STATE-BY-STATE
ALABAMA Birmingham: One person was injured when a vehicle ran into a Chick-fil-A restaurant’s brick wall.
ALASKA Juneau: The penalty is going up, from $25 to $100, for hanging out in a car and not loading passengers outside the Juneau International Airport terminal.
ARIZONA Flagstaff: State transportation officials will meet to discuss ways to ease traffic congestion on the city’s busiest roads.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: A marker was placed at the gravesite of some of the 21 victims of a deadly 1959 fire at the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School.
CALIFORNIA Salinas: A man was convicted of torturing, starving and beating two children whose bodies were found in a storage unit.
COLORADO Fort Collins: Some Colorado State University graduates are suing the school for failing to gain accreditation for its landscape architecture master’s degree program.
CONNECTICUT Tolland: The owner of an adult entertainment club has agreed to replace a risqué billboard along Interstate 84 after residents and commuters complained, The
Journal Inquirer of Manchester reports.
DELAWARE Dover: An inmate who escaped through an open storage room while on trash detail was caught.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: A man found dead inside a stranger’s parked car was identified as a 34-year-old lawyer.
FLORIDA Largo: Detectives went to a funeral home and tried to use a dead man’s finger to unlock his cellphone, but it didn’t work.
GEORGIA Tifton: The Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College is creating a teaching forest to educate students.
HAWAII Honolulu: Voters will have the opportunity to decide if Hawaii should establish a surcharge on in- vestment property to help fund public education.
IDAHO Coeur d’Alene: A man pleaded guilty to murder and robbery charges in a road rage killing.
ILLINOIS Champaign: The University of Illinois’ Champaign-Urbana campus has broken ground on a $48 million design center.
INDIANA Indianapolis: The Indiana Department of Child Services is over budget by $284 million with two months left in this fiscal year.
IOWA Sabula: Officials say drilling difficulties will delay use of the new Savanna-Sabula Bridge over the Mississippi River until July.
KANSAS Wichita: Someone vandalized an unoccupied patrol truck while it was parked at an officer’s residence.
KENTUCKY Frankfort: Fundraising posters that will highlight 16 state parks will be sold for $20 each.
LOUISIANA Norco: The Coast Guard is overseeing cleanup of a 2,600gallon oil spill from a foreignflagged chemical tanker.
MAINE Portland: The city is considering an ordinance to require employers to provide earned sick time for workers.
MARYLAND Springdale: Six students at two high schools reported feeling sick after eating brownies that authorities believe were spiked with synthetic marijuana.
MASSACHUSETTS Worcester: The new owner of the historic Notre Dame des Canadiens church plans to redevelop the site.
MICHIGAN Port Huron: A trash hauler who bribed officials to protect his business was sentenced to 5½ years in prison.
MINNESOTA Henderson Township: Rapidly melting snow caused some flooding around the state this week, including a section of Highway 93.
MISSISSIPPI D’lberville: Old Navy is opening a store at the Promenade Shopping Center.
MISSOURI Kansas City: Lawmakers are considering a bill that would legalize medical marijuana.
MONTANA Billings: The local Diocese bishop says a priest who urged a boycott of a Catholic schools fundraiser because two of its co-chairs are gay could have better handled the matter, Billings Gazette reports.
NEBRASKA Lincoln: A bill was vetoed that would repeal a law that lets counties eradicate black-tailed prairie dogs on private property.
NEVADA Las Vegas: Taxable sales of adult-use marijuana topped $35.3 million in February, up 9% from January.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Portsmouth: Two initial art projects have been approved for construction at a new downtown parking garage.
NEW JERSEY Newark: An environmental group intends to sue the city over what it says are elevated levels of lead in the drinking water.
NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: City Manager Brian Snyder has resigned at the request of Mayor Alan Webber, who is halting pay hikes that Snyder approved last month.
NEW YORK Pittsford: Residents are bidding farewell to an iconic 200year-old tree, which is dying. Saplings will be planted around town.
NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: Officials say about three dozen prison employees have lost work time from assaults since October.
NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: Officials have banned open burning in the Oahe Wildlife Management Area south of Bismarck-Mandan.
OHIO Toledo: The remains of the Lake Serpent, a schooner that went down in Lake Erie in 1829, may have been found.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Legislation has been vetoed that would have allowed voters to share cell- phone photos of their ballots.
OREGON Clackamas County: A 25year-old man who set a 69-year-old man on fire at Denny’s last year was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
PENNSYLVANIA Harrisburg: Gov. Tom Wolf wants state lawmakers to expand firearm background checks.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: Former Rhode Island Secretary of State Matt Brown is running for governor.
SOUTH CAROLINA Camden: A lane on the Interstate 20 bridge over the Wateree River was closed for repairs.
SOUTH DAKOTA Yankton: Peddler fees have changed for the first time since 1949. It’s now $25 a day, $75 a week or $200 a month.
TENNESSEE Maryville: A 6-year-old boy who had been missing for a day has been found safe.
TEXAS Houston: A woman who set her car on fire by revving the engine as she sat inside with her three children will get a mental evaluation.
UTAH Escalante: A bomb squad destroyed two mortars found in a remote area near town.
VERMONT Putney: A bridge that was supposed to be repaired this summer was fixed ahead of schedule..
VIRGINIA Manassas: A female employee at an adult store was bitten on the butt and sexually assulted by a customer who was later charged.
WASHINGTON Tacoma: The Alliance for Gun Responsibility is proposing a measure to raise the minimum age to buy a semi-automatic weapon to 21.
WEST VIRGINIA Martinsburg: The West Virginia University Cancer Institute is offering discount mammogram clinics next month.
WISCONSIN Mount Pleasant: The city says it has 95% of the property needed to build the Foxconn complex.
WYOMING Cheyenne: The state’s unemployment rate fell to 3.9%, the lowest it’s been in three years.