STATE-BY-STATE
ALABAMA Montgomery: Alabama Power Co. customers will see slight decrease in power bills because of a federal tax cut given to utilities.
ALASKA Fairbanks: The unpaved, 60-mile McCarthy Road has been open for public travel.
ARIZONA Phoenix: City workers planted 24 drought-tolerant trees in Cortez Park to increase the amount of shade.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: A task force will study the possibility of raising the state’s sales tax on groceries while creating an income tax credit or rebate for low-income families.
CALIFORNIA San Francisco: May is Bike to Work month, so users can check out a bike at a docking station and ride for up to 45 minutes for free.
COLORADO Colorado Springs: Two police officers who shot and killed a man in December 2017 have been cleared of any wrongdoing.
CONNECTICUT Hartford: The state house passed a bill banning bump stocks.
DELAWARE Dover: Lawmakers are taking another look at raising the state’s minimum wage.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: A woman had the D.C. flag painted across the roof of her home.
FLORIDA Tallahassee: An appeals court has temporarily blocked a man from growing medical marijuana.
GEORGIA Smyrna: Since December, five vehicles have run into the top of a warning beam erected just before entering the Concord Covered Bridge.
HAWAII Honolulu: The home of Abigail Kawananakoa, a 92-year-old Hawaiian heiress many consider a princess, was burglarized.
IDAHO Nampa: A woman received four years of felony probation and 30 day in jail for beating her four children for eating a tub of ice cream in October 2017.
ILLINOIS Springfield: Project funding has has been approved to turn downtown one-way streets into two-way streets.
INDIANA Greenwood: Officials are calling for caution and safety upgrades following a day in which there were three separate crashes involving cars and trains.
IOWA Des Moines: The state house has passed a “heartbeat” bill that seeks to ban most abortions around six weeks of pregnancy.
KANSAS Hutchinson: Trevor Corbett, who’s serving life for the 2000 strangulation death of his ex-wife, wants DNA evidence retested.
KENTUCKY Louisville: Gov. Matt Bevin’s home and the 10 acres where it sits are valued at $2.9 million. That’s $1.3 million more than what a Bevin-owned company paid last year.
LOUISIANA Metairie: Morning Call, a 24/7 coffeehouse that has been in the area since 1974, is closing.
MAINE Westmanland: State officials say rising waters in the town of 62 people caused at least one person to be evacuated by airboat.
MARYLAND Bel Air: Five puppies that are genetically identical to a dog named Bruce Wayne may be the state’s first cloned dogs.
MASSACHUSETTS Boston: Amazon announced plans to open an office in 2021, creating 2,000 jobs.
MICHIGAN Troy: The police department has created a new rank of “pawfficer” for Badges, a cat that has joined the force.
MINNESOTA Delano: Authorities want to know why a motorist fired shots at an empty school bus.
MISSISSIPPI Jackson: The University of Mississippi Medical Center will stop accepting policies from Blue Cross & Blue Shield after June 30 unless it gets a revised contract.
MISSOURI Jefferson City: A bill passed to reduce fines for watercraft speeding in no-wake zones and life-jacket violations to $25.
MONTANA Missoula: The American Red Cross has opened a flood shelter at a local church.
NEBRASKA Fremont: A non-profit is dedicating June to “plogging,” a Swedish fitness trend that has joggers pick up trash and litter during their exercise.
NEVADA Gardnerville: A man has been sentenced to 60 days in jail for the car crash that led to the death of a 21-month-old girl.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: The remains of a Marine Corps sergeant killed in World War II have been identified as David Quinn and will be returned to his hometown.
NEW JERSEY Atlantic City: The Ocean Resort Casino will open this summer at the same site where the short-lived Revel casino failed.
NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: An inmate has been sentenced to nearly 3 ½ years in prison for trafficking heroin while incarcerated.
NEW YORK New York: A cat that escaped from its owner at the airport was captured and will be shipped home to its owner — in China.
NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: A few thousand state employees could soon receive pay raises.
NORTH DAKOTA Minot: The YMCA has been working with county officials to refinance their bond a year earlier than scheduled.
OHIO Hubbard: Elementary school students raised $6,223 in April for teacher Jill Hoover, who has been diagnosed with stage-four cancer.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Insurance companies are offering discounts to Oklahomans who have built or retrofitted their homes to tornado-resilient standards.
OREGON Springfield: Authorities are warning people to be on the lookout for a cougar that has been spotted walking on a path.
PENNSYLVANIA McCandless: A man has been charged for attempting to build a meth lab in his apartment.
RHODE ISLAND South Kingstown: A man was electrocuted to death after coming in connect with a live wire.
SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: A baby giraffe has been named in honor of Amelia Attaway, an 8-year-old girl who died in 2014 from brain cancer.
SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: Paul TenHaken was elected the new mayor of the city with 63% of the vote.
TENNESSEE Knoxville: A cybersecurity firm is investigating an attack that disabled Knox County’s election website.
TEXAS Houston: A deputy constable who stopped to assist motorists involved in an accident was chased around his patrol car by a cow that one of the cars had struck. The cow ran off, and the deputy wasn’t hurt.
UTAH Ogden: Pet food company American Nutrition says one of its workers died in a work accident.
VERMONT Barre: A new exhibit at the Vermont Historical Society celebrates 115 years of automobile racing in the state.
VIRGINIA Roanoke: A student expelled from Virginia Tech after being arrested on a gun charge is suing the school and police officials, claiming he was harassed because he is Asian and likes guns.
WASHINGTON Lyden: A settlement of nearly $2 million has been reached in lawsuit over an E. coli outbreak.
WEST VIRGINIA Wheeling: A body was discovered along the Ohio River over the weekend.
WISCONSIN Superior: The EPA says no elevated levels of toxians were found at the site of a recent oil refinery explosion.
WYOMING Riverton: The University of Wyoming has a bachelor’s degree program in tribal leadership in the works.