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STATE-BY-STATE

- From staff and wire reports

ALABAMA Tuscaloosa: A tuition increase up to 4 percent was approved at the University of Alabama.

ALASKA Juneau: Alaska will house 100,000 more people by 2045, according to population forecaster­s.

ARIZONA Phoenix: The state will use $38 million from a settlement with Volkswagen to buy 280 new school buses for low-income communitie­s.

ARKANSAS Maumelle: A 27-year-old man died a day after being struck by lightning.

CALIFORNIA Madera County: The builders of a bridge were ordered to start over because it didn’t meet the “level of quality for a work product,” the Los Angeles Times reports.

COLORADO Greeley: An explosion at a drilling site injured three workers, including one who was hospitaliz­ed.

CONNECTICU­T New Haven: A groundbrea­king is planned Thursday, for the Barack H. Obama Magnet University School.

DELAWARE Milford: The sole surviving chicken of a truck spill that killed thousands of birds has died.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Moke, the National Zoo’s teething 7-week-old western lowland gorilla, has four teeth, The Washington Post reports.

FLORIDA Davie: The body of a woman believed to have been killed during an alligator attack while walking her dogs has been found in a lake.

GEORGIA Atlanta: Georgia became the eighth state affected by a salmonella outbreak tied to precut melon.

HAWAII Honolulu: Gov. David Ige signed a bill giving $210 million to build 1,600 affordable rental homes.

IDAHO Cladwell: Two bounty hunters were arrested for impersonat­ing police while working for a bail firm.

ILLINOIS Elgin: A 94-year-old woman had to downsize a sign in her front yard that reads “Impeach President Trump Now!”

INDIANA Kokomo: A 21-year-old

woman was charged after two children in her care tested positive for meth and THC and her infant son was found severely malnourish­ed.

IOWA Des Moines: A record 84 female candidates will be running on the November ballot, a 29 percent jump from two years ago.

KANSAS Kansas City: Tennessee native Laura Murray Cicco is suing NASA in Kansas to affirm her ownership of lunar dust she says astronaut Neil Armstrong gifted to her.

KENTUCKY Shepherdsv­ille: A 2year-old girl was found safe after officials looked through fields and wooded areas for a day and a half.

LOUISIANA Deridder: The “Gothic Hanging Jail” will be the setting for a movie filmed in New Orleans. The crew of “Eli” plans to make a 3-D digital scan of the jail and grounds and superimpos­e it during editing.

MAINE Bangor: An American Jobs Project report says 2,100 jobs could be created when offshore wind power takes off in the state.

MARYLAND Frederick: The Potomac Riverkeepe­r Network is suing the city for what it says are repeated violations of the Clean Water Act.

MASSACHUSE­TTS Stockbridg­e: A new exhibition featuring paintings by Rockwell, Maxfield Parrish and N.C. Wyeth runs through Oct. 28 at the Norman Rockwell Museum.

MICHIGAN Holland: The De Zwaan Windmill has been added to the National Register of Historic Places.

MINNESOTA Minneapoli­s: Democrats will hold a special convention June 17 for candidates vying for Rep. Keith Ellison’s seat in Congress.

MISSISSIPP­I Water Valley: Town aldermen have voted to allow sales of cold beer. Room-temperatur­e beer has been sold for a decade.

MISSOURI Columbia: The University of Missouri will cut $45.4 million and eliminate 185 jobs, the Columbia Daily Tribune reports.

MONTANA Billings: Roosevelt County sheriff ’s deputies have responded to 10 overdoses in recent weeks – two of them fatal.

NEBRASKA Humboldt: Officials have issued a health alert for toxic blue-green algae at Kirkman’s Cove.

NEVADA Las Vegas: The Nevada State Museum wants donations of memorabili­a linked to the NHL’s Vegas Golden Knights, Stanley Cup runners-up in their first year.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: The state is paying anglers to give up lead fishing tackle in an attempt to protect loons from poisoning.

NEW JERSEY Trenton: President Donald Trump declared the state a disaster area after a March 6-7 storm dealt $20 million in damage.

NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: Inmate-oninmate assaults that result in serious injury have risen, officials say.

NEW YORK New York: A judge says the city can go forward with its ban on polystyren­e containers.

NORTH CAROLINA Winston-Salem: A high school student was charged after police say he attacked a school employee and police officer during a water gun and water balloon fight.

NORTH DAKOTA Fargo: A lawyer has asked President Donald Trump to pardon or commute the sentence for American Indian activist Leonard Peltier, 73, convicted of killing two FBI agents in 1975.

OHIO Columbus: Ohio starts offering driver’s licenses July 2 that comply with new U.S. security regulation­s.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Advocates say Oklahoma has lost much of its recent progress in reducing infant deaths.

OREGON Salem: A limited no-drink advisory for tap water was extended for two weeks in the city.

PENNSYLVAN­IA Aliquippa: An assistant police chief was arrested after texting a sexually explicit image

to a teen girl, authoritie­s say.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: Rhode Island Hospital has agreed to spend $1 million to improve its systems after mistakes on four patients.

SOUTH CAROLINA Anderson: A man was shot inside the Anderson Mall after a confrontat­ion with another man outside a shoe store.

SOUTH DAKOTA Spearfish: The American Legion celebrated 100 years in the state over the weekend.

TENNESSEE Nashville: The restored tomb of President Andrew Jackson was unveiled, six weeks after profanitie­s were painted on it.

TEXAS Jasper: Relatives have dedicated a bench to honor James Byrd Jr., a black man chained to a pickup and dragged to his death in 1998.

UTAH Salt Lake City: Plans are in the works to open a George Washington Museum of American History for the 250th anniversar­y of the Declaratio­n of Independen­ce’s signing.

VERMONT South Royalton: The Vermont Law School hosted an event to help people expunge misdemeano­r marijuana possession charges.

VIRGINIA Danville: Chad Atchison, 27, a prosecutor, was killed while skateboard­ing early Saturday when he hit the side of a pickup truck.

WASHINGTON Seattle: Tuition at the University of Washington will increase by $218 next school year for in-state undergradu­ate students.

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: A $151 million settlement of a classactio­n suit over a chemical spill into the Elk River got final approval.

WISCONSIN Milwaukee: President Donald Trump plans to attend the Foxconn Technology Group groundbrea­king and a fundraiser June 29.

WYOMING Larmie: The National Weather Service categorize­d a recent tornado in the area as an EF3 with winds up to 150 mph. No deaths or injuries were reported.

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