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ALABAMA Montgomery: Corrections officer Vintarius Cardel Tarver has been arrested on charges he tried to bring mobile phones and drugs into a state prison. The Department of Corrections says he resigned after being arrested Sunday. ALASKA Anchorage: Short eruptions of the Bogoslof volcano sent up ash clouds in the Aleutian Islands for about three hours Monday evening. The clouds rose to 25,000 feet. Eruptions pose a threat to airliners operating between North America and Asia. ARIZONA Nogales: A Mexican woman was rescued after being smuggled into Arizona and then locked in an ambulance storage compartment for 40 hours with little water and no food. The woman, 26, called her brother, who traveled 1,400 miles to alert authorities. The woman has recovered and will be deported. ARKANSAS Little Rock: The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences will receive an $11 million federal grant for research on infectious diseases. The program helps research on pathogens, bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms. CALIFORNIA Fresno: Joseph Velasquez, 28, whose tattoo of Winnie-the-Pooh gave him away to authorities, has been sentenced to 150 years to life in prison for rape and other charges. COLORADO Thornton: Amazon will open its third Colorado facility in 2018 in this Denver suburb. It will be the first in the state to use robots to pick up and pack items. Amazon plans to hire 1,500 full-time employees, The Denver

Post reports. CONNECTICUT Avon: Firefighters responding Saturday to a call about a trolley bus on fire saved a couple’s wedding day. The bus driver extinguished the fire, but the wedding party had no ride to the reception. Firefighters then took the smiling bride and groom to the reception in their truck, and they made it on time. DELAWARE Dover: The Delaware Democratic Party has elected Erik Raser-Schramm as its new chairman. He replaces John Daniello, who has overseen the party in the state since 2005. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Principal Diana Smith has offered to pay $100 to any of the 160 rising 8th- and 9th-graders at Washington Latin Public Charter School who can forgo computers, cellphone and other electronics every Tuesday during summer vacation. Smith says she worries that students aren’t sleeping enough. FLORIDA Jacksonville: A street sweeper operator was killed early Saturday after officials say he was sucked underneath the machine while trying to clear something from it. GEORGIA Atlanta: An Atlanta doctor has pleaded guilty to falsifying medical examination records for commercial truck drivers. Anthony Lefteris, 72, admitted he failed to administer vision and hearing exams, as well as urine tests. He then completed medical examination forms with false figures for those tests. HAWAII Honolulu: The city is taking steps to repair a 900-foot portion of a crumbling sea wall. The work could cost from $1.8 million to $3.1 million. IDAHO Boise: Law enforcement officials say they are investigating after a gay pride flag was found burned in front of a Boise house. ILLINOIS Dixon: Republican state Sen. Tim Bivins, of Dixon, says he’ll finish his current term but won’t run for re-election next year. INDIANA Indianapolis: Gov. Eric Holcomb has appointed Wabash County Superior Court Judge Christopher Goff to the Indiana Supreme Court. Goff, 45, fills the vacancy created by Justice Robert Rucker’s retirement. IOWA Des Moines: Terri Rote, scheduled for trial next month after being charged with voting twice for Donald Trump last fall, is back in jail. Rote pleaded guilty to yelling epithets at a neighbor in a dispute over their property line. KANSAS Wichita: A Wichita man who texted a photo of his dead girlfriend to his family was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for killing her. Jonathan Perret, 42, told investigators that Melissa Englert, 42, had asked to be shot after a night of drinking. KENTUCKY Barbourville: State police say a man shot and wounded two deputies trying to serve him with an arrest warrant before the deputies returned fire Monday, killing him. A second deputy was treated and released. John Wesley Bays, 50, was killed. Knox County Deputy Keith Liford was treated at a hospital and was expected to recover. LOUISIANA Des Allemands: Three Raceland men are accused of exceeding the 50-frogs-perboat limit at Salvador Wildlife Management Area. Authorities said one boat checked Saturday night held 99, and another held 69. The men were cited and the frogs were returned to the water. MAINE Alfred: Jury selection was delayed Monday for Carlton Young, who is accused of causing a woman’s fatal heart attack when he banged on her windows and doors during a 2015 attempted burglary. No new date was set. MARYLAND Baltimore: Police deployed extra officers on street patrol and extended shifts to 12 hours after six people were fatally shot and two others wounded in the city between 8:20 p.m. Monday and about 4 a.m. Tuesday. MASSACHUSETTS Savoy: A road washed out by the remnants of Hurricane Irene nearly six years ago has finally reopened after a yearslong battle with federal and state officials over the cost. About 80 vehicles a day used the road before the storm. The repairs cost $7 million. MICHIGAN Marquette: Wildlife biologists say the moose population in the western Upper Peninsula may be improving. An estimate shows about 100 more in Marquette, Baraga and Iron counties than there were in 2015. MINNESOTA Coon Rapids: Work crews used front-end loaders and a snowplow to clear away several inches of hail that was causing flooding after a 20-minute storm Sunday in this Minneapolis suburb. MISSISSIPPI Jackson: The Mississippi State Department of Health is closing six of its nine regional offices because of budget cuts, effective July 1. The department will keep regional offices in Tupelo, Jackson and Biloxi and close offices in Batesville, Greenwood, Starkville, Meridian, McComb and Hattiesburg. MISSOURI Jefferson City: A state parole board member who reportedly admitted playing a word game during questioning in parole hearings has resigned. A Department of Corrections inspector general’s report says Donald Ruzicka and an employee earned points in the game for incorporating song titles and unusual words such as “manatee” and “hootenanny” into their questioning, and earned an extra point if they could get the inmates to say the words. MONTANA Red Lodge: A jury has found Robert James LeCou, 40, of Belfrey, guilty of the 2016 shooting deaths of his wife, her sister and his brother-in-law. NEBRASKA Omaha: Authorities say a state-required DNA test for a prison inmate links him to four rapes reported more than 10 years ago in Omaha. Brandon Weathers already is serving 100 to 160 years for raping a 13-yearold child. NEVADA The family of an autistic student will receive $900,000 from the Clark County School District to settle claims the student was improperly restrained by a teacher’s aide during the 2011-12 school year. NEW HAMPSHIRE Danbury: Police say a dog that had a run-in with a porcupine and got a face full of quills is better and has been reunited with its owner. NEW JERSEY Trenton: Two state troopers accused of pulling women over to pressure them for dates or to ask for their phone numbers allegedly avoided scrutiny by lying to dispatchers or turning off recording devices. Court documents obtained by NJ.com allege that Eric Richardson threatened to arrest one woman if she didn’t give him her number, and Marquice Prather routinely turned off his microphone, ascribing the missing recordings to technical issues. NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: Officials in one of the Southwest’s most notable tourist destinations are developing plans for a $35 million passenger terminal at the Santa Fe Municipal Airport. Financing for the five-year project hasn’t been sorted out. NEW YORK Albany: New York public school students will spend less time taking the unpopular Common Core assessments beginning next spring. Students in grades three through eight will spend two days instead of three on each of the statewide math and English assessments. NORTH CAROLINA Hickory: Jonathan Andrew Stiles, 46, an assistant principal at Bunker Hill High School in Claremont, was charged with DWI after he banged into two parked cars outside of the school’s graduation ceremony Saturday. NORTH DAKOTA Jud: A 19-yearold Jud man is dead after saving a puppy from an uncovered sewage tank. LaMoure County Sheriff Bob Fernandes said Jesse Wagner entered the tank to retrieve the animal, which crawled up onto his shoulders and was grabbed by Wagner’s mother. But Wagner lost his grip and fell about 10 feet. OHIO Dayton: A report says enrollment at cash-strapped Wright State University could hit its lowest point in more than a decade this coming school year. The number of full-time students is projected to drop from 14,651 last year to 13,861 this year. OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: The state Supreme Court has upheld a ruling that Oklahoma County must pay $3.3 million to the medical provider at its jail, Armor Correctional Health Services. OREGON Pendleton: An Oregon rancher has given Grant Woods, 21, a $5,000 reward for helping find and convict the two men who slaughtered his cattle. The men talked freely in front of him about their plan to use the cattle meat to get money for beer, according to Woods. PENNSYLVANIA Pottsville: A man accused of keeping his 22month-old son in a cage at his home has been ordered to trial after waiving a preliminary hearing. Cecil Kutz, 39, was charged with child endangerment and reckless endangerment. RHODE ISLAND Providence: A proposal to take guns away from domestic abusers and people under domestic restraining orders could be heading to a vote in the state legislature this month after years of debate. SOUTH CAROLINA Charleston: Police chief Greg Mullen, who oversaw the investigation into the June 2015 killing of nine worshippers at the Emanuel AME church, says he will retire Aug. 1. SOUTH DAKOTA Pierre: A Henderson, Nev., man caught in a sex trafficking sting at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in 2015 has been sentenced to two years in federal prison. Michael Preston, 29, was arrested in an undercover law enforcement operation targeting people willing to pay for sex with underage girls. TENNESSEE Nashville: Retailer Gap Inc. is spending $42 million to upgrade a Tennessee distribution center to expand its online sales capabilities. The upgrade will create more than 500 jobs at the Sumner County campus. TEXAS Austin: A much-watched annual report shows Texas making slight improvements but still remaining among the 10 worst states in which to be a kid despite a fast-growing, diverse population and a strong economy. The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2017 Kids Count assessment released Tuesday ranked Texas 41st, two spots better than last year. UTAH Tooele: Officials say there is no evidence to support social media rumors that people are contracting meningitis after swimming in Stansbury Lake. VERMONT St. Albans: A lawyer for a former Republican state senator is asking a judge to dismiss charges that he tried to extract sexual favors in exchange for rent. WPTZ-TV reports the challenge comes roughly a month before the second trial against Norm McAllister, 65, who faces one count of sexual assault and three counts of prohibited acts. VIRGINIA Tangier: President Trump has called the mayor of a small Chesapeake Bay island that overwhelmingly supported him, but which is sinking because of erosion and sea-level rise. Scientists predict it may have to be abandoned in 25 years. Mayor James “Ooker” Eskridge said Trump told him not to worry, that the island has been there for hundreds of years and will be around for hundreds more. WASHINGTON Seattle: The Space Needle will undergo a $100 million renovation starting in September. The observation deck will become floor-to-ceiling glass and the SkyCity Restaurant will have a rotating glass floor to provide a view straight to the ground, KING-TV reports. WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: A divided state Supreme Court says a debt collector didn’t violate state consumer protection law by making 250 phone calls to a man who denied owing $1,349. WISCONSIN Madison: A lottery computer programmer will tell investigators how he was able to rig state jackpots for years, and he and his brother will repay $3 million in prizes they improperly claimed, under a plea agreement released Monday. Prosecutors will seek a 25-year prison sentence for former Multi-State Lottery Association security director Eddie Tipton. WYOMING Gillette: A shoplifting suspect who told officers she was working on a term paper on kleptomania faces three felony charges. The Gillette News Record reports that Lydia Marie Cormaney, 23, tried to leave Walmart with nearly $1,900 worth of merchandise.