STATE-BY-STATE
ALABAMA Birmingham: A federal grand jury has indicted two men in separate counterfeiting cases.
ALASKA Kodiak: A test rocket made in California is scheduled to launch from here May 10 or 11.
ARIZONA Flagstaff: The Coconino Humane Association operates emergency animal shelters where people who must evacuate because of wildfires can bring their horses and pets.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: The state Supreme Court has agreed to speed up its review of a ruling that blocked the state’s first medical marijuana growing licenses.
CALIFORNIA San Diego: Local strippers and club owners are lobbying city officials to lower fees that are scheduled to rise July 1 to $388 per stripper and $5,830 per club operator.
COLORADO Lakewood: Authorities say a fire that killed six horses in two adjacent barns is suspicious.
CONNECTICUT Hartford: Eighteen state communities have been awarded Tree City USA designations.
DELAWARE Magnolia: A woman accused of making meth as a passenger in a car is charged with unlawfully operating a clandestine lab.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: A man who admitted firing a gun while robbing a mail carrier will be sentenced in July.
FLORIDA Key West: A man accused of stealing a museum’s gold bar found at a 1622 Spanish galleon wreck site has pleaded guilty.
GEORGIA Jackson: State investigators released a forensic sketch of a woman whose bones were found in a suitcase along an interstate highway.
HAWAII Honolulu: The Zippy’s restaurant chain says a data breach might have compromised customers’ credit and debit card information.
IDAHO Boise: The popular Urban Ascent rock climbing gym is closing to make way for affordable housing.
ILLINOIS Bloomington: McLean County officials have a pilot school program to link students with mental health concerns with a therapist.
INDIANA South Bend: Archaeology experts believe a human skull found while building a walking trail is that of an adult of European descent.
IOWA Des Moines: A $40 million renovation is to begin soon on the landmark Hotel Fort Des Moines.
KANSAS Topeka: Kansas is moving to loosen rules for amusement rides for events such as county fairs.
KENTUCKY Lexington: The University of Kentucky opened a $200 million student center Monday.
LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: Officials say victims of August 2016 flooding who’ve been living in FEMA trailers since then can stay through Aug. 15.
MAINE Bangor: A foundation that owns Pineland Farms is reopening a dairy that closed in 2013.
MARYLAND Baltimore: The city school system budget proposes to cut nearly $5.5 million from Baltimore’s 34 charter schools.
MASSACHUSETTS Lynn: A North Shore Medical Center patient tried to grab a police officer’s gun but was subdued in seconds.
MICHIGAN Coldwater: Two men are accused of causing $500,000 damage to Oak Grove Cemetery stones.
MINNESOTA Greenbush: A maker of wood-fired home boilers is pushing back on proposed new standards to eliminate two-thirds of remaining wood smoke pollutants.
MISSISSIPPI Meridian: The $50 million Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Experience has opened.
MISSOURI Kansas City: An extensive photo exhibit spanning 190 years has opened at the NelsonAtkins Museum of Art.
MONTANA Billings: A judge ordered city officials to temporarily shield the names of three police officers suspended for having sex with a
civilian employee on city property.
NEBRASKA Lincoln: Lancaster County officials are deciding whether to turn an old office building into either a mental health and addiction services center or apartments.
NEVADA Reno: A man pleaded guilty to fraud and other charges in using stolen IDs to bilk victims out of $3.5 million.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Nottingham: State officials warn that hungry bears are getting bolder, attacking farm animals in forages for food.
NEW JERSEY Trenton: The number of fraudulent Superstorm Sandy disaster relief cases is up to 112.
NEW MEXICO Alamogordo: Asbestos has been found nearly everywhere in the abandoned Sahara Apartments, complicating the city’s desire to demolish the property.
NEW YORK Kingston: The sloop Clearwater has set sail on the Hudson River for its spring season.
NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: Efforts to unravel the fate of the Lost Colony could benefit after a preservation group bought a coastal tract where some colonists might have resettled.
NORTH DAKOTA Mandan: Morton County will use OpenGov, a cloudbased software for governments, to publish its checkbooks.
OHIO Cincinnati: Police arrested a woman accused of stealing a blue morpho butterfly from Krohn Conservatory botanical garden.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: A Choctaw man and an Oklahoma City woman claimed the top spots Sunday in the 2018 Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon.
OREGON Boardman: Lost Valley Farm, Oregon’s newest large dairy, filed for bankruptcy a day before its cattle were to be sold at auction.
PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia: The Office of Open Records has ordered the city to release the financial incentives it offered Amazon to build its second headquarters here.
RHODE ISLAND Warwick: Uber will stop picking up T.F. Green International Airport passengers due to disputes with airport officials over fees.
SOUTH CAROLINA Conway: A couple whom authorities have linked to the disappearance of a woman five years ago face charges of conspiracy to commit kidnapping.
SOUTH DAKOTA Pierre: Archivists are moving old Stanley County tax records to a climate-controlled State Historical Society facility.
TENNESSEE Nashville: State officials say a dump truck cut a cable and temporarily affected Internet connections during students’ online testing.
TEXAS Houston: A state panel ordered the Harris County district attorney’s office to review dozens of DWI cases because a former toxicologist misrepresented her credentials.
UTAH Salt Lake City: Three men pleaded not guilty to charges of trying to blow up ATMs at three credit unions and a bank.
VERMONT Rutland: College of St. Joseph trustees say it may close because of low enrollment and revenue.
VIRGINIA Virginia Beach: New Realm Brewing plans to open a brewery and taproom that will be capable of producing 40,000 barrels a year.
WASHINGTON Seattle: Families with ancestors buried in two Jewish cemeteries say homeless people staying there litter the sites with drug needles, garbage and human waste.
WEST VIRGINIA Branchland: Police accused the father of a woman who was found dead in 2016 with shooting at the property of the suspect’s mother, wife and public defender.
WISCONSIN Madison: An American Lung Association report fails eight state counties for air pollution.
WYOMING Cheyenne: The remodeled and expanded Herschler East building at the Capitol opened Monday.