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News from every state.
ALABAMA Auburn: Auburn University plans to offer a degree starting in fall 2019 in wildlife enterprise management to help students secure jobs in the fishing and hunting industries.
ALASKA Juneau: Perseverance Theatre has furloughed its employees amid financial problems.
ARIZONA Phoenix: The U.S. Marshals and FBI are alerting the public to scams by callers claiming to be law enforcement officials.
ARKANSAS Fayetteville: Officials are hoping a federal program can help them bury remains of veterans at Fayetteville National Cemetery.
CALIFORNIA Sacramento: An update to the state’s film tax credit program would require projects to report diversity statistics.
COLORADO Denver: Several former staffers at The Denver Post are forming the online Colorado Sun.
CONNECTICUT Hartford: Nearly 22,000 riders rode the CTrail Hartford Line its first weekend.
DELAWARE Wilmington: Miss Wilmington Joanna Wicks will compete in the Miss America contest Sept. 9. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: The Ellipse was closed Monday after someone climbed a barrier at the White House complex and left a bag nearby.
FLORIDA St. Petersburg: A Florida man was charged with rape nearly 32 years after the assault.
GEORGIA Hartwell: DeDe Phillips, 46, strangled a rabid bobcat after the animal attacked her.
HAWAII Kailua-Kona: Hawaiian Airlines and Japan Airlines are seeking to join forces.
IDAHO Boise: The Criminal Justice Reinvestment Oversight Committee heard from prison officials on ways to
reduce ILLINOIS the Springfield: prison population. Medicaid will soon half a provide million dental low-income care for residents. nearly
INDIANA working to Anderson: preserve and A group relocate is a World War I memorial.
IOWA School’s Denver: 2018 graduating Five of Denver class High of 52 students are Eagle Scouts.
KANSAS Witchita: Community leaders plan to invest $1 million to create the Talent Ecosystem Fund.
KENTUCKY Lexington: The University of Kentucky has finalized regulations for allegations that include sexual assault.
LOUISIANA New Orleans: The University of New Orleans has received a $195,400 grant to develop a cybersecurity training facility.
MAINE Orono: The University of Maine has won $14 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation for an infrastructure center.
MARYLAND Towson: Sheriff ’s deputies have filed a lawsuit alleging they have been cheated out of tens of thousands of dollars in overtime.
MASSACHUSETTS Boston: A tunnel to connect North Station and South Station would cost at least $12 billion, a study said.
MICHIGAN Lansing: The state will help pay to upgrade the Soo Locks if the U.S. government takes the lead.
MINNESOTA Duluth: A freighter that ran aground in the Duluth harbor set sail Monday.
MISSISSIPPI Biloxi: Levy Convention Centers will be food service provider at the Coast Coliseum & Convention Center on July 1.
MISSOURI St. Louis: MercyHealth
says it has toughened safety requirements for construction. MONTANA Helena: Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials have confirmed that an unusual-looking animal shot by a rancher in May was a gray wolf. NEBRASKA Ayr: Crystal Lake State Recreation Area in central Nebraska is getting a series of upgrades. NEVADA investigating Henderson: if a couple Police arrested are in a string of beauty salon burglaries are responsible for other break-ins. NEW HAMPSHIRE Portsmouth: Pelema Morrice will be president of Great Bay Community College. NEW JERSEY Brick: Nicholas Matawa is a finalist for a $10,000 scholarship because of a prom tuxedo he made from duct tape. NEW MEXICO El Rito: Advocates are pushing for a $50 million state permanent fund to save rural libraries.
NEW YORK Albany: New York will lead offshore wind research funded by the Energy Department.
NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: Christian Desgroux, accused of landing a helicopter at SAS Institute to impress a woman, plans to plead guilty to impersonating an Army general.
NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: A company supplying fertilizer to North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana is focusing on partnerships.
OHIO Cleveland: Thousands of hours of overtime worked by prison nurses have cost taxpayers millions.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: County health clinics across the state are struggling after layoffs.
OREGON Portland: Special Olympics Oregon is canceling next month’s state competition.
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RHODE “DREAMers” driver’s ISLAND licenses. can Providence: continue getting
SOUTH trying to CAROLINA find a man Sumter: who is taking Police are cars from dealerships.
SOUTH tion officials DAKOTA are pushing Pierre: State to change elechow electronic poll books are used.
TENNESSEE has been appointed Nashville: director David of Rausch the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
TEXAS San Antonio: Spain’s King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia visited the San Antonio Museum of Art.
UTAH Salt Lake City: Ski resort visits dropped by 10 percent.
VERMONT Brattleboro: The Estey Organ Museum finds itself with a surplus of the instruments.
VIRGINIA Virginia Beach: A soccer player’s dad was charged with assault after police say he punched a 14-year-old opponent.
WASHINGTON Seattle: The University of Washington will pay $127,000 to settle a lawsuit by a student Republican club.
WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: State corrections officials have hired 730 prison and jail guards since the Legislature passed pay raises in March.
WISCONSIN Madison: Howard “Gordy” Clewell, a historian for the Wisconsin American Legion, has resigned after he admitted embellishing his military service.
WYOMING Jackson: More elk are returnng through a bottleneck point along the “Path of the Pronghorn,” a protected wildlife migration corridor. From staff and wire reports