STATE-BY-STATE
ALABAMA Prattville: Central Alabama Community College says it’s relocating its Millbrook campus to Prattville.
ALASKA Anchorage: The death penalty is being sought for John Pearl Smith II, who was convicted for the June 2016 killings of two people.
ARIZONA Phoenix: Health authorities are warning residents about a rise in animal rabies cases statewide.
ARKANSAS Pine Bluff: Police say a thief who stole a woman’s purse was arrested two days later when he used one of her cards at a restaurant where she was waitressing.
CALIFORNIA Santa Cruz Mountains: Koko, the gorilla who mastered sign language, has died at 46.
COLORADO Colorado Springs: Nearly 200 cowboys kicked off the start of rodeo season during the 82nd annual Western Street Breakfast.
CONNECTICUT Mystic: Sift Bake Shop owner Adam Young was named “Best Baker in America” after winning a Food Network contest.
DELAWARE Dover: A program that helps Delawareans buy electric or hybrid vehicles will be extended to the end of 2019.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: The U.S. Attorney’s Office has issued an indictment for the DNA profile of an unidentified man linked to at least six rapes dating to 2002.
FLORIDA Palm Bay: Officials are searching to find who decapitated an alligator that was found on the road.
GEORGIA Atlanta: Metro police officers were involved in three shootings Tuesday in a six-hour span. Two other people were killed.
HAWAII Honolulu: The Queen’s Medical Center is taking precautions after two elderly patients might have contracted Legionnaires’ disease, a potentially deadly form of pneumonia.
IDAHO Boise: Researchers say longbilled curlews are declining in the southwestern Idaho due to poachers.
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KENTUCKY Union: Former Ryle High teacher Bryan Bentley is accused of taking more than $100,000 from a school account and club.
LOUISIANA Lake Charles: Sheriff Tony Mancuso has terminated a deputy accused of domestic abuse.
MAINE Augusta: The Senate has voted to create a program to ensure school drinking water is safe.
MARYLAND Federalsburg: A report says at least six of the 13 bald eagles found dead on a state farm in 2016 had been poisoned.
MASSACHUSETTS Springfield: Gamblers at MGM Springfield will be able to drink alcohol until 4 a.m.
MICHIGAN Houghton: State Congress members say they’ll support requests for federal disaster aid for flooding in the Upper Peninsula.
MINNESOTA St. Cloud: A teen has been charged for allegedly setting fire to a 118-year-old church, racking up millions of dollars in damage.
MISSISSIPPI Ocean Springs: A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to block the city from flying the state flag that features the Confederate battle emblem.
MISSOURI Jefferson City: The “Mystery Tour – Tour with the Past,” which highlights a former State Penitentiary inmate, has moved to Saturdays because of its popularity.
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firm NEBRASKA is buying Blair: Nebraska-based A private equity Great NEVADA Plains Las Communications. Vegas: Former Vice President Democrat Joe Nelson Biden Araujo has endorsed for secretary of state.
NEW three-day HAMPSHIRE immigration Woodstock: checkpoint A has resulted in the arrest of five people living in the U.S. illegally.
NEW JERSEY Trenton: New Jersey is considering honoring late celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain with a food trail. Bourdain grew up in the Jersey suburb of Leonia.
NEW MEXICO Sante Fe: New Mexico’s population has grown at the slowest rate of any state in the Western U.S. over the past decade, a recent analysis shows.
NEW YORK New York: Deborah Cullen has been named the director of the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
NORTH CAROLINA Bat Cave: Officials say it will take until the end of July before a landslide can be cleared that has closed part of Highway 9.
NORTH DAKOTA Minot: The Minot Air Force Base has recovered a machine gun that had been missing.
OHIO Cincinnati: A journal that dates to the Civil War was found in a desk at Riverview East Academy. The founder has donated the book to a historical society.
OKLAHOMA Norman: Incoming University of Oklahoma President Jim Gallogly said the school’s total debt is nearly $1 billion, and it is losing $36 million a year.
OREGON Portland: Oregonians will not be able to vote this fall on a proposal to require safe gun storage.
PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia: The Philadelphia Zoo has welcomed a baby giraffe. Beau stands 5-foot-7
and weighs an estimated 125 pounds. RHODE ISLAND Providence: An effort to rename T.F. Green Airport the Rhode Island International Airport has moved closer to being law.
SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: Steven Verren Baker pleaded guilty to shipping protected turtles between Asia and the United States.
SOUTH DAKOTA Pierre: The Department of Health has awarded nearly $500,000 in grants to help communities with mosquito control.
TENNESSEE Nashville: Bureau of Investigation Acting Director Jason Locke is being placed on paid leave pending the outcome of an investigation into allegations that he misused state funds.
TEXAS Lott: Texas Natural Meats recalled 489 pounds of frozen, raw ground beef products due to possible E. coli contamination.
UTAH Big Cottonwood Canyon: Solitude Mountain Resort has been acquired by Denver-based ski-resort business Alterra Mountain Company.
VERMONT Middlesex: Officials are celebrating the 10th anniversary of centralizing the state’s record archives.
VIRGINIA Portsmouth: A teen who ran away from home Monday has been found “safe and unharmed.”
WASHINGTON Tacoma: Robin Cline has pleaded guilty to embezzling nearly $300,000 from a Costco warehouse over a five-year span.
WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: A proposal would increase the monthly parking cost for state employees from $20 to $25.
WISCONSIN Port Edwards: Navy Pharmacist’s Mate 1st Class John Schoonover, who died at Pearl Harbor, will be buried this month at the Naval Air Station Pensacola.
WYOMING Laramie: Residents evacuated because of a fire at Badger Creek have been allowed back home.