STATE-BY-STATE
ALABAMA Birmingham: Google says it will offer free digital skills workshops in Alabama to help job seekers and small businesses. The “Grow with Google” tour will stop next month in Birmingham, Opelika and Scottsboro.
ALASKA Anchorage: More than a dozen motorcycle riders will partake on a journey from Alaska to Argentina that will span 146 days and more than 24,000 miles. ARIZONA Phoenix: The city set its temperature record for July 23 at 115 degrees. The previous high was 114 degrees in 2014. ARKANSAS Bentonville: The Benton County Jail is planning to end free, in-person visits between inmates and their family members and friends this fall. Instead, the jail will launch a remote video visitation system that will cost 50 cents per minute in 15-minute increments.
CALIFORNIA San Diego: The median home prices in San Diego County hit a record $575,000 in June, a report says.
COLORADO Henderson: A woman taking photographs of a steam locomotive was struck and killed after getting too close to the tracks.
CONNECTICUT Milford: A one-story house that was being raised onto permanent concrete pilings collapsed, injuring one worker. The home had to be demolished.
DELAWARE Lewes: Fire chief William Buckaloo has been charged with disorderly conduct after a video surfaced of him in his underwear urinating in a canal. Buckaloo has pleaded not guilty.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: A Metro employee stabbed a man in the chest after he allegedly tried to assault her inside a manager’s booth at the Friendship Heights Station.
FLORIDA Tallahassee: A police officer was captured on video helping a homeless man shave before a job interview. The man was at a gas station and didn’t have a mirror, so the officer offered a hand.
GEORGIA Savannah: A bridge on Interstate 516 has been renamed for Floyd Adams Jr., the city’s first black mayor. Adams, who died in 2014, was mayor from 1996 to 2003.
HAWAII Kailua-Kona: Officials are investigating a mysterious disease causing wild horses to be unable to walk – resulting in deaths – in Waipio Valley on the Big Island.
IDAHO Nampa: A 75-pound tortoise named Twister who went missing from a reptile rescue facility has returned. Reptile Adventures employees suspect someone removed Twister from the yard Monday but brought him back two days later.
ILLINOIS Chicago: A 100-member all-female task force is looking to bring down the number of women in the Illinois Department of Corrections by 50 percent, the Chicago Tribune reported.
INDIANA Indianapolis: A special prosecutor has been named to help investigate allegations that Attorney General Curtis Hill drunkenly groped a lawmaker and three staffers.
IOWA Buffalo Center: The state has proposed fining Timely Mission Nursing Home nearly $30,000, in part over the treatment of an 87-yearold woman officials say was in pain and may not have had water several days before her death. The proposed fine also covers two other cases.
KANSAS Topeka: Three men have been arrested in a double homicide, with each being held on $1 million bond.
KENTUCKY Frankfort: Secretary of state Alison Lundergan Grimes says she is expecting a baby boy in December.
LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: Chemical plant Shintech is planning a nearly $1.5 billion expansion project in Iberville Parish. The expansion is expected to be ready in 2021 and will create 120 jobs at an average salary of nearly $82,000.
MAINE South Portland: Speeding tickets for lower-end violations have been decreased by about 15 percent. Fines will stay the same for violators going 20 to 29 mph above the speed limit.
MARYLAND Hagerstown: The Humane Society of Washington County is offering a $500 reward for information regarding the killing of two cats in the past two months with arrows. MASSACHUSETTS Springfield: Veteran “The Simpsons” writer Mike Reiss says the show isn’t based in Massachusetts despite several references to the state on the show. He says the Springfield where the show is set is “nowhere.”
MICHIGAN Lansing: Anti-gerrymandering group Voters Not Politicians aired its first TV ad in a campaign to persuade voters to change how Michigan congressional and legislative districts are drawn.
MINNESOTA St. Paul: The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources first deer management plan seeks a harvest of 200,000 whitetails and annual “deer management discussions” around the state.
MISSISSIPPI Oxford: The Department of Health is investigating tuberculosis exposure at Northwest Mississippi Community College.
MISSOURI Kansas City: The academically struggling Benjamin Banneker Charter Academy of Technology has closed weeks before local schools resume classes.
MONTANA Helena: The state health department has agreed to leave one child protection caseworker in Livingston after initially proposing to close the office entirely to bolster staff in Billings.
NEBRASKA Scribner: An ordinance will go on the November ballot to decide whether to bar employing or renting to people living in the U.S. illegally. A Costco plant that will employ 1,000 workers is opening next year in a neighboring town.
NEVADA Ely: Two men have been arrested on drug trafficking charges after troopers seized more than 125 pounds of cocaine and 144 pounds of meth from a semi-trailer truck on U.S. Highway 93. Lt. James Simpson told the Reno Gazette Journal it’s the biggest drug seizure he’s seen in 23 years of law enforcement.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Moultonborough: The mountaintop estate “Castle in the Clouds” has been named to the National Register of Historic Places.
NEW JERSEY West Windsor: Rail service on the Northeast Corridor line was disrupted when a fire on a train forced the route to be briefly shut down between Trenton and Metropark station in Woodbridge.
NEW MEXICO Grants: Two police sergeants, a corporal, a lieutenant and a secretary put in their resignations last week because of low morale in the department.
NEW YORK Albany: Gov. Andrew Cuomo made his fifth visit to Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria hit last year.
NORTH DAKOTA Watford City: Reader’s Digest named Watford City the most charming small town in the state.
OHIO Cleveland: Officer Frank Garmback, who was disciplined for driving too close to Tamir Rice sec- onds before the fatal shooting, has seen his suspension cut from 10 days to five.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Oklahoma expects to deposit a record $370 million in its Rainy Day Fund, which was created to protect the state during economic downturns.
OREGON Linn County: Jonathan Sprecher, 64, was rescued from Mount Jefferson by the Oregon National Guard after he fell near Milk Creek Glacier, injuring his leg.
PENNSYLVANIA Hershey: As promised, Hersheypark reopened Tuesday after flooding, but 28 rides remained closed.
RHODE ISLAND Hopkinton: As state police step up their investigations into rival biker clubs, officers pulled over about 100 members of a motorcycle group but found no violations and made no arrests.
SOUTH CAROLINA Rembert: Officials say Brandon Jones was captured about one hour after he escaped Wateree Correctional Institution.
SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: A study says South Dakotans have the lowest risk of becoming a victim of identity theft, with just two victims for 100,000 residents.
TENNESSEE Smithville: Mayor Jimmy Wayne Poss and son Anthony Wayne Poss have been charged with theft. Poss, 71, allegedly made unlawful wage payments to his son from August 2017 to March 2018.
TEXAS San Antonio: A carbon monoxide leak at a Comfort Suites Hotel blamed on a water heater sent 12 guests to the hospital, but all should recover. More than 100 people had to be evacuated but were allowed to return hours later.
UTAH Salt Lake City: U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke spoke Tuesday at the Days of ’47 Rodeo but didn’t make any announcement about the state landing the Bureau of Land Management. Zinke, who oversees the bureau, is considering moving its headquarters from Washington D.C. to the West.
VERMONT Barre: Police say a man who had a rifle pointed at his face realized it was fake when he grabbed the muzzle and it broke in half. The man with the gun has pleaded not guilty to multiple charges.
VIRGINIA Lincolnia: An EF-0 tornado touched down at Thomas Jefferson High School, damaging fences, two sheds, some light poles and several trees. No injuries were reported.
WASHINGTON Burien: Authorities are considering malicious harassment charges against a 62-year-old man who turned himself in after Burien Mayor Jimmy Matta reported being involved in a racially-motivated attack.
WEST VIRGINIA Charlestown: Former coal executive Don Blankenship has filed to run in the state’s U.S. Senate race as the Constitution Party's nominee. He finished third in the Republican primary.
WISCONSIN Kaukauna: Ahlstom-Munksjo, a publicly traded paper company in Helsinki, has signed an agreement to purchase four paper mills in Wisconsin for $615 million. Employment is expected to be unchanged.
WYOMING Cheyenne: The state Attorney General’s Office is asking a judge to determine whether Republican gubernatorial candidate Taylor Haynes is eligible to run for office. A complaint alleges that he has resided outside Wyoming within the last five years, which is against state law. Haynes claims that is false.