News from across the USA

ALABAMA Huntsville: The construction of a hangar and support facility could increase the workforce at the Huntsville Executive Airport by as many as 200 employees, AL.com reported. Yulista broke ground on a 60,000-square-foot aviation hangar and 20,000-square-foot support facility last week. ALASKA Anchorage: Two orphaned moose calves were captured at Denali National Park and Preserve and will be moved to a wildlife center south of the city that takes in orphaned and injured animals. The calves were orphaned in early June when their mother was killed in an illegal shooting near the Denali post office. ARIZONA New River: What’s Rio got on this? The Shangri La Ranch hosted the Nude Games in which uninhibited athletes enjoyed swimming pool volleyball and other activities au naturel. “It’s a real freedomy feeling,” Gary Frey, 77, told The Arizona Republic. ARKANSAS Hot Springs: Red, white and blue confetti exploded into the air and people screamed when Savvy Shields was proclaimed the 2016 Miss Arkansas,

ArkansasOnline reported. CALIFORNIA Fullerton: A few of the victims’ families and California State University will hold a candlelight vigil and memorial Tuesday to commemorate the 40th anniversary of campus shootings that killed seven people in 1976, the Los Angeles Times reported. COLORADO Greeley: Hugo Garza, 31, was sentenced to 80 years in prison last week for a number of offenses, including shooting at an Evans police officer, the Greeley Tribune reported. CONNECTICUT Milford: The state Department of Agriculture ordered the Housatonic River Natural Oyster Seed Bed, the state’s largest seed-oyster bed, closed after several incidents of commercial fishermen violating harvesting regulations concerning contaminated shellfish. DELAWARE Pike Creek: Brian Budd, 34, athletic director at Thomas McKean High School, was arrested after accusations that he offered a sexual act to a 16-year-old boy, The News Jour

nal reported. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: A malfunctioning underground electrical transformer caused explosions, The Washington Post reported. No injuries were reported, but flames shot 8-10 feet high from sidewalk grates and manholes. FLORIDA Orlando: Universal Orlando will open its fifth hotel, which is aimed at attracting more convention bookings, the Orlando

Sentinel reported. The tropicalthemed Sapphire Falls Resort, which has 1,000 rooms, will open Thursday. GEORGIA Atlanta: After slipping out of its private cage in Zoo Atlanta’s Conservation Breeding Center, a Timor python was recovered, The Atlanta JournalConstitution reported. HAWAII Honolulu: The Office of Elections set July 14 as the last day to register for a primary Aug. 13. Voters will choose mayors for Oahu and Hawaii Island. IDAHO Idaho Falls: An 8-weekold snow leopard born at the zoo made its first public appearance last week, KIFI-TV reported. ILLINOIS Chicago: The final Oreo cookies made here rolled off the line, ending the iconic cookie’s decades-long run of delighting hometown consumers and providing good-paying union jobs on the Southwest Side, the Chicago Tribune reported. INDIANA Indianapolis: Police investigated a reported arson and burglary that occurred on the Indiana University-Purdue University’s campus, The Indianapo

lis Star reported. No one was injured. IOWA Muscatine: Crews have been busy cleaning up the Muscatine riverfront as the city prepares for thousands of people to visit during a popular annual bicycle ride across the state, the

Muscatine Journal reported. Workers dredged the Mississippi River where riders in the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa will end their 421mile, seven-day ride. KANSAS Phillipsburg: An 18year-old inmate who escaped from jail was back in custody, Hayspost.com reported. KENTUCKY Frankfort: A group called the Friends of the Jefferson Davis State Historic Site sought a military designation for a Jefferson Davis statue in the Capitol Rotunda where they hope it will remain, the state curator told the Lexington Herald-Leader. If approved, the designation would make it more difficult to remove the statue from the Capitol. LOUISIANA New Orleans: One man was seriously injured and the house he shared was leveled by an explosion that rattled a Gentilly Terrace neighborhood,

The Times-Picayune reported. MAINE Lewiston: A contractor working to install storm water drain pipes tapped into a historic water hydrant dating back to the mid-1800s. The Lewiston Sun

Journal reported that the large brick cistern was installed around 1869 and could hold about 40,000 gallons of water. MARYLAND Baltimore: Detectives and police academy recruits fanned out over the Roland Park neighborhood where Molly Macauley, 59, was fatally stabbed a few days before, The Sun reported. Macauley was found stabbed in the 600 block of West University Parkway. MASSACHUSETTS Boston: The state issued a drought watch for the central and northeastern areas. A lowerlevel drought advisory was issued for southeastern parts of the state and the Connecticut River Valley. MICHIGAN Bay City: The Draken Harald Hårfagre of Norway, a Viking longboat; the El Galeon Andalucia, a Spanish galleon; and other replica vessels are making their way through the Great Lakes, The Grand Rapids Press reported. The fleet stopped July 1 to 3 in Toronto for a festival and will dock here Thursday before sailing Monday for Chicago. MINNESOTA St. Peter: Dennis Lee Whitley Jr., 46, a patient in the sex offender treatment program, was charged with assaulting a counselor, the Mankato Free

Press reported. MISSISSIPPI Jackson: The Bolivar County Community Work Center in Rosedale was closed until further notice. The state Department of Corrections said in a news release that the facility joins four others that were shut down because of inadequate staffing. MISSOURI Jefferson City: Gov. Nixon, a Democrat, signed a bill into law that will restrict access to video from police car dashboard and body cameras. MONTANA Billings: Wildlife officials asked for the public’s help finding poachers who killed seven deer over the Fourth of July weekend, the Billings Ga

zette reported. NEBRASKA Grand Island: The first phase of a 96-acre development will include a 64-bed hospital, a hotel with conference space and a three-story medical office building, the Grand Island

Independent reported. Work is slated to begin this fall. NEVADA Carson City: The firing of Highway Patrol Sgt. Kenneth Twiddy in 2011 for sexting a dispatcher was upheld, the

Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. NEW HAMPSHIRE Bath: The Brick Store, built in the late 1700s or early 1800s, closed after several years of financial hardship and will be up for auction Wednesday at 11 a.m. The store is one of the oldest general stores in the USA. It’s on the National Register of Historic Places. NEW JERSEY Elizabeth: Spirodon Fragoulias, 45, is accused of running up an EZPass bill of more than $78,000, The Journal News reported. Fragoulias was stopped after allegedly failing to pay a toll at the Goethals Bridge and found to have incurred more than 850 violations. NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: For- mer state senator Phil Griego was ordered to stand trial in a corruption case linked to his private commission on the sale of a stateowned building. NEW YORK White Plains: The city is providing $1 million to the Public Library for a $2.4 million ground-floor renovation that will include a new entrance, the creation of a special adult facility and a cafe that will offer outdoor seating, The Journal News reported. NORTH CAROLINA Durham: Military veterans and their dogs graduated from Vets to Vets United, a non-profit program that recognized the bonds they’ve formed over months of training and the skills the canines learned as service and therapy animals,

The News & Observer reported. NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: A 17th-century book with 36 of William Shakespeare’s plays is at the Heritage Center and State Museum as part of a traveling exhibit commemorating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. The exhibit runs through July 31. OHIO Buckeye Lake: An old shipwreck discovered Feb. 20 on the bottom of the lake while construction crews worked to rebuild the lake’s dam is the legendary Black Diamond canal boat, which sank in 1850 while hauling coal, The Buckeye Lake

Beacon reported. OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Disaster assistance was approved for home and business owners in seven counties after flooding and severe storms hit last month. Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Kiowa, Stephens and Tillman are the counties eligible for assistance OREGON Portland: Don Waggoner, who helped create the nation’s first “bottle bill,” died at the age of 81, The Oregonian reported. PENNSYLVANIA Layton: The house used in the Oscar-winning film The Silence of the Lambs was sold. Real estate agent Dianne Wilk told the Pittsburgh Tribune

Review the home sold last week for $195,000. RHODE ISLAND Providence: Veterans are invited to the VA Medical Center to attend a town hall meeting. The meeting is scheduled from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the medical center on Chalkstone Avenue. SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: A billboard-sized advertisement for a gun manufacturer that said, “Yeah, we carry” was removed from the concourse of the airport.

The State reported that the Columbia Metropolitan Airport’s governing commission decided to take it down after receiving complaints. SOUTH DAKOTA Pierre: A retired business owner is constructing a 5-acre pond on his property north of here for his grandchildren and other children to go fishing. Milton Morris, 72, plans to stock the pond with crappies and bluegills from a hatchery close to Watertown, the

Capital Journal reported. TENNESSEE Free Hill: This hamlet near the Tennessee-Kentucky border founded by freed slaves celebrated its 200th anniversary this past weekend, and residents worry that that it might not survive another generation, The Tennessean reported. TEXAS Austin: Attorney General Ken Paxton said a lawsuit filed by professors at the University of Texas to block the campus-carry gun law, which goes into effect Aug. 1, is “baseless” and he will “vigorously defend” the law, The

Texas Tribune reported. UTAH Salt Lake City: KSL-TV reported that the state Department of Public Safety started issuing newly designed licenses and identification cards this month. The cards will have features intended to boost fraud prevention and protection against counterfeiting or any kind of alteration. VERMONT Stowe: Over the weekend, about 20 hot-air balloons floated above the Green Mountains during the annual Stoweflake festival, celebrating its 30th year, the Burlington Free

Press reported. VIRGINIA Richmond: State police provided voluntary background checks for gun sales between private parties at a gun show at the Richmond Raceway Complex. Though the show, one of the largest in the state, drew thousands, only a handful of private sellers opted for the checks, the Richmond Times

Dispatch reported. WASHINGTON Olympic National Park: Park officials warned visitors to keep their distance from mountain goats. The mountain goats are unpredictable. They have sharp horns and powerful bodies that can inflict significant or lethal injuries. WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: Several schools reached out to students who were victims of the floods that destroyed many homes, the Charleston Gazette

Mail reported. In addition to extra financial assistance from individual institutions, the federal government allows students who live in counties declared a major disaster to pay less for their student loans. WISCONSIN Stephenson: The Marinette County Sheriff ’s Office said a 26-year-old woman drowned while tubing in the Peshtigo River, the Green Bay

Press-Gazette reported. WYOMING Casper: Students from Midwest School, which was closed over carbon dioxide and volatile organic compounds, will go to classes elsewhere this fall, the Casper Star-Tribune reported.