STATE-BY-STATE
ALABAMA Tuscaloosa: The Alabama Blues Project has been offered space in the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center.
ALASKA Anchorage: A kite surfer who went adrift in Turnagain Arm after losing his kite was rescued after 45 minutes.
ARIZONA Farmington: Navajo Transitional Energy Company has acquired a 7 percent ownership interest in units 4 and 5 of the Four Corners Power Plant.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: At least 150 people have started the process to get ID cards intended to assist immigrants and the homeless.
CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: Colgate-Palmolive has reached a settlement with a man who claimed he developed cancer by using the company’s talc-based baby powder.
COLORADO Steamboat Springs: Repairs on the Barrows Chairlift on Howelsen Hill are to be completed this month.
CONNECTICUT Niantic: A new unit at a prison for women will house inmates no older than 25.
DELAWARE Dover: Red Robin Gourmet Burgers and Brews is the latest company signing on to be a part of the Capital Station shopping center.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Attorney General Karl A. Racine’s office is suing local cafe Turning Natural, and its owner, for underpaying employees and failing to provide paid sick leave.
FLORIDA Vernon: An animal shelter is caring for nearly 70 animals removed from a property.
GEORGIA Savannah: A monument honoring Martin Luther King Jr. is being planned as the centerpiece of a public waterfront park.
HAWAII Honolulu: Gov. David Ige is signing into law bills that would ban bump stocks and cut the time to seven days a gun owner who is disqualified from possessing a firearm would have to turn in the weapon.
IDAHO Coeur D’Alene: A classaction lawsuit urges school districts to stop charging students fees.
ILLINOIS Huntley: Milk giant Dean Foods is closing one of its facilities, costing 131 jobs.
INDIANA Fort Wayne: Planned Parenthood has closed its health center.
IOWA Dubuque: The city will begin sharing traffic camera video with a technology company to develop methods to decrease traffic dangers.
KANSAS Witchita: Wichita State University is launching a redesigned website that it hopes will ramp up out-of-state recruitment.
KENTUCKY Louisville: Attorney General Andy Beshear is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor in 2019.
LOUISIANA New Orleans: Commander’s Family of Restaurants will celebrate the 125th anniversary of Commander’s Palace with a Sept. 17 symposium.
MAINE Portland: Attorney General Jeff Sessions will continue his New England swing Friday to discuss the opioid and fentanyl crisis.
MARYLAND Berlin: Department of Agriculture officials helped a community association euthanize Canada geese.
MASSACHUSETTS Boston: The House approved an amendment that would suspend the state’s sales tax on the weekend of Aug. 11-12.
MICHIGAN Hamtramck: A historical museum is set to unveil a mural celebrating the city’s immigration.
MINNESOTA St. Paul: Days after a man was mistakenly bitten by a police dog, city leaders are increasing restrictions on when police K-9s can be used and ordering an investigation into the unit.
MISSISSIPPI Liberty: Amite County could increase property taxes to cover the school district budget.
MISSOURI Kansas City: Genetic material on an elk confirmed the presence of a mountain lion, which were declared extinct in the state in the 1920s.
MONTANA Helena: Work has begun to reconstruct a burned dorm.
NEBRASKA Omaha: The Omaha Tribe hopes new documentary “The Omaha Speaking” will help preserve its fading native language.
NEVADA Las Vegas: A storm Monday night caused more than 40,000 power outages, diverted flights and prompted one rescue.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Pelham: Eight boy scouts in Troop 610 have attained the rank of Eagle.
NEW JERSEY Freehold: A home where Bruce Springsteen lived from 1955 to 1962 has been sold for $255,000.
NEW MEXICO Los Alamos: Los Alamos National Laboratory is going under new management.
NEW YORK Albany: The Health Department will hold public meetings in four cities to discuss the launch of cancer studies.
NORTH CAROLINA Lumberton: Ten volunteer firefighters have been arrested, being accused of setting fire to abandoned buildings and woods over a year and a half.
NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: Bismarck State College has partnered with Palo Alto Networks to expand its cybersecurity program.
OHIO Columbus: Ground has been broken on a $45 million center to test self-driving vehicles.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Gov. Mary Fallin on Monday proclaimed a weeklong observance honoring the 60th anniversary of the “Oklahoma!” soundtrack reaching gold status on July 8, 1958.
OREGON Troutdale: The Avett Brothers postponed a show after a man showed up with a gun, then disappeared into the crowd.
PENNSYLVANIA Shanksville: The remaining wreckage of United Flight 93 has been buried near the memorial marking where it crashed on 9/11.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: Tim Gray, founder of the nonprofit World War II Foundation, is opening an education center so students can learn about the war.
SOUTH CAROLINA Charleston: The city is cracking down on people who lack permits for offering rentals through Airbnb, VRBO, Home-Away or other companies.
SOUTH DAKOTA Yankton: A 12-yearold girl severely injured in a crash last week that killed five people is expected to make a full recovery.
TENNESSEE Nashville: BMT Manufacturing, which makes trailers, is expanding its operations by investing $3.7 million and adding 148 jobs.
TEXAS Houston: A 56-year-old man has been charged for the fatal stabbing of his 79-year-old mother.
UTAH Salt Lake City: A moose has been released into the wildness after spending hours wandering around the University of Utah campus.
VERMONT Montpelier: The state has returned more than 17,600 unclaimed assets to their rightful owners.
VIRGINIA Norfolk: A dinner cruise ship is being sued by a man who says he fell while playing cornhole because of the no-skid flooring.
WASHINGTON Vantage: The town was evacuated and Interstate 90 closed temporarily because of a wildfire.
WEST VIRGINIA Huntington: Marshall University’s medical school has established a urology department.
WISCONSIN Madison: Fifty-two schools and school districts have been awarded $3.5 million in grants.
WYOMING Casper: A police officer shot and killed an armed man who had pointed a gun at people and led police on a car chase.