STATE-BY-STATE
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.
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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.