STATE-BY-STATE
ALABAMA Jasper: Mayor David O’Mary says four members of his police force have been suspended for making a hand gesture that some say is a sign of “white power.”
ALASKA Fairbanks: Five prison inmates have been convicted of rioting at the Fairbanks Correctional Center.
ARIZONA Payson: The FBI is searching for two armed men who robbed the Mazatzal Casino.
ARKANSAS Fayetteville: University of Arkansas trustees have approved a $1.7 million renovation at the medical campus.
CALIFORNIA Lake Forest: A woman who was hosptialized after being stung hundreds of times by bees is expected to survive.
COLORADO Denver: JBS USA, the U.S. branch of the world’s largest meat producer, has suspended shipments from a pig farm where workers were shown hitting, kicking and throwing pigs on undercover video.
CONNECTICUT Branford: A woman says she found a black widow spider in a package of grapes from the grocery store.
DELAWARE Wilmington: Roadway deaths are outpacing last year’s 61-47 at the same point.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Tallya Rhodes, who was homeless during a year in high school, graduated as valedictorian of H.D. Woodson High School.
FLORIDA Miami: Four people died after two planes crashed above the Florida Everglades.
GEORGIA Atlanta: Campaign finance reports show that a $1 million contribution from George Soros has given the Georgia Democratic Party three times as much money in the bank as the Republican Party.
HAWAII Kailua-Kona: Figures show an increase of Macadamia nut production (17 percent) and farm value during the 2017-18 season.
IDAHO Boise: A Medicaid expansion proposal will be on the November ballot.
ILLINOIS Park Ridge: The University of Illinois is paying an alumnus $7,500 to stop selling T-shirts that say “Make Illinois Great Again” with a drawing of the school’s former mascot Chief Illiniwek.
INDIANA Indianapolis: Of the state’s 289 public schools, 173 of them have signed up for handheld metal detectors.
IOWA Des Moines: Former first lady Mari Culver has been diagnosed with breast cancer and will start treatment Thursday.
KANSAS Wichita: TSA agents found loaded guns during x-ray scanning at airports in Wichita and Manhattan. Officers seized the weapons.
KENTUCKY Frankfort: Kentucky State University is eliminating 65 positions.
LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: Candidates for the Nov. 6 election have to declare their intentions this week.
MAINE Augusta: The state wants to beef up cybersecurity of its voter registration system.
MARYLAND Upper Marlboro: Former substitute teacher and elementary school basketball coach Christopher Speights has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for producing child pornography.
MASSACHUSETTS Athol: Police chief Russell Kleber has been placed on leave, but no one is saying why.
MICHIGAN Cadillac: Hunters and educators will speak at bear hunting clinics over the next few weeks.
MINNESOTA Minneapolis: Advocates for people with sickle cell disease are criticizing the state’s lack of care.
MISSISSIPPI Jackson: Frontier Airlines will offer flights to Denver and Orlando starting in October.
MISSOURI Jefferson City: A Kochbacked group says it’s spending $1.8 million on ads against Democratic incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill.
MONTANA Missoula: An investigation into Justice of the Peace Marie Andersen found, among other things, she was frequently late or absent, had employees walk her dog and put court fees in a box on her back porch.
NEBRASKA Lincoln: Several bats have tested positive for rabies.
NEVADA Reno: Police arrested 11 people and issued 64 citations Friday in a street racing crackdown.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Conway: The Conway Historical Society discovered 13 boxes of business letters and messages from former President Grover Cleveland in the attic.
NEW JERSEY Medford Lakes: Twenty-one children, two drivers and one staff member suffered minor injuries after a crash involving five school buses.
NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: Officials say the child-abuse tracking system has become obsolete.
NEW YORK New York: A funnel cloud was spotted over New York Harbor.
NORTH CAROLINA Maxton: Alex Radford died when a dumpster fell off a forklift onto him at the Campbell Soup Company plant.
NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: Wages are up in the state following two years of decline.
OHIO Cleveland: The eighth annual Ohio Burlesque Festival will take place at the Beachland Ballroom from Aug 2-5.
OKLAHOMA Edmond: A magnitude-3.1 earthquake was recorded Tuesday.
OREGON Blue River: The quickest and easiest route to Terwilliger Hot Springs from Eugene is expected to reopen next month after being blocked by a landslide since before Christmas. The boulders have been pushed into Cougar Lake.
PENNSYLVANIA Scranton: Repairs to city hall could cost up to $8 million.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: The state has billed about $625,000 to trucks in its first month of tolling.
SOUTH CAROLINA Timmonsville: Honda of South Carolina celebrated its 20th year in the city Tuesday.
SOUTH DAKOTA Pierre: The state ended the 2018 budget with a $16.9 million surplus.
TENNESSEE Nashville: Tennessee now owns the highest average state and local combined sales tax rate at 9.46 percent.
TEXAS Galveston: Galveston County is hiring a firm to investigate how county officials were defrauded out of more than $525,000 this year.
UTAH Salt Lake City: Attendance at the Sundance Film Festival was up an estimated 70 percent over 2017.
VERMONT Montpelier: A state board voted against a name change for Mount Ascutney.
VIRGINIA Arlington: Forty people were rescued from cars near Reagan National Airport as water up to car doors swept the road.
WASHINGTON Seattle: Officials have proposed tolling rates ranging from $1 to $2.25 for the new State Route 99 tunnel.
WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: State Trooper Sgt. David Fry has been presented with the Purple Heart and Medal of Valor. He was shot in the line of duty in 2017.
WISCONSIN Madison: Mayor Paul Soglin will not seek re-election but will stay in the governor’s race.
WYOMING Meeteetse: Biologists plan a release of black-footed ferrets in Park County.