STATE-BY-STATE
ALABAMA Tuscaloosa: A University of Alabama assistant professor will get more than $500,000 over three years for Navy technology research.
ALASKA Fairbanks: Authorities are investigating the slaying of the Healy Lake Traditional Council president.
ARIZONA Tucson: Pima County officials are trying to determine if they can implement a property tax intended to provide $16 million in school desegregation funding.
ARKANSAS Jonesboro: A Sept. 24 trial date is set for a man and woman accused of recording sex acts at public places and promoting the recordings on social media.
CALIFORNIA Santa Ana: Orange County officials have until July 16 to submit plans on what to do about hundreds of homeless people removed from Santa Ana River tents.
COLORADO Durango: Authorities say a man who fell when an Animas City Mountain ledge gave way has died.
CONNECTICUT Hartford: The state has stocked 24 ponds with 17,000 Channel Catfish.
DELAWARE New Castle: Health officials say two people died of suspected overdoses from heroin packets.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: City voters will decide June 19 whether to approve a gradual increase in the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020.
FLORIDA Miami Beach: Authorities say a man who stole an unmarked police car and then crashed it was hospitalized in stable condition.
GEORGIA Savannah: The city plans to use goats to clear vegetation at two hard-to-access sites this summer.
HAWAII Honolulu: Officials urge people to stay out of the canal behind Waipahu Recreation Center after wastewater was discharged into it.
IDAHO Boise: A federal judge has rejected a lawsuit challenging Idaho’s sex offender registration law.
ILLINOIS Chicago: A Northwestern
University arrested here study were says in a many few degrees people of separation from illegal guns.
INDIANA Indianapolis: A research institute won a $33 million grant for quick marketing of Indiana U., Purdue and Notre Dame lab work.
IOWA Muscatine: Officials opened a park on a vacant lot to boost bee, butterfly and other insect habitat.
KANSAS Netawaka: State transportation officials are beginning a pilot effort to determine how drones can be used in road design work.
KENTUCKY Frankfort: The Capital Plaza Hotel that sits on public land is discussing a new agreement to prevent the state from competing with the facility through 2030.
LOUISIANA Livingston: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory that’s helping find black holes in the universe will be declared a historic site next month.
MAINE Portland: Maine’s highest court is considering disbarring a lawyer who engaged in sex acts with a client and who was previously suspended for money laundering.
MARYLAND Baltimore: Authorities say a man who jumped onto tracks in front of a moving metro train was killed at the Mondawmin station.
MASSACHUSETTS Northampton: Police seized nearly 400 chickens and roosters from what they call an illegal cockfighting operation.
MICHIGAN Suttons Bay: A woman who says high-tech electricity meters hurt her health faces charges after paying an electrician to replace the meters at her home.
MINNESOTA Minneapolis: Firefighters worked Monday to battle a blaze in a building with businesses, apartments and artist lofts.
MISSISSIPPI Biloxi: Officials say 24 injured pit bulls from a suspected dogfight ring are being treated.
MISSOURI Louisiana: The Champ Clark Bridge over the Mississippi
River will close at this for town inspections north of June St. Louis 11-22.
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NEVADA Reno: Sheriff ’s deputies and agriculture officials are investigating the disappearance of as many as 200 cows in the past year.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Hanover: A class of Dartmouth College students exploring Native American traditions is cutting trees to make baskets.
NEW JERSEY New Brunswick: Authorities say two men believed to be squatters died in a weekend fire in a condemned, boarded-up structure.
NEW MEXICO Silver City: A man camping in Gila National Forest was bitten by a bear after nearby food.
NEW YORK Riverhead: Police are looking for suspects in the theft of an 18-ton, $100,000 excavator.
NORTH CAROLINA Wilmington: State film grants have drawn only two projects this year, a feature film and five Home Depot ads.
NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: Five years after a broken pipe spilled 840,000 gallons of oil on his wheat field, farmer Steve Jensen hopes to plant a cover crop this year.
OHIO Circleville: A 94-year-old World War II veteran celebrated Memorial Day with a diploma from Circleville High School.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Police arrested a man accused of throwing a brick or concrete through the window of a minivan, injuring a baby.
OREGON Saginaw: Fire destroyed the Whitsell wood products manufacturing plant. No one was hurt.
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TENNESSEE Maryville: Nine white nationalists protested outside First United Methodist Church as David Billings, author of Deep Denial: The Persistence of White Supremacy in U.S. History and Life, spoke inside.
TEXAS Huntsville: Joseph Garcia, a death row inmate who was one of the “Texas 7” gang of prison escapees in 2000, has an Aug. 30 execution date.
UTAH St. George: A Utah family that has produced several generations of rodeo champions is chronicled in a new book called The Last Cowboys.
VERMONT Rutland: College of St. Joseph hired Jennifer Scott, an administrator from Ohio, as president.
VIRGINIA Norfolk: A fatal shooting that began with a sneakers joke led to a 23-year prison sentence for a man whose brother was the joke’s subject.
WASHINGTON Kennewick: Officials are investigating after a mower operator reported running over a body.
WEST VIRGINIA Beckley: Police say a vehicle carrying Gov. Jim Justice and his wife was hit from behind at an intersection by a man suspected of being under marijuana’s influence.
WISCONSIN Milwaukee: Bail is set at $500,000 for a man accused of torturing and killing a 15-year-old boy over a stolen video game system.
WYOMING Cheyenne: Authorities say weekend thunderstorms spawned hail, tornadoes and flash flooding.