STATE-BY-STATE
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ARIZONA Williams: The city council voted unanimously to replace its city manager after just three months.
ARKANSAS Fort Smith: A stolen stickpin that belonged to the legendary “Hanging Judge” was returned to the Fort Smith Museum of History.
CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: The University of Southern California received 64,000 applications for next year’s class — up 14% from last year.
COLORADO Glenwood Springs: Officials say an emergency dispatcher via phone helped a couple deliver a baby.
CONNECTICUT Southington: A condo association wants to euthanize a flock of “nuisance geese.”
DELAWARE New Castle: Authorities say a man faces arson and reckless endangering charges stemming from a fire at a Dollar Tree store.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Hundreds of Florida high school students attended last weekend’s gun safety rally in Washington on three flights donated by Delta Air Lines.
FLORIDA Tallahassee: The Florida Constitution Revision Commission is considering 25 proposed changes that could go to voters in November.
GEORGIA Atlanta: Police want to know why surveillance video wasn’t preserved in the case of a woman whose body was found in a river.
HAWAII Hilo: Census estimates show that the Big Island has hit a milestone with a population above 200,000.
IDAHO Boise: For six straight months through February, Idaho’s unemployment rate has held steady at 3%.
ILLINOIS Rockford: A couple’s Go Fund Me effort raised $16,000,
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KANSAS more than Wellington: 100,000 Instagram A woman fol- has lowers of her rainbow hair art.
KENTUCKY Lexington: Homebuilder and philanthropist Don Ball has died at age 81. He founded the Hope Center to address homelessness.
LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: Police say a 73-year-old man in a wheelchair was fatally struck by a vehicle while trying to cross Airline Highway.
MAINE Portland: State election officials are rushing to get a new ranked-choice voting system in place for the June primary.
MARYLAND Baltimore: A judge awarded the mother of an autistic girl more than $1 million in a sexual abuse claim against a bus company.
MASSACHUSETTS Northfield: Three designs are proposed to replace the Schell Memorial Bridge that’s been closed for over 30 years.
MICHIGAN Lansing: Nearly 30 projects in 18 counties will share $515,000 for Iron Belle Trail work.
MINNESOTA St. Paul: Researchers say rural Minnesota has a shortage of day care options, with the state losing some 25% of small in-home day cares over the past 12 years.
MISSISSIPPI Greenville: Boutique Air plans to increase its fleet serving the city to three planes.
MISSOURI Cape Girardeau: The 20-year-old village of Dutchtown along the Mississippi River has dissolved, a victim of flooding.
MONTANA Great Falls: Thousands of geese migrating north are finding
that one of their favorite stopovers, Freezout Lake, is still iced over.
NEBRASKA Lincoln: Lawmakers face a 2020 deadline to cut the inmate population from 160% of prison design capacity to 140%.
NEVADA Reno: After getting a letter from the ACLU, the Washoe County School District lifted the suspension of a student who used vulgar language in a gun violence protest.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Lancaster: The latest North Country cookbook features favorite recipes from the Appalachian Mountain Club.
NEW JERSEY Bass River Township: The state plans to clear-cut about 19 acres of white pine that block the view at Bass River Forest fire tower.
NEW MEXICO White Sands Missile Range: Some 8,400 people joined a memorial marathon to honor World War II veterans of the 1942 Bataan death march in the Philippines.
NEW YORK Albany: Advocates for the mentally ill have delivered nearly 25,000 letters to state leaders urging more community housing.
NORTH CAROLINA Wilmington: The University of North Carolina Board of Governors OK’d a $95,000 performance bonus for system President Margaret Spellings.
NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: Retirements will take their toll on some top local officials this year, including the city attorney, police chief and Burleigh County state’s attorney.
OHIO McDonald: An ordinance was delivered to the village council that gives the police chief, lieutenant and six officers raises of $1 an hour.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: An inspector general’s report says two construction projects at the local Veterans Affairs Medical Center are $10.8 million over budget.
OREGON Eugene: A couple is pushing to legalize and regulate psilocybin – a psychoactive compound – to treat depression and addiction.
PENNSYLVANIA Reading: The parents of a 2-year-old girl who died of pneumonia were convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Prosecutors say they wouldn’t seek medical care for the child on religious grounds.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: Gov. Gina Raimondo will serve as chief marshal of the alumni at Harvard University’s commencement May 24.
SOUTH CAROLINA Bishopville: Authorities say a Lee Correctional inmate took a guard hostage, but the incident ended without injury.
SOUTH DAKOTA Rapid City: Pennington County is revising its inclement weather policy for petitioners getting signatures on county grounds.
TENNESSEE Nashville: State lawmakers are waiting for word from the Trump administration before acting on TennCare work requirements.
TEXAS San Antonio: Police say a parking lot shooting was set off by an argument over a speeding truck.
UTAH Salt Lake City: A nonprofit hopes to boost Utah’s lowest-in-thecountry rate of low-income students who eat free school breakfasts.
VERMONT Hartford: The city school district settled a lawsuit by a family who claimed their son was sexually abused by a kindergarten classmate.
VIRGINIA Richmond: Dominion Energy has agreed to bury most of a power line beneath Interstate 66.
WASHINGTON Tacoma: The company that runs an immigrant detention center is suing the city for an ordinance that blocks it from expanding.
WEST VIRGINIA Pratt: Authorities are investigating why a fire truck flipped and hit a rock wall while responding to an accident. Two firefighters died.
WISCONSIN Kenosha: Gateway Technical College will offer new degrees for Foxconn complex workers.
WYOMING Cody: The National Park Service is planning repairs to Yellowstone National Park’s Fishing Bridge.