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order ALASKA prompted Fairbanks: by a An 17:100 emergency bull-cow ratio cut 5 days off moose hunting.
drivers ARIZONA were Phoenix: arrested Officials on suspicion say 481 of DUI during Memorial Day weekend.
ARKANSAS Mena: An online petition seeks to save the miniature train for tourists at Queen Wilhelmina park.
CALIFORNIA Mojave: Virgin Galactic conducted a second rocket-powered test flight of its tourism spaceship.
COLORADO Grand Junction: Colorado Mesa University plans to build a $15.7 million campus hotel for hospitality and culinary programs.
CONNECTICUT Groton: The Coast Guard suspended its search for two missing boaters after their vessel was found on a beach.
DELAWARE Newark: Weeks after police hit two aggressive dogs with a car and then fatally shot one, the surviving German shepherd mix will be trained to interact with people.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: In a move to speed up the trip, the Metropolitan Area Transit Authority will stop cash payments on a 79 limited-stop route.
FLORIDA Sarasota: The On Eternal Patrol Memorial Reef will be installed on the ocean floor off the Gulf Coast to honor more than 4,000 submarine crewmen who have died since 1900.
GEORGIA Atlanta: Two men who pleaded guilty to conspiring to smuggle firearms were sentenced to prison for buying and trafficking three dozen guns to Trinidad and Tobago.
HAWAII Honolulu: Gov. David Ige signed a bill to prohibit offering conversion therapy to LGBTQ youth.
IDAHO Rathdrum: Lakeland Joint School District will hire its first armed guard this summer.
ILLINOIS Oswego: Oswego High School’s principal apologized for a
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IOWA Orange City: President Greg Christy of Northwestern College apologized for equating sexual assaults with gay relationships.
KANSAS Topeka: The state Department of Corrections saw more than 45 babies delivered by incarcerated women in the past four years.
KENTUCKY Louisville: The Kentucky Air National Guard is partnering with state officials and other military branches to offer free health care clinics in four counties.
LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: Gov. John Bel Edwards vetoed three measures to give lawmakers more control over state spending, saying they would violate the state constitution.
MAINE Orono: The University of Maine says it’s releasing a new type of gourmet potato, the “Pinto Gold.”
MARYLAND Annapolis: The state is limiting inmate access to books to keep drugs from entering prisons.
MASSACHUSETTS Brookline: Residents of this Boston suburb have voted to rename the Edward Devotion School once attended by John F. Kennedy to the Coolidge Corner School, for its neighborhood. Devotion was a former slave owner.
MICHIGAN Lansing: The state has seen an average gasoline price rise of 32 cents a gallon in the past month, highest in the country.
MINNESOTA Minneapolis: The Federal Aviation Administration office was cleared after a letter with a suspicious substance was found.
MISSISSIPPI Tupelo: A committee is organizing a July 29 event to mark 25 years of “Mission Mississippi,” a ministry formed to unite the races.
MISSOURI St. Louis: Public school students in grades K-12 could have
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explosion NEBRASKA blew South a hole Sioux in a City: grain An elevator, NEVADA forcing Las Vegas: home Officials evacuations. say a backyard spread to grill three sparked homes, a causing blaze that an estimated $650,000 in damage.
USS NEW Manchester, HAMPSHIRE the Portsmouth: Navy’s newest The warship, for its new has home left New port of Hampshire San Diego.
NEW JERSEY Belleville: Police say a man tried to impersonate an officer at a traffic stop with a fake badge and a T-shirt that read “Sheriff.”
NEW MEXICO Hobbs: The Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces is investigating reports that a bronze statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe at a church is weeping.
NEW YORK Huntington: In a Long Island Railroad sing-along, passengers gathered at “9 o’clock on a Saturday,” May 19, and sang a rendition of Billy Joel’s Piano Man.
NORTH CAROLINA Matthews: Police say a woman faces driving while impaired, marijuana possession and open alcohol possession charges in a collision that killed a pedestrian.
NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: Game personnel stocked trout of catchable size in more than 50 fisheries.
OHIO Preble County: The Gratis Police Department offered to test anyone’s meth for the Zika virus.
OKLAHOMA Foss: More than 60 bison auctioned by the state will stay in Oklahoma after the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes made the winning bid of about $88,000.
OREGON Portland: Developers have been given the option of building taller buildings in the New Chinatown-Japantown historic district.
Royce PENNSYLVANIA and two Ferraris Grantville: are among A Rolls- the more June 12 than vehicle 300 cars auction. available for a
RHODE say a 45-year-old ISLAND Providence: man died after Police falling from an escalator.
SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: State lottery officials say they won’t pay $35 million in prizes from a Christmas Day glitch in a game that briefly made everyone a winner.
SOUTH DAKOTA Custer: State parks officials have recovered furniture that was stolen from Poet’s Table, a popular Black Hills hiking spot.
TENNESSEE Cleveland: Two Bradley County deputies who took a phone from a man recording their search of his family’s truck were disciplined.
TEXAS Houston: The Houston Astrodome ,the world’s first domed stadium that opened in 1965, has received a Texas Historic Landmark marker.
UTAH Salt Lake City: Authorities are investigating the fatal police shooting of a man suspected of robbing a convenience store and stealing a police K-9 vehicle with a dog inside.
VERMONT Middlesex: More historic state newspapers are now available online through state archives.
VIRGINIA Richmond: The commission studying what to do with Confederate monuments has been given another month to complete a report.
WASHINGTON Graham: Police say a motorcyclist nearly crashed driving into fishing line tied across a road.
WEST VIRGINIA Morgantown: Bonnie’s mobile mammography bus will stop in several counties this month.
WISCONSIN LaCrosse: Farmers and truckers are taking long detours and limiting loads as new weight restrictions were put on nearly 200 bridges.
WYOMING Cheyenne: The City Council approved spending $600,000 to help revive commercial air service. From staff and wire reports