STATE-BY-STATE
News from across the USA
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nearly ARIZONA 1,000 Buckeye: bales of Authorities hay burned say last weekend in a fire west of Phoenix.
ARKANSAS Pine Bluff: Officers responding to reports of an abandoned vehicle found a man suffering a gunshot wound outside a home.
CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: A police car pursuing a stolen U-Haul truck crashed before dawn Monday in the San Fernando Valley. The stolen UHaul was later found abandoned.
COLORADO Greeley: Officials say the nonprofit that organizes an annual rodeo and carnival is being investigated for liquor law compliance.
CONNECTICUT Hartford: A former death row inmate who raped and killed a woman in 2002 was resentenced to life in prison.
DELAWARE Middletown: A Middletown High student accused of pulling a stolen gun on a fellow student faces theft and menacing charges.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Family and friends of a man who was shot and killed by U.S. Park Police after a brief car chase marched last weekend to demand answers to what happened.
FLORIDA West Palm Beach: Florida Atlantic University gave authorities false numbers on how many female athletes are on school sports teams.
GEORGIA Jonesboro: Two suspects were arrested following a fatal shooting outside the Perry Career Academy commencement ceremony.
HAWAII Honolulu: The Coast Guard assisted a mariner last weekend after the 44-foot sailing vessel Helen Margaret began taking on water.
IDAHO Lewiston: Spring chinook counts in the Snake and Columbia rivers are improving after a late start.
ILLINOIS Springfield: Gov. Bruce
Rauner and his wife have moved back into the Governor’s Mansion as renovations wrap up on the 1855 home.
INDIANA South Bend: One of the oldest buildings on the University of Notre Dame campus will be demolished next month. It’s where future football coach Knute Rockne lived.
IOWA Davenport: The Timothy’s House of Hope ministry that helped homeless people has closed because of unexpected bills.
KANSAS Wichita: Inter-Faith Ministries says its homeless shelter will soon accept people with pets.
KENTUCKY London: Police say a Barbourville man who posted two Facebook photos suggesting violence toward police was arrested.
LOUISIANA New Orleans: The National World War II Museum will open an exhibit Friday about comedian Bob Hope’s U.S. troops shows.
MAINE Skowhegan: State police evacuated neighbors of a man trying to disable a black-powder cannon by drilling holes in it.
MARYLAND Bel Air: For the first time, state biologists are trying to grow hatchery freshwater mussels.
MASSACHUSETTS Boston: Judge John Casey of Norfolk County has been appointed chief justice of the state court handling family issues.
MICHIGAN Detroit: Prosecutors asked for a 14-year prison term for a man convicted of dealing diseased body parts for medical training.
MINNESOTA Babbitt: An environmental engineer working with University of Minnesota-Duluth researchers is looking at floating bioreactors to protect wild rice.
MISSISSIPPI Columbus: A police investigator has been paid almost $8,000 for 338 hours of overtime this year, in addition to his regular pay of more than $13,000.
MISSOURI Camden: Authorities say a boat operator was intoxicated last
weekend when he struck a rock bluff on Lake of the Ozarks, killing three friends and injuring a fourth.
MONTANA Helena: Authorities reopened I-15 between Jefferson City and Boulder late Sunday after fixing a washed-out culvert.
NEBRASKA Omaha: Authorities say a man who was wounded by officers after ramming two police cruisers was suspected of intending to rob the nearby GI Forum restaurant.
NEVADA Las Vegas: Police say 33 of the 35 people arrested during the second day of the Electric Daisy Carnival face drug-related charges.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: Health officials say a homeless drug user thought to be sharing needles could be behind a significant increase in Manchester area HIV cases.
NEW JERSEY Keansburg: Rescuers plucked five boaters from rough water when their boat capsized.
NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: A jury awarded a woman more than $1.2 million for injuries from a crash involving a police chase.
NEW YORK New York: Authorities arrested a 14-year-old boy who posed as an officer while snatching a blind man’s wallet.
NORTH CAROLINA Fayetteville: The 82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum has reopened its main gallery with anti-terrorism exhibits.
NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: The state has chosen a Pennsylvania company for medical pot lab work.
OHIO Reynoldsburg: The state ag director has honored top Ohio wines with Director’s Choice designation.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: The state Sheriff ’s Association head says the veto of legislation involving state prison inmates in county jails will hurt sheriffs’ finances.
OREGON Yoncalla: Eagle Point High School officials say three senior girls were killed in an Interstate 5 crash.
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SOUTH CAROLINA Orangeburg: Authorities are searching for three inmates, two accused of murder, who fled Orangeburg County jail.
SOUTH DAKOTA Pierre: Avera St. Mary’s set a Sept. 30 open house for its $30 million medical facility.
TENNESSEE Chattanooga: The city signed a contract to keep 2 annual Ironman events until at least 2023.
TEXAS San Antonio: An 89-year-old man is charged with murder after witnesses say he ran over a woman with a car several times.
UTAH South Jordan: Mormon church officials rededicated a temple south of Salt Lake City on Sunday after completing extensive renovations.
VERMONT Shaftsbury: The Robert Frost Stone House Museum owned by Bennington College has reopened.
VIRGINIA Lexington: A Washington and Lee University commission didn’t recommend a name change but proposed changing “General Lee” references to “President Lee.”
WASHINGTON Seattle: The state Supreme Court has been told to take another look at a 40-acre land dispute involving the Upper Skagit tribe.
WEST VIRGINIA Moundsville: The public can help plant an interpretive garden at Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complex.
WISCONSIN DeForest: Police say a man who stopped along a Dane County highway to help a driver involved in a crash died when he fell from the overpass to a road below.
WYOMING Jackson: The annual antler auction for the National Elk Refuge generated nearly $174,000.