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News from every state.

ALABAMA Montgomery: The Southern Poverty Law Center has named Karen Baynes-Dunning its interim president after founder Morris Dees was fired and longtime president Richard Cohen resigned.

ALASKA Juneau: The state has put songs from the Grammy award-winning band Portugal. The Man and four other artists with Alaska ties on hold. A project to replace the sleepy hold music for state office lines drew widespread attention, but concerns have been raised about some of the music. Conservative blogger Suzanne Downing described the song by the band Harm as having a “discordant” message that “might just drive a distressed caller over the edge.”

ARIZONA Grand Canyon National Park: A Los Angeles artist’s lawsuit against Xanterra Parks & Resorts that alleges he was negligently served gluten has moved from a Coconino County court to federal court. Todd Serlin, who has celiac disease, says he suffered permanent injuries after eating French onion soup at a restaurant in the park in December 2016.

ARKANSAS Hot Springs: Hillary Clinton will deliver the keynote speech at a commencement ceremony for a gifted and talented high school that she played a role in establishing, the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts.

CALIFORNIA Oroville: The good news is that California is drought-free. The bad news is that it is so drought-free, it has had to press into service a spillway at the nation’s tallest dam. The $1 billion structure drained excess water for the first time since it crumbled two years ago.

COLORADO Boulder: A brewery has discontinued its Hickenlooper American Ale, named for former Gov. John Hickenlooper, after an anti-fracking group threatened a boycott.

CONNECTICUT Torrington: A man who survived the 2017 mass shooting at a Las Vegas music festival says in a lawsuit he was told to “suck it up” and “get over it” after informing his employers he was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.

DELAWARE Wilmington: Fentanyl, the deadly synthetic painkiller considered 50 times more potent than heroin, was present in 72 percent of Delaware’s overdose death victims last year, state Division of Forensic Science data say. But the typical urine drug screen administered in hospitals doesn’t test for it, The News Journal of Wilmington reports.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Mayor Muriel Bowser wants to do away with confusing street signs around the city. She’s asking residents to report misplaced or contradictory signs by sharing a photo and location of the sign on social media with the hashtag #GoodSignDC, WTOP radio reports.

FLORIDA Orlando: A girl who received the transplanted heart of a slain infant has met the boy’s mother in an emotional encounter at Walt Disney World.

GEORGIA Lithonia: Police have arrested a man they say was driving the car that hit and seriously injured a 9-year-old girl in her front yard.

HAWAII Honolulu: A new guided missile destroyer that is among the Navy’s newest class of warships has arrived in Pearl Harbor after its first operational trip. The 610-foot-long USS Zumwalt left its home port of

San Diego on March 8.

IDAHO Boise: GOP Gov. Brad Little has signed legislation lowering from 21 to 18 Idaho’s age limit for carrying a concealed handgun within city limits without a permit or training.

ILLINOIS Champaign: The University of Illinois will start selling beer in general seating areas this fall at Memorial Stadium and State Farm Center, home to the Illini football and basketball teams.

INDIANA Indianapolis: The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art is leading a twomonth celebration of the classic Western novel “True Grit” that starts April 13.

IOWA Des Moines: A fundraiser will be held Sunday in Davenport for Codfish Hollow in Maquoketa — the beloved barn-turned-venue that’s hosted Norah Jones, Kurt Vile, Nathaniel Rateliff, Conor Oberst and more. It needs a new roof.

KANSAS Wichita: An Ohio gamer upset over a $1.50 bet in an online game pleaded guilty to asking a prankster to make a bogus emergency call, then trying to hide his involvement when he realized the antic had gotten a Kansas man killed by police.

KENTUCKY Louisville: Some Louisville Zoo employees are surrogate parents for two baby penguins.

LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: More than 30,000 people have been booted from the Medicaid program after an upgraded state computer check determined they earn too much.

MAINE Auburn: Author Lynn Plourde paid a visit to Walton Elementary School to tell students about how her books came to be written and then published.

MARYLAND Annapolis: Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore has received General Assembly approval to create its own armed police force.

MASSACHUSETTS Nantucket: The federal government is again extending the use of a protected zone near Massachusetts to help rare North Atlantic right whales travel safely in the area.

MICHIGAN Lake Leelanau: Regulars at Fig’s Breakfast & Lunch kitchen have teamed up to raise funds for owner Byron Figueroa, who has been diagnosed with bilateral kidney cancer.

MINNESOTA St. Paul: The Minnesota Department of Agriculture has placed Stearns County under an emergency quarantine after the tree-killing emerald ash borer was found in the city of Sauk Centre.

MISSISSIPPI Brandon: Beau Alan Rogel, 38, was charged with reckless driving and being a convicted felon in possession of a weapon after he posted a YouTube video of himself driving his Mustang 180 mph, authorities say.

MISSOURI Ferguson: Michael Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, was defeated in her bid for a seat on the City Council in Ferguson, where her son died in a police shooting that helped give rise to the national Black Lives Matter movement.

MONTANA Missoula: While some kids spend spring break on a beach, Shaylyn Denning, 11, was learning how to use a chop saw. Shaylyn is one of a dozen girls and non-binary middle school-age kids who are spending their break learning skills like carpentry and welding through Missoula YWCA’s GRIT (Girls Representing in Trades) program.

NEBRASKA Lincoln: Mothers who are breastfeeding or need to express milk now have a private place to do so at the Nebraska Capitol.

NEVADA Las Vegas: Mayor Carolyn Goodman has overwhelmingly won a third and final term in office, matching her husband Oscar Goodman's 12-year span running Sin City.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Hanover: Dartmouth College has developed a website to provide information about global menstrual health.

NEW JERSEY Trenton: New Jersey, where a proposal is pending to legalize recreational marijuana, has stopped training state police dogs to sniff out pot.

NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: University of New Mexico administrators

more per have credit proposed hour for charging students $10 who have declared a major in the College of Arts and Sciences.

NEW YORK Buffalo: Uber driver Sylvia Collins is being credited for saving a 2-year-old boy who wandered out of a house early Tuesday.

NORTH CAROLINA Great Smoky Mountains National Park: A lottery will begin soon for those who want to see synchronous fireflies – the hottest ticket outside the flashing lights of Broadway.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: Some Republican state House members abstained Tuesday from an opening floor session prayer by a Hindu cleric.

OHIO Columbus: Drivers would pay 10.5 cents a gallon more for gas and 19 cents a gallon more for diesel fuel under a long-awaited compromise struck by state lawmakers.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: A federal jury has convicted former gubernatorial candidate and zookeeper Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage in an attempted murder-for-hire plot.

OREGON Salem: A judge has defended former President Barack Obama’s expansion of Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, ruling against a logging company’s lawsuit that said the expansion deprived it of timber.

PENNSYLVANIA Mt. Lebanon: Democrat Pam Iovino has won a vacant state Senate seat.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: Mayor Jorge Elorza says the city will make 700 more electric bicycles available for rental.

SOUTH CAROLINA Greenville: A pastor has threatened The Greenville News over its coverage of a church mired in controversies.

SOUTH DAKOTA Brookings: South Dakota State University is creating a veterinary program with the University of Minnesota to address a shortage of rural care in the region.

TENNESSEE Nashville: Country star Brad Paisley took the controls of a backhoe to dig up the first pile of dirt in the space that will become a free grocery store to support needy families in Nashville.

TEXAS Corpus Christi: In Texas, just 35% of district court seats were held by women as of Sept. 1. But that could change, as more women are passing the bar in Texas and becoming lawyers.

VERMONT Montpelier: A coyote that attacked a Salisbury couple outside their home tested positive for rabies.

VIRGINIA Centreville: A man has been charged with illegally taking videos of 80 nude or partially clad men and three minors at a spa.

WASHINGTON Seattle: A new report says there are nearly 400 structurally deficient bridges in Washington.

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: Defense contractor Northrop Grumman will create up to 500 more jobs over five years at its plant in Mineral County.

WISCONSIN Madison: Former Alderwoman Satya Rhodes-Conway easily defeated longtime Mayor Paul Soglin, 73, to become the first openly gay and second female mayor in city history.

WYOMING Riverton: The city will now allow people to set off fireworks two days a year, on New Year’s Eve and the Fourth of July. From staff and wire reports