STATE-BY-STATE

ALABAMA Mobile: Chasity Collier of Dawes Intermediate was presented the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science teaching at the White House.

ALASKA Anchorage: The Alaska Volcano Observatory says lava has flowed into the crater atop Mount Cleveland.

ARIZONA Phoenix: The Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled that hashish does not qualify as a protected drug under the state’s medical marijuana law.

ARKANSAS Pangburn: A great horned owl that was injured in a mudslide in February will be released back into the wild this week.

CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: Michel Moore has been sworn in as the new chief of police.

COLORADO Colorado Springs: The Julie Penrose sculpture fountain in America the Beautiful Park is again spraying water after being down for four days because of a broken water supply line.

CONNECTICUT Waterford: First responders rescued a 14-month-old boy who fell down a home’s ventilation shaft and became stuck between the first and second floors. The toddler has minor scrapes.

DELAWARE Dover: A prefabricated home was dropped and left abandoned on a two-lane road, causing traffic to be blocked. Police are searching for the perpetrator.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: FBI leaders and law enforcement officials are studying school shootings to piece together trends and find ways to prevent future violence.

FLORIDA Lakewood Ranch: Authorities say a teen was issued a misdemeanor citation for dumping a live 2-foot alligator in a convenience store this month.

GEORGIA Macon: A 65-year-old woman and her 50-year-old son were found dead in separate rooms of their home. Coroners say they had been dead for more than a week, most likely from natural causes.

HAWAII Honolulu: The Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement is investigating the deaths of dozens of baby hammerhead sharks near Keehi Lagoon. Some 50 to 100 dead shark pups were found piled near La Mariana Sailing Club.

IDAHO Pocatello: The state’s threeday GOP convention started Thursday, with Medicaid and drawings of district maps on the agenda.

ILLINOIS Chicago: The Replay Lincoln Park bar has apologized for banning face tattoos and Make America Great Again hats in an attempt to create a “classy environment.” Owner

Mark Kwiatkowski said in a Facebook post that he was trying to be funny and “everyone is welcome.”

INDIANA Muncie: Inmate Steven Charles Schick is suing the Delaware County Jail, alleging that the “unsafe and unhumanlike living conditions” violate his constitutional rights.

IOWA Des Moines: Gov. Kim Reynolds has issued a disaster proclamation for three counties – Buena Vista, Cherokee and Webster – in response to flooding and severe weather that began in mid-June.

KANSAS Lawrence: A federal indictment accuses a hotel developer and his bookkeeper of a scheme to collect more than $400,000 in fraudulent tax refunds from the city.

KENTUCKY Louisville: Investigators looking into the handling of a child sex abuse scandal within the Police Department’s Youth Explorers pro-

gram has found no cover-up existed in senior ranks. Sexual abuse allegation have led to charges against two officers.

LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: Officials arrested 62 people accused of child pornography and child sexual abuse in a statewide effort between March and May.

MAINE Augusta: Donors who contribute more than $100,000 to political campaigns influencing state ballot referendum campaigns must now disclose their top five sources of funds under a new law.

MARYLAND Relay: Baltimore County’s new Guinness brewery will open Aug. 3. for tours, taproom tastings and dining.

MASSACHUSETTS Boston: Three recently suspended or retired State Police troopers were arrested and charged with taking thousands of dollars of overtime pay for hours they didn’t work.

MICHIGAN Monitor Township: The town is halting consideration of wind turbine projects amid resident complaints over noise, health concerns, wildlife damage and impact to property values.

MINNESOTA St. Paul: St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter said the capital will go without fireworks this Fourth of July. He cited concerns about the city’s budget climate, saying a fireworks display could top $100,000 after insurance and public safety expenses.

MISSISSIPPI Starkville: Oktibbeha County Hospital Regional Medical Center is partnering with the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

MISSOURI Mansfield: A museum dedicated to Laura Ingalls Wilder disagrees with a decision to remove the author’s name from a national literary award. The Association for Library Service to Children is concerned about the portrayals of blacks and Native Americans in Wilder’s best-known work, the “Little House on the Prairie” series. The award is now called the Children’s Literature Legacy Award.

MONTANA Helena: BP-owned Atlantic Richfield Co. must pay nearly $29 million for the cleanup of arsenic that threatens groundwater.

NEBRASKA Omaha: Fourteen students and a school bus driver escaped serious injury when a collision with a utility lift truck sent their bus through a fence and down a hill into an electrical substation.

NEVADA Carson City: State spending on overtime pay at prisons dropped by 69 percent last quarter after Gov. Brian Sandoval ordered wardens to rein it in.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Manchester: Uber Eats launched in the city this week.

NEW JERSEY Camden: Jonathan Kirschner faces up to 18 years in prison after admitting to posing as a federal agent to sell counterfeit precious metal coins and bars. Sentencing is Oct. 1.

NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: With an increased number of children living in poverty and without health insurance in the state, New Mexico fell to last place in the national child well-being report.

NEW YORK Buffalo: Police say they pulled two unidentified bodies from the Niagara River.

NORTH CAROLINA Fayetteville: A woman is accused of trying to poi- son her two sons with cream soda laced with lighter fluid. Octavia Latosh Robinson, who faces multiple charges, has asked a judge to terminate her parental rights.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: Statistics show drug arrests continue to rise in the state despite a level crime rate and population.

OHIO Cincinnati: One of Vincent van Gogh’s most famous paintings, “Undergrowth with Two Figures,” has returned to the Cincinnati Art Museum and will be on display July 3. The museum had lent the painting to a Japanese exhibition.

OKLAHOMA Tulsa: The Laura Dester Children’s Center, the last state-run emergency shelter, has closed. It will reopen in the fall to serve children who need specialized treatment.

OREGON Salem: The state Supreme Court has temporarily blocked an initiative that would ban the sale of some semi-automatic guns and highcapacity magazines.

PENNSYLVANIA Erie: The Erie School District has purchased four school buses as it takes over student transportation from the Erie Metropolitan Transit Authority in a year.

RHODE ISLAND Coventry: Six family members were transported to area hospitals this week with carbon monoxide poisoning. The cause of the leak was an improperly installed water heater.

SOUTH CAROLINA Mount Pleasant: Cancer survivor Nicholas Charalambous plans to bike 800 miles around the state in two weeks, celebrating two years since a successful stem cell transplant. He hopes to raise $5,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

SOUTH DAKOTA Pierre: Officials say anthrax has struck another cattle herd, killing at least four adult cows last week.

TENNESSEE Memphis: Democrats in Shelby County are accusing election officials of trying to suppress black votes in early voting for the August elections. Party Chairman Corey Strong says the only open polling location on the first five days is too far away for people who live in urban neighborhoods and rely on public transportation.

TEXAS Houston: An sheriff ’s sergeant is recovering after being hospitalized from exposure to a fentanyllaced flyer found on a patrol car.

UTAH gunman West suspected Valley City: of killing A naked two people property staying behind in his a trailer house on has the been booked on two homicide charges, police say.

VERMONT Middlesex: A bakery called the Red Hen has received angry messages from people confused with a similarly named Virginia restaurant that asked White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave.

VIRGINIA Virginia Beach: A baby octopus has died at the Virginia Aquarium. No cause is known.

WASHINGTON Seattle: Officials say a blaze that broke out Tuesday on a barge holding crushed cars and other metal has been ruled accidental.

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin will participate in a motorcycle ride Saturday from South Charleston to Millwood to honor fallen U.S. service members.

WISCONSIN Madison: Police say a man’s plan to take videos up the skirts of women was thwarted when his shoe camera exploded. The man, whose foot was injured, wasn’t arrested because he didn’t get a chance to take any videos.

WYOMING Cheyenne: A new law requires motorists to move over for maintenance, construction and utility workers on state roads. From staff and wire reports