STATE-BY-STATE

ALABAMA Cherokee: Authorities say a Cherokee High School student wrote a shooting threat on a bathroom wall because he and his friends wanted the day off.

ALASKA Fairbanks: Kodiak Jack’s and the Boomtown Bar and Grill will get a new name when it reopens with new owners Friday: The Spur and Tony’s Sports Bar. But military leaders say it’s still off-limits to soldiers.

ARIZONA Phoenix: A $1 million cash bond was set for a Cave Creek woman charged with attempted murder by allegedly using anti-freeze to poison her husband.

ARKANSAS Bentonville: Some public schools plan to display posters proclaiming the national motto “In God We Trust” over objections that the art promotes Christianity.

CALIFORNIA San Francisco: The Pacific Fertility Clinic says thousands of frozen eggs and embryos may have been damaged in a liquid nitrogen storage tank failure, The Washington Post reports.

COLORADO Aspen: Fire managers plan prescribed burns in four counties to improve wildlife habitat, The Aspen Times reports.

CONNECTICUT Hartford: Homeowners located more than 20 miles from the Stafford Springs concrete company at the center of a crumbling foundation problem can now seek reimbursement for testing.

DELAWARE Wilmington: Two nurses came to the aid of a man who went into medical distress at the city’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Saturday. The man eventually started breathing again, The News Journal reports.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Authorities say a prehensile-tailed porcupine was euthanized at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo last week after its health declined. Clark had been born at the zoo in 2009.

FLORIDA Miami: A watchdog group says Florida is on pace for another record year for manatee deaths, with nearly a third of 166 so far blamed on cold weather.

GEORGIA Gainesville: The Lake Lanier Convention and Visitors Bureau has a new mobile visitor center to showcase state tourist destinations, The Times reports.

HAWAII Honolulu: Authorities say an Army airdrop missed its target at a military training area and landed on the campus of Waimanalo Elementary and Intermediate School.

IDAHO Burley: Cassia County Commissioners voted to dissolve their administration department by June 1 and transfer its staff to other county offices, The Times-News reports.

ILLINOIS Urbana: A survey shows that 89% of 2016-17 University of Illinois graduates found jobs or extended their education within six months, The (Champaign) NewsGazette reports.

INDIANA Indianapolis: State lawmakers have sent Gov. Eric Holcomb a bill that cleans up archaic words and male-only references in Indiana laws.

IOWA Maquoketa: Officials blame an abrupt drop in tourism on two road projects, one that closed Maquoketa Caves State Park and one blocking a bridge near Sabula, the Telegraph Herald reports.

KANSAS Wichita: Officials are searching for whoever defaced an ancient Native American petroglyph at Kanopolis Lake by etching the names of “Isaac” and “Emily.” The damage is irreversible, The Wichita Eagle reports.

KENTUCKY Frankfort: The tallest building in the state capital came crashing down Sunday in a controlled implosion. The 28-story Capital Plaza Tower makes way for a five-story office building and parking garage.

LOUISIANA New Orleans: The National World War II Museum is taking apart a fire engine made for the military home front in 1943 and expects to have it ready for display in two or three years.

MAINE Rockport: The state’s baby eel fishing industry expects high prices this year because of a lack of elvers on the international market.

MARYLAND Baltimore: The city’s move to a universal free lunch program had the unintended consequence of costing some high-poverty schools thousands of dollars in other federal funds, The Baltimore Sun reports.

MASSACHUSETTS Nantucket: Police say the 19th century African Meeting House here was spray-painted with racist and sexually explicit graffiti, the Cape Cod Times reports.

MICHIGAN Sault Ste. Marie: The Coast Guard cutters Mackinaw and Mobile Bay are beginning icebreaking operations in northwestern Lake Michigan to clear shipments of fuel products.

MINNESOTA Fergus Falls: Officials are seeking legislative approval of $9 million to demolish abandoned buildings that were part of Fergus Falls State Hospital, which closed in 2005, Minnesota Public Radio reports.

MISSISSIPPI Leland: Some residents are threatening to sue this Mississippi Delta town following recent flooding, saying officials failed to maintain drains, The Delta Democrat-Times reports.

MISSOURI Kansas City: A proposal for state funding of a downtown arts campus is back on the legislative agenda.

MONTANA Butte: Copper mining companies are taking steps to prevent another massive die-off of migrating snow geese in the polluted Berkeley Pit, The Montana Standard reports.

NEBRASKA Kearney: The sandhill cranes have begun their annual migration through Nebraska before continuing north.

NEVADA Las Vegas: Authorities say 26 flu deaths have been reported in Clark County so far this year, more than twice the 12 reported last year at this time.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Durham: Officials say the University of New Hampshire is changing its two-year degree programs to re-focus on agriculture and respond to evolving workforce needs.

NEW JERSEY Camden: A 22-yearold babysitter is charged with kidnapping a 4-month-old boy in her care. Authorities say the child was found safe with the sitter on a Transit RiverLine train.

NEW MEXICO Aztec: An archaeological preservation site nonprofit has acquired property above Aztec Ruins National Monument, The Farmington Daily Times reports.

NEW YORK New York: A woman and her daughter are suing the West 51st Street parking garage over an expensive Degani violin that was run over when its case was set on the ground.

NORTH CAROLINA Greensboro: Officials suspect the area around Piedmont Triad International Airport as the contamination source for the city’s drinking water, The News & Record reports.

NORTH DAKOTA Watford City: A malfunction in the mechanic room’s ventilation system caused breathing problems for some swimming pool users at the Little Missouri Inn and Suites here, the Minot Daily News reports.

OHIO Columbus: Four real estate developers will get rebates for installing electric vehicle charging stations at their apartment and condominium complexes here, The Columbus Dispatch reports.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: State employees plan to join Oklahoma teachers in walking off the job next month if lawmakers don’t give them a pay raise, The Oklahoman reports.

OREGON Hillsboro: Authorities say a man was fatally shot last weekend in an exchange of gunfire with police responding to a domestic disturbance call in a suburb west of Portland.

PENNSYLVANIA Bethlehem: Alpha Chi Omega sorority’s Theta Chi chapter at Lehigh University was kicked off campus due to what officials call a “reprehensible” scavenger hunt that involved drugs, alcohol and sexual activity.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: Elected officials in Rhode Island are delivering meals to seniors during March to raise awareness about hunger and the importance of Meals on Wheels.

SOUTH CAROLINA Charleston: Officials cite a rising number of staged automobile crashes in the state, creating a problem with insurance fraud, The Post and Courier reports.

SOUTH DAKOTA Lead: The Black Hills Mining Museum is getting a $7,800 federal grant to help preserve the region’s mining history, The Black Hills Pioneer reports.

TENNESSEE Pigeon Forge: A worker at the Smoky Mountain Opry Theater died from a leak of carbon dioxide, The Oak Ridger reports. Officials say carbon dioxide is used to create fog for theater shows.

TEXAS Llano: A grand jury has indicted four of the eight officers on the city’s police force, including the chief. The cases involve alleged wrongful arrests or problems with arrest reports.

UTAH Provo: Republicans are testing an app that will make it possible for Utah County GOP members who can’t make it to the party’s caucuses next week to vote remotely, The Daily Herald reports.

VERMONT Barre: Organizers are raising money to fund a Boy Scouts monument that celebrates the city as the birthplace of the scouts, The Times Argus reports.

VIRGINIA Richmond: Gov. Ralph Northam signed a bill that eliminates a prohibition on hunting or killing raccoons after 2 a.m. on Sundays.

WASHINGTON Seattle: Several Girl Scouts troops were targets of crime during this cookie sale season, including an attempted armed robbery, purchases with counterfeit bills and boxes of cookies stolen from sales booths.

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: This week marks the 25th anniversary of the Blizzard of 1993 that dumped at least a foot of snow in each of West Virginia’s 55 counties. Nine people died statewide.

WISCONSIN Beaver Dam: Authorities say a controlled burn will be set Wednesday to raze the rest of an apartment building where an explosion last week killed a man.

WYOMING Cheyenne: A bill to allow “In God We Trust” displays in public school classrooms and state government buildings died when the Senate failed to vote on it, KGAB-AM reports.

From staff and wire reports