STATE-BY-STATE
ARIZONA Phoenix: The Maricopa County Community College District will end its football programs after the 2018 season to cut costs.
ARKANSAS Sherwood: A federal lawsuit filed last week mirrors a 2016 case that alleged the city and a local judge violated constitutional rights by imposing fines and jail time on people whose checks bounce, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports.
CALIFORNIA San Diego: A man celebrated his 102nd birthday by setting the Guinness World Record for the oldest person to ride a zip line, The Los Angeles Times reports.
COLORADO Greeley: Weld County is poised to see an oil production record for 2017, The Greeley Tribune reports.
CONNECTICUT Milford: Police say a man driving under the influence struck a woman walking into a Dollar General Store, then hit the store before trying to flee and crashing into a Crushed Grape liquor store.
DELAWARE Newark: A woman was found dead at an off-campus University of Delaware residence hall, The News Journal reports. Authorities say the woman was a school employee and her death was the result of a medical issue.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Monday’s icy weather resulted in a 16-vehicle pileup, including a school bus, on the District of Columbia’s Military Road during the rush hour commute.
FLORIDA Fort Walton Beach: Donors to a Florida couple who convinced their 13-year-old son that he was dying of brain cancer will get a refund from GoFundMe, and the couple faces fraud charges.
GEORGIA Kennesaw: Two committees will carry out a search for a new Kennesaw State University president to replace Sam Olens, who will step down Feb. 15.
HAWAII Wailuku: Ocean waters around Maui have claimed 10 lives since Jan. 1, Maui News reports. All of the victims were men age 50 and up.
IDAHO Burley: State fire and police agencies are offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to a conviction of who’s responsible for a Jan. 29 fire in a vacant downtown building.
ILLINOIS Chicago: Officials say early voting could be delayed by some two weeks for millions of Chicago-area voters because of candidate ballot challenges.
INDIANA Frankfort: Authorities say six people were hospitalized after a fire tore through a two-story rural farmhouse Monday.
IOWA Dubuque: The regional Agency on Aging that oversees the city’s Meals on Wheels program has quit taking new participants until at least July because of propsed budget cuts, the Telegraph Herald reports.
KANSAS Topeka: The state Education Department plans to continue distributing bus funding to school districts despite a recent audit that says the payments are based on a law repealed decades ago, the Lawrence Journal-World reports.
KENTUCKY Frankfort: State officials have announced an online tool in the fight against opioid abuse. The website FindHelpNowKY.org lets people search for treatment centers.
LOUISIANA Napoleonville: An Assumption Parish jail inmate who suddenly collapsed in his cell was given CPR before being taken to a hospital where he died, The Houma Courier reports.
MAINE Columbia: Two state game wardens and two hunters came to the aid of a moose stuck up to its neck in a muddy spring, WGME-TV reports. Authorities say the men created a tree winch and pulled the moose out.
MARYLAND Hagerstown: A police sergeant was charged with stealing prescription opioids from a paralyzed woman he had questioned about an unrelated case. The Herald-Mail reports that Sgt. Christopher Barnett was caught on video offering the woman $35 in hush money.
MASSACHUSETTS New Bedford: The Coast Guard is investigating two sunken fishing boats in New Bedford harbor. Authorities say the 65-foot Dinah Jane and 67-foot Nemesis were tied together, The Standard-Times reports.
MICHIGAN Ellsworth Township: A $5,000 reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest in the case of a 79-year-old woman whose remains were found following a Jan. 10 fire at her home.
MINNESOTA Duluth: The NorShor art deco theater that opened in 1910 as a vaudeville house is restored, Minnesota Public Radio says.
MISSISSIPPI Jackson: State lawmakers are working on a measure to give military veterans with PTSD the right to have service animals in hotels, businesses and other places.
MISSOURI Jefferson City: State lawmakers are considering restrictions on initiative petitions. Among them: Petition circulators could not be paid based on the number of
signatures they gather.
MONTANA Billings: Public land advocates have launched a campaign to protect wilderness study areas in response to a state lawmaker’s push to remove the designation from five sites covering more than 700 square miles.
NEBRASKA Lincoln: The City Council is expected to approve spending about $20 million for four new fire stations, Lincoln Journal Star says.
NEVADA Carson City: Court officials say only one person applied for a vacancy in Reno’s Second Judicial District Court.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Hampton Beach: Residents braved the icy waters of Hampton Beach last weekend to raise nearly $522,000 for the Special Olympics during the annual Penguin Plunge, WMUR-TV reports.
NEW JERSEY West Windsor: Authorities say an 85-year-old man was found dead Monday in an SUV that was partially submerged in Mercer County Lake.
NEW MEXICO Laguna Pueblo: The Laguna Pueblo tribe’s effort to buy a Louisiana casino has failed, The Gallup Independent reports.
NEW YORK Elmira: A 17-year-old mother who abandoned her 8month-old daughter last August in a trash bag behind a house was sentenced to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to attempted murder. Neighbors found the baby, now in foster care, three days later.
NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: State transportation officials say construction of the Bonner Bridge replacement will require closing Oregon Inlet’s navigation channel periodically through May.
NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: The Three Affiliated Tribes has extended its suspension of new alcohol taxes on the Fort Berthold Reservation. When the taxes were first imposed, alcohol distributors halted shipments. But the deliveries resumed when the taxes were suspended.
OHIO Columbus: The state is eliminating a pair of panels that were created to help regulate ownership of dangerous wild animals, The Columbus Dispatch reports. The two were formed after a suicidal man released lions, tigers and other creatures at his farm in 2011.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: The state Department of Health is preparing to lay off more than 150 employees next month due to budget woes. The Oklahoman reports that 43 registered nurses, 28 patient care assistants, 16 licensed practical nurses and 50 office workers are affected.
OREGON Eugene: The city school district has paid $24,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a parent whose child was attacked by a classmate twice on the same day at North Eugene High School, The Register-Guard reports.
PENNSYLVANIA Gettysburg: A man was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole in the beating death of his roommate last year, PennLive.com reports.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: A state lawmaker introduced a bill that would add marijuana smoke and vapor to Rhode Island laws protecting people from secondhand smoke.
SOUTH CAROLINA Beaufort: Federal investigators want the Beaufort County School District to turn over records related to construction bids and cost overruns at two new schools, The Island Packet reports.
SOUTH DAKOTA Rapid City: Police are investigating the deaths of two homeless people near a bridge on Interstate 190. No signs of foul play were found. Autopsies were ordered.
TENNESSEE Nashville: The Tennessee Valley Authority is appealing a federal judge’s order for a massive coal ash cleanup at the Gallatin Fossil Plant.
TEXAS Madisonville: A couple’s vacation home was stolen, KTRK-TV reports. Jo and Lonnie Harrison say the one-bedroom, one-bath cabin they bought last year was missing from their property when they checked on it last week.
UTAH Salt Lake City: A panel of state lawmakers is working on a bill to let transgender people legally change their gender ID in court. But LGBTrights group Equality Utah questions a state residency requirement.
VERMONT Montpelier: Lawmakers may ease some requirements in the state’s universal recycling law that’s due to take full effect in 2020. Vermont Public Radio reports that by then, residents will be barred from putting food waste in regular garbage.
VIRGINIA Richmond: The Kings Dominion amusement park is changing the name of its “Rebel Yell” roller coaster to “Racer 75,” The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports.
WASHINGTON Olympia: State Attorney General Bob Ferguson says he’s prepared to sue if the state isn’t removed from offshore drilling plans.
WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: State lawmakers are working to prohibit wasting wild game by leaving carcasses or just taking trophy heads.
WISCONSIN Madison: University of Wisconsin System regents are considering tuition hikes for nonresident and grad students at three schools: Eau Claire, Milwaukee and Stout.
WYOMING Casper: A former city employee has pleaded not guilty to stealing nearly $20,000 from the Community Development Department where she worked.