STATE-BY-STATE
ALABAMA Huntsville: Alabama’s recreational fishing season for red snapper closed in territorial waters Sunday, six weeks earlier than usual. News outlets report the quota of 984,291 pounds issued under NOAA Fisheries’ Alabama Recreational Red Snapper Exempted Fishing Permit is expected to be met by Sunday.
ALASKA Fairbanks: An estate is donating exactly $110,000 to the Fairbanks North Star Borough animal shelter.
ARIZONA Phoenix: Arizona’s hotels, motels and other lodging venues hosted a record number of visitors, who spent a record amount of money last year, according to the state’s Office of Tourism.
ARKANSAS Fayetteville: Utility companies say more consumers than ever are generating their own electricity, mostly through solar panels. The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that at the end of last year, almost 1,000 households or other customers were feeding power back into the grid.
CALIFORNIA San Bernardino: A 4-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his 2-year-old cousin.
COLORADO Denver: The Denver Art Museum will be the only U.S. museum to show “Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature” from Oct. 20, 2019 through Feb. 2, 2020, the Denver Post reported.
CONNECTICUT Hartford: The state is re-launching a campaign to educate minority parents about the dangers of childhood lead poisoning.
DELAWARE Newport: A fire damaged more than 200 cars at a storage lot of Insurance Auto Auctions.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Personal finance site WalletHub has ranked the nation’s capital No. 18 among the 62 largest cities on its list of “Top Big Cities to Live In.”
FLORIDA Pensacola: Cracks have been found in a portion of concrete being used for a bridge connecting Pensacola and Gulf Breeze.
GEORGIA Macon: Coliseum Medical Centers is expanding its emergency room department to serve more than 12,000 patients a year.
HAWAII Kailua-Kona: Hawaii has canceled a grant funding the county’s purchase of land that has been inundated by lava flow from the Kilauea volcano.
IDAHO Boise: Residents may have to wait until next year for the new shingles vaccine. Shingrix has been in high demand nationwide, resulting in a lack of inventory.
INDIANA East Chicago: Federal officials have approved a $26.6 million cleanup of a former DuPont Co. industrial site.
IOWA Marshalltown: The Iowa State football team helped residents clean up two days after a tornado swept through the city.
KANSAS Witchita: A report from the National Agricultural Statistics Service estimated that 21 percent of the corn grown in the state was in very poor to poor condition.
KENTUCKY Pikeville: The Pike County School Board scrapped a plan to train and arm school employees in the event of an active shooter, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported.
LOUISIANA Monroe: Monroe Regional Airport is receiving $1.8 million from the Federal Aviation Administration, The News-Star reported.
MAINE Augusta: Maine fishery man- agers are awarding $340,000 in grants for programs designed to better understand the state’s signature crustacean, the lobster.
MARYLAND Ocean City: A woman has been accidentally impaled in the chest by a beach umbrella.
MASSACHUSETTS Westhampton: International renewable energy company CVE North America Inc. has applied to install a large-scale solar energy system in this town of about 1,600 residents.
MICHIGAN Blissfield: Work has begun on the future American Farm Museum and Education Center. The Daily Telegram of Adrian reported that construction has begun on a storage building, the first step in a multiphase plan.
MINNESOTA St. Paul: Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson is joining a lawsuit seeking to protect the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which President Donald Trump ended.
MISSISSIPPI Hernando: The DeSoto County school system is spending $3 million to expand or renovate four schools, WHBQ-TV reported.
MISSOURI St. Louis: The Science Center is celebrating the 49th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with a special exhibit, “Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission.”
MONTANA Billings: The Fort Peck Tribal Council says tribal members are not allowed to possess marijuana on the reservation, even if they have a medical marijuana card, The Billings Gazette reported.
NEBRASKA Lincoln: Applications will be accepted through Aug. 3 for the 2018 bighorn sheep permit lottery. The winner will be able to hunt Nov. 27 through Dec. 22.
NEVADA Reno: The City Council has approved the purchase of a new ladder truck for the fire department, The Reno Gazette Journal reported.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: The New Hampshire Historical Society and the University of New Hampshire are helping continue the work of The New Hampshire Center for Public Policies that closed in April.
NEW JERSEY Toms River: An anonymous benefactor paid the breakfast tab of a group of emergency responders with a note saying “Thank you for all you do!” and signed “Recovering Addict.”
NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: Education advocates celebrated a win after a district judge ordered education officials to reshape policies and school funding for at-risk students.
NEW YORK Albany: The Albany Community Action Partnership, the Albany Housing Coalition and the Homeless and Travelers Aid Society plan to spend a combined $400,000 on job training programs.
NORTH CAROLINA Kinston: The Robert Bond Vause House that was the home of a lieutenant of the Confederate Army has been razed, The Kinston Free Press reported.
NORTH DAKOTA Minot: An appeals court has rejected former Minot city attorney Colleen Auer’s claim that she was fired in 2014 in retaliation for a whistleblower complaint over sex-based harassment, the Minot Daily News reported.
OHIO Columbus: Ohio residents with valid library cards will have access to thousands of online courses they can take for free under an expansion of the online library learning program.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Republican Gov. Mary Fallin has authorized a question to appear on the Nov. 6 general election ballot that would allow eye doctors to practice inside Oklahoma retail establishments.
OREGON Manzanita: A property owner fined $1.8 million for operating a vacation rental without a license is suing the city. The Daily Astorian reports that Sandra Petersen challenged the penalty as excessive and unconstitutional.
PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia: A copy of the “Join or Die” political cartoon that appeared in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754 is up for auction. Nate D. Sanders Auctions in Los Angeles told The Philadelphia Inquirer the bidding will begin at $40,000 on Thursday.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: The state Department of Motor Vehicles says commercial driver’s license holders can now submit their medical certifications online to comply with federal requirements.
SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: The South Carolina Progressive Network is celebrating a new booklet Monday, “History Denied,” which covers the rise and fall of the largely forgotten Birmingham, Alabama-based Southern Negro Youth Congress.
SOUTH DAKOTA Kimball: A nine-turbine wind farm in Brule County along the Missouri River is nearing completion. Each turbine generator will have the power output of about 2.3 megawatts. That makes the total power capacity at 20 megawatts, which is enough energy to power about 2,250 homes for a month.
TENNESSEE Nashville: The Tennessee Lottery says it had record gross total sales of $1.7 billion last fiscal year. It says it will return nearly $422 million to education programs, which is 9 percent more than the previous fiscal year.
TEXAS Galveston: Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston say the number of typhus cases in the county already has equaled the total for all of 2017.
UTAH Salt Lake City: Gavin Paul Zimmerman , 19, who was serving a religious mission in Sydney, Australia, fell from a cliff and died at a park popular for whale watching. He was with a group of other missionaries when he slipped.
VERMONT Killington: The town will play host to hundreds of competitive mountain bikers as the Fox U.S. Open of Mountain Biking is coming to Killington for the first time in August.
VIRGINIA Smithfield: Smithfield Foods is closing the last smokehouse that creates Smithfield ham.
WASHINGTON Seattle: The City Council approved a “bill of rights” that ensures domestic workers receive minimum wage, proper rest, meal breaks and other rights.
WEST VIRGINIA Beckley: The Beckley VA Medical Center is planning a mental health summit Aug. 9 to highlight advances in veterans’ care.
WISCONSIN Marinette: DNA samples from four people have been collected as new tips pour in on a 1976 double homicide case, authorities said. David Schudles, 25, and Ellen Matheys, 24, of Green Bay were killed while camping in McClintock Park.
WYOMING Riverton: A report by the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of the Inspector General has confirmed that the roads department operated by the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes misspent $6.2 million of Bureau of Indian Affairs money.