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ALABAMA Auburn: A baby alligator found in a neighborhood here was placed with the Louise Kreher Forest Ecology Preserve and Nature Center.
ALASKA Fairbanks: Air Force officials say they have no intention of adding privatized base housing.
ARIZONA Phoenix: A registered sex offender was sentenced to 170 years in prison for sexual exploitation of a minor after downloading pictures and video of child porn on his cellphone.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: Police say two people were stabbed and one person is in custody from a mall fight.
CALIFORNIA Oakland: Two dead whales were found Friday in separate areas of San Francisco Bay.
COLORADO Fort Morgan: Health officials say Western Sugar Cooperative will pay $2 million to settle air and water pollution claims about foul odor coming from a sugar beet plant.
CONNECTICUT West Hartford: The state has launched an initiative to recruit LGBT community members to become foster and adoptive parents.
DELAWARE Dover: The Riverfront Development Corp. is being sued for allegedly defaulting on the mortgage of the replica Riverboat Queen boat.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Five students at an elite suburban Washington school were among the fewer than 1% of students who got perfect scores on last year’s Advanced Placement Computer Science exam.
FLORIDA Miami: The Skin Cancer Foundation’s mobile clinic is visiting the city June 9-10 to give screenings.
GEORGIA Kennesaw: Authorities say a tractor-trailer carrying 19 cows overturned on Interstate 75 north of Atlanta, killing seven of the animals.
HAWAII Honolulu: A toddler on Oahu has contracted rat lungworm disease, the island’s first case of the year.
IDAHO Boise: Doctors at St. Luke’s Mountain States Tumor Institute have performed the state’s first allogeneic stem cell transplant.
ILLINOIS Springfield: Charles Freeman, the first African-American justice to serve on the Illinois Supreme Court, will retire June 14.
INDIANA Indianapolis: Stop Animal Exploitation Now wants the Indiana University School of Medicine to fire staffers it claims violated protocols resulting in lab animal deaths.
IOWA Mason City: The Canadian Pacific Railway plans to demolish the historic Milwaukee Road Depot.
KANSAS Topeka: The Kansas Statehouse has a mural commemorating the Brown ruling striking down racial segregation in public schools.
KENTUCKY Lexington: City police hope to collect 100,000 frosty treats to distribute at summer camps.
LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: Gene Reynolds, a state lawmaker from Minden, will resign next month to oversee the Louisiana parks system.
MAINE Bangor: Local cocktail makers battled Sunday for the honor of “best” bloody mary, a fundraiser for the Hemophilia Alliance of Maine.
MARYLAND Bowie: A senior prank caused an evacuation at Bowie High School after fireworks were set off.
MASSACHUSETTS Boston: The USS Constitution traveled across Boston Harbor in honor of Vietnam veterans, marking the 50th anniversary of the full-scale U.S. role in the war.
MICHIGAN Detroit: A section of Randolph Street downtown will be renamed Michael Jackson Avenue during a June 15 ceremony ahead of this year’s Detroit Music Weekend.
MINNESOTA St. Paul: The rising cost of special education is contributing to a legislative dispute over emergency funding for schools.
MISSISSIPPI Oxford: Some city workers who get approval from their department heads can carry guns.
MISSOURI Jefferson City: State lawmakers are calling for a national convention to add congressional term limits to the U.S. Constitution.
MONTANA Helena: A stretch of Interstate 15 was shut down in both directions after high water washed out a culvert running under it.
NEBRASKA Papillion: Citing rapid overcrowding, Sarpy County officials are taking steps to replace their jail immediately.
NEVADA Reno: A 19th century neighborhood next to the University of Nevada-Reno campus tops a historic preservation group’s list of 11 endangered places in the state.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Dover: Henry Law Park will get a mural made by teens in an after-school art group.
NEW JERSEY Newark: Four salespeople involved in a bribes-for-test referrals scheme were sentenced to prison last week for bribing doctors.
NEW MEXICO Sante Fe: A national committee that helps elect progressive Hispanics is spending an additional $100,000 on ads in support of Democratic congressional candidate Antoinette Sedillo Lopez.
NEW YORK New York: Police say a Brooklyn barbershop stylist threw a client who complained about his haircut through the front window.
NORTH CAROLINA Charlotte: State officials have challenged the town of White Lake’s explanation that an algae bloom caused a fish kill.
NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: A second case of a horse neurological disease surfaced in North Dakota, this time in Stutsman County.
OHIO Akron: The University of Akron says a professor didn’t follow through with a plan to give female students boosted grades to encourage information sciences studies.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: A grand jury declined to issue criminal indictments in a six-month probe of financial mismanagement claims at the State Department of Health.
OREGON Lebanon: Lebanon High School was locked down amid reports Friday of a campus gunman.
PENNSYLVANIA Erie: The Roman Catholic bishop of Erie says he won’t try to block a report detailing grand jury findings on how church leaders handled abuse allegations.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: Police say phone scammers posing as deputy sheriffs are trying to trick people into paying nonexistent fines.
SOUTH CAROLINA York: Authorities say a woman pointed a gun at two drivers on I-77, claiming she believed they were drug dealers following her.
SOUTH DAKOTA Aberdeen: Expecting emerald ash borers, the city plans to start removing ash trees soon.
TENNESSEE Nashville: Wildlife officials say rising temperatures are leading to armadillo migration.
TEXAS El Paso: Authorities want to know how a box of ammo fell off a military helicopter, crashing through the Parkland Elementary School roof.
UTAH Salt Lake City: Prosecutors plan to file murder charges against two suspects in a 1979 killing, but they don’t know where they are now.
VERMONT Rockingham: A police dog is credited with finding $32,000 worth of heroin during a traffic stop.
VIRGINIA Lynchburg: Authorities say a woman is charged with animal cruelty after two emaciated horses were found at her property.
WASHINGTON Richland: Columbia Generating Station unexpectedly closed when the nuclear power plant’s system detected a problem with electrical distribution.
WEST VIRGINIA Milton: The Mountaineer Opry House will close permanently next month. Officials say crowds have dwindled and there’s a pushback on ticket price increases.
WISCONSIN Madison: A shortage of prison correctional officers cost taxpayers more than $42 million in overtime expenses last year.
WYOMING Casper: Natrona County schools will hold a forum on bullying.