STATE-BY-STATE
cash ALABAMA bail is Florence: set for a man A $10 indicted million on 6,547 counts of child pornography.
ALASKA Anchorage: Officials have released a draft of a plan to reduce greenhouse gas by 30%.
ARIZONA Phoenix: Six Flags announced it’s purchasing Wet ’n’ Wild, the state’s largest water park.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: Census figures indicate that the fastest-growing cities in the state are mostly suburbs, while smaller cities are shrinking.
CALIFORNIA Laguna Beach: A 595square-foot cottage with one bedroom and one bathroom is on the market for $998,900, a drop from last year’s $1.149 million asking price.
COLORADO Denver: The state’s highest elevation roads – The Mount Evans Highway, Independence Pass and Trail Ridge Road – opened just in time for Memorial Day weekend.
CONNECTICUT Hartford: Ex-Gov. John Rowland was released last week after serving 19 months of a 30month sentence for hiding political consulting roles in two campaigns.
DELAWARE Lewes: Due to rising fuel costs, Cape May-Lewes Ferry trips will cost an extra dollar through June.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: A report finds overtime for D.C. government employees rose from $40.5 million in fiscal 2011 to $108.2 million in 2017.
FLORIDA Sarasota: A couple woke up to find a 300-pound alligator in their swimming pool.
GEORGIA Hiram: A high school senior was arrested a day before graduation for bringing a gun to school.
HAWAII Oahu: Lifeguards administered CPR and used a defibrillator to revive a snorkeler at Hanauma Bay.
IDAHO Boise: University of Idaho President Chuck Staben’s contract will not be renewed in 2019.
ILLINOIS Rockford: The Rockford Park District is considering selling Magic Waters water park.
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KANSAS Town: A senior prank got Kylan Scheele banned from graduation for listing Truman High School for sale on Craigslist for $12,725.
KENTUCKY McKee: An ex-Jackson County treasurer is accused of writing $161,000 in checks to herself.
LOUISIANA Monroe: Health professionals and state leaders gathered last week for the Louisiana Opioid Summit to combat the epidemic.
MAINE Kennebunkport: Former President George H.W. Bush attended the monthly pancake breakfast at American Legion Post 159.
MARYLAND Baltimore: The city school board is getting feedback on new school police policies. Some reform advocates want police to adopt a simpler Miranda warning.
MASSACHUSETTS Greenfield: Union nurses at Baystate Franklin Medical Center reached a five-year deal on health insurance and wages.
MICHIGAN Cassopolis: The former home of Stephen Bogue, an Underground Railroad stationmaster, will soon open to visitors.
MINNESOTA Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Law School is seeking more funding to help it recover from a drop in enrollment.
MISSISSIPPI Starkville: The city has agreed to support LGBT rights to settle a lawsuit over denying permission for a gay pride parade.
MISSOURI Springfield: Bob Barker is giving $1 million more to Drury University to support his alma mater’s animal studies program.
MONTANA Butte: Montana Tech will change its name to Montana Technological University.
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collaborative NEW HAMPSHIRE law enforcement Lancaster: A effort resulted in the arrest of at least 20 people, mostly on drug charges.
NEW JERSEY Newark: The state Turnpike Authority has spent $276,119 in legal fees in a four-year logo dispute with a pizza firm.
NEW MEXICO Clovis: Officials have broken ground on a project aimed at upgrading the Curry County Adult Detention Center.
NEW YORK Albany: State lottery officials said that total sales of lottery tickets and video lottery games came in at just under $10 billion for the fiscal year that ended March 31.
NORTH CAROLINA Fort Bragg: The names of 12 soldiers killed last year in an ambush in Niger were added to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command Memorial Wall.
NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: Dane Ferguson quit as executive director of the state Republican Party.
OHIO Ashland: Authorities say the mother of an 8-year-old boy who repeatedly shot his 4-year-old sister delayed seeking medical help for fear that the guns they use to hunt food would be taken away.
OKLAHOMA Norman: The city last week became the first in the state to resolve to transition to 100% renewable energy in its buildings by 2035.
OREGON Portland: A man was taken into custody after being involved in a hit-and-run that injured three women on a sidewalk.
PENNSYLVANIA Harrisburg: A director at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will become head of Pennsylvania’s 14 state universities.
RHODE million Twin ISLAND River Tiverton: casino will The open $140 Sept. 1, earlier than expected.
SOUTH CAROLINA Walterboro: Pioneer Boars plans to add 92 jobs over the next five years as part of a $3 million investment.
SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: State officials are working with a Chinese marketing company to try to attract tourists who visit the United States.
TENNESSEE Cleveland: The DEA acknowledged to a family that agents erroneously raided their house. The raid is under state investigation.
TEXAS Waco: Vivian Van Gorder, thinking she was having triplets, gave birth to the first set of quadruplets at Hillcrest Hospital.
UTAH Salt Lake City: Bryan Brandenburg, co-founder of the city’s annual comic convention, is taking a leave of absence amid a backlash for appearing insensitive about a sexual harassment complaint.
VERMONT Bennington: Southwestern Vermont Health Care will celebrate the 100th anniversary of taking patients on June 10.
VIRGINIA Kingwood: The city is seeking applications after its last officer and police chief resigned last month without explanation.
WASHINGTON Federal Way: An overturned semi spilled 40,000 pounds of chicken feathers onto Interstate 5. It took four hours to clean the road.
WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: Yeager Airport and Marshall University are looking at the possibility of developing an aviation school.
WISCONSIN Hudson: Kyle Frenette, manager of two-time Grammy-winning folk band Bon Iver, is dropping out of a congressional race because of “unforeseen circumstances.”
WYOMING Little Greys River: A landslide temporarily kept several people from driving from where they were camping and fishing. From staff and wire reports