News from across the USA

ALABAMA Montgomery: Gov. Robert Bentley will face impeachment hearings beginning Monday after the state Supreme Court ruled lawmakers could move ahead with an effort to oust the dermatologist and former Baptist deacon amid fallout from an affair with a top aide.

ALASKA Bethel: Bethel Regional High School is participating in a state-funded program that will match students with disabilities with local businesses, KYUK-AM reported. The state will pay students a minimum wage of $9.80.

ARIZONA Prescott: Artists from around the country are being asked to submit proposals for a memorial to honor the 19 Arizona men who died fighting a wildfire nearly four years ago. A location near a historic courthouse here has been set aside for a memorial to the Granite Mountain Hotshots who were killed in the June 2013 fire, reported The

Daily Courier. Submissions are due by June 15.

ARKANSAS Conway: A former Faulkner County sheriff ’s deputy who was fired for using excessive force when he kicked a suspect during an arrest has been sentenced to 90 days in jail.

CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: The parents of a man whose body was cremated by mistake are suing the Los Angeles County coroner’s office for negligence. Jorge Hernandez overdosed on drugs and died of a heart condition in October at a Glendale hospital. The coroner’s office confused Hernandez with another man with the same name and cremated his body.

COLORADO Fort Collins: A battle over the phrase “damn good tacos” is headed to federal court in Colorado. Austin-based franchise Torchy’s Tacos says a Fort Collins restaurant called Dam Good Tacos infringed on its trademarked catchphrase.

CONNECTICUT Hartford: Connecticut’s Mashantucket Pequots and Mohegans, have told state officials they’ll guarantee their existing revenue-sharing agreement and chip in some more money if they’re allowed to build a satellite casino in East Windsor.

DELAWARE Wilmington: Volunteers gathered Saturday at the Christina River watershed for the 26th annual event. The effort has yielded 360 tons of trash since its inception.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Mayor Bowser made a pitch for D.C. statehood Saturday at the annual Emancipation Day parade. Bowser, a Democrat, told the Washing

ton Post, “We think that the fact that Washingtonians still don’t have equal participation in the nation is something that we should be focusing on when we’re celebrating emancipation.”

FLORIDA Fort Lauderdale: The U.S. Coast Guard says one man died and five others were rescued after their boat sank off Port Everglades last week.

GEORGIA Savannah: Deepening the shipping channel to the Port of Savannah is now expected to cost taxpayers $973 million, 38% higher than the federal government’s previous estimate.

HAWAII Honolulu: The city’s chief medical examiner is asking city officials for more financial support as his office struggles to deal with a heavy workload. KHON-TV reported.

IDAHO Boise: Officials in cities in southwest Idaho say they will enforce the closure of large sections of the Greenbelt due to flooding from the Boise River.

ILLINOIS Chicago: Northeastern Illinois University will close on Tuesday, Wednesday and May 1 due to a major shortfall stemming from the state’s two-year budget crisis.

INDIANA Indianapolis: A museum devoted to novelist Kurt Vonnegut is searching again for a new location in his hometown. The museum was upgrading a building on Massachusetts Avenue, but founder Julia Whitehead says structural problems were found.

IOWA Sioux City: City police have named their first liaison to the LGBTQ community. Officer Brooke Davies will promote communication and cooperation between police and individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, the Sioux City Journal reported.

KANSAS Lexington: Wentworth Military Academy and College, which dates to 1880 and includes federal lawmakers, business titans and a famous zoologist among its alumni, will fold at the end of next month, given waning enrollment, rising costs and an aging campus, the school about 50 miles east of Kansas City announced Friday.

KENTUCKY Louisville: Efforts to shut down the state’s last abortion clinic have been halted pending the outcome of a lawsuit aimed at preventing the closure. Lawyers for Gov. Bevin and the Louisville clinic submitted an agreement to U.S. District Judge Greg Stivers. In it, Bevin’s administration agreed to renew the license for EMW Women’s Surgical Center until the lawsuit is resolved.

LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: Finances again will be front and center as state legislators return Monday for a two-month regular legislative session.

MAINE Auburn: A popular television meteorologist has been found dead of an apparent suicide. Tom Johnston of WCSH-TV was reported missing last Monday after he failed to return from a weekend event at the Sunday River ski resort. He was 46.

MARYLAND Glen Burnie: A Washington police officer is facing a string of charges in Maryland after authorities say he paid a 15-year-old girl for sex, then took back the money at gunpoint. Chukwuemeka Ekwonna, 27, was fired Friday, police say.

MASSACHUSETTS Lowell: A man whose hand was cut off by a machete during a fight at a Lowell public housing complex has had it reattached. Authorities say the suspect, Domingo Ayala, 54, has been ordered held without bail.

MICHIGAN Detroit: Charges are pending after a social media prank in which a 13-year-old girl faked her suicide, prompting her 11-year-old boyfriend to hang himself. The juvenile is being charged with telecommunication services-malicious use and using a computer to commit a crime, Marquette police Capt. Michael Kohler said.

MINNESOTA St. Paul: A judge has declined to move the May 30 trial of a St. Anthony police officer charged in the fatal shooting of a black motorist last summer. Jeronimo Yanez is charged with manslaughter and two other felonies in the death of Philando Castile, whose girlfriend livestreamed the aftermath on Facebook.

MISSISSIPPI Jackson: The former principal of Greenwood High School has been indicted on charges that she sexually abused a female student in 2015. Lorita Lynn Harris, now the director of the Greenwood school district’s alternative school, is on administrative leave. She faces one count of sexual battery.

MISSOURI St. Louis: Mississippi County Sheriff Cory Hutcheson is back in office despite his arrest on 18 counts, including an allegation that he handcuffed an innocent 77-year-old woman with so much force that she suffered a heart attack.

MONTANA Great Falls: Hospital nurses with Benefis Health System voted 357-226 last week not to form a local union chapter, the Great Falls Tribune reports.

NEBRASKA Omaha: The state Supreme Court says a former state policy banning same-sex couples from serving as foster parents or adopting wards of the state was akin to hanging a “Whites Only” sign on a hiring-office door. The court ruled Friday that a judge’s 2015 ruling striking down the policy will stand.

NEVADA Stateline: A highway that connects Lake Tahoe to the Carson Valley south of Carson City has been closed indefinitely due to rockslides with boulders as big as 4 feet tall.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Franconia: State parks officials are presenting plans for a new, universally accessible trail near the plaza dedicated to a famous fallen icon, the Old Man of the Mountain.

NEW JERSEY Howell: A police car being driven by a Howell patrolman enforcing a statewide crackdown on distracted drivers was hit by a car driven by an 80-year-old using a cellphone as a navigation device. Police said the man will be issued citations.

NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: State officials want to expand the list of qualifying conditions for medical marijuana to include attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism and anxiety, among other ailments.

NEW YORK New York: Kathleen Durst, the first wife of real estate heir Robert Durst, has been officially declared dead 35 years after she was last seen. Durst, 73, has long been suspected in her death but never charged.

NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: Gov. Roy Cooper is seeking $929 million in additional funding from Congress to help counties still recovering from Hurricane Matthew.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: State School Superintendent Kirsten Baesler has approved new math and English standards for state schools this fall. The standards are the work of two committees made up more than 70 math and language experts.

OHIO Cincinnati: A man has been indicted on two murder charges in a March 26 nightclub gunbattle that developed from a “feud over nothing,” a prosecutor said Thursday. Cornell Beckley also was indicted on charges of involuntary manslaughter, inducing panic, weapons offenses and felonious assault. Fifteen people were hurt.

OKLAHOMA Norman: Makenna Marchbanks, 16, is working to tackle a worldwide problem: Families, and especially kids, who lack proper footwear, The Nor

man Transcript reported. Makenna partnered with Soles4Souls, a Tennessee-based non-profit and started Makenna’s Sole Purpose in 2016. She collected more than 1,600 shoes in about year’s time.

OREGON Harrisburg: A plane crashed in western Oregon as high winds swept the region Friday, killing four people. Linn County Sheriff Bruce Riley said the plane plowed into a field about 100 miles south of Portland.

PENNSYLVANIA Harrisburg: State regulators are settling a legal dispute with the ride-hailing company Uber Technologies Inc. for $3.5 million. The Public Utility Commission said Thursday the agreement ended a fight over Uber and subsidiaries that operated without authority in the state for six months in 2014.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: The state Department of Children, Youth and Families has hired 18 new workers following a report into four recent child deaths.

SOUTH CAROLINA Myrtle Beach: Two teenage girls fell to their deaths from the 18th-floor balcony of a beachfront hotel. Horry County Coroner Robert Edge says Daniela Flores, 16, fell to a 10th-floor parking deck, while 17-year-old Amber Franco’s body was found on the roof of a ground-level Dunkin’ Donuts. Both were Myrtle Beach High School on spring break.

SOUTH DAKOTA Delmont: A 70-year-old baseball program may have struck out. The Delmont Baseball Association is turning over the baseball field and other assets to the Delmont Development Corp. after a decade-long downturn in participation, The Daily Republic reported.

TENNESSEE Chattanooga: Police Chief Fred Fletcher plans to retire when his three-year contract ends July 6.

TEXAS Austin: State health officials are recommending expanded Zika virus testing for pregnant women in their first and second trimesters in Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr, Webb, Willacy and Zapata counties.

UTAH Salt Lake City: The Hogle Zoo is bracing for the end with its beloved polar bear, Rizzo. The zoo says the 19-year-old female is dying of renal failure.

VERMONT Montpelier: A state Senate committee may call on Department of Motor Vehicles officials to testify after documents show DMV investigators coordinated with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials to identify immigrants in the country illegally.

VIRGINIA Bedford: A feature film starring Alfre Woodard is set to start filming. The movie is based on the novel Dancing on the

Edge of the Roof, about a woman who makes a big life change.

WASHINGTON Seattle: A driver who killed a worker at a construction site near Issaquah while looking at his cellphone has been sentenced to six months of work release. Andrew Richwine, 34, is also losing his driver’s license for two years.

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: Gov. Justice says he will veto legislation that would eliminate greyhound racing in the state.

WISCONSIN Janesville: Wisconsin Farm Bureau is teaching children about agriculture in the classroom in the hopes of recruiting and retaining younger farmers. The average Wisconsin farmer was 56 in 2012, up from 48 in 1982.

WYOMING Jackson: Plans by the Bridger-Teton National Forest to thin and burn wildlands in northwest Wyoming have drawn objections over a proposal to ban cutting trees and other issues.