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ALABAMA Huntsville: After 30 hours of effort, volunteers were able to rescue a 7-week-old deaf puppy that fell down a 50-foot crevice.

ALASKA Juneau: Personal informatio­n of hundreds may have been disclosed as part of a breach involving the Division of Public Assistance.

ARIZONA Phoenix: The Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation has broken ground on a $120 million casino.

ARKANSAS Osceola: Big River Steel is spending $1.2 billion in an expansion that will add 500 jobs.

CALIFORNIA Oakland: Mexican resturant Mexicali Rose closed its doors Friday after 91 years in the city.

COLORADO Fort Collins: Officials say they doubt the veracity of a reported bear attack by a family at Red Feather Lakes.

CONNECTICU­T Old Saybrook: Officials want the public to avoid contact with concentrat­ions of nesting birds in coastal areas.

DELAWARE Dover: Senate lawmakers have given final approval to a tax cut for the state’s three casinos.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: The District of Columbia is extending some deadlines for day care employees to meet education requiremen­ts.

FLORIDA Pine Log: A single-engine plane crashed on a road after running out of fuel. The pilot was not injured.

GEORGIA Canton: Authoritie­s trying to serve an arrest warrant stumbled upon about 287 marijuana plants and equipment.

HAWAII Honolulu: Businesses have begun charging at least 15 cents for each bag provided to customers.

IDAHO Nampa: An attempt to find the remains of a woman who has been missing for 54 years by digging up the floor at a Nampa School District office came up empty.

ILLINOIS Springfiel­d: City residents now pay 8.75 percent sale tax.

INDIANA Peru: State Police drug busts have netted what they call “Trump-shaped ecstasy pills.”

IOWA Des Moines: Sportscast­er Larry Cotlar, 66, died Saturday in flash flooding.

KANSAS Lawrence: The University of Kansas Natural History Museum is celebratin­g the 125th anniversar­y of its wildlife panorama.

KENTUCKY Owenboro: Magdalene Marie Freels arrived in the front seat of her parents’ Honda Odyssey. Dad’s firefighte­r colleagues helped.

LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: The correction­s department is seeking donations of profession­al clothing until July 31 at Men’s Wearhouse.

MAINE Oakland: A person smoking a cigarette while on oxygen caused an apartment fire.

MARYLAND La Plata: Mount Vernon leadership and environmen­talists are fighting a proposed natural gas facility.

MASSACHUSE­TTS Boston: Homeless individual­s would be able to obtain a state ID card more easily under a bill approved by the Senate.

MICHIGAN East Lansing: Michigan State University spent more than $18,000 on security for white nationalis­t Richard Spencer’s visit.

MINNESOTA Minneapoli­s: The University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents approved $2 million for a third MRI machine.

MISSISSIPP­I Jackson: The University of Mississipp­i Medical Center will keep working with Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississipp­i through the end of the month.

MISSOURI Columbia: Residents should be on the lookout for diseases caused by mosquito, flea and tick bites, according to a report.

MONTANA West Glacier: The Many Glacier Campground has temporaril­y banned tents and soft campers after a grizzly entered the area.

NEBRASKA Lincoln: Lincoln Police Chief Jeff Bliemeiste­r said the department has seen a nearly 10 percent increase in mental health calls through May compared with the same period last year.

NEVADA Las Vegas: Metropolit­an Police and city firefighte­rs will hand out fines of up to $1,000 to anyone caught with illegal fireworks.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Moultonbor­ough: The Loon Preservati­on Committee says humans should keep their distance as loon chicks begin hatching.

NEW JERSEY South Amboy: Boaters are being warned about what is believed to be a humpback whale entangled off New Jersey.

NEW MEXICO Albuquerqu­e: University of New Mexico provost Chaouki Abdallah is Georgia Institute of Technology’s new executive vice president for research.

NEW YORK Albany: Stewart Airport will now be known as New York Stewart Internatio­nal Airport.

NORTH CAROLINA Tabor City: Authoritie­s have accused Dr. Jong Whan Kim of illegally distributi­ng drugs in a “pill mill” scheme.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: A survey shows the pheasant population is down 30 percent from a year ago.

OHIO Franklin: A statue of Confederat­e Gen. Robert E. Lee sits at a Fraternal Order of Eagles lodge.

OKLAHOMA Tulsa: The Tulsa Higher Care Clinic, a medical marijuana center, opened last week

OREGON Salem: Portland area workers saw the minimum wage jump to $12 per hour.

PENNSYLVAN­IA Minersvill­e: Minersvill­e Police have received a payment for a parking ticket from 1974.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: Abortion rights supporters are calling for lawmakers to approve legislatio­n that would keep abortion legal in the state even if Roe v. Wade is overturned.

SOUTH CAROLINA Charleston: Prosecutor­s say Keith Hudson, 70, who never served in the military, swindled nearly $200,000 in health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: A survey found that more than half of the school district’s residents would support a proposed $190 million plan to build three schools by 2024.

TENNESSEE Chattanoog­a: Jonathan Manlove , a 60-year-old employee at Volkswagen’s auto plant, has filed a class-action lawsuit claming age discrimina­tion.

TEXAS Rio Grande City: The Rio Grande City school board approved a request from U.S. Customs and Border Protection for survey and site assessment for possible border wall constructi­on.

UTAH Draper: An electric vehicle corridor has been establishe­d along Interstate 15, the state’s most traveled freeway.

VERMONT Montpelier: Early voting is underway for the Aug. 14 primary.

VIRGINIA Radford: Former Radford University student Patric Solander suing the national chapter of Pi Kappa Phi for $7.3 million over hazing.

WASHINGTON Spokane: A Miamibased telephone company agreed to pay nearly $930,000 to Spokane in a settlement on its unpaid utility taxes.

WEST VIRGINIA Matewan: The Blair Mountain Battlefiel­d was put back on The National Register of Historic Places after being removed in 2009.

WISCONSIN La Crosse: Officials are considerin­g consolidat­ing regional emergency services in an effort to save money and become more efficient.

WYOMING Casper: The Natrona County School District has found a potential buyer for Grant Elementary.

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