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ALABAMA Prattville: The law that allows Sunday alcohol sales from retail stores in the city with valid state-issued liquor licenses goes into effect Aug. 1. The City Council approved the move during the board’s Tuesday night meeting.
ALASKA Juneau: Residents of rural parts of the state will be hit with rising energy costs after a statewide funding change. Companies say homeowners’ bills could increase from an average of $80 up to thousands of dollars per month.
ARIZONA Tucson: The city’s Catholic leadership is planning to meet with local government officials about where the city can temporarily house migrants seeking asylum.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: The federal government says it will allocate an additional $7 million in funding over the next 10 years to expand internet access in rural areas of the state.
CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: One of the houses where followers of Charles Manson committed notorious murders in 1969 is for sale. Redfin listing agent Robert Giambalvo tells the Los Angeles Times the two-bedroom home is priced at $1.98 million.
COLORADO Fort Collins: Freight trains up to 3 miles long have been coming through the city with increasing frequency since January, causing long traffic jams, according to a memo to City Council from traffic engineer Joe Olson.
CONNECTICUT New Haven: The city is activating cooling centers for the public as it issues an excessive heat and humidity alert for the next several days.
DELAWARE Harrington: The 100th annual Delaware State Fair kicks off Thursday with a one-day adult admission price of $5, followed by nine more days of rides, decadent carnival foods, livestock competitions and entertainment ranging from Grammy winners to a demolition derby.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington: Phil Mendelson, the leader of the D.C. Council, is accused of trading roles and responsibilities to other council members for backing, The Washington Post reports.
FLORIDA Gainesville: The Sunshine State is the nation’s top producer of watermelon, according to the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, which says the state’s farmers sold 800 million pounds last year.
HAWAII Honolulu: Astronomers have indefinitely stopped looking through 13 existing telescopes at the summit of Mauna Kea as protesters block the road downslope to prevent the construction of a giant new observatory.
IDAHO Boise: Republican Gov. Brad Little and other members of the Idaho Land Board voted Tuesday to adopt rules intended to give mining companies the financial leeway to mine but also avoid leaving taxpayers paying for cleanup costs if a mining company goes bankrupt.
ILLINOIS Chicago: Officials at Shedd Aquarium say a Beluga whale calf born less than two weeks ago is male.
INDIANA Michigan City: Witnesses say a toddler was rescued in Lake Michigan after he drifted away from his family on an inflatable duck. Dave Benjamin tells WBBM-TV a boater finally grabbed the boy after the duck flipped over Monday.
IOWA Dyersville: Officials say expansion by a Dubuque-based insurance broker Cottingham & Butler is expected to bring more than 25 jobs to the city.
KANSAS Topeka: Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt says the U.S. Supreme Court’s fall docket includes three cases from the Sunflower State – the first time that has happened in modern state history.
KENTUCKY Frankfort: State officials say International Farmaceutical Extracts, specializing in CBD oil extraction and distillation, plans to build a $6 million-plus manufacturing plant in Boyle County.
LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: The state continues to sink with no help in sight, according to the latest National Geodectic Survey conducted with the help of Louisiana State University. New Orleans has fallen almost 6 inches since the first survey was conducted in 1989.
MAINE Madawaska: The state Forest Service is going to deploy wasps to help beat back an invasive pest species that can do damage to trees.
MARYLAND Baltimore: State regulators have scheduled two public comment hearings on a request by Washington Gas Light Company to increase its gas service rates by nearly $36 million.
MASSACHUSETTS Boston: A power outage caused major problems on a Boston subway line. A Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority spokesman says three trains were on the track at the time. The cause is under investigation.
MICHIGAN Sault Ste. Marie: A Native American tribe is receiving $2 million in federal funds to help build a manufacturing and warehouse facility.
MINNESOTA Rochester: Former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman says all visible traces of cancer have been removed from his lung during a seven-hour surgery at Mayo Clinic.
MISSISSIPPI Jackson: Police say they have confiscated several baggies filled with marijuana-infused snacks at a “dispensary party.”
MISSOURI St. Louis: Bayer is closing its crop science division in North Carolina and moving 500 jobs to the St. Louis area.
MONTANA Kalispell: Nurses working for a state hospital system have voted to unionize. The approximately 650 nurses in the system are being represented by the Service Employees International Union Healthcare 1199NW.
NEBRASKA Chadron: A local chiropractor and a former high school track standout won top honors in the World Championship Buffalo Chip Throw contest during the 43rd annual Fur Trade Days celebration.
NEVADA Sparks: Thousands of homes were left without power for several hours Tuesday after a dump truck downed a power line.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: The state’s only VA medical center is scaling back the hours of its clinic and urging veterans to use a network of private urgent care facilities across the state.
NEW JERSEY West Milford: Swimming has been banned at another lake in the state because of the presence of an extensive, harmful algal bloom. State environmental officials on Tuesday closed swimming areas on Greenwood Lake.
NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: State officials are warning horse owners to take precautions to keep their animals from contracting vesicular stomatitis, a virus that causes blister-like sores on the mouths of infected animals.
NEW YORK Quogue: Police on Long Island are searching for a bald eagle stolen from a wildlife refuge.
NORTH CAROLINA Asheville: An employee at a Valvoline Instant Oil Change has been fired, the company says, after creating a racist invoice that referred to the customer as Pocahontas.
NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: State officials say oil production in North Dakota held steady this spring. The state’s wells produced 1.39 million barrels of crude per day in May, just 800 per day more than in April.
OHIO Cincinnati: Mosquitoes in the Greater Cincinnati area have tested positive for the West Nile virus, and officials are urging people to take precautions.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Gov. Kevin Stitt says the Federal Emergency Management Agency has approved disaster assistance for 41 counties as a result of spring flooding and severe weather in the state.
OREGON Salem: A 73-year-old pilot was treated and released from a hospital after crashing his plane Tuesday afternoon while attempting an emergency landing in a grass field east of the city.
PENNSYLVANIA Pittsburgh: An animal rescue group in the city says someone strapped firecrackers to a cat’s front left paw with rubber bands and set them off, causing such severe injuries that the animal’s leg had to be amputated.
RHODE ISLAND Warwick: The City Council on Monday unanimously approved a resolution that would add $4 million to the schools budget to pay for 17 line items, including sports, teaching assistants, custodians, textbooks and after-school programs.
SOUTH CAROLINA Charleston: The first $60 million in contracts for construction of a major African American history museum slated for the city have been awarded.
SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: A slight uptick in heartworm disease among area pets raised a red flag last month with a national nonprofit that tracks parasites in pets and people.
TENNESSEE Nashville: The state Department of Agriculture is warning homeowners about rhododendron plants infected with a pathogen that can kill a number of different plants, shrubs and trees.
TEXAS Mineral Wells: City leaders are abandoning a proposal that would have essentially banned abortions in their community.
UTAH Salt Lake City: A federal appeals court upheld a ruling that found voting districts in San Juan County were racially gerrymandered and violated the rights of Navajo voters.
VERMONT Montpelier: State Public Safety Commissioner Tom Anderson is resigning at the end of the month.
VIRGINIA Craigsville: Craigsville Elementary School won’t close soon, officials say. Rumors spread Tuesday that the elementary school might shutter in the next couple of years.
WASHINGTON Spokane: Hunters employed by the state have killed a radio-collared wolf that was preying on livestock in the Kettle River range of Ferry County.
WEST VIRGINIA Parkersburg: The federal government is suing a state mental health and substance abuse facility for the homeless, citing failures to provide documentation and unanswered communications.
WISCONSIN Green Bay: Bar patrons can leave their vehicles parked overnight to avoid driving home drunk under a new initiative approved Tuesday by the City Council.
WYOMING Jackson: Wildlife watchers say a grizzly bear cub that was lingering alone near a mountain pass in the western part of the state has reunited with its mother.