50 ★ States

ALABAMA Tuscumbia: A former police officer was indicted on a charge of reckless murder in connection with the roadside death of a pedestrian last October.

ALASKA Anchorage: Brent Sass, the defending Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion, withdrew from this year’s race on Saturday, citing concerns for his health.

ARIZONA Phoenix: Flooding is occurring in riverbeds and bottomlands along the Salt River east of downtown due to dam releases following recent heavy snowmelt. The National Weather Service issued a flood warning along the river from Granite Reef to Tempe Town Lake between Scottsdale and Mesa.

ARKANSAS Lincoln: The school district is scheduled Monday to discuss moving to a four-day school week. Lincoln Schools Superintendent Mary Ann Spears said the proposal is designed to, among other things, help attract and retain teachers for its 1,065 students.

CALIFORNIA Watsonville: An agricultural community famous for its strawberry crop was forced to evacuate after the Pajaro River’s levee was breached by flooding from a new atmospheric river.

COLORADO Denver: The Colorado Republican Party selected a former state representative who promised to be a “wartime” leader as its new chairman, joining several other state GOPs this year that have elected farright figures and election conspiracy theorists to their top posts.

CONNECTICUT Hartford: The state is suing the operator of the state’s 23 highway rest stops, alleging the company is refusing to pay more than $2.7 million in back wages owed to food service workers for Subway, Dunkin’ and other restaurant chains, state Attorney General William Tong announced.

DELAWARE Hartly: A man was killed when his SUV drove off Bryants Corner Road. No other vehicles were involved in the crash.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington: A fire broke out at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House, leading to the evacuation of workers as firefighters responded to the call, according to the U.S. Secret Service. D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services said that a defective cooling motor in the basement caused the fire. It said there were no injuries in the response to the fire.

FLORIDA Tallahassee: A 16-year-old girl in the Florida Panhandle was killed when a tree fell on the vehicle she was in during a fierce storm that saw wind speeds reach 80 mph, authorities said.

GEORGIA Winder: Three people were killed in a house fire Saturday as multiple propane tanks exploded, officials said. “Explosions were going off inside the home” when firefighters arrived just after midnight, Barrow County Fire Chief Alan Shuman told news outlets. Shuman said the house collapsed from the fire.

HAWAII Honolulu: The state’s second-largest volcano is not erupting, scientists said in an update to a previous warning. The U.S. Geological Survey said in a statement that seismic activity beneath the summit of Kilauea “has returned to background levels, ground deformation has stabilized, and no lava has been observed at the surface.”

IDAHO Boise: A former legislative intern is suing a lawmaker who was convicted of raping her and one of his colleagues for publicly releasing the teen’s identity and launching a campaign of harassment against her.

ILLINOIS Chicago: Two former prosecutors have been charged with lying about the relationship one had with a witness in the trial of a man who alleged he was tortured when questioned about the 1982 slayings of two police officers.

INDIANA Pendleton: A man imprisoned for nearly 25 years for murder has been released from prison after being exonerated by prosecutors and a California law school clinic. Leon Benson, 47, left the Correctional Industrial Facility a free man after an investigation revealed police failed to disclose key evidence, including information implicating someone else in the crime, The Indianapolis Star reported.

IOWA Sumner: A lengthy police standoff near a high school ended when a man took his own life, police said. Police negotiated with the suspect for more than four hours before an Iowa State Patrol tactical team entered the home and officers found him dead with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

KANSAS Overland Park: Federal law enforcement agents were involved in a standoff at an apartment complex after a suspect and an agent exchanged gunfire while authorities attempted to serve a warrant, police said.

KENTUCKY Louisville: A police firearm instructor’s gun discharged during a training exercise, striking a recruit in a bulletproof vest, the department said. The Louisville Metropolitan Police Department said the shooting appeared to be accidental but that it was “a serious training failure, and it is swiftly being addressed.” The recruit appeared to sustain minor injuries and was taken to a hospital as a precaution, the department said.

LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: The head of one of the state’s most powerful business groups, Stephen Waguespack, announced he will run for governor. He told Louisiana Association of Business and Industry board members he was resigning from his position as president and CEO of the group to launch his Republican gubernatorial bid.

MAINE Waterville: The campus of Colby College was on a temporary lockdown early Saturday after a shot was fired in a student housing complex during what one student called a massive annual party.

MARYLAND Annapolis: The House voted for a measure that would create a legal framework and tax structure to enable recreational marijuana to be sold in stores as soon as July 1.

MASSACHUSETTS Boston: A clinical laboratory and its owner have been accused of submitting over $400,000 in Medicaid claims for unauthorized urine drug tests, the attorney general’s office in Massachusetts said.

MICHIGAN Tipton: A man accused of threatening the lives of Jewish Michigan public officials on Twitter was indicted on a hate crime charge, a prosecutor said.

MINNESOTA Grand Marais: A man was charged with fatally beating an elderly man previously convicted of child sexual assault, who he believed had stalked his young daughter in the past.

MISSISSIPPI Jackson: Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba acted improperly when he tried to veto a garbage-collection contract the city council had rejected, the state Supreme Court ruled.

MISSOURI Kansas City: An 85year-old man convicted of killing an attorney is not competent to move forward with sentencing, a judge has ruled. David Jungerman will be committed to the Missouri Department of Mental Health, and his competency will be reevaluated in six months, KCTV-TV reported.

MONTANA Helena: Don Wetzel Sr., a championship-winning athlete, coach and co-founder of the Montana Indian Athletic Hall of Fame, has died. He was 74. Don Wetzel Jr. said his father died Tuesday in Helena due to an infection.

NEBRASKA Lincoln: A broken pipe at the Nebraska State Penitentiary was repaired, restoring running water for about 600 inmates, the Omaha World-Herald reports.

NEVADA Las Vegas: As of July 1, Nevada State College could be known as Nevada State University. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents voted 9-4 to approve the name change. However, it’s contingent on a change to state law that would create a second-tier teaching university within the state’s system.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Wentworth: A state lawmaker is accused of screaming and swearing at a snowplow truck operator who recorded the confrontation and later reported him to police. Rep. Jeffrey Greeson, 51, was charged with disorderly conduct, criminal threatening and simple assault, according to police.

NEW JERSEY Deptford: A police officer was wounded and a man was killed during a struggle last week, authorities said. An officer tried to stop a pedestrian on Friday and a chase began, the New Jersey attorney general’s office said.

NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: Legislators from both political parties are rallying behind a gun control bill that would apply felony penalties to straw purchases of firearms, in which a weapon is bought legally in order to sell it to someone who can’t lawfully possess a gun.

NEW YORK Buffalo: A firefighter who died in an explosive blaze was remembered at his funeral as a talented cook and as a husband and father who loved his family and his city. Jason Arno was battling a blaze in a vacant commercial building on March 1 when an explosive backdraft sent flames shooting through the windows and knocked firefighters outside to the sidewalk.

NORTH CAROLINA Charlotte: The family of a meteorologist who was killed last year in a helicopter crash is suing a maintenance facility and the companies that owned and operated the aircraft. The complaint alleges negligence and claims the helicopter was running on contaminated fuel, which can lead to engine failure. Meteorologist Jason Myers and pilot Chip Tayag died in November after the Robinson R44 helicopter crashed along an interstate.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: A latewinter blizzard settled over the upper Midwest this weekend, shutting down roads and adding to one of the snowiest seasons in recent decades. Bismarck’s 92.5 inches of snow this season is the third-most in the 148 years records have been kept, according to the National Weather Service. Several roads were closed, including sections of Interstate 94 and U.S. 52 in North Dakota.

OHIO Cincinnati: An African serval cat that was found with cocaine in its system after an escape at a traffic stop now calls the Cincinnati Zoo home. The slender feline made its escape after its owner was pulled over by police on Jan. 28, according to local animal control officials. Once the animal was taken in for medical care by Cincinnati Animal CARE, the team ran a drug test in which they determined that he had cocaine in his system.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma County: The county is getting options for where it might build a new county jail/health center to serve its residents in coming years. Last week, five landowners submitted sale offers to commissioners ranging from just over $1 million to nearly $38 million for rural, suburban and urban properties.

PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia: A man and a woman have pleaded guilty in a fight and shooting death outside a well-known Philadelphia cheesesteak shop almost two years ago.

RHODE ISLAND Kingston: The University of Rhode Island has removed a partial Malcolm X quote from the facade of its main library 30 years after members of the school’s Black Student Leadership Group and others protested because they said the shortened quote misrepresented the fuller meaning of the civil rights leader’s message.

SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: The parents of a ninth-grade student who said she was accosted by a teacher for walking to class instead of stopping and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance are suing the teacher, principal, school district and state education officials.

SOUTH DAKOTA Pierre: The Republican-dominated Legislature passed a general sales tax cut of $104 million per year, lowering the taxes on groceries but not eliminating them entirely as Gov. Kristi Noem had urged.

TENNESSEE Nashville: Lt. Gov. Randy McNally has apologized after revelations that he interacted on social media to nearly nude photos of a young gay model as well as other posts by the man and other LGBTQ personalities, even as the lawmaker has led a Senate that has passed bills targeting the LGBTQ community.

TEXAS Galveston County: Three women are being sued for wrongful death by a man who claims they helped his now-ex-wife obtain medication for an abortion. It’s another test of state-enforced bans since the U.S. Supreme court overturned the Roe v. Wade decision.

UTAH Salt Lake City: Police say a bank robbery suspect politely demanded $1 from a teller, then waited in the lobby for officers to arrive because he wanted to go to prison.

VERMONT Burlington: The state’s largest city has voted to allow noncitizens who are in the country legally to vote in local elections. The proposed charter change for Burlington now must be considered by the Legislature and the governor.

VIRGINIA Roseann: A firefighter battling a wildfire was killed when an ATV overturned, the state Department of Forestry announced. Rocky S. Wood was fighting a 15-acre wildfire in Buchanan County on Thursday night, the department said.

WASHINGTON Seattle: A long-haul truck driver who became obsessed with a software engineer after meeting her through a social media chatroom app killed her, her husband and himself after stalking them for months, police said.

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: A bill that would ban evidence-based health care for transgender minors in West Virginia, the state estimated to have more transgender youth per capita than any other, is headed to the desk of Gov. Jim Justice.

WISCONSIN Madison: A pair of Republican legislators circulated a bill that would require wildlife officials to establish a new population goal for wolves in the state in their next management plan.

WYOMING Cheyenne: The director of the Wyoming Department of Transportation has retired, the Wyoming Tribune Eagle reports. The Wyoming Transportation Commission will submit three nominees to replace Luke Reiner to Gov. Mark Gordon.