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- From staff and wire reports

News from across the USA

books ALABAMA are finalists Montgomery: for the Three 2018 Harper ALASKA Lee Prize Fairbanks: for Legal Lumber Fiction. prices here have hit an all-time high.

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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RHODE are urging ISLAND state Providence: lawmakers to Officials repeal the foreclosur­e July 1 sunset mediation on Rhode law. Island’s

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.

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