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From Alabama to Wyoming, we track the latest events from across the USA.
ALABAMA Montgomery: Two legislative committees approved a bill Wednesday that would ban gender therapies for minors such as prescription hormones or gender reassignment surgery.
ALASKA Anchorage: The state approved a regulation change establishing a personal-use salmon dipnet fishery on a part of the Susitna River.
ARIZONA Phoenix: Early risers in several Western states reported seeing what appeared to be a meteor. The phenomenon was captured by a video camera mounted on Phoenix City Hall.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: State regulators dismissed one violation and sustained two others against a medical marijuana dispensary in Hot Springs.
CALIFORNIA San Francisco: A winter with little precipitation has left most of California abnormally dry, and officials are bracing for an early and more intense wildfire season amid record-breaking temperatures.
COLORADO Vail: An avalanche took the lives of two people who had turned back to avoid a dangerous area, a report said.
CONNECTICUT Stamford: A man who got into a fight while leaving his son’s hockey game last month has asked for leniency.
DELAWARE Dover: Two more wells near Dover Air Force Base have elevated levels of chemical contaminants, according to state environmental officials.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington: A landlord facing ongoing lawsuits with the district’s attorney general has been arrested for failing to pay for repairs, according to court documents, WUSA-TV reported.
FLORIDA Key West: The government of the United Arab Emirates has granted a $3.5 million gift to help kick off a major coral reef restoration program in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
GEORGIA Juliette: Monroe County officials will pay to test water wells for coal ash contamination.
HAWAII Honolulu: The U.S. military authorized the transport of World War II aircraft on government ships and planes to Oahu for use in the 75th anniversary commemoration of the end of the war.
IDAHO Boise: Roughly a month after one of Idaho’s newest Fish and Game commissioners had to step down because of his political affiliation, a panel of lawmakers has approved a bill to remove the commission’s bipartisan membership requirements.
ILLINOIS Chicago: A program that honors female veterans and their service wants to send those in Illinois to Washington, where the women will tour war monuments for a day and be celebrated for their service upon their return home.
INDIANA Indianapolis: The Citycounty Council forged ahead with its new tenant rights initiative on Monday night despite recent legislative effort at the Statehouse to undercut the effort.
IOWA Sioux City: A mother has complained to the local school board after she said her sixth-grade daughter suffered a broken arm and elbow at the hands of two classmates carrying out a viral online prank.
KANSAS Kansas City: A mother is suing a suburban school after a teacher was caught on surveillance video last year kicking her daughter, who was in kindergarten.
KENTUCKY Frankfort: The Kentucky House voted to create a tax on vaping products and increase taxes on snuff and chewing tobacco.
LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: Ronnie Anderson, the longest-serving Farm Bureau state president in America, will retire this summer after 31 years of leading the largest agriculture network in Louisiana.
MAINE Portland: The rate of newborns in Maine who experience health problems because they’re exposed to opioids in the womb is nearly five times the national average, according to a report released by the state health department.
MARYLAND Ocean City: A statue of an infant Jesus stolen from St. Paul’s by-the-Sea Episcopal Church is in the church’s possession after it was missing for nearly a year.
MASSACHUSETTS Plymouth: A 17-year-old boy is responsible for recently spraying red paint all over Plymouth Rock and several other sites in the historic Massachusetts community, police said Thursday.
MICHIGAN Corunna: The former home of a man accused of murder and cannibalism sold at auction for more than $20,000 over the asking price.
MINNESOTA Sauk Rapids: The Sauk Rapids-Rice school board has decided to enter into negotiations with Thief River Falls public schools Superintendent Brad Bergstrom to become their superintendent.
MISSISSIPPI Oxford: The University of Mississippi has apologized to dozens of African Americans who were arrested in 1970 for protesting racial inequality on the mostly white campus where Confederate images were a deeply ingrained part of campus culture.
MISSOURI Jefferson City: Republican lawmakers on Wednesday took steps to resurrect a Missouri voter photo identification law that was gutted by the state Supreme Court.
MONTANA Billings: The Trump administration said Wednesday that a resumption of coal sales from public lands that had been blocked under former President Barack Obama will result in a negligible increase in greenhouse gas emissions.
NEBRASKA Omaha: The condition of two of the people who tested positive for COVID-19 in the city after being evacuated from a cruise ship in Japan has improved significantly, officials said Wednesday.
NEVADA Las Vegas: There were more than 4.1 million passengers at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas last month, according to new numbers released by the airport Thursday.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: Gov. Chris Sununu is ordering flags to be flown at half-staff on Saturday in memory of an Air Force pilot from Hudson who recently was killed in Afghanistan.
NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: A grandfather’s effort to euthanize the family duck drew police after residents reported multiple shots fired.
NEW YORK New York City: Drivers who get five camera-issued red light tickets or 15 camera-issued speeding tickets in a 12-month period will have to take a traffic safety course or risk losing their vehicles under a bill signed by Mayor Bill de Blasio.
NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: A female wrestler has made history by winning a state high school wrestling championship.
NORTH DAKOTA Fargo: The risk of spring flooding in the Red River Valley has been reduced slightly because of limited precipitation in the past few weeks, although forecasters said Thursday that there’s still a lot of moisture in the system.
OHIO Columbus: Transgender female athletes would be banned from competing in Ohio high school and college girls’ and women’s sports under a bill introduced Wednesday by House Republicans.
OKLAHOMA Norman: Dozens of University of Oklahoma students staged a sit-in for a second day outside OU’s administrative offices following two instances of professors using racial slurs in the classroom.
OREGON Newport: A body found in Newport Bay has been identified as that of a fisherman who has been missing for nearly three weeks.
PENNSYLVANIA West Newton: A mother wearing a Cookie Monster costume apparently overdosed on heroin while sitting in her running car, shortly after she dropped off her 9-year-old son at a babysitter’s home.
RHODE ISLAND Warwick: Firefighters are sharing nearly $500,000 in retroactive payments to end the last outstanding grievance stemming from recent contract negotiations.
SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: A law banning sex education teachers from mentioning any relationships other than heterosexual – unless the talk involves sexually transmitted diseases – is fueling a climate of statesanctioned discrimination, a federal lawsuit said.
SOUTH DAKOTA Pierre: The state Senate on Wednesday unanimously approved a proposal to start four schools based around Native American language and culture.
TENNESSEE Nashville: Meharry Medical College and health care provider Remote Area Medical are offering free dental care at an event Saturday.
TEXAS Houston: Emergency crews rescued stranded drivers from the roofs of their vehicles on Thursday after a water main broke and flooded a Houston freeway.
UTAH Salt Lake City: Leaders of a new Olympic bid committee have held their first meeting to assess whether Salt Lake City should bid for the 2030 or 2034 Winter Olympics.
VERMONT Montpelier: The state House advanced a bill to tax and regulate marijuana sales after the Senate passed legislation last spring.
VIRGINIA Richmond: An animal control company said it removed an 8-foot-long beehive from someone’s apartment.
WASHINGTON Olympia: A measure prohibiting homicide defendants from claiming as a defense panic brought on by a victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity has been passed by state lawmakers.
WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: Investigators are seeking help from the public as they try to determine the cause of separate fires on the same day at adjacent businesses in southern West Virginia.
WISCONSIN Madison: The number of abortions performed in Wisconsin increased for a second straight year in 2018 after eight years of declines.
WYOMING Cheyenne: Federal investigators are offering a reward of up to $2,000 for information leading to a conviction as they try to find out who poisoned a golden eagle and ravens four years ago.