STATE-BY-STATE

ALABAMA Huntsville: The U.S. Navy wants more missiles produced by Raytheon, which completes final assembly of the weapons at Redstone Arsenal, AL.com reported. ALASKA Juneau: After a nationwide search, the symphony selected Troy Quinn of Los Angeles as its new music director and conductor, according to the Empire. ARIZONA Phoenix: Health executives Donna Noriega and Cory Nelson lost their jobs after accusations that mentally ill patients at the Arizona State Hospital were sexually abused, the Republic reported. ARKANSAS Fayetteville: ArkansasOnline expects the Walton Arts Center will be flooded with vino as it hosts the 15th annual Art of Wine Festival from Thursday to Saturday.

CALIFORNIA San Francisco:

Chronicle Book Editor John McMurtrie has some recommendations for your summer reading list.

COLORADO Denver: Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey has cleared the officers involved in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Jessica Hernandez in January, KUSA-TV reported. Hernandez was in a stolen car when officers approached her in the early morning hours of Jan. 26, when police said she drove toward one of them. Two officers opened fire, killing Jessica. CONNECTICUT Greenwich: The Greenwich International Film Festival awarded entertainer and social activist Harry Belafonte for his humanitarian efforts, The

Greenwich Time reported.

DELAWARE New Castle Coun

ty: The county council may ramp up pressure on the state to fund a study into creating a privatepublic Delaware River port. The council Tuesday is scheduled to vote on a resolution urging Gov. Markell and lawmakers to “take immediate action” to expand the state-owned Port of Wilmington, The News Journal reported. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Another argument for gender pay equity? Wonkblog reported on a study from the American Sociological

Review that says husbands and wives are more likely to cheat when their spouses make more money.

FLORIDA Key Largo: In recognition of World Oceans Day, Key Largo’s Coral Restoration Foundation planned to plant 1,000 reef-building staghorn corals in waters off the upper Florida Keys, CBS-TV reported

GEORGIA Savannah: The Grey, an iconic dining spot in the city, was named one of Food & Wine

Magazine’s Five Best Restaurants in America, the Morning News reported.

HAWAII Kailua-Kona: A driver accused of striking a teenage girl was chased down by a man on skateboard and detained until police arrived, West Hawaii Today reported.

IDAHO Burley: Employees of the Dot Foods distribution center here competed for a shot at the national championship in the forklift rodeo. The Times-News reported that workers raced forklifts through an obstacle course.

ILLINOIS Springfield: Sangamon Auditorium Director Bob Vaughn told The State Journal

Register that he hopes the 201516 theater season will give audiences a sense of magic and wonder “you can’t get ... on a flat screen.”

INDIANA Indianapolis: A new law aimed at slow drivers permits police to ticket motorists in the left lane if they hold up faster drivers behind them and don’t move to the right, The Indianapo

lis Star reported.

IOWA Des Moines: A federal judge has denied a request to turn off the speed-enforcement cameras on

Interstate 235. A lawsuit alleges the equipment, which allows police to issue tickets to speeders caught on camera, violates motorists’ right to free travel and fails to meet national standards, The Des Moines Register reported.

KANSAS Wichita: Ample rainfall in recent weeks has helped much of the Kansas wheat crop recover as this season’s harvest nears, The Wichita Eagle reported. KENTUCKY Louisville: One of three young peregrine falcons that recently fledged from high up a Mill Creek power plant smokestack collided with a crane and broke some bones Friday,

The Courier-Journal reported. But quick action and veterinary care has likely saved the bird, Raptor Rehabilitation of Kentucky said.

LOUISIANA New Orleans: The

Times-Picayune reminded overeager cyclists to keep their pants on until the World Naked Bike Ride on Saturday. Nudity is not mandatory, so the modest are welcome, too.

MAINE Mechanic Falls: The grand jury hearing evidence on whether criminal charges should be brought after a hayride crash will meet for a third session, wcsh6.com reported.

MARYLAND Annapolis: A foreign-worker visa program that some Eastern Shore employers use to fill seafood jobs is running once again, the Daily Times reported.

MASSACHUSETTS Revere: The state has been so successful in nurturing the piping plovers back

to health, The Boston Globe reported, that their nesting areas have begun consuming wide swaths of the beaches.

MICHIGAN Royal Oak: A 2-acre wolf habitat opened at the Detroit Zoo, officials said. The $1.4 million Cotton Family Wolf

Wilderness is the new home to two gray wolves: Waziyata, 7, a female whose name means “north” in Lakota; and Kaskapahtew, 5, a male whose name is Lakota for “smoke.”

MINNESOTA St. Cloud: This city has to go back to the drawing board for the River’s Edge Convention Center parking ramp after bids for the project came in about 50% higher than expected, the St. Cloud Times reported. City leaders had hoped the entire project would cost about $11.55 million, but the lowest bid was $17.4 million.

MISSISSIPPI Courtland: Supporters of the Justice for Jessica campaign are increasing awareness of the teen’s case by asking people to donate books with inscriptions to their favorite library or other charity, The (Jackson) Clarion-Ledger reported. Jessica Chambers, 19, was burned alive Dec. 6 on a rural road near here, and her killer has not been arrested.

MISSOURI Columbia: A proposal to require drug testing of fraternity and sorority members living in Greek housing has been dropped, The Columbia Daily

Tribune reported. MONTANA Helena: The Montana State Veterans Cemetery no longer allows most graveside services because of safety and liability concerns, the Indepen

dent Record reported.

NEBRASKA North Platte: New murals on city sidewalks near storm sewers are a part of a project from Keep North Platte and Lincoln County Beautiful, The

North Platte Telegraph reported.

NEVADA Reno: Police were searching for a man who stole a teen-age girl’s 3-month-old Siberian Husky and held it for ransom, the Reno

Gazette-Journal re

ported.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Durham: State foresters are hoping that a wasp from Asia can save the Granite State’s ash trees, New Hampshire Public Radio reported. Three species that have been approved for release in the USA. New Hampshire is home to roughly 25 million ash trees.

NEW JERSEY Trenton: A state lawmaker wants to ban high school teachers from having sex with adult students, which is allowed under state law, the Cou

rier-Post reported.

NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: State transportation officials said they don’t have the funding to meet a deadline to install a federally mandated safety upgrade to the state’s Rail Runner line, The

Albuquerque Journal reported. NEW YORK Big Flats: For the second time in two days, emergency responders had to rescue paddlers from the Chemung River, the Star-Gazette reported. Four members of a family were traveling in four kayaks when they got hung up in debris, said Golden Glow Fire Chief Bob Barnes.

NORTH CAROLINA Garner: The

News & Observer spotlighted the all-American music of the Hall Sisters before their free hometown concert Friday at Aversboro Road Baptist Church. Folk, pop, hymns, bluegrass or classical, “we love it all,” Jessica Hall said.

NORTH DAKOTA Minot: The final design of the new Broadway Bridge will depend on what the public wants to see, the Minot

Daily News reported. The bridge over the Souris River and railroad in central Minot is safe but is nearing the end of its lifespan.

OHIO Petersburg: A 65-yearold man from Butler County, Pa., died in a skydiving accident, The (Youngstown) Vindicator reported. The man, whose name was not released, became tangled in the lines of his primary parachute and his reserve chute did not open properly, said Rick Kuhns, owner of Skydive Rick’s.

OKLAHOMA Norman: Incoming University of Oklahoma freshmen will be required to take a five-hour course in diversity issues before completing the end of their first year, the Tulsa World reported.

OREGON Salem: Former governor Ted Kulongoski was among about 50 tandem skydiving teams to fill the skies over Molalla to commemorate the 71st anniversary of D-Day on Saturday, the Statesman

Journal reported. Kulongoski served in the Marine Corps.

PENNSYLVANIA Philadel

phia: Drexel University unveiled

a mental health kiosk, The Phila

delphia Inquirer reported. The kiosk allows students who are feeling depressed to take anonymous, two-minute screenings to see whether they may have a problem.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: Firefighters extinguished a fire in a Norwich Avenue apartment house early Monday morning, the

Providence Journal reported. SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: State lawmakers adjourned with plenty of work left undone. Roadfunding, ethics reform and even the state budget didn’t make it across the 5 p.m. Thursday finish line. Legislators will return to the Statehouse June 16, The Green

ville News reported.

SOUTH DAKOTA Yankton: The city is hosting the 2015 World Archery Youth Championships. The event is expected to draw youth representing 60 different countries. TENNESSEE Clarksville: Veterans here are planning a flag retirement ceremony in conjunction with Flag Day on Sunday, The Leaf-Chronicle reported. The ceremony is held to properly destroy — by burning — worn, damaged or otherwise unserviceable American flags in a dignified and proper manner.

TEXAS Galveston: The Texas General Land Office is involved in a dispute over umbrella and chair rentals on Galveston’s Seawall Boulevard beaches, The Galveston

County Daily News reported.

UTAH Hill Air Force Base: Military pilots will be flying nighttime training missions in the area around Hill Air Force Base. KSL-TV reported that the base has announced that fighter pilots will be training through Saturday.

VERMONT Strafford: A solar consulting firm is about to apply for state approval to construct a proposed solar array on the site of a “Superfund” site, the Leba

non Valley News reported. Wolfe Energy has thought the former Elizabeth Mine site was wellsuited for solar as most other uses are not permitted because of its designation.

VIRGINIA Richmond: The shell of the Main Street Station train shed could start to come off as early as this month, the Times

Dispatch reported. The renovation project will transform the cavernous structure into an indoor market, tourism center and event space. WASHINGTON Everett: The price of running the Legislature for an extra month included more than $180,000 in daily expense payments to lawmakers,

The Daily Herald reported. Per diem payments and mileage reimbursements will continue to add up as lawmakers continue to negotiate a state budget in a second special session.

WEST VIRGINIA Kanawha

County: The state Department of Environmental Protection closed down a mountaintop removal mine site near a state forest and blocked the mine operators, Revelation Energy and Keystone Development, from receiving new permits anywhere in the country, wvpublic.org reported. WISCONSIN Menasha: Police said a 12-year-old boy was able to fight off an attempted kidnapper,

The Post-Crescent reported. The boy, who was skateboarding, had fallen near the sidewalk before he was grabbed by a man who tried to drag him into the SUV. The boy hit, kicked and clawed at the man, who released him, police said.

WYOMING Laramie: An antique clock is back downtown.

The Laramie Boomerang reported that the clock historically stood in front of Midwest Trunk and Sporting Goods but was removed in the 1960s.