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ALASKA Sutton: A prison that was closed for about five years will reopen Monday after a nearly $17 million renovation, corrections officials said.

ARIZONA Williams: Silviculturists and researchers say the Southwest’s relentless drought is killing juniper trees across thousands of acres in northern and central Arizona.

ARKANSAS Little Rock: The University of Arkansas’ governing board voted Wednesday to require masks on its campuses, as dozens of school districts imposed their own mandates after a judge’s decision to block the state’s ban on such requirements.

CALIFORNIA Mendocino: With wells and rivers drying up, residents and tourists to the coastal town face strict water conservation measures.

COLORADO Glenwood Springs: Gov. Jared Polis says the state should be able to reopen the vital I-70 corridor to limited traffic Saturday after it was blocked by massive mud and debris slides in a wildfire burn scar area.

CONNECTICUT Storrs: The organization that oversees high school sports in the state released guidelines Thursday for holding a fall season. Athletes are asked to wear masks for indoor sports. Those not vaccinated against COVID-19 will be subject to quarantine if exposed.

DELAWARE Wilmington: State employees and long-term care and health care workers will be required to get COVID-19 shots by Sept. 30 or get regular coronavirus tests, Gov. John Carney said Thursday.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Ford’s Theatre have added to the list of venues that will require proof of COVID-19 vaccination, WUSA-TV reports.

FLORIDA Miami: A private bidder is willing to offer up to $120 million to purchase the Surfside oceanfront property where the collapsed Champlain Towers South building stood.

GEORGIA Atlanta: The state’s top elections official wants to amend its constitution to say only U.S. citizens can vote, a limit already in state law. HAWAII Honolulu: The state has reinstated restrictions on social gatherings as hospitals care for a record number of COVID-19 patients, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports.

IDAHO Boise: A man who was arrested after entering private businesses and refusing to wear a mask has notified local law enforcement agencies that he intends to sue, claiming he was assaulted and falsely imprisoned. The Idaho Press reports Peter Alan Hearn, 51, complains the stress has caused him to “hit rock bottom.”

ILLINOIS Chicago: City health officials on Thursday reported 203 cases of COVID-19 connected to Lollapalooza but said they had not been linked to any hospitalizations or deaths.

INDIANA Valparaiso: Valparaiso University has adopted the Beacons as its new team name, replacing the Crusaders, a term school officials dropped this year after saying it had been embraced by hate groups.

IOWA Des Moines: A group of mothers of young school-age children held a rally and sit-in at the Iowa Capitol on Wednesday pushing Gov. Kim Reynolds to issue an executive order reversing a state law that prohibits school boards from implementing mask requirements.

KANSAS Topeka: Mayor Michelle De La Isla will have a pacemaker implanted Monday because of damage to her heart from COVID-19, she said Wednesday.

KENTUCKY Frankfort: Any local education officials choosing to defy masking requirements in schools will be “held accountable” if their students or staff get infected, Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday.

LOUISIANA Houma: Ochsner Health, the state’s largest hospital system, has declined 175 requests to receive patients who needed advanced care not available at other hospitals, officials said Wednesday, citing the latest COVID-19 surge.

MAINE Camden: Opponents of removing a 200-year-old dam that no longer serves an official purpose say it’s a part of the town’s image, along with the waterfall it creates, Bangor Daily News reports.

MARYLAND Annapolis: A state board voted Wednesday to move ahead with preliminary work on a multibillion-dollar plan to ease traffic by replacing the aging American Legion Bridge linking Maryland and Virginia and create toll lanes for I-270 and parts of the beltway ringing the nation’s capital.

MASSACHUSETTS Boston: The city’s famed Skinny House, just 10 feet across at its widest point, is on sale for a whopping $1.2 million. MICHIGAN Caro: State Attorney General Dana Nessel said two former state Corrections sites allegedly were being assessed by a white supremacist group called The Base as training areas for “hate camps.”

MINNESOTA St. Paul: The state has reached the milestone of getting at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine to 70% of its population 16 and up, Gov. Tim Walz announced Thursday. MISSISSIPPI Jackson: Gov. Tate Reeves said Thursday that he is extending his state-of-emergency order that gives officials flexibility in responding to the pandemic.

MISSOURI St. Louis: Police are investigating after a Black contractor found a noose at a home renovation site in Benton Park.

MONTANA Butte: U.S. Minerals, which operated a plant to turn mining waste into roofing materials in Anaconda, has reached a plea deal in a federal case charging it with exposing employees to arsenic.

NEBRASKA Omaha: The state’s biggest health care systems say they will require all their employees to be vaccinated for COVID-19.

NEVADA Carson City: A policy on coyote-killing contests has yet to materialize in the state, where Department of Wildlife commissioners say they are getting less hopeful about finding a solution that hunters and conservationists accept.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: Houses of worship will be considered essential in future states of emergency under a bill signed by the governor. NEW JERSEY Trenton: The state is getting $2 million in federal grants to help make urban areas greener.

NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: The state is on the cusp of finalizing prison takeovers that will reduce private prison operations to 25% of inmate beds, amid a plunge in prison population numbers statewide.

NEW YORK Westchester: Thefts of used cooking oil, a lucrative byproduct that can be converted into biodiesel fuel, are running rampant at eateries in the Hudson Valley.

NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: An effort to raise the minimum age to get married in the state from 14 to 16, with an age-gap limit, has neared final legislative approval.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: The University of Mary, which sits along the Missouri River, will get almost $4 million from the federal government to help prevent a landslide. OHIO Sandusky: A NASA research facility in the city has been renamed after late astronaut Neil Armstrong.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday ruled that the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the McGirt case last year about crime on American Indian reservations was not retroactive, narrowing the number of convictions likely to be overturned.

OREGON Pendleton: Health leaders are looking into a coronavirus outbreak after 66 cases were linked to the outdoor Pendleton Whiskey Music Fest on July 10, KATU-TV reports.

PENNSYLVANIA Harrisburg: The union that represents about 10,000 state prison guards told Gov. Tom Wolf it plans legal action over his effort to require COVID-19 vaccines. RHODE ISLAND Portsmouth: A group of activists blocked the entrance to a Raytheon plant Thursday to protest what they allege is the company’s role in the “killing of civilians” and “human rights abuses” tied to weapons sales and border enforcement.

SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: Free tuition, Apple products and coveted football tickets are among prizes the University of South Carolina is offering to students, faculty and staff who get COVID-19 vaccinations.

SOUTH DAKOTA Pierre: Gov. Kristi Noem’s office is looking into recent changes to eliminate Native American references in proposed K-12 social studies standards by way of the state’s standard public input process, her spokesman said Wednesday.

TENNESSEE Memphis: The singer with the swinging pelvis and the doll with the plastic curves have united during Elvis Week in Mattel’s new “Elvis Presley Barbie Doll,” which presents the queen of fashion dolls in one of the King’s famous jumpsuits.

TEXAS Austin: State Sen. Carol Alvarado ended a 15-hour filibuster Thursday in Democrats’ latest defiance over new voting restrictions, but it only delayed passage in the chamber.

UTAH Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has renewed its calls to members to get COVID-19 shots and to wear masks. VERMONT New Haven: The Addison County Fair and Field Days is in full swing, running through Saturday, after being canceled last summer.

VIRGINIA Richmond: Students, teachers and staff at public and private K-12 schools must wear masks indoors under an order the Northam administration issued Thursday.

WASHINGTON Seattle: It was unconstitutionally excessive for the city to impound a homeless man’s truck and require him to reimburse nearly $550 in towing and storage costs, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: Student assessment results from 2021 show a decline from 2019, but state Superintendent of Schools W. Clayton Burch told state Board of Education members they shouldn’t make a direct comparison to previous years.

WISCONSIN Madison: University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank isn’t expecting the Foxconn Technology Group to honor a $100 million pledge it made nearly three years ago, after netting $3.3 billion in tax incentives from the state.

WYOMING Laramie: The University of Wyoming will require masks indoors through at least Sept. 20.