STATE-BY-STATE
ALABAMA Montgomery: Starting in 2017, there will be no more common law marriages in the state, AL.com reported. ALASKA Sitka: Bob Bernhardt, 86, won for both the largest fish and total pounds in the Salmon Derby. The 15 kings he entered this year totaled 293.1 pounds, the Sitka Sentinel reported. ARIZONA Pinal County: Sheriff ’s deputies removed the remains of an unidentified man from a canal in the San Tan Valley area, The Arizona Republic reported. ARKANSAS Little Rock: Stella Osei Green, a nurse practitioner at a former medical clinic, pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge, admitting she helped distribute illegal prescriptions for controlled substances, Arkansas
Online reported. CALIFORNIA San Francisco: Firefighters and paramedics went to retrieve a person inside an apartment building in the Tenderloin district. When they emerged, they discovered their ambulance had been stolen, said Lt. Jonathan Baxter of the Fire Department. The ambulance didn’t get far. The driver — an unidentified woman — exited at Treasure Island, then crashed into a concrete barrier, the Los
Angeles Times reported. COLORADO Colorado Springs: A Thunderbirds jet that crashed in Colorado Springs after flying over the Air Force Academy’s commencement ceremony was loaded onto a flatbed truck and removed to a hangar at Peterson Air Force Base, KUSA-TV reported. CONNECTICUT Stratford: After a delay of almost nine months, work will continue on the final phases of a massive runway safety project at Sikorsky Memorial Airport, the Connecticut Post reported. The FAA lifted the ban it put on the site following an inspection. DELAWARE Wilmington: Marcia Gruszczynski calls the St. John the Beloved Carnival “a little Disney World on Milltown Road.” And she should know what has made it a draw for 50 years: She has attended all of them. The News Journal reported that this year’s event runs through Saturday. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Ridership was lower than normal as Metro began SafeTrack, a program of intensive repairs and massive rebuilding that Metro warned would cause commuter delays, The Washington Post reported. FLORIDA Tallahassee: A federal jury convicted Robert Youman, 32, of possession with intent to distribute after he accepted a package of the synthetic drug Molly from an undercover Department of Homeland Security agent posing as a delivery person, the Tallahassee Democrat reported. GEORGIA Atlanta: The threeday Imagine Music Festival that will commandeer Atlanta Motor Speedway on Aug. 26-28 added the Disco Biscuits, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (a DJ set), Levitation Jones and several other acts to the electronic dance music fest, The Atlanta JournalConstitution reported. HAWAII Puhi: Resource Recovery Solutions, who operates Puhi Metals Recycling Center, is accepting eWaste at no cost to residents and businesses, The Garden
Island reported. IDAHO Idaho Falls: The Bureau of Land Management has fined a woman who attempted to rescue an emaciated wild horse, the Post
Register reported. ILLINOIS Monee: Umpire Tim Nelson claimed that Mayor Jay Farquhar broke his jaw in two places and called him a drunk during a dispute at a youth baseball game, the Daily Southtown reported. Farquhar, who was a coach in the game, claimed he was trying to defend himself after his “sarcastic” comment about the ump led to the physical altercation. INDIANA Indianapolis: The IUPUI Natatorium had its grand reopening Tuesday, ending a five-phase, $20 million renovation that took 21 months, The
Indianapolis Star reported. IOWA Des Moines: The American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa and the Freedom From Religion Foundation say a proclamation signed by Gov. Branstad that encourages people to participate in a statewide Bible-reading marathon is illegal and they are considering litigation, The Des
Moines Register reported. KANSAS Wichita: The Wichita Board of Education has shortened the school year while adding 30 minutes of class to each day,
The Wichita Eagle reported. Students will begin classes later in the fall, finish earlier next May and have 15 fewer school days under the calendar approved by the board. KENTUCKY Louisville: State regulators have cited a company owned by coal operator Jim Justice for conditions that they say contributed to a mudslide and flooding that damaged six homes in Pike County, The Courier
Journal reported. LOUISIANA New Orleans: Police officer Natasha Hunter, 32, died of injuries she suffered when a suspected drunken driver hit her while she investigated a multi-vehicle crash on an Interstate 10 shoulder, The Times-Picayune reported. MAINE Portland: The highspeed ferry that’ll travel between here and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, arrived in Portland Harbor. It is 349 feet long and can carry as many as 866 passengers. MARYLAND Baltimore: The Pride of Baltimore II, the city’s “Star-Spangled Ambassador,” left the Inner Harbor on Tuesday for a four-month, 8,000-mile journey that will take it along the East Coast to the Great Lakes, with the goal of encouraging tourism, Baltimore Sun reported. The MASSACHUSETTSNortheast says self-serve Boston: regular AAA in average Massachusettsof $2.28 peris selling gallon, for the an same as a week ago. MICHIGAN Lansing: An inadvertent, $80-million tax credit that in-state auto insurance companies have enjoyed for the last few years has been repealed by the Michigan Legislature. The Senate voted 29-7 Wednesday to end the credit. The House of Representatives voted to end the credit last week. MINNESOTA Minneapolis: Some 1,400 of Minnesota’s newest high school graduates will get free college tuition this fall under a new state-funded program geared toward high-demand careers, the Pioneer Press reported. MISSISSIPPI Biloxi: The Mashantucket Pequot Tribe of Connecticut that owns and operates Foxwoods Resort Casino announced it will lend financing and its name to a $265 million destination resort casino in Biloxi, The Day reported. The state gaming commission needs to approve the 500-room hotel and casino. MISSOURI Jefferson City: The director of the Missouri Conservation Department is resigning to take a job in the private sector. Bob Ziehmer said that he will be stepping down effective July 15. MONTANA Billings: A 13-yearold boy is recovering after being burned by a hot pool in Yellowstone National Park, the Billings
Gazette reported. Park spokeswoman Charissa Reid says the boy sustained burns around his ankle and foot after his father, who had been carrying him, slipped in the park’s Upper Geyser Basin. NEBRASKA Omaha: The City Council has OK’d a $157,000 settlement to Anthony Murcek because his car collided with a police cruiser responding to an emergency in 2013, the Omaha
World-Herald reported. Murcek had argued the officer was to blame for driving too fast and going through a red light. NEVADA Reno: Southwest Airlines is now offering nonstop flights between here and Oakland. Previous non-stop flight service between the two cities was cancelled in 2013 when Southwest Airlines dropped six destinations to and from Reno. NEW HAMPSHIRE Hampton: State authorities say they’re investigating a report of someone using a hidden camera to discreetly videotape beachgoers here, the Portsmouth Herald reported. NEW JERSEY Newark: Fewer of New Jersey’s children are living in poverty, fewer teens are getting pregnant and fewer babies are dying, The Daily Journal reported, but child poverty rates are still higher than they were six years ago, according to the New Jersey Kids Count 2016 report. Child poverty declined in 2014, but nearly one third of New Jersey’s children still live in low-income households. NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: Defenders of Wildlife, the Center for Biological Diversity, Wild Earth Guardians and the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance want to intervene in a legal fight between the state of New Mexico and the federal government over releases of endangered Mexican gray wolves into the wild. The state is seeking a temporary restraining order that would require the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to get state permission before releasing wildlife — including wolves — in New Mexico. NEW YORK Poughkeepsie: The state will contribute $4 million toward welcome centers on both sides of Walkway Over the Hudson State Park, The Poughkeepsie
Journal reported. NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: Wake County residents will decide in November whether to increase the sales tax by a halfcent to pay for a transit plan that would connect the Triangle with more buses and trains, The News
& Observer reported. NORTH DAKOTA Fargo: Local officials approved a series of bids adding up to nearly $22.5 million for the community’s new city hall. KFGO-AM reported that the Fargo City Commission approved the bids. OHIO Cincinnati: With a new 42-inch-tall barrier in place, Cincinnati Zoo’s Gorilla World exhibit reopened Tuesday, The
Cincinnati Enquirer reported. OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: The Oklahoma Transportation Commission has approved route plans for new turnpikes in the eastern and southwestern parts of the Oklahoma City metro area, The Oklahoman reported. OREGON Eugene: Bottled water will be distributed at four school buildings found to have slightly elevated levels of lead, The Regis- ter-Guard reported. PENNSYLVANIANegotiations between Philadelphia:14 state universitiessenting faculty and membersthe union are repre-due to delphia resume Inquirerthis month, reported. the PhilaRHODEThe state ISLAND Department Providence:of Health adviseducts containingpeople to sunflowerdiscard prod- kernels that possible were bacterial recalled contamination,because of a the Providence Journal reported. The manufacturer recall was expanded to include Maranatha, Brown & Haley and Kashi. SOUTH CAROLINA Charleston: University of South Carolina trustee Charles Williams, 66, was fined $75,000 and ordered to perform 50 hours of community service at a Lowcountry wildlife center for trapping and shooting red-tailed hawks, The State reported. SOUTH DAKOTA Pierre: Officials counted 1,186 homeless people in South Dakota, a 14% increase from last year. TENNESSEE Greeneville: A 63-year-old Johnson City man convicted of selling his daughters — ages 12, 14 and 16 — to a man who raped and used them in child pornography was sentenced this week to life in prison, The Greene
ville Sun reported. TEXAS Austin: Police representatives asked the Public Safety Commission to fund the hiring of 48 civilian employees as a way to address the department’s staffing shortage, the Austin American
Statesman reported. UTAH Logan: A 28-year-old Utah man will stay in jail for up to a year after making a false report of a shooting at a Walmart store,
The Herald-Journal News reported. VERMONT Montpelier: Gov. Shumlin has filled his ceremonial office in the Statehouse with art by his wife, Katie Hunt, which depicts the governor as a peacock and the Vermont press corps as judgmental cows. The papermache sculptures were installed Monday and will remain through June 20, Burlington Free Press reported. VIRGINIA Richmond: The city was selected by the federal government as a priority city to help youth get outdoors, which is part of first lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move! Outside” initiative, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. WASHINGTON Pasco: An underground fire that started at a landfill in November 2013 was extinguished, the Yakima Herald reported. WEST VIRGINIA Green Bank: The first scientific search for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe began in 1960 at the Green Bank Observatory, which launched a four-month effort to detect interstellar radio signals from two stars in a relatively nearby constellation, the Charles
ton Gazette-Mail reported. WISCONSIN Green Bay: Police have six months to prove they can cut down public intoxication and littering around downtown before the City Council reconsiders banning single sales of beer,
Green Bay Press-Gazette reported. WYOMING Jackson: More than 292,000 recreational visitors were counted at Grand Teton National Park last month, the
Jackson Hole News & Guide reported. That is an increase of 26% compared to 2015 and double the rate of May tourism that was recorded just 5 years ago.