STATE-BY-STATE
ALABAMA Huntsville: A man went before his church and announced he had been stealing from the collection plate. He’s been charged with theft.
ALASKA Kodiak: Legislation to fund the Coast Guard includes a rider that would protect Ayakulik Island in exchange for opening tideland on Kodiak Island for development
ARIZONA Lake Havasu City: Luke Air Force Base officials say an F-16C crashed while attempting to land at Lake Havasu City airport.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: The state’s attorney general wants the Arkansas Supreme Court to reject an effort to force her to approve proposed constitutional amendment wording for a ballot initiative legalizing casinos.
CALIFORNIA San Francisco: Oakland and a water district are being fined $350,000 for allegedly allowing sewage water to flow into the San Francisco Bay.
COLORADO Lakewood: A job opening for a public information officer mistakenly lists the salary as from $11.4 million to $15.9 million per month. The actual salary is $65,000 to $92,000 per year.
CONNECTICUT Hartford: An energy company is trimming trees along 4,000 miles of power lines.
DELAWARE Millville: A proposed ordinance would outlaw the discharge of many firearms within town limits.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: The Smithsonian Institution has become the first museum to use Pepper robots, which can, among other things, teach Swahili, dance and answer questions.
FLORIDA Tallahassee: State health officials won’t allow new patients at an assisted living facility where a dozen residents died when it lost power during Hurricane Irma.
GEORGIA Atlanta: The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says its crime lab is making progress in a yearslong effort to test thousands of backlogged sexual assault evidence packages.
HAWAII Oahu: A brown water advisory has been issued for Waimea Beach Park.
IDAHO Ketchum: Officials are contemplating providing legal representation for poor people caught in the criminal justice system.
ILLINOIS Peru: The Capt. Thomas Heitmann Memorial Track at St. Bede Academy was dedicated this month to the fallen Marine.
INDIANA Indianapolis: The state Supreme Court will consider the validity of a law allowing local governments to fine railroads when a stopped train blocks a street for more than 10 minutes.
IOWA Des Moines: Gov. Kim Reynolds issued an order to begin establishing a children’s mental health service system in coming years.
KANSAS Wichita: A judge is being asked to order 5 Star Motors to pay $100,000 in penalties after customers complained that they didn’t get titles to vehicles they bought.
KENTUCKY Louisville: University of Louisville interim president Greg Postel, passed over for the permanent role, was given a $100,000 bonus for his leadership during separate school scandals.
LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: Six soldiers who died in military service were honored as part of “Military Family Day.”
MAINE Bar Harbor: A fire caused a house to collapse, killing two family members and injuring two others.
MARYLAND Hagerstown: Police have seized nearly $50,000 worth of unstamped cigarettes and charged the man transporting them.
MASSACHUSETTS Boston: Longtime WBZ-AM radio reporter Lana Jones died unexpectedly at age 62.
MICHIGAN Huntington Woods: Tractor-trailers lined up beneath Interstate 696 to aid police in helping a man on an overpass contemplating suicide. He did not jump.
MINNESOTA St. Cloud: A man faces first-degree murder charges in the killings of his grandparents.
MISSISSIPPI Laurel: The city is looking to annex the Pendorff community.
MISSOURI St. Louis: An appeal from a man who committed crimes when he was 16 but isn’t eligible for parole until he’s 112 was denied.
MONTANA Billings: U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is scheduled to visit the city Friday to talk about the nation’s drug crisis.
NEBRASKA Grand Island: Singer Kelly Clarkson will be the opening act at the State Fair this summer.
NEVADA Boulder City: A 14-yearold was arrested following a report that he made a terrorist threat against his junior high school.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Barrington: Officials are warning of the danger of brush fires after a landowner caused an eight-acre blaze.
NEW JERSEY Maurice River Town
ship: A 17-year-old osprey, one of the oldest recorded nesting in the state, has returned to his home.
NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: Police are on the lookout for a burglar who targeted stores at Cottonwood Mall.
NEW YORK Albany: A study says the state’s arts and cultural industries pump more than $114 billion into New York’s economy.
NORTH CAROLINA Asheville: Those drawing plans to widen Interstate 26 are looking out for canoe and kayak traffic as well as cars and trucks in designing bridge supports
NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: The North Dakota Industrial Commission is eight months behind in publishing meeting minutes.
OHIO Girard: Authorities are investigating mysterious booms residents have heard for a few years.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: A group seeking to let voters decide whether to hike the oil and gas production tax to fund a $4,000 raise for teachers is dropping the idea.
OREGON Portland: Here and Now, an HBO show set and partially filmed in Portland, has been canceled.
PENNSYLVANIA State College: Graduate student assistants at Penn State have voted against forming a union.
RHODE ISLAND Cranston: A lawmaker is concerned about state plans to relocate psychiatric patients.
SOUTH CAROLINA Myrtle Beach: Leatherback sea turtles,the world’s largest, have been spotted.
SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: The state no longer has the nation’s lowest-paid teachers. It is now 48th.
TENNESSEE Nashville: A 3,500-yearold mummy that has been on display for more than 150 years needs conservation work and won’t be on display when a new museum opens.
TEXAS Houston: The Kinder Foundation donated $70 million to help improve Memorial Park.
UTAH Salt Lake City: The city plans to spend $27 million for upgrades to its bucolic, 170-year-old cemetery.
VERMONT Brattleboro: School board officials approved a student petition to fly the Black Lives Matter flag.
VIRGINIA Richmond: A group working with the Pamunkey Indian Tribe bought more than 600 acres that could be used for a resort and casino.
WASHINGTON Olympia: State tax exemptions on “green” vehicles will end July 1.
WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: People who want to enter the West Virginia Quilts and Wall Hangings Juried Exhibition have until 4 p.m. Friday.
WISCONSIN La Crosse: People are being warned about potential exposure to measles.
WYOMING Cheyenne: Highway Patrol troopers are now carrying the opioid reversal drug Naloxone.