STATE-BY-STATE

News from across the USA

ALABAMA Montgomery: Gov. Kay Ivey says lawmakers have set aside $11 million for behavioral health services for Medicaid-eligible children.

ALASKA Homer: The City Council is considering a 1% summer sales tax to help pay for a new police station.

ARIZONA Phoenix: State teachers are voting on whether to strike.

ARKANSAS Little Rock: State prison officials say an inmate found dead in his cell is the second apparent suicide at the East Arkansas Regional Unit in Brickeys in the past week.

CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: Police arrested a man on suspicion of murder after a fire at the Top Notch Recordings music studio killed two.

COLORADO Boulder: University of Colorado students, local officials and landlords are discussing solutions to a tough rental housing market that has prompted 10-month pre-leases.

CONNECTICUT New Haven: The city is offering validated free parking for people who want to attend evening municipal meetings.

DELAWARE Dover: The state is offering a summer academy for high school students as part of an effort to recruit corrections officers.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Police say two people died when their vehicle hit a utility pole in a D.C. suburb.

FLORIDA Ave Maria: Some alumni want Ave Maria University to rescind Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ invitation to speak at graduation.

GEORGIA Macon: Peach growers have emerged from the spring freeze threat with their crops largely intact

HAWAII Honolulu: Hawaiian Airlines passengers may soon get a free Hawaiian language lesson.

IDAHO Boise: The state is sparring with federal auditors who say it was overpaid $3.1 million to cover children on government health insurance.

ILLINOIS Chicago: The Outdoor Advertising Association of Illinois is giving free space on some 100 billboards to promote a helpline for those fighting substance abuse.

INDIANA Bloomington: Hoosier National Forest officials want to decommission about 22 miles of roads that are already closed.

IOWA Madrid: Mayor Dirk Ringgenberg has resigned amid talks about dissolving the city’s police force.

KANSAS Topeka: Highland Park High School is trying out pouches that aim to reduce the distraction of cellphones in classrooms.

KENTUCKY Owensboro: The International Bluegrass Music Center will open in October with a new name, the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum.

LOUISIANA New Orleans: Two Renaissance masterpieces by Paolo Veronese are coming Thursday to the New Orleans Museum of Art.

MAINE Portland: A nonprofit is working to restore the historic Abyssinian Meeting House.

MARYLAND Baltimore: City officials want to reduce the number of people injured in accidental falls and the $60 million in annual hospital costs that result.

MASSACHUSETTS West Yarmouth: Authorities say a police canine injured during a shooting that left his officer handler dead is recovering.

MICHIGAN Mackinaw: The owner of twin oil pipelines beneath the waterway connecting lakes Huron and Michigan will use a vehicle to inspect damage that may have been caused by a ship’s anchor.

MINNESOTA St. Paul: State lawmakers may set up a task force to study ways to reduce violence against Native American women.

MISSISSIPPI Jackson: Whitney Drewrey has been named state teacher of the year; Howard Savage Jr. is administrator of the year.

MISSOURI Jefferson City: The St. Louis Veterans Home, facing com- plaints about care and staff morale, is getting a new administrator.

MONTANA Hamilton: The Corvallis School Board has rejected plans to start a shooting sports club.

NEBRASKA Lincoln: A woman is accused of throwing away evidence against her son, a former prison guard accused of trying to smuggle contraband into the penitentiary.

NEVADA Reno: Several thousand Washoe County students will have to walk or find another way to school next year due to budget cuts.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Plymouth: The New Hampshire Electric Co-op is offering discounts to those who charge electric vehicles during offpeak hours.

NEW JERSEY Trenton: Authorities are seeking the mother of a newborn boy who was found in a duffel bag on a porch in Trenton.

NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: The state’s education secretary has upheld a decision to close the 200-student Taos International Charter School.

NEW YORK Binghamton: Police are seeking a suspect in the fatal stabbing of a first-year Binghamton University student Sunday night.

NORTH CAROLINA Durham: A man was charged with setting a fire Sunday at the Treyburn Country Club.

NORTH DAKOTA Washburn: State officials have closed access to West Arroda Lake in Oliver County due to dangerous ice conditions.

OHIO Dayton: Col. Thomas Sherman will take the top post in June at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Officials say a wildfire threat is over and residents of Martha can go home.

OREGON Lakeview: Red Rock Biofuels is ready to start building a plant to annually convert 136,000 tons of woody biomass and forest bi-products into renewable fuels.

PENNSYLVANIA Altoona: Two fire- fighters were hurt in falls while battling a weekend brush fire and two others were treated for dehydration and heat exhaustion.

RHODE ISLAND East Providence: The Nature Conservancy paid about $2 million to ensure that the Agawam Hunt Club will never be developed.

SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: A federal investigation of weapons violations resulted in the arrests of three men and the rescue of 32 dogs from a dog-fighting operation.

SOUTH DAKOTA Pierre: A convicted killer faces a new murder charge in the stabbing death of a man on the Rosebud Indian Reservation.

TENNESSEE Knoxville: Former police chief Phil Keith is the new director of Community Oriented Policing Services at the Justice Department.

TEXAS Crosby: A Houston-area man is charged with threatening to shoot at least 200 people at the University of Texas in Austin.

UTAH Salt Lake City: The state treasurer is listing $38.4 million in unclaimed property at the end of 2017.

VERMONT St. Johnsbury: Gun shops report an uptick in business since the state passed restrictions that include a minimum age on gun ownership.

VIRGINIA Norfolk: A National Academy of Sciences study credits humans for the comeback of grasses at the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay.

WASHINGTON Seattle: Police opened a homicide investigation after a bullet wound was discovered in the body of a man found in a camper van.

WEST VIRGINIA Huntington: Cabell Huntington Hospital is suing a regional jail over an inmate’s unpaid medical bill of more than $165,000.

WISCONSIN Madison: A bill expanding Wisconsin National Guard members’ benefits has become law.

WYOMING Cheyenne: State schools began administering a new online student assessment this week.