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News from every state.

ALABAMA Fairhope: Gov. Kay Ivey said Wednesday that a proposed Mobile Bay toll bridge is “dead” after Baldwin County officials took a decisive stand against the controversial proposal to build one of the nation’s largest bridges.

ALASKA Juneau: A state regulation agency has proposed changes that would limit activities at city breweries and distilleries.

ARIZONA Phoenix: Severe weather roared back into the area Wednesday night, bringing heavy rain to some areas, mostly on the Valley’s east side, along with wind, dust and lightning, which apparently triggered numerous tree fires.

ARKANSAS Helena-West Helena: Officials said a nearly seven-hour standoff Tuesday night at a home ended when state troopers shot and killed an armed man suspected of killing two women found dead in the front yard earlier that day.

CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: Coast Guard officials said they have seized $38.5 million worth of cocaine from suspected drug smugglers in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

COLORADO Boulder: City officials are moving forward with plans to ban the sale of flavored electronic cigarette products containing nicotine.

CONNECTICUT Hartford: A report predicts a major increase in demand for home care for older residents and people with disabilities.

DELAWARE New Castle: Authorities found no evidence of hazardous chemicals or substances at a bank that was evacuated after five people complained of headaches and a strong chemical smell.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington: Two D.C. agencies knew a row house that appeared to be illegally rented had “life safety violations” for months before a fire killed two tenants last week.

FLORIDA New Smyrna Beach: Authorities said a surfer caught air on a wave and landed on a shark that, in turn, bit him on the hand and calf.

GEORGIA Augusta: A kayaker said he could only think of paddling faster after realizing he wasn’t alone in a pond. Bo Storey told WRDW-TV, “I just paddled and paddled” Monday to get away from a 10-foot, 360-pound alligator that got as close as 5 feet from the back of his kayak.

HAWAII Honolulu: The reopening of the USS Arizona Memorial has been scheduled for Labor Day weekend following a 15-month closure.

IDAHO Boise: Gallagher, a comedian known for smashing fruit and vegetables with giant wooden hammers, says he was escorted out of Idaho’s Statehouse on Monday when he entered the building carrying two of the hammers.

ILLINOIS Arlington Heights: The owner of Arlington International Racecourse has announced the company will not seek a license to add casino gambling at the track.

INDIANA Madison: The Ku Klux Klan is planning a second annual “kookout” in Madison for Saturday, an event that was met last year with hundreds of protesters.

IOWA Clive: Officials in suburban Des Moines are seeking answers on what has caused a creek there to turn bright green.

KANSAS Lawrence: The Lawrence Humane Society has trapped the first feral cats under a program to manage the wild cat population.

KENTUCKY Louisville: A U.S. sailor from the Bluegrass State who died at Pearl Harbor will be buried in his hometown this fall.

LOUISIANA New Orleans: The police department says some officers will be sporting “Pride Edition Badges” during Southern Decadence, a festival that began Thursday and runs through the Labor Day weekend.

MAINE Waldoboro: Fishery regulators are postponing a round of meetings with lobstermen in the state aimed at preparing for potential new restrictions designed to protect endangered whales.

MARYLAND Baltimore: City officials have decided to use $6 million in park and public facility funds to help pay for the recovery of a ransomware attack that crippled the city for weeks.

MASSACHUSETTS Boston: The governors of five East Coast states, including Massachusetts’ Charlie Baker, are urging federal regulators not to put any additional roadblocks in the way of the country’s nascent offshore wind industry, citing the Vineyard Wine project.

MICHIGAN Lansing: State regulators and Native American tribes are temporarily removing juvenile lake sturgeon from two Michigan rivers to protect them from chemical treatments targeting sea lampreys.

MINNESOTA St. Cloud: Cleanup after a July fire at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic School will delay the start of the school year.

MISSISSIPPI Oxford: The University of Mississippi says it’s moving ahead with plans to transfer a 29foot-tall Confederate soldier monument from its central location on campus to a spot near a secluded Confederate cemetery.

MISSOURI St. Louis: Commuters who prefer to cross the Mississippi River on the Martin Luther King Bridge will have to wait quite a while longer for the bridge to reopen. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that flooding this spring and summer has delayed a construction project on the bridge that closed in August of last year. It was originally expected to reopen this fall but now won’t be ready until next summer.

MONTANA Billings: A fire burning in grass and shrubs northwest of the city has led to the evacuation of about 15 residences near the community of Molt.

NEBRASKA Spencer: Drinking water is being restored in Boyd County after a disastrous flood washed out a water main in March.

NEVADA Las Vegas: A Las Vegasarea teachers’ union struck a teacher pay deal Wednesday with the country’s fifth-largest school district that organizers said will avert a threatened strike Sept. 10.

NEW HAMPSHIRE New Castle Island: Some residents are protesting a plan to recruit archers to kill as many as 20 deer on the island.

NEW JERSEY Ewing Township: The state has honored the Elmora Troopers, a team that competed in the Little League World Series after winning the state and Mid-Atlantic championships.

NEW MEXICO Roswell: Investigators have determined a fireworks explosion that killed a firefighter and severely injured another was accidental. NEW YORK New York: The second span of the new Kosciuszko Bridge between Brooklyn and Queens has opened to traffic.

NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: A man’s body has been exhumed from a gravesite on a court order after a funeral home discovered it mistakenly sold the same plot twice.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: The Standing Rock Sioux tribe filed a motion Wednesday to intervene on a proposed expansion of the Dakota Access pipeline that would double the line’s capacity.

OHIO Cincinnati: Cincinnati Metro could be out of the streetcar business by New Year’s Day. On Wednesday, City Manager Patrick Duhaney released a 25-page “Cincinnati Streetcar Transition Plan” that details the timeline and who will be responsible for what during the separation.

OKLAHOMA Webber Falls: One of two runaway barges that crashed into a dam and sank on top of the other in the Arkansas River has been removed from the dam.

OREGON Coos Bay: A 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck Thursday off the Oregon coast but did not generate a tsunami or cause any damage or injuries, authorities said.

PENNSYLVANIA Harrisburg: State officials are hoping to lower the risk of lead poisoning through mandated blood testing for children and other measures.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: Residents are facing about an 8% hike in their electricity bills beginning in October after state regulators approved a rate increase.

SOUTH DAKOTA Pierre: Gov. Kristi Noem and Oglala Lakota County school officials plan to partner on building the first local public high school on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

TENNESSEE Nashville: Former Gov. Bill Haslam isn’t ruling out a future run for office, though he said he isn’t planning on it. TEXAS Dallas: A nonprofit that advocates for children said the rate of student suspensions has fallen by nearly a third since the state implemented a law barring suspensions except in extreme circumstances.

UTAH Salt Lake City: State officials are unveiling a gun safety program aimed at preventing accidental shootings that will be optional for schools.

VERMONT Orange: A farmer said most of the 250 pigs that escaped from his fenced-in area earlier this month are back.

VIRGINIA Richmond: A power company is launching an initiative to provide electric school buses to school districts in Virginia.

WASHINGTON Yakima: A Native American radio station has returned on air nearly a year after burglars robbed the station of essential production equipment. KYNR 1490-AM on the Yakama Indian Reservation hosted its first shows Thursday using a makeshift system.

WEST VIRGINIA Huntington: Marshall University will work with the investigative division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to fight the opioid crisis.

WISCONSIN Madison: State officials say the gray wolf population might have stabilized after nearing extinction decades ago.

WYOMING Casper: A U.S. bankruptcy court has ruled that a coal company can sell two large Wyoming mines separately from one in West Virginia.