STATE-BY-STATE
ALABAMA Jacksonville: The RMC Health System hospital here is shutting down at the end of June.
ALASKA Juneau: Lawmakers budgeted $2.75 million to fund tests for an estimated 3,400 rape kits backlog.
ARIZONA Phoenix: Megabus will begin offering service to Las Vegas on Friday, with fees as low as $1.
ARKANSAS Springdale: Children’s Safety Center saw 113 child abuse cases in April, a 21-year record.
CALIFORNIA Union City: The late Larry Itliong, a United Farm Workers co-founder, was inducted into the Labor’s International Hall of Fame.
COLORADO Pitkin: Officials say a postal worker found a black bear stuck inside the post office upon arriving to work, the second incident involving the bear. It was euthanized under the state’s “two strike rule.”
CONNECTICUT Stamford: A 64-yearold man was arrested and charged with dealing crack out of his apartment in a senior housing complex.
DELAWARE Millsboro: A 14-year-old boy was arrested Friday after making calls to 911 claiming there was a bomb at Millsboro Middle School during the time of the eighth-grade formal.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: A suburban Washington doctor who spiked his girlfriend’s drink to induce an abortion was sentenced to three years in prison and then faces deportation.
FLORIDA Destin: Lifeguards rescued eight people from a Gulf of Mexico rip current, including four rescuers.
GEORGIA Covington: At least four people were hospitalized and 70 were sickened in a salmonella outbreak.
HAWAII Honolulu: Officials want residents to report monk seal sightings after finding 3 dead last week.
IDAHO Coeur d’Alene: A philanthropist convicted of poaching a moose near Mica Bay in 2014 has been ordered to serve 30 days in jail.
ILLINOIS Springfield: The Illinois
State Kickoff Fair ” June is hosting 9 to introduce a “Corn Dog people to state and county fair food.
INDIANA Crawfordsville: The Montgomery County Courthouse that lost its original clock tower in 1941 to structural concerns has installed a new $500,000 clock tower.
IOWA Earlham: Authorities charged a man after dozens of neglected horses – and 2 horse carcasses – where found on his property.
KANSAS Wichita: Garden City Community College trustees are seeking an investigator to look into faculty claims that the college president created a hostile workplace.
KENTUCKY Lexington: A lawsuit filed on behalf of 14 adults and 21 children says the state hasn’t given foster care pay to relatives raising children taken from their homes.
LOUISIANA New Orleans: Tania Tetlow, new head of Loyola University New Orleans, is the first female and first non-Jesuit in the job.
MAINE Bangor: Officials say Maine fiddleheads are safe to eat, despite warnings from Canada that the ferns may be contaminated.
MARYLAND Fredrick: Comcast opened WiFi hotspots to anyone needing them until Friday as Frederick County recovers from flooding.
MASSACHUSETTS Cambridge: Hillary Clinton will be awarded the Radcliffe Medal on Friday during Harvard’s graduation week.
MICHIGAN Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre & Dance is planning a new $19 million dance school building.
MINNESOTA Minneapolis: Authorities estimate that 200 homeless people use the Twin Cities light rail system for shelter each night.
MISSISSIPPI West Point: The owner of a 118-year-old home says he plans to rebuild after the structure was destroyed by fire last week.
MISSOURI Springfield: A state re-
search project finds a growing black bear population in Missouri.
MONTANA Kalispell: Officials say a field assistant on a federal grizzly bear study was hurt when she was attacked by a bear in a remote area.
NEBRASKA McCook: A Red Willow county commissioner who also is a road crew member has apologized for tossing a sharp rake in front of a school bus carrying children.
NEVADA Reno: Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren will give the keynote address next month at the state Democratic Party convention.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: Drug enforcement officers report a rise in small-scale meth production.
NEW JERSEY Wayne: Thirty-two people were hurt in the collision of two buses, one from Wayne and one from Oradell, in the Lincoln Tunnel that connects to New York City.
NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: More than 60% of the state is experiencing extreme drought or worse.
NEW YORK Rochester: The University of Rochester bestowed its first posthumous honorary degree to abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
NORTH CAROLINA Holden Beach: Shrimp boat “Big Earl” has been pushed back into the ocean after being stuck on a beach for a week
NORTH DAKOTA Bismark: The number of deer hunting licenses offered in the state in 2018 is up 1%.
OHIO Brookfield: Drilling for a new injection well will begin over objections by Frackfree America.
OKLAHOMA Edmond: Police arrested a teacher’s aide at Will Rogers Elementary School who allegedly was high on meth at work.
OREGON Portland: A man who fell thigh-deep through a rotting walkway at his apartment complex was awarded more than $20 million.
PENNSYLVANIA Pottsville: An exGilberton police chief who quit fol-
lowing profanity-laced tirades about liberals was sentenced to probation for firearms purchase violations.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: The state has launched its summer-long Great Outdoors Pursuit aimed at getting children and parents involved in more physical activity.
SOUTH CAROLINA Spartanburg: Keurig Green Mountain coffee company is planning a $350 million plant that will hire 500 workers.
SOUTH DAKOTA Java: A strong storm washed away a dam in the Lake Hiddenwood Recreation Area.
TENNESSEE Nashville: A Coalition for Open Government audit finds that some state agencies violate laws requiring a public records policy.
TEXAS Houston: Nearly two dozen workers were injured in an explosion and brief flash fire caused by a gas leak at a nearby chemical plant.
UTAH Salt Lake City: Rep. Angela Romero wants to raise the legal age of marriage in the state to 18.
VERMONT Lydonville: A statue of the Virgin Mary stolen from a nativity scene more than two years ago has been returned to its owner.
VIRGINIA Alexandria: Authorities say 30 cars in a CSX freight train derailed in the partial collapse of a railway bridge last weekend.
WASHINGTON Ocean Shores: A dead juvenile humpback whale was entangled in crab pots when it washed ashore. A necropsy in planned.
WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: Federal officials approved 55 locations across the state as “opportunity zones” eligible for a development tax incentive.
WISCONSIN Milwaukee: Containers near security checkpoints at General Mitchell airport will collect spare change to support the homeless.
WYOMING Sheridan: A legislative panel is studying voter-approved local taxes to replace funding that municipalities get from the state.