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has ALABAMA been sentenced Tuscumbia: to death Peter by Capote lethal injection for shooting and killing of 19-year-old Ki-Jana Freeman.

ALASKA Sitka: Animal control says the number of rabbit sightings have increased by tenfold in the past year.

ARIZONA Flagstaff : Coconino County is considerin­g asking voters to implement a merit-based system for selecting superior court judges.

ARKANSAS Fayettevil­le: The Thomas-Tharp home, around since the Civil War, has been put on the state’s Most Endangered Places list.

CALIFORNIA North Bay: Officials say three of four fires last October might have been prevented if Pacific Gas & Electric made more effort to keep trees clear of power lines.

COLORADO Centennial: Max Wycisk is retiring as president of Colorado Public Radio, a job he got in 1978.

CONNECTICU­T Hartford: The state has been awarded $1.1 million to help military veterans become school teachers.

DELAWARE Wilmington: Wawa anticipate­s that its more than 40 stores in Delaware will have self-service lottery kiosks by next month.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: The families of three missing women have submitted DNA samples to help identify three skeletal remains found on a property in Washington.

FLORIDA Tampa: A service dog waiting for a flight to Philadelph­ia with her owner gave birth at the airport.

GEORGIA Savannah: Researcher­s are keeping an eye on two 12-foot great white sharks spotted off the coast.

HAWAII Honolulu: A crack outside the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor was worse than expected, closing the attraction indefinite­ly.

IDAHO Coeur d’Alene: A woman charged with embezzling money from the nonprofit that she once led is now a wanted person after being a noshow in court.

ILLINOIS land College West will Frankfort: be closing Morth- permanentl­y because it lacks funds to open in the fall.

INDIANA Clarksvill­e: The final link of the Lewis and Clark biking and hiking trail is on pace for completion this year.

IOWA Des Moines: New fans and window air conditione­rs are being collected for low-income families.

KANSAS Wichita: The website Kansas Career Navigator has been developed to assist state residents in finding in-demand jobs.

KENTUCKY Glasgow: Police freed three dogs in a Walmart parking lot and cited their owners for animal cruelty as temperatur­es in the vehicles climbed to 114 degrees.

LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: Voters will decide this fall if fantasy sports through online services will be legal.

MAINE Wells: An advisory committee recommends Wells High School ditch its Native American imagery while keeping its Warrior nickname.

MARYLAND Glenelg: Four 18-yearolds face hate-crime charges for spray painting racist and derogatory slurs at their high school.

MASSACHUSE­TTS Lanesborou­gh: Five people were hospitaliz­ed after a head-on collision with a car transporti­ng bees. Police say the bees got loose, stinging the driver.

MICHIGAN Midland: The $20 million Canopy Walk in Whiting Forest is expected to open in October.

MINNESOTA Internatio­nal Falls: Voyageurs National Park and the U.S. Mint will hold festivitie­s June 11 to mark the release of a commemorat­ive quarter honoring the park.

MISSISSIPP­I Jackson: Officials have approved a rule change to allow trapping of hogs in some areas.

MISSOURI Springfiel­d: Cox College has raised $6.8 million in less than a year to renovate and expand its classrooms.

MONTANA Helena: A grandmothe­r sued the Bureau of Indian Affairs in a custody dispute with the father of her grandsons.

NEBRASKA Fairbury: Rock Creek Trail Days is set for this weekend, and activities will include black powder gun demonstrat­ions and a Pony Express run.

NEVADA North Las Vegas: An attempted carjacking near Hoover Dam led to the arrest of two suspects 70 miles away in Arizona.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: A commission is looking into eligibilit­y for burial at the State Veterans Cemetery in Boscawen, and whether it’s open to National Guard troops who were never called to active duty.

NEW JERSEY Hardwick: A man who was hiking with his family died after collapsing.

NEW MEXICO Albuquerqu­e: Bernalillo County has opened a re-entry center aimed at helping recently released inmates.

NEW YORK Albany: The state is chipping in $343,000 to help protect water quality in Lake George.

NORTH CAROLINA Ocracoke: Contractor­s are rebuilding two ferry lanes at the north end of Ocracoke Island that washed away during extreme winter weather.

NORTH DAKOTA Mandan: A wind farm is seeking approval to use light-mitigating technology on turbines that now use blinking lights.

OHIO Dayton: The city has received $15,000 to help convert a rail corridor into a recreation­al trail.

OKLAHOMA McAlester: Former Gov. George Nigh, 90, delivered a commenceme­nt address for the 69th straight year, choosing alma mater McAlester High this year.

OREGON Bend: Recreation­al pot growers overproduc­ed last year, putting more than a million pounds into a supply chain that sold only 108,330 pounds at the retail level.

PENNSYLVAN­IA closed space called access Graffiti to a Philadelph­ia: popular Pier due public to Police crime. art

RHODE plaques ISLAND that were Newport: stolen decades Bronze ago from replaced a World on Memorial War I monument Day. were

SOUTH Officials CAROLINA estimate more Myrtle than Beach: 100,000 gallons near the of coast. sewer water have spilled

Central SOUTH DAKOTA High School Mitchell: sophomore McCook Katelyn Range Winberg Judging is the champion. national Land and

people TENNESSEE have contracted Nashville: At hepatitis least 14 A in the city in the last six months.

TEXAS Austin: Gubernator­ial candidate Lupe Valdez owes more than $12,000 in overdue property taxes on seven properties.

UTAH Ogden: A small plane clipped a car while making an emergency landing on I-15. No one was injured.

VERMONT Fairlee: The town will receive $3.7 million in federal grants and loans to repair its water system.

VIRGINIA Richmond: A real estate research company says rents have increased by about 25% in the metro area since 2012.

WASHINGTON Seattle: A man who set a warehouse fire that killed four firefighte­rs in 1995 is expected to be released from prison in September.

WEST VIRGINIA West Union: An oil tank explosion sent four people to the hospital and spilled an unknown amount of contents into the stream.

WISCONSIN Madison: State dairy farmers broke their streak of yearover-year production increases in April.

WYOMING Riverton: School officials apologized for giving students cocktail glasses and playing cards branded with the Wind River Hotel and Casino’s name during an event to teach them about local tribal culture.

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