STATE-BY-STATE

ALABAMA Huntsville: Teachers will benefit from over $10 million dedicated to pay raises over the next three years, on top of a 2.5% pay hike.

ALASKA Kenai: Inmates serving the last months of their sentence at the Wildwood Correctional Complex will move to Pacific Star Seafoods cannery dormitories.

ARIZONA Phoenix: A memorial ceremony was held to honor the 29 troopers who have died in the line of duty since 1958.

ARKANSAS Little Rock: State regulators are seeking new operators for two nursing homes.

CALIFORNIA Oakland: Residents in East Bay are being warned about rattlesnakes.

COLORADO Denver: A woman was cited after a container of what appeared to be urine blew up in a microwave at a 7-Eleven.

CONNECTICUT Hartford: A woman charged with allowing a dog to freeze to death has avoided jail.

DELAWARE Georgetown: Authorities say a woman who drove her car onto a railroad crossing where the signals were flashing was killed when a train slammed into the vehicle.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Police say a man suspected of shoplifting tried to grab the gun of an officer who stopped him and was shot in the leg.

FLORIDA Miami: A water line break flooded 50 staterooms aboard the Carnival Dream cruise ship.

GEORGIA Savannah: Hospital Corporation of America-owned Memorial Health has laid off 85 workers.

HAWAII Hilo: A green sea turtle with its two front flippers cut off was found at Onekahakaha County Beach Park.

IDAHO Lewiston: In recent years, Idaho has been a leader in student vaccination exemption rates, raising the concern of health officials.

ILLINOIS Aurora: Authorities say a man who was shot at with a paintball gun faces charges after he allegedly shot back with a real gun.

INDIANA Indianapolis: More than 1,700 pounds of medications were collected through an annual federal drug take-back initiative.

IOWA Waterloo: An agreement has been reached to demolish a greyhound track that closed more than 20 years ago and develop the land.

KANSAS Baldwin City: Baker University is beginning the public phase of a $20 million capital campaign.

KENTUCKY Frankfort: More than 3.3 million Kentuckians are registered to vote in the May 22 primary, an increase of about 62,000 voters since the 2016 general election.

LOUISIANA New Orleans: Wildlife agents found the body of a pastor missing since a boating accident last week.

MAINE Augusta: Maine’s attorney general won’t represent Gov. Paul LePage in a lawsuit over his refusal to expand Medicaid.

MARYLAND Baltimore: Jill Carter, director of the Baltimore Office of Civil Rights and Wage Enforcement, has resigned to take a seat in the state Senate.

MASSACHUSETTS Boston: The state is launching a seat belt education campaign.

MICHIGAN Highland Park: Tests found that one in seven children in Detroit’s Highland Park enclave had elevated lead levels in 2016.

MINNESOTA Bloomington: Kelly Holstine, an English teacher at a Shakopee alternative high school, is Minnesota’s Teacher of the Year.

MISSISSIPPI Jackson: A report says economic growth in the state dropped last year to 0.3% compared with 2% in 2016.

MISSOURI Kansas City: Stingray Bay opens May 18 at the Kansas City Zoo.

MONTANA Billings: The Clark Fork River became swollen with melting mountain snow.

NEBRASKA Milford: A section of Interstate 80 wss closed after three crashes left at least five dead.

NEVADA Las Vegas: The Navy wants to more than triple the size of its training range near Fallon.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Hanover: Dartmouth College is hoping to eliminate loans from its student financial aid packages.

NEW JERSEY Trenton: A former state treasury employee was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to stealing more than $75,000.

NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: The state Mining Commission held hearings on whether to allow an idle uranium mine to get active status.

NEW YORK New York: Trinity Church will be largely closed to visitors during a two-year, $98 million renovation.

NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: Prosecutors say a man who tried to hijack several tractor-trailers on Interstate 95 blocked part of the highway when he jack-knifed one of them.

NORTH DAKOTA Anamoose: The state has a new food hub to produce, distribute and provide marketing services for local growers.

OHIO Columbus: Ohio State’s spring class broke another record, with 11,907 degrees awarded.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Gov. Mary Fallin vetoed legislation moving Oklahoma Native American Day from November to October.

OREGON Klamath Falls: A flow drop in the Klamath River resulted in a die-off of fish and other creatures below the Keno Dam.

PENNSYLVANIA Easton: The FBI investigated a threat against Lafayette College. Nothing was found. RHODE ISLAND Providence: The state is holding a “Relish Rhody Recipe Contest” to encourage kids to eat healthy food grown locally.

SOUTH CAROLINA Myrtle Beach: A report says some animals at the Waccatee Zoo show signs of “psychological distress.”

SOUTH DAKOTA Pine Ridge: The FBI is offering a $2,500 reward for information in a slaying of a man on a reservation.

TENNESSEE Memphis: Police are investigating a shooting that left two people dead and four wounded near a midtown art deco high-rise.

TEXAS New Hope: Appointed Mayor Jess Herbst, who came out as transgender after getting the job, lost her election bid for a full two-year term.

UTAH Salt Lake City: Visitors to Red Fleet State Park have been dislodging raptor tracks imprinted in sandstone and throwing them into a lake.

VERMONT Burlington: A Vermont National Guard air ambulance unit will deploy to southwest Asia in June.

VIRGINIA Richmond: The state has begun to study ways to bring down some of its cities notoriously high eviction rates.

WASHINGTON White Swan: A man is seeking help in finding an American flag that belonged to his son who was killed in 2011 in Afghanistan.The flag was stolen in April.

WEST VIRGINIA Princeton: Police say a bald eagle found near U.S.460 in Mercer County died after being taken to a veterinary clinic.

WISCONSIN Prairie Farm: A fundraiser was held to help a family hit by a tragedy. A man and his 14-year-old son died March 24 when they were buried by silage in a silo.

WYOMING Jackson: Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke plans to protect some 1,400 acres of winter range used by the Whiskey Mountain bighorn sheep herd that never recovered from a 1990-91 pneumonia bout.