STATE-BY-STATE

Auburn: The city hopes to take part in a $40 million effort that includes 13 projects to upgrade recreation facilities and new parks, The Opelika-Auburn News reports.

Juneau: Southeast Alaska’s regional Native corporation, Sealaska, has posted its first internal profit in 14 years, $43.3 million in 2017, The Juneau Empire reports.

Tucson: Based on forensic evidence, police determined that a man who committed suicide in 2014 fatally stabbed a convenience store clerk the previous year.

Dyess: A farmhouse that was the boyhood home of singer Johnny Cash has made the National Register of Historic Places, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports.

Fresno: Health officials are investigating a measles case in Fresno County, Fresno Bee reports.

Boulder: The average price of a single-family home here has hit $1.2 million after a spate of first quarter sales of $2 million-plus homes, The Daily Camera reports.

Hartford: Gov. Dannel Malloy says he’ll sign legislation that prohibits employers from asking applicants about their salary history. Middletown: The MOT Charter High School had all of its first graduating class of 111 seniors accepted into college, News Journal says.

Police say two passengers in a vehicle being used for ridesharing were fatally wounded by someone shooting from another car.

Tallahassee: A Florida State University panel recommends removing a statue of Francis Eppes, the grandson of Thomas Jefferson, near the school’s main administration building. Eppes was a slave owner, The Tallahassee Democrat reports.

Atlanta: Gov. Nathan Deal is facing a Tuesday deadline to sign or veto legislation or let bills become law without his signature. Pending measures include keeping lottery winners anonymous.

Kailua-Kona: An audit found inadequate and ineffective cash handling controls at the Big Island’s Mass Transit Agency.

Boise: The state Democratic Party wants an investigation of The Idahoan, a 43-page publication that says it’s a newspaper but that Democrats say is a GOP effort to circumvent campaign and election laws.

Kankakee: A baby screech owl that fell from its nest twice was taken to Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation, The Daily Journal reports.

Fort Wayne: A company hoping to redevelop a former General Electric complex is opening the 31acre site for public tours, The Journal Gazette reports.

Dubuque: Officials say several barges broke free on the Mississippi River and hit a dam at Dubuque, The Telegraph Herald reports.

Topeka: Authorities say several doctors at state hospitals and prisons are treating patients despite not passing required medical exams but have socalled institutional licenses, The Kansas

City Star reports.

Covington: Prosecutors say a man awarded $750,000 in a sex abuse claim against the Catholic Church used another person’s identify to try to collect another $1 million from the Diocese of Covington.

New Orleans: More than 70 experts from 275 companies in the marijuana industry are expected for a conference that opens here Wednesday, The Times-Picayune reports.

Portland: Utilities Commission records show that Central Maine Power knew about billing problems for months, despite saying that new software wasn’t why more than 1,000 customers saw high winter bills, Portland Press Herald says.

Baltimore: The head of a police oversight panel is under fire after body-camera video shows him refusing multiple requests for his license and registration at a traffic stop and daring officers to arrest him, the Baltimore Sun reports.

Boston: A state trooper and a Suffolk County sheriff ’s sergeant who lost their lives were honored during a ceremony at Pope John Paul Park in Dorchester.

Fowlerville: Authorities say an off-duty police officer’s gun accidentally discharged at a high school wrestling meet. The bullet lodged in the floor.

Dassel: The Meeker County Sheriff ’s Office says officers who went to arrest a fugitive with an out-of-state warrant ended up uncovering a large-scale marijuana growing operation with 1,433 plants.

Hattiesburg: The University of Southern Mississippi will award a posthumous honorary degree to Clyde Kennard, a black U.S. Army veteran who was rejected when he tried to integrate the school in the 1950s.

Springfield: The Dickerson Park Zoo is showing off its newest resident – a giraffe born last week. No name has been selected.

Missoula: Southgate Mall was bought by a real estate investment group for $58 million.

Lincoln: Volunteers are sorting through old photos and documents to prepare to close Frank H. Woods Telephone Pioneer Museum, the Lincoln Journal-Star reports.

Las Vegas: Ridehailing service Lyft is partnering with Aptiv, an automotive technology company, to deploy a fleet of 30 driverless BMWs on the city’s streets this summer, The Las Vegas Sun reports.

Concord: Dartmouth College plans to launch a “historical accountability” project this summer to delve into how African-American and other underrepresented students have been treated since college was founded in 1769.

Wildwood: Parking should ease in this Jersey shore beach town as officials will allow four-wheel drive vehicles to park directly on the sand.

Albuquerque: Police say a woman faces child abuse and contributing to the delinquency of a minor charges for forcing her 7year-old daughter into a life of prostitution and pickpocketing.

Lake George: Authorities say the skeletal remains of a Brooklyn man reported missing six years ago were found in Upstate New York, The Albany Times-Union reports. Foul play is not suspected.

Charlotte: School systems in Charlotte, Durham and Chapel Hill have decided to cancel classes on May 16 because teachers plan a “March for Students and Rally for Respect” to press law- makers for more education funding.

Bismarck: A position created by the city school system aims to help Native American students better understand their culture, The Bismarck Tribune reports.

Rittman: Authorities say a couple found a stranger sleeping on their apartment couch after he helped himself to some leftover Easter candy. The intruder climbed through an unlocked window.

Oklahoma City: State lawmakers have passed a measure offering legal protection to faithbased adoption agencies that refuse to place children in LGBT homes.

Bend: Officials say the 66mile Cascades Lakes Highway will open on Thursday.

Reading: Authorities say a crash involving two police vehicles injured two officers and a bystander hit by flying debris.

Providence: The Navy has signed a lease to add solar panels to property near the Newport Naval Station.

Columbia: Authorities have ordered the Mi Casita Sports Bar and Lounge to stop running a strip club. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott says the business opens as a restaurant, “but when the doors close, the poles go up.”

Estelline: The Estelline School District is phasing out its Native American mascot and athletics team name, the Redmen. Six proposed new names are being considered, Watertown Public Opinion says.

Nashville: The state Board of Parole has set a May 23 clemency hearing for Cyntoia Brown, who’s serving life in prison for killing a customer when she was a 16-yearold prostitute. Supporters say Brown was a sex-trafficking victim.

Houston: A historic compound rumored to have once housed actor Clark Gable faces a demolition threat to build luxury townhomes, The Houston Chronicle reports.

Salt Lake City: Documents show that deputies repeatedly warned a former lieutenant now running for Weber County sheriff that an evidence technician he supervised often was high on methamphetamine at work, Salt Lake Tribune reports.

Barre: Vermont Granite Museum has unveiled a statue featuring two six-foot arms, one holding a hammer and the other a chisel. The ceremony Saturday was part of the state Green Up Day celebration.

Virginia Beach: The Navy says 11 members of its Naval Special Warfare SEAL teams tested positive for cocaine. Commanders are investigating to determine if all of the alleged offenses happened at the same place and time.

Graham: Aerial spraying for gypsy moths will get underway this week near this Pierce County community and Naval Base Kitsap, locations where the insects were trapped last summer, the Capital

Press reports.

Charleston: Officials have stepped up safety measures in a 20-mile Interstate 64 work zone between Milton and Hurricane following at least 25 crashes, including three fatalities.

Fond du Lac: Retired prison guard Don Gorske has eaten his 30,000th Big Mac, nearly 46 years after eating his first, WBAY-TV reports. Gorske, 64, won recognition from the Guinness World Records in 2016.

Powell: Some state farmers have delayed planting their sugar beet crops this spring because of lingering cold and wet conditions, the Powell Tribune reports. From staff and wire reports