worker took about $1,400 at one home.

MICHIGAN Clarkston: The driver of a gravel hauler had to be pulled from the rig after the truck, which had been spotted driving the wrong direction, smashed through the wall of a dental office.

MINNESOTA Minneapolis: A pastor who drives a school bus has been taken off his route for leading the passengers in prayer.

MISSISSIPPI Jackson: Some 400 state inmates are being moved out of regional jails into Mississippi prisons to save money, but sheriffs say their jails depend on the state revenue.

MISSOURI Branson: The Springfield Art Museum is telling the story of Rose O’Neill, inventor of the Kewpie doll, in a new exhibit, The Joplin Globe reports.

MONTANA West Glacier: Department of Transportation managers are warning drivers to watch out for rockslides.

NEBRASKA Beaver Crossing: The State Patrol says troopers seized 182 pounds of marijuana with an estimated street value of $546,0000 in a traffic stop on Interstate 80.

NEVADA Reno: Authorities say the Washoe County library downtown will remain open while officials work to reduce levels of potentially dangerous radon in the building, the

Reno Gazette Journal reports.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Atkinson: A bridge is being named for Lance Cpl. Dimitrios Gavriel, who joined the Marines in response to 9/11 and was killed in Iraq in 2004.

NEW JERSEY Ventnor: Fire officials say a blaze that injured two firefighters did more than $1 million damage to a three-story home.

NEW MEXICO Las Vegas: A school district is considering a proposal that would mandate drug testing for teachers, staff and student-athletes amid an opioid crisis that has affected the area.

NEW YORK Buchanan: A nuclear power plant has returned to service after a month-long scheduled outage for refueling and maintenance.

NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: State community college leaders have reduced paid time off for workers on dozens of local campuses, limiting paid holidays to 12 each fiscal year, the same that government employees receive.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: A $1.8 million project is underway to replace the four main elevators at the Capitol building.

OHIO Akron: ACCESS, a homeless shelter that helps women and children, hit a milestone by raising $1.5 million in its two-year Time for Transformation campaign, Cleveland.com reports. OKLAHOMA Washington County: Two volunteer teenage firefighters have been arrested for allegedly setting grass fires.

OREGON Portland: The former mayor of Winston has been sentenced to a year and four months in prison for soliciting sex from a police officer on Facebook who he thought was a 14year-old girl.

PENNSYLVANIA Wilkes-Barre: A 4-year-old boy received a letter summoning him to jury duty, WNEP-TV reports. It’s believed his name was mistakenly pulled from tax documents his great-grandmother filed after buying him stocks.

RHODE ISLAND Narragansett: Authorities say a record-breaking algae bloom in Narragansett Bay is setting the stage for a booming harvest of clams and scallops, The Providence

Journal reports.

SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: Authorities say a man serving 50 years in prison for killing his ex-wife’s father was convicted of trying to send her a bomb through the mail while behind bars by using a contraband cellphone.

SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: Two men plan to walk for 24 straight hours across the city to raise money for a church mission trip.

TENNESSEE Nashville: Gov. Bill Haslam signed a bill to allow sales of wines and spirits every day except three — Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving.

TEXAS Houston: In another response to Hurricane Harvey, the city has launched an adopt-a-drain program to recruit residents to help avoid backups. Houston has about 115,000 storm drains.

UTAH Ogden: Sheriff ’s deputies responding to a report of a dead deer on the side of a road instead found a dead mountain lion that apparently had been struck by a vehicle.

VERMONT Hyde Park: A judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by foreign investors against state officials in a fraud case involving ventures around the Jay Peak ski area, Vermont Public Radio reports.

VIRGINIA Virginia Beach: Police say a man who was intoxicated stole an ambulance while its crew was dropping off a patient at a hospital and drove about four miles before overturning the vehicle, The Virginian

Pilot reports.

WASHINGTON Bremerton: The city is installing more guardrails around Tracyton Beach Road after a fatal crash off the edge, the second such accident on the road in two years.

WEST VIRGINIA Kingwood: Preston County has declared a state of emergency over “deplorable” road conditions that “pose a danger for motorists, commercial traffic and first responders.”

WISCONSIN Madison: Records show that a state forest ranger was fired last year for what officials say was building a culture of intimidation, including urinating on a state truck and defacing a snowmobile.

WYOMING Sheridan: An EPA restriction placed on the city in the late 1980s has been lifted as the result of decades-long efforts to improve air quality, The Sheridan Press reports. From staff and wire reports