Around the nation

News from every state.

ALABAMA Birmingham: Planned Parenthood is building the stage for another possible fight in the state – a women’s health clinic that’s under construction despite the state’s passage of a near-total ban on abortions.

ALASKA Juneau: Sealaska Heritage Institute officials say they are collaborating with a university that is studying how the DNA of indigenous people might have been affected by trauma linked to European colonization. Researchers from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign will be at the institute this week.

ARIZONA Phoenix: State officials and architects are pondering the future of newly vacated space in the Capitol complex. The Arizona Capitol Times reports ideas for the state library’s former home include a dignitary reception venue and a neutral meeting ground for legislative leaders and executive branch officials.

ARKANSAS Camden: Lockheed Martin says it’s spending $142 million and hiring 326 workers in the next few years to expand its facility here.

CALIFORNIA Palm Springs: This resort destination has been named the world’s best place for LGBTQ seniors to travel to or retire by AARP Travel Center and Expedia.

COLORADO Denver: Thousands of people turned out for the Denver Pride Parade on Sunday. Gov. Jared Polis, the nation’s first openly gay governor, and partner Marlon Reis served as grand marshals along with Colorado’s first transgender state legislator, Brianna Titone, Out Boulder executive director Mardi Moore and drag performer Peppermint.

CONNECTICUT Hartford: The state Department of Agriculture is processing applications from dozens interested in growing industrial hemp in a new research pilot program.

DELAWARE Dover: State senators are set to vote Tuesday on a bill expanding the decriminalization of simple possession of marijuana to juveniles.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington: A group called Make Integrity Great Again has refiled a complaint to the D.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Board asking it not to renew the International Trump Hotel’s liquor license, citing the president’s character, WUSA-TV reports.

FLORIDA Fort Lauderdale: A man thought he snagged a deal when he paid $9,100 in an online auction for what he thought was a villa. What he got was a 1-foot-by-100-foot strip of land. An official tells the South Florida Sun Sentinel there’s not a lot Kerville Holness can do about his plight.

GEORGIA Savannah: The number of sea turtle nests on the state’s coast is on pace to set a record this year.

HAWAII Honolulu: The popular Kalalau Trail and Haena State Park are reopening on Kauai this week but will allow far fewer daily visitors.

IDAHO Boise: A federal judge has ruled that work can go forward on a trail crossing private land that connects Redfish Lake and Stanley.

ILLINOIS Peoria: A recent retirement party at a medical center looked like a typical farewell celebration, replete with cookie cake. But the guest of honor sat silent as a crowd gathered to celebrate 10 years of service. The Pekin Daily Times reports the OSF HealthCare center was celebrating the retirement of its MRI machine.

INDIANA Indianapolis: A historic, one-of-a-kind covered bridge is going to the Geist neighborhood. The Bell Ford Bridge, built in 1869, previously spanned the East Fork of the White River near Seymour.

IOWA Des Moines: Data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows the state set a record for rain and snow over the past 12 months.

KANSAS Topeka: Gov. Laura Kelly says she plans to issue an executive order to end a long-standing economic border war with Missouri in the Kansas City area.

KENTUCKY Frankfort: The Kentucky Public Service Commission has ruled that electric car charging stations are not utilities and do not need to be subject to regulation.

LOUISIANA New Orleans: Floods coming down the Mississippi River from the Midwest are killing marine life. Louisiana’s oyster harvest is 80% below average for this time of year, a preliminary report finds.

MAINE Boothbay Harbor: Former Gov. Paul LePage’s wife won’t be the only one in the family spending the summer working at a restaurant. LePage will be joining her as a bartender at McSeagulls Restaurant.

MARYLAND Baltimore: The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is locking out its musicians after contract and salary negotiations stalled.

MASSACHUSETTS Boston: Hundreds gathered to celebrate the opening of a park named for the youngest victim of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Gov. Charlie Baker joined Mayor Mary Walsh and members of Martin Richard’s family Saturday to open Martin’s Park.

MICHIGAN Detroit: The home of President Ulysses S. Grant is being moved from the former Michigan State Fairgrounds to the Eastern Market, where it will be a public education and resource center.

MINNESOTA Minneapolis: Video coverage of sentencings is giving a more frequent glimpse inside the state’s courts, cheering advocates of openness in the court system.

MISSISSIPPI Natchez: Workers have started installing the foundation for a monument honoring civil rights activists who were arrested in 1965 and taken to a notorious prison where they were held several days without being put on trial.

MISSOURI Jefferson City: A bill dubbed the “Jedi Disposal Act” would allow funeral directors to organize outdoor cremations at crematoriums or private sites.

MONTANA Missoula: Glacier National Park has rolled out an online tool to help visitors find parking.

NEBRASKA Lincoln: Southeast Community College campuses are using robots to put long-distance students inside the classrooms.

NEVADA Las Vegas: Officials at the National Atomic Testing Museum say it has outgrown its space east of the Las Vegas Strip and is looking for a new location to expand.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Pinkham Notch: The annual race up the highest peak in the Northeast ended in its firstever photo finish over the weekend.

NEW JERSEY Trenton: The state has unveiled a pair of regulations aimed at returning it to a regional greenhouse gas-reduction coalition.

NEW YORK New York: The battle to contain a measles outbreak has a new front – summer camp. Vaccinations have been made mandatory in several counties north of the city.

NORTH CAROLINA Mebane: A burglary suspect who was fought off by an 11-year-old boy with a machete was caught Sunday, after he slipped away from a hospital where he was treated for a head wound.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: The Federal Highway Administration has approved construction of a bridge across the Little Missouri River, although some landowners have been fighting the project.

OHIO Cincinnati: The city will be the last of five stops for a special exhibition for the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission will open at the Cincinnati Museum Center on Sept. 28.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: The latest national report on the wellbeing of children by the Annie E. Casey Foundation shows Oklahoma has improved its economic, health, education and social factors for children, although the state remains in the bottom 20% of the rankings.

OREGON Salem: The state is on the precipice of becoming the second to adopt a cap-and-trade program, a market-based approach to lowering greenhouse gas emissions.

PENNSYLVANIA Harrisburg: State government rolled up a surplus in the almost-ended fiscal year, but it hasn’t changed outside views that Pennsylvania has tall fiscal challenges.

RHODE ISLAND Newport: The state is identifying and marking sites with historical ties to slavery. The Newport Daily News reports the medallions to be used in the Rhode Island Slave History Medallions Project will be unveiled Wednesday at a lecture by Brown University history professor Joanne Pope Melish at Colony House.

SOUTH CAROLINA Awendaw: A local man has been charged with branding sharks like cattle off the state’s coast.

SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: Blogger Cory Heidelberger is circulating petitions that seek to roll back changes that state lawmakers have made to the initiated measure process.

TENNESSEE Nashville: Red paint and the phrase “they were racists” were discovered Monday on a Confederate monument in a city park.

TEXAS Austin: Gov. Greg Abbott has approved a spending bill that includes a $1 million public safety campaign for firearm storage.

UTAH St. George: Police at Dixie State University are offering people in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and others fingerprinting services – a required step to secure driving privileges in the state.

VERMONT Burlington: Biographer Willard Sterne Randall will be discussing founding father Alexander Hamilton and his connections to Vermont and Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen in a June 23 event at the Ethan Allen Homestead Museum.

VIRGINIA Williamsburg: The College of William & Mary says the masters of a wizardry school need to make a $70,000 debt disappear. The Virginian-Pilot reports the college says Learn Larp LLC hasn’t fully paid its $110,000 bill for hosting an adult role-playing event known as “New World Magischola.”

WASHINGTON Port Hadlock: At least one waterfront landowner has said yes to a request to allow dead gray whales to decompose on their property. So many have washed up this year that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries has run out of places for them.

WEST VIRGINIA Wheeling: The principal of Wheeling Park High School says she favors proposed curriculum charges that would no longer designate a valedictorian.

WISCONSIN Madison: A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to expand eligibility for the Minority Teacher Loan Program after changes four years ago led to a drop in awards.

WYOMING Jackson: Fodor’s Travel has rated Jackson Hole Airport as the best “tiny airport” in the nation.