STATE-BY-STATE
ALABAMA Hamilton: Communications company Tombigbee has received a $3 million federal grant to expand broadband Internet access across rural northwest Alabama.
ALASKA Anchorage: A snowmobile driver died near Blackstone Glacier after being buried by an avalanche.
ARIZONA Tucson: Federal authorities seized more than $188,000 in heroin at the U.S.-Mexico border.
ARKANSAS Conway: The town of Damascus that got a third of its revenue from speeding fines agreed to closer scrutiny of its enforcement.
CALIFORNIA Modesto: A judge ordered Stanislaus County to pay nearly $1.4 million to lawyers for a deputy who sued the Sheriff ’s Department.
COLORADO Pueblo: A judge barred commissioner Frances Koncilja from a Black Hills Energy rate case, citing a lack of impartiality in comments on the need to protect consumers.
CONNECTICUT Hartford: State lawmakers have passed a measure requiring corrections officials to determine whether female inmates are pregnant before they’re incarcerated.
DELAWARE Dover: People convicted of minor marijuana charges may be able to expunge their records under proposed legislation, WDEL reports.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: A diesel truck carrying 1,700 gallons of fuel began to leak after crashing and flipping on its side. No one was injured.
FLORIDA Key West: Officials say part of a 17th century gold bar stolen from a maritime museum was recovered.
GEORGIA Atlanta: Gov. Nathan Deal has signed into law a regional transit authority covering 13 counties.
HAWAII Honolulu: Southwest Airlines has announced plans to offer low-cost inter-island service.
IDAHO Boise: Idaho State University can’t account for the whereabouts of weapons-grade plutonium about the size of a quarter. Officials say that’s too small to make a nuclear bomb.
ILLINOIS Chicago: Willis Tower elevators will get a major overhaul for the first time in its history.
INDIANA Roseland: The University of Notre Dame will build new housing for married graduate students.
IOWA Des Moines: A Moulton Elementary School audit shows that an ex-principal improperly spent over $4,700 with a school credit card.
KANSAS Wichita: Farmers expect the smallest winter wheat crop since 1989 amid an ongoing drought.
KENTUCKY Scottsville: A man who legally changed his name to “The Reverend” pleaded guilty to killing his assisted living center roommate.
LOUISIANA Rayne: A fire at a chemical plant serving energy businesses sent huge smoke plumes skyward, prompting a one-mile evacuation.
MAINE Portland: A fisherman who had a key role in the state’s baby eel fishery awaits sentencing this week for illegally buying and selling them.
MARYLAND Baltimore: Nearly half of state crab houses lack workers to pick them after most failed to get visas in the lottery used this year.
MASSACHUSETTS Milton: A judge set $7,500 cash bail for a man who led police on a chase with his 81year-old grandmother in the car.
MICHIGAN Detroit: The Detroit Medical Center is severing a nearly century-old partnership with Wayne State University’s medical school.
MINNESOTA Minneapolis: Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis is dropping its refugee resettlement programs as the state sees a slowdown in arriving refugees.
MISSISSIPPI Jackson: Jasper and Smith counties have sued Gov. Phil Bryant, saying he overstepped his authority by ordering the closure of more than 100 locally maintained bridges as structurally unsafe.
MISSOURI Kansas City: A federal lawsuit alleges that the city never notified used car dealer John Hinz
before selling several of his vehicles. MONTANA Missoula: Two captured grizzlies were relocated away from residential areas and livestock.
NEBRASKA Unadilla: A man who spent time in prison for neglecting his livestock now faces charges in a new case after pig and goat carcasses were found on his farm.
NEVADA Carson City: Auditors say that, as of last summer, more than 5,500 elevators and boilers in the state lacked current inspections.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Wolfeboro: Police say a 12-year-old boy riding in a dump truck died when a tire blew out and the vehicle ran into a tree.
NEW JERSEY Holmdel: Police charged the superintendent of a Kenilworth school district with public defecation for allegedly relieving himself at a high school football field and track in another district.
NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: A daycare center was broken into three times in the past few weekends.
NEW YORK Syracuse: A man accused of killing three people in a car crash had his bail cut to $250,000 cash from $1 million.
NORTH CAROLINA Charlotte: The University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s Kappa Sigma fraternity was suspended after a student died when she fell from a party bus that was rented by the fraternity.
NORTH DAKOTA Bismark: The state has its first documented case of E. coli tied to a food poisoning outbreak linked to romaine lettuce
OHIO Columbus: A video shows a man outside of a library purposely tripping an armed suspect attempting to flee from police.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Gov. Mary Fallin will decide on a bill that would only allow judges, not juries, to sentence juveniles convicted of murder to life without parole.
OREGON Grants Pass: Despite resident opposition, officials approved a
$638,000 sidewalks effort in Merlin. PENNSYLVANIA State College: Penn State head Eric Barron was given a 3-year contract extension.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: The state Women’s March chapter says it split from the national group because a leader there won’t denounce Louis Farrakhan’s anti-Semitic remarks.
SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: Authorities say a woman working on a state construction project died in an accident on a scissors lift.
SOUTH DAKOTA Aberdeen: Brown County is offering refunds to landowners who have been overtaxed on their properties in recent years.
TENNESSEE Nashville: Gov. Bill Haslam vetoed a bill to have state worker insurance cover proton therapy, an alternative cancer treatment.
TEXAS Waco: Prosecutors have dismissed 15 more cases relating to the 2015 shootout involving rival biker gangs that left nine dead.
UTAH Salt Lake City: A 44-bedroom house that was once polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs’ home was converted to a sober living center.
VERMONT Brattleboro: The state will receive $4 million in federal funding to help combat the opioid crisis.
VIRGINIA McLean: George Mason University’s faculty senate wants the school to disclose the full terms of agreements with donors.
WASHINGTON Seattle: The Alaska Air Group broke ground on an office near the Seattle-Tacoma airport.
WEST VIRGINIA Davis: A land donation of nearly 2 square miles more than doubles Bear Rocks Preserve.
WISCONSIN Madison: Tourist spending in the state last year rose more than 3% over 2016, to $12.7 billion.
WYOMING Jackson: Officials say dozens of horn hunters are being cited for trespassing at the National Elk Refuge. That carries a $280 fine.