Around the nation

News from every state.

ALABAMA Tuscaloosa: The mayor says Norfolk Southern Railway is opposing a proposed site for a new Amtrak station in the city, citing safety concerns.

ALASKA Fairbanks: The official arrival of the first Canada goose this year in Fairbanks was March 30. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports that is the earliest arrival on record.

ARIZONA Phoenix: Monica Helms, a Phoenix native known as the “transgender Betsy Ross” for designing the transgender pride flag, returned to her hometown Sunday as a grand marshal of the Phoenix Pride Parade.

ARKANSAS Little Rock: A judge has rejected a request to dismiss the state’s lawsuit against three drugmakers that alleges they made false marketing claims about the benefits and risks of opioids.

CALIFORNIA Shasta Lake: Cannabis entrepreneurs rode to the rescue of some city-owned properties that had been looking for buyers for nearly three decades, officials say.

COLORADO Denver: State public health officials routinely allow oil and gas companies to begin drilling and fracking without obtaining federally required permits that limit the pollution they can discharge into the air, The Denver Post reports.

CONNECTICUT Hartford: A suspected car thief is in custody after being caught by a gumshoe in training wearing tap shoes and a bow tie. Hartford police says the detective trainee made an arrest after a foot chase Friday, when he spotted a stolen car and boxed it in. Police did not say why Jay Montrose was sporting that footwear but noted the bow tie is part of his personal style.

DELAWARE Millsboro: The Nanticoke Indian Tribe has asked the town for a historical marker detailing the tribe’s history and contributions.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington: The city and a federal agency that distributes AmeriCorps funding disagree on why the district missed a deadline to get over $3.5 million for nonprofit education programs.

FLORIDA Miami: A new report says the Magic City is the seventh-leastaffordable large metro area in the world and third-least in the nation.

GEORGIA Duluth: The Duluth Police Department is looking for residents to help with its Virtual Patrol program, which lets trained volunteers help monitor live surveillance videos and flag potential criminal activity.

HAWAII Hilo: Concerns have been voiced about the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory potentially moving off the Big Island to Oahu.

IDAHO Couer d’Alene: Fish and game officials are warning people in the state’s Panhandle to watch out for grizzlies during black bear season.

ILLINOIS Aurora: Five white crosses memorializing the victims of a February warehouse shooting in suburban Chicago are now housed at the Aurora Historical Society.

INDIANA Story: This rustic southern Indiana town listed on the National Register of Historic Places is for sale, with an asking price of $3.8 million.

IOWA Des Moines: Drivers who have unpaid traffic camera tickets are challenging the state’s ability to seize part of their tax refunds to collect the money Iowa says they owe.

KANSAS Lawrence: Jess Guilbeaux, whose experience of being kicked out of her home at 16 because she’s a lesbian was highlighted on Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” has a fresh shot at college after fans raised enough via GoFundMe to pay her student loans.

KENTUCKY Louisville: More than 50 hard rock and metal acts will celebrate the return of the Louder Than Life music festival this fall. The event will take place Sept. 2729, with performances from Guns N’ Roses, Slipknot, Disturbed and Staind, among others.

LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: The Pelican State’s sales tax collections from online purchases are growing, even though the system involves out-of-state retailers voluntarily remitting taxes for internet sales.

MAINE Augusta: A proposal that could change the way clam harvesters ply their trade is up for a hearing in the state capital Tuesday.

MARYLAND Annapolis: One day after longtime state House Speaker Michael Busch died, the state Senate voted to override a veto of a bill that he had championed to permanently protect five oyster sanctuaries under state law.

MASSACHUSETTS Boston: A little bit of 19th-century Paris is coming to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. “Toulouse-Lautrec and the Stars of Paris,” an artistic collaboration with the Boston Public Library, opened to the public Sunday.

MICHIGAN Port Huron: A gun buyback program organized by the police department Saturday didn’t quite go as planned. Overwhelmed by turnout and running out of cash on hand, some officers opted to withdraw money from their own bank accounts to keep it going.

MINNESOTA St. Paul: Democrats in the state House have unveiled a tax bill that includes $1.2 billion in higher taxes, mostly on corporate foreign profits, and they propose to spend about three-fourths of the new revenues on education.

MISSISSIPPI Jackson: Somebody has been slowing the police’s roll: Thieves keep stealing the wheels off the patrol cars in the capital city.

MISSOURI Eureka: Authorities say a weekend wreck turned into a corned beef roast. The Eureka Fire Protection District says a rig carrying the meat caught fire Saturday on I-44.

MONTANA Missoula: Volunteers are working hard to get a former firefighting plane ready to travel to France for the 75th anniversary of D-Day. The Dakota DC-3 known as Miss Montana hasn’t flown since arriving in Missoula in 2001.

NEBRASKA Grand Island: Prices for admission tickets to this year’s 150th Nebraska State Fair starting in late August will be as low as $2.

NEVADA Black Rock Desert: The Burning Man organization passed its Leave No Trace inspection in 2018, despite excess litter and debris in certain areas.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Exeter: The commissioner of the state Department of Education has launched a video series of school cafeterias, “School Days, Lunch Trays & Gourmets,” modeled after the Food Network’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.”

NEW JERSEY Seaside Heights: Sunday was the end of the line for the Jersey Shore’s second-to-last antique carousel at its original site. But the Casino Pier Carousel, a fixture in Seaside Heights since 1932, may be heading for a new home.

NEW MEXICO Hobbs: The heart of the state’s booming oil country is seeing more real estate agents than homes to sell. The Hobbs News-Sun reports Hobbs Realtors Association President Kali Taylor estimates there are about 100 Realtors in Lea County and 84 homes available.

NEW YORK New York: The 150year-old heart of a French priest was on display Saturday at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. This week Saint John Vianney’s heart will be displayed in other parts of New York City and Long Island.

NORTH CAROLINA Asheville: Bucking the trend of wildlife officials in the state, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has decided not to list the eastern hellbender salamander as an endangered species.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: Two crashes that took four lives have resurrected concerns about the safety of a bypass in the Bakken oil region.

OHIO Cincinnati: A national atheist organization will hold its annual convention here on Easter weekend.

OKLAHOMA Tulsa: Police have arrested a man who they say stole an empty school bus and took it for a joyride. The Tulsa World reports a man told officers he decided to steal it after seeing an anti-texting-anddriving sign on the bus that said, “Drop it and drive.” Police say the man told officers that he “dropped what he was doing” and drove off.

OREGON Salem: Lawmakers have moved forward a bill empowering the governor to enter into agreements for interstate cannabis transactions.

PENNSYLVANIA Elizabethtown: A county tourism group will hold a meeting at The Star Barn, a historic venue in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, despite a recent outcry over the locale’s ban on same-sex weddings.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: The state is working with the Arbor Day Foundation to give away trees this spring to help homeowners conserve energy and reduce utility costs.

SOUTH CAROLINA Charleston: The Department of Natural Resources is asking anyone who sees mating horseshoe crabs to let them know where they end up together.

SOUTH DAKOTA Rapid City: State officials say the mountain lion hunting season has ended with lowest number of animals taken in 10 years.

TENNESSEE Nashville: Cotton producers have decided to continue a program that prevents the destructive boll weevil insect from reintroduction in the state.

UTAH Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says it’s planning to build eight new temples and renovate several older ones, including the flagship temple here.

VERMONT Rutland: The head of Pine Hill Partnership, which manages 16 miles of recreation trails in the area, says it needs more volunteers.

VIRGINIA Chincoteague: Wild ponies on the Eastern Shore have been corralled because visitors ignored warnings against approaching them.

WASHINGTON Seattle: State highway officials say the city’s new tunnel is carrying 5,300 cars during peak traffic hours, fewer than forecast.

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: The state has taken a dubious honor from personal finance website WalletHub as the worst to live in for millennials looking to be better off economically than their parents.

WISCONSIN Madison: Two of the state’s most polluted sites on the Great Lakes are marking cleanup milestones. Wisconsin Public Radio reports that the state Department of Natural Resources no longer designates the Lower Menominee River and the St. Louis River as impaired.

WYOMING Jackson: Managers of Bridger-Teton National Forest propose crop-dusting for cheatgrass.