Around the nation
News from every state.
ALABAMA Paint Rock: The town is trying to ban the media and out-oftowners from council meetings.
ALASKA Juneau: Gov. Bill Walker has signed into law spending bills rejecting funding for a south-central Alaska bridge project and a Vitamin D deficiency study.
ARIZONA Clints Well: Clear Creek Units 1 and 2 are on pre-evacuation notice due to a 125-acre wildfire burning in the Coconino National Forest.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: Murder defendant Parnell May will no longer be allowed to act as his own attorney, according to a judge’s orders.
CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: Grants totaling $37.5 million will fund programs aimed at reducing sales of tobacco products to minors.
COLORADO Pueblo: The Army has resumed destroying obsolete chemical weapons at the Pueblo Chemical Depot after a nine-month shutdown for repairs.
CONNECTICUT Hartford: Gov. Dannel P. Malloy says the state will purchase power from offshore wind for the first time.
DELAWARE Wilmington: Jashown Banner, who was hit in the head by a stray bullet last summer as a 6-yearold, is home after months of rehab.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Two men were arrested in the shooting of an ice cream truck driver during a robbery. The driver’s injuries weren’t life-threatening.
FLORIDA Sarasota: Sheriff Tom Knight is catching heat for endorsing Gov. Rick Scott’s U.S. Senate campaign on his office’s Facebook page.
GEORGIA Savannah: A worker has died after being pinned beneath falling debris while doing demolition work at a paper mill.
HAWAII Honolulu: The state is banning chlorpyrifos, a pesticide that scientists have found could hinder the development of children’s brains.
IDAHO Nampa: Officials are consid- ering a $500 million prison expansion to deal with overcrowding.
ILLINOIS Benton: Former treasurer Ryan Thorpe has been sentenced to 48 months in prison for embezzling more than $300,000 from the city.
INDIANA LaGrange: A man was charged with drunken driving after hitting a horse-drawn buggy, killing a woman and her daughter, 15.
IOWA Sabula: A car ferry from Iowa to Illinois began running this week.
KANSAS Topeka: Farmers are expecting a wheat harvest drop from last year’s 48 bushels an acre down to 37 because of a hot, dry spring.
KENTUCKY Louisville: Federal agents raided Bluegrass Pain Consultants, which provides treatment options for pain management.
LOUISIANA New Orleans: The state will get nearly $1 million from federal offshore lease revenues for recreation and conservation projects.
MAINE Monmouth: The town approved a tax break for local farmers.
MARYLAND Baltimore: Home prices rose in the state’s major metro areas by nearly 3 percent in May compared to the same time in 2017. MASSACHUSETTS Springfield: Twenty-two people were rescued from a sinking dragon boat.
MICHIGAN Gary: A dredging project in Grand Traverse Bay Harbor has been delayed due to permit and contracting issues.
MINNESOTA Winsted: Firefighters with a power saw freed a woman, 19, whose head got stuck in a truck’s large tailpipe at a music festival.
MISSISSIPPI Jackson: Three casinos run by the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians will eventually offer sports betting.
MISSOURI Lebanon: A fire chief says investigators found no smoke detectors in a mobile home where five children died last week.
MONTANA Billings: NorthWestern Energy says it missed the deadline for its property tax bill and could face up to $1.5 million in fines.
NEBRASKA Lincoln: Sidney Walton, a 99-year-old World War II veteran who skipped meeting some of the last Civil War veterans, visited the state Monday. Walton regrets that 1940 decision.
NEVADA Las Vegas: One person suffered minor burns and two others were taken to the hospital after a fire at the Marriott Grand Chateau.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Tamworth: A new high-end bourbon, Eau De Musc, is flavored partly by the secretion from a beaver’s castor sacs.
NEW JERSEY Newark: The state has committed $600 million to replace a 108-year-old rail bridge.
NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: Officials have banned the sale of aerial and ground fireworks in areas outside Albuquerque until mid-July.
NEW YORK Southampton: A deep dive will be conducted to determine whether oil is leaking from a British tanker sunk during World War II.
NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: Grocery chain Kroger will close all of its 14 stores in the area by Aug. 14, affecting 1,500 employees.
NORTH DAKOTA Fargo: Secretary of state candidate Will Gardner drew 93 percent of the vote in the Republican primary despite withdrawing from the race.
OHIO Columbus: Ohio State University suspended the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity for four years for hazing.
OKLAHOMA Medicine Park: Medicine Park was ranked fifth on a list of most beautiful towns in America, according to Expedia.
OREGON Bend: A man has pleaded guilty to shooting a trumpeter swan near Sunriver last Thanksgiving.
PENNSYLVANIA Bellefonte: A former Penn State University fraternity brother pleaded guilty in the death of a pledge who was injured after a night of heavy drinking and hazing.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: Democratic Mayor Jorge Elorza is engaged to his longtime girlfriend, Stephanie Gonzalez, WPRI-TV reports. SOUTH CAROLINA Bennettsville: Authorities say a visitor tried to smuggle drugs in her vagina into Evans Correctional Institution.
SOUTH DAKOTA De Smet: More than half the rural communities in the state had flat or declining populations between 2010 and 2017, Census Bureau figures show.
TENNESSEE Manchester: Four paramedics at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival were hospitalized for possible carbon monoxide poisoning.
TEXAS Corpus Christi: A woman gave a small bag of dead cockroaches to a city official to protest newly planted palm trees that she blames for more bugs in her neighborhood.
UTAH Salt Lake City: Twenty-three children died over the last year after state child welfare authorities became involved in their cases.
VERMONT Montpelier: Residents are being reminded to put away bird feeders and bear-proof garbage as reports of bears are on the rise.
VIRGINIA Alexandria: Film crews will be in the area this summer shooting a portion of the sequel to “Wonder Woman.”
WASHINGTON Seattle: A worker needs to earn $26.87 an hour to afford a modest two-bedroom apartment in the state, a new study says.
WEST VIRGINIA Barboursville: A jail wrongly released an inmate serving time for sex-abuse charges because of lost paperwork.
WISCONSIN Milwaukee: Federal authorities allege Waheba Issa Dais hacked social media accounts to recruit for the Islamic State.
WYOMING Powell: A 22-year-old man has died after the forklift he was driving flipped and ejected him.