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ALABAMA Homewood: Historic preservationists are trying to save a nearly century-old home with ties to Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Alabama Historical Commission has added the 1921 home, known by many as the “Pink House,” to its “Places in Peril” list for 2019. ALASKA Fairbanks: Some area beekeepers believe there is a connection between pesticides and an increase in honeybee deaths and have asked the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly to pass an ordinance banning specific chemicals, The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports. ARIZONA Yuma: Yuma County officials are considering imposing new restrictions on outdoor lighting to preserve dark skies. ARKANSAS Mountain Home: The City Council has passed an ordinance regulating planting and maintenance of trees within the city’s parks, the first step on the road to recognition as a Tree City USA municipality. CALIFORNIA Ventura: The Ventura County Fair begins Wednesday and runs daily through Aug. 11. COLORADO Frisco: Transportation officials say ridership on Bustang, the state bus service that marked its fourth anniversary this month, is exceeding expectations. DELAWARE Wilmington: New Castle County has been cracking down on tax-delinquent properties, but many parcels with the biggest debts have not been a priority, including the Newark Country Club, which owes more than half a million dollars. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington: After the Amy Jacques Garvey Institute, a D.C. summer jobs program, was abruptly shut down, its former director says no one had discussed any complaints about his “inappropriate” remarks with him. FLORIDA Tallahassee: A judge has struck down a state law that threatened city and county officials with penalties if they approved gun regulations tougher than state laws. GEORGIA Atlanta: An African elephant that spent a decade at San Diego Zoo Safari Park has moved to a new home at Zoo Atlanta. The UnionTribune reports 30-year-old Msholo arrived last week at the Zambezi Elephant Center. Msholo and two female African elephants, Kelly and Tara, will be the main attractions at Zoo Atlanta’s new African Savanna habitat, which opens Aug. 8. HAWAII Honolulu: Protests against construction of a giant telescope have halted work at existing observatories on the Big Island. IDAHO Boise: Mayor David Bieter says the city will not use facial recognition technology to identify people banned from City Hall after criticism over the plan. ILLINOIS Chicago: Lincoln Park Zoo will remain free to all until mid-century under an agreement operators reached with the city’s park district. INDIANA Albany: Ten miles north of Muncie, a new 40-acre aquaculture farm is growing salmon, the first genetically engineered animals deemed safe to eat by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. IOWA Des Moines: Public health officials are using online services like Tinder and Grindr to find and warn people who may have been exposed to sexually transmitted diseases.

KANSAS President Abilene: Dwight A museum Eisenhower honoring in his childhood home reopened Monday after a yearlong renovation. KENTUCKY Lexington: Before classes begin, schools across the state are working to fulfill a new law requiring the national motto “In God We Trust” to be displayed in a prominent place. LOUISIANA New Orleans: A new television show featuring local chef Isaac Toups is slated to launch this week. “Kitchen Takeover” will air on the Food Network and feature Toups traveling around the country and helping failing restaurants get back on track. MAINE Portland: The harvest of crustaceans in America’s biggest lobstering state is usually in full swing by July, but fishermen say they haven’t caught much yet. MARYLAND Frederick: A gun rights advocacy group is challenging the state’s concealed carry gun laws. Under Maryland’s “may issue” law, a resident must provide a “good and substantial reason” to be granted a concealed carry permit. MASSACHUSETTS Cambridge: An association of black students at Harvard Law School says the university “woefully failed to act” after four students received offensive emails and text messages from an anonymous sender. MICHIGAN Traverse City: The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society has discovered the remains of the S.R. Kirby, which sank 103 years ago in Lake Superior off Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. MINNESOTA Minneapolis: Groping a person’s clothed buttocks without consent will become a crime under one of many new state laws going into effect Thursday. MISSISSIPPI Biloxi: Officials are reopening discussion of a new eastwest connector linking Gulfport and Biloxi, the Mississippi Gulf Coast’s two largest cities. News outlets report Gulf Regional Planning Commission Executive Director Bill Gavin told business leaders it could cost more than $300 million.

MISSOURI Easton: Experts have begun restoring and re-erecting fallen headstones at the abandoned, 150-year-old Kessler Cemetery. MONTANA Great Falls: United Way is gearing up for its annual Stuff the Bus school supply drive Aug. 8. Roughly 200 volunteers are needed. NEBRASKA Omaha: The University of Nebraska Medical Center has received a five-year, $3.7 million grant to address the looming shortage of doctors who specialize in the care of older adults. NEVADA Silver Springs: Crews have completed work to reinforce and preserve the historic adobe ruins of Fort Churchill, the state’s first and largest military outpost. NEW HAMPSHIRE Moultonborough: The second annual Winni Swim around Ragged Island to help raise money for loon conservation will be held Aug. 8. NEW JERSEY Trenton: A new state law will make the process tougher for municipalities seeking changes in their form of government. NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: A decision last week by the New Mexico Game Commission could reopen private waterways to recreationists. NEW YORK Albany: The governor signed a bill Monday that softens penalties for having small amounts of marijuana and allows for expungement of some past offenses. NORTH CAROLINA Greensboro: The city will use federal grant money to inventory homes, churches and public buildings designed and built by African Americans. NORTH DAKOTA Medora: A teen was gored by a bison Saturday at Theodore Roosevelt National Park. OHIO Middletown: The Ron Howard-directed “Hillbilly Elegy” will film for a few days next week in this city where most of the book is set. OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Officials say they no longer need to detain migrant children at Fort Sill, used to house Japanese Americans during World War II and Apache prisoners of war from 1894 to 1910.

OREGON Bend: Some business owners say downtown events that close streets are affecting their ability to do business, and they’re asking city officials to consider moving them. PENNSYLVANIA Harrisburg: Gov. Tom Wolf is warning that food stamp benefits for about 200,000 people are jeopardized by a Trump administration move to stop letting states exceed federal income eligibility levels. RHODE ISLAND Providence: The state is offering $4 million in grants to help communities and local groups protect open space. SOUTH CAROLINA Fort Jackson: Federal data finds over 16% of the drinking water wells tested near Fort Jackson over the past six years have shown contamination from a toxic chemical found in hand grenades. SOUTH DAKOTA Rapid City: Federal authorities say people who got sick after working at a uranium ore-buying station in Edgemont over 60 years ago may qualify for compensation. TENNESSEE Nashville: A prosecutor who has come under fire for anti-gay remarks now faces calls to have his law license immediately suspended. A coalition of Tennessee attorneys submitted a letter Monday asking that Coffee County District Attorney Craig Northcott’s competency to practice law be investigated. TEXAS Austin: The city is launching a pilot program to let fans digitally tip their favorite musicians. The Austin American-Statesman reports the city is providing 10 artists with a DipJar, a device that enables fans to tip musicians using a credit or debit card. UTAH Park City: Olympic Park has announced an $11 million expansion to renovate training facilities and strengthen the state’s bid to host a second Winter Olympics. VERMONT St. Johnsbury: A group working to bring high-speed internet services to the state’s most remote region says two communications districts could be set up in the coming years to provide that service. VIRGINIA Fort Monroe: The state’s Department of Historic Resources is backing an alternative to Gov. Ralph Northam’s call to take down a 1950sera archway honoring the president of the Confederacy. The preservation officer at Fort Monroe says just the letters reading “Jefferson Davis Memorial Park” should be removed. WASHINGTON Spokane: An alliance of food trucks in the city is offering free meals this summer to homeless students who normally rely on free and reduced-price school lunches during the school year. WEST VIRGINIA Morgantown: Members of mine rescue teams from across the country will be in the Mountain State this week to compete in readiness tests. WISCONSIN Madison: Republicans who control the Wisconsin Assembly will not allow a paralyzed Democratic lawmaker who is in a wheelchair to phone into committee meetings. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says he thinks Rep. Jimmy Anderson’s request is “disrespectful.” WYOMING Laramie: The state Game and Fish Commission has approved spending $1.25 million to help pay for two wildlife underpasses along U.S. Highway 189.