STATE-BY-STATE

ALABAMA Montgomery: Maryon Pittman Allen, one of only two women to serve as a U.S. senator from Alabama, has died at age 92. Then-Gov. George Wallace appointed Allen to fill her husband’s Senate seat when he died in 1978. She served for five months.

ALASKA Anchorage: A pilot was uninjured when an experimental plane flipped on takeoff, turning upside down in a lake inside Katmai National Park and Preserve.

ARIZONA Phoenix: The ACLU is spending $720,000 in the U.S. Senate race for people hand out fliers and for a TV commercial critical of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s treatment of immigrants.

ARKANSAS Little Rock: Supporters of a proposal to legalize casinos in the state have been given 30 more days to circulate petitions after falling short of the signatures needed to qualify for the November ballot. Driving Arkansas Forward needed 84,859 signatures but turned in no more than 70,054.

CALIFORNIA San Francisco: A U.S. appeals court says the Chino Valley Unified School District board policy of opening meetings with a prayer is unconstitutional in part because they often invoke Christianity.

COLORADO Coloardo Springs: In an effort to promote electric vehicles, city residents are being offered a

$3,000 discount when purchasing a

2018 Nissan LEAF. That can be added to the $7,500 federal and $5,000 state tax credits offered for electric car buys through September.

CONNECTICUT Groton: Eighty members of the Connecticut National Guard will be deployed to Kuwait and Afghanistan.

DELAWARE Wilmington: At least two State Fair vendors who had been selling Confederate flags and items adorned with the symbol have been ordered to remove those products.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Police say homicides are up 48 percent compared with the same time last year.

FLORIDA Kennedy Space Center: The standard admission price to the popular tourist center has increased for the first time since 2012. Adults and children will see a $7 hike; senior citizens and military service members will pay $4 more.

GEORGIA Atlanta: Singer Bobby Brown will receive a proclamation Monday to build a domestic violence shelter in honor of his late daughter. The Bobbi Kristina Brown Serenity House also will offer 24-hour crisis intervention. Bobbi Kristina also is the daughter of Whitney Houston.

HAWAII Wailuku: The Hawaii Animal Rescue Foundation has taken in about 80 dogs displaced by the Kilauea volcano eruption on the Big Island.

IDAHO Kilgore: A 530-pound grizzly bear that killed a calf has been captured and relocated to a remote area.

ILLINOIS Peoria: Peoria Barge Terminal and Morton Salt face state allegations of contaminating areas near the Illinois River with toxic chemicals.

INDIANA Fort Wayne: Fort Wayne Community Schools approved the purchase of seat belt-equipped buses for the upcoming school year. Students will be required to wear them whenever the bus is in motion.

KANSAS Wichita: BG Products represented the state at the “Made in America” event at the White House. The company, part of Wichita’s business community for 47 years, makes automotive maintenance products.

KENTUCKY Lexington: Statues of Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan and Confederate secretary of war John C. Breckinridge have been moved to the Lexington Cemetery. They were downtown for more than 130 years.

LOUISIANA New Orleans: A proposal headed to City Council would discourage police officers from making arrests for most traffic offenses.

MAINE Ellsworth: The Portland Press Herald reports Reade Brower is buying two Maine weeklies, the Ells- worth the Mount American Desert and Islander. sister paper Brower owns pers in six the of state the seven and now daily 19 newspa- weeklies.

MARYLAND Cumberland: Civilian pilots who fly helicopters for the State Police are in short supply, an official says.

MASSACHUSETTS Revere: The owner of a company that makes candies such as Necco wafers and Sweethearts has unexpectedly shut down operations. Round Hill Investments LLC is selling Necco brands to another confection manufacturer, but it is unknown of candy production will resume.

MICHIGAN Mount Clemens: Jessica Preston, who says she was forced to give birth in the Macomb County Jail two years ago, is suing over allegations her civil rights were violated.

MINNESOTA Minneapolis: Two 16-year-old boys have sued the Minnesota State High School League, alleging it maintains unconstitutional rules that bar boys from joining girls’ competitive high school dance teams.

MISSISSIPPI Parchman: Administrators are adding up the cost of damage at the Mississippi State Penitentiary after a storm toppled power poles and knocked out electricity at the prison.

MISSOURI Jefferson City: Actor John Goodman is featured in a radio ad opposing a right-to-work law on the Aug. 7 ballot. Goodman, who went to high school and college in Missouri, says the law is marketed to help workers but tells voters to “look a little deeper, and you’ll see it’s all about corporate greed.”

MONTANA Helena: Montana and a group of tobacco companies have reached an agreement that allows the state to collect its full share of $27 million in tobacco settlement payments from 2004.

NEBRASKA Hershey: After being stopped and cited for speeding, a woman pulled off, accelerated and exceeded the speed limit again – hitting 142 mph. She was finally stopped and arrested.

NEVADA Winnemucca: U.S. land managers say a rash of graffiti and damage at Water Canyon over the past few months has included graffiti, aspen trees being chopped down and smashed fences and a table. Officials are asking the public for help identifying vandals.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Plaistow: Eric Stagno was arrested for taking off his clothes and exercising at Planet Fitness. The man figured it was acceptable because as he told police he thought he was in a “judgment free zone,” which is a reference to the company’s slogan.

NEW JERSEY Lavallette: Authorities freed a tugboat that was stranded on a sandbar off a beach for more than 10 hours.

NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: The number of active oil and gas drill rigs operating in the state has equaled its record of 103, which it last hit twice in 2014.

NEW YORK Albany: New York’s Department of Agriculture and Markets is putting up another $5 million to upgrade animal shelters. The same amount was awarded in the first round of funding.

NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: Cathy Von Hassel-Davies, a Democratic candidate for the House of Representatives, has dropped out of the race after being criticized for a 2006 made blog post incendiary that remarks about Mexican immigrants.

NORTH DAKOTA Fargo: Gov. Doug Burgum says he will skydive with members of the U.S. Navy Leap Frogs Parachute Team on Saturday morning.

OHIO Columbus: Greg Moody is stepping down as head of the Governor’s Office of Health Transformation to take a position at Ohio State.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: While fishing in Fort Cobb Lake, 11-year-old Kennedy Smith caught a native South American fish with human-like teeth. The pacu, a relative of the piranha, is considered an invasive species by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation and was destroyed.

OREGON Salem: Officials say the air quality earlier this week in southern Oregon was the worst in the nation.

PENNSYLVANIA Pittsburgh: Uber has relaunched its self-driving cars on Pittsburgh-area streets four months after a fatal accident involving one of the cars in Arizona. A handful of vehicles were back on the road but for now won’t be free of human control or respond to ridehailing calls.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: Gov. Gina Raimondo is expected to spend $6.2 million on her re-election campaign through the end of the year.

SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: Radioactive uranium leaked through the floor of a nuclear fuel plant, but health officials don’t think the material has threatened water supplies.

SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: Authorities are trying to find inmate Adrian Ray Watson, who was mistakenly released from the Minnehaha County Jail.

TENNESSEE Memphis: The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has added Eric Anton Balkin, who is wanted for multiple crimes, to its Top 10 Most Wanted list.

TEXAS Galveston: The Galveston County Health District reported that 18 cases of typhus fever have been reported in 2018. There were just 17 cases in all of 2017. The disease is carried by fleas.

UTAH St. George: Workers at the Hurricane library say they were pressured to remove buttons and other displays highlighting LGBTQ-themed materials because they are seen as controversial and drew complaints from visitors.

VERMONT Randolph: Vermont Technical College has received a $400,000 federal grant to help get its dental therapy program up and running.

VIRGINIA Richmond: Virginia has picked BVG Associates as a consultant to help boost its chances of becoming the east coast hub of the offshore wind industry.

WASHINGTON Seattle: Two police officers who fired a barrage of gunshots at a fleeing car have been fired.

WEST VIRGINIA Clarksburg: Uninsured and underinsured first responders will be able to access free hepatitis A vaccines.

WISCONSIN Madison: Wisconsin Cheese is going to attempt to enter the Guinness Book of World Records for the world’s largest cheese board on Aug. 1. It will be more than 200 square feet and feature two tons of Wisconsin cheese.

WYOMING Rock Springs: Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport has seen increase in passengers for the 18th straight month.