50 ★ STATES

ALABAMA Montgomery: A federal judge will hear arguments May 5 on whether to block enforcement of a state law outlawing the use of gender-affirming medications to treat transgender people under age 19.

ALASKA Anchorage: Alaska Airlines says it’s canceling nonstop flights between Anchorage and Honolulu this summer, primarily citing staffing.

ARIZONA Phoenix: Legislation that greatly expands the rights of parents to know anything their children tell a teacher or school counselor and allows them to sue if information is withheld is headed to Republican Gov. Doug Ducey’s desk.

ARKANSAS Fort Smith: The Sebastian County judge wants to use federal COVID-19 aid to fund through 2026 a sobering center where people accused of low-level, alcohol-related offenses can be taken instead of jail.

CALIFORNIA Huntington Beach: A report issued Monday urges a coastal panel to deny a proposal to build a $1.4 billion desalination plant.

COLORADO Fort Collins: NOCO Distillery is commissioning custom bottle corks affixed with Star Trek figurines and dealing with a rush of new customers after a bottle of its “Bourbon II” appeared in the Paramount+ series “Star Trek: Picard.”

CONNECTICUT New Haven: A judge ordered the city’s acting police chief to resign Monday, ruling Renee Dominguez has held the temporary post longer than the city charter allows.

DELAWARE Wilmington: The state ranks below the national average in available affordable housing for the lowest-income renters and is one of the most unfriendly to those households in the Mid-Atlantic region, according to a new report.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington: The oldest existing structure on the National Mall has reopened to the public, WUSA-TV reports. The Lockkeeper’s House stood neglected for 40 years prior to the Trust for the National Mall’s $6 million restoration.

FLORIDA Tallahassee: Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday to create a police force dedicated to pursuing voter fraud and other election crimes, embracing a top GOP priority after ex-President Donald Trump’s false claims about his 2020 loss.

GEORGIA Athens: An economic analysis by University of Georgia professors estimates residents of Linnentown, a Black community displaced in the 1960s to create student housing, are owed upward of $5 million in reparations.

HAWAII Honolulu: Out-of-state visitors will soon need reservations for Diamond Head State Monument.

IDAHO Boise: A nuclear waste treatment plant in eastern Idaho had two unanticipated shutdowns this year, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

ILLINOIS Springfield: Jurors on Monday convicted a state Department of Corrections officer of violating the civil rights of an inmate brutally beaten at a prison in 2018 but could not reach a verdict against a superior.

INDIANA Clarksville: The federal government is accusing the town of discriminating against a man with HIV who applied for a police post.

IOWA Des Moines: Legislators have passed a bill to require most gas stations to offer higher ethanol blends.

KANSAS Topeka: A Republican legislator has drawn condemnation after complaining about having to share women’s restrooms with a “huge” transgender colleague whom she derided as a potential threat to children visiting the Statehouse.

KENTUCKY Frankfort: Gov. Andy Beshear has cited “drafting errors” in vetoing legislation intended to expand the use of state lottery-supported scholarship money.

LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: Johnnie A. Jones Sr., a civil rights attorney and World War II veteran who was wounded during the invasion of Normandy, has died. He was 102.

MAINE Portland: Construction workers completed their feat of tearing down one bridge and replacing it with a prefabricated one over the weekend, allowing a key stretch of I-295 to reopen Monday morning.

MARYLAND Baltimore: A police lieutenant won’t be prosecuted in the death of a Black man he shot in the back during an exchange of gunfire, officials said Monday.

MASSACHUSETTS Taunton: Bristol County’s cold case unit is working to identify a dozen unidentified bodies or skeletal remains, some dating back nearly four decades.

MICHIGAN Grand Rapids: Authorities have confirmed the name of the police officer who killed Patrick Lyoya with a shot to the head: Christopher Schurr.

MINNESOTA Minneapolis: A judge has ruled that the trial of three fired police officers charged with aiding and abetting George Floyd’s murder will not be livestreamed.

MISSISSIPPI Tupelo: With many government offices closed for Confederate Memorial Day, protesters said Monday the state needs to stop such commemorations and criticized Gov. Tate Reeves for proclaiming Confederate Heritage Month.

MISSOURI Grain Valley: A suburban Kansas City school board has told teachers at a high school to remove cards and stickers showing support for LGBTQ students.

MONTANA Great Falls: First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park is seeking Native American vendors and artists nationwide for July’s buffalo kite festival and craft fair.

NEBRASKA Omaha: Firefighters took advantage of higher humidity and calmer winds Monday to work toward containing a wildfire in rural southwestern Nebraska that has killed one person, injured at least 15 firefighters and destroyed at least six homes, an official said.

NEVADA Las Vegas: A federal judge said Monday that he’ll decide in three weeks whether to dismiss a condemned killer’s lawsuit challenging the plan for his lethal injection because the state doesn’t have one of the drugs it would use.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: The state has a good track record on elections, but it would benefit from a voter confidence commission to address residents’ concerns in a time of political polarization, its new secretary of state said Tuesday.

NEW JERSEY Trenton: Reports of antisemitic incidents in the state climbed to a record high last year, seemingly boosted by heightened tensions in the Middle East.

NEW YORK New York: An investigation has been opened into the failure of security cameras in the Brooklyn subway station where a gunman opened fire this month.

NORTH CAROLINA Morrisville: A bipartisan panel has recommended 16 ways to improve the state’s public education and access to it, some requiring legislative approval.

NORTH DAKOTA Fargo: Federal investigators say a cyberattack on a Williston firm that provides software and billing services for doctors and health care professionals affected over a half-million customers.

OHIO Wright-Patterson Air Force Base: An Air Force major general who was convicted on one of three specifications of an abusive sexual contact charge was told Tuesday that he would receive a reprimand and must forfeit $10,910 of monthly pay for five months.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: A Republican lawmaker who wanted to refer to himself as “The Patriot” on the ballot can’t use that nickname, the state election board has ruled.

OREGON Astoria: Wildlife officials have voted to end a summer steelhead hatchery program on the North Umpqua River after severe declines in the number of wild steelhead returning from the Pacific Ocean each summer, agency officials and environmentalists said.

PENNSYLVANIA Somerset: A suspended prosecutor facing charges in a sexual assault case has now been charged in an unrelated physical assault almost a year ago.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: The head of the state Division of Motor Vehicles won’t face criminal charges over an alleged prostitution operation that leased his rental property, the state’s attorney general said Monday.

SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: Mark Meadows – a former chief of staff to President Donald Trump removed earlier this month from voter rolls in North Carolina, which he once represented in Congress – is still registered to vote in two other states, including South Carolina, according to officials.

SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: The state Senate on Tuesday approved rules for an impeachment trial of the state’s attorney general for his conduct after a fatal car crash, laying out a two-day proceeding in June.

TENNESSEE Franklin: Two years after voting to remove the Confederate flag from its seal, Williamson County finally has the Tennessee Historical Commission’s go-ahead.

TEXAS Austin: The world’s largest international dark sky reserve, spanning 9 million acres from Fort Davis to the Chihuahuan Desert, opened this month, The Daily Texan reports.

UTAH St. George: A national report on air quality pollution levels rates southwest Utah as having some of the cleanest air in the country.

VERMONT Burlington: The city says construction could begin this summer on the Champlain Parkway, after decades in the planning stages.

VIRGINIA Richmond: The state’s attorney general has launched an inquiry into the Washington Commanders following allegations of financial improprieties raised by a congressional committee.

WASHINGTON Olympia: The state’s Building Code Council has adopted energy code revisions that require new businesses and apartments to mostly use heat pumps to warm air and water starting next year.

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: Come mid-July, people having problems with mental health or suicidal thoughts will be able to find help by calling just three numbers – 988.

WISCONSIN Brookfield: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is extending the taxpayer-funded contract of the former state Supreme Court justice leading a review of the 2020 election, a day after ex-President Donald Trump sought to intimidate Vos by threatening a primary challenge.

WYOMING Casper: The state’s third through eighth graders saw the nation’s smallest loss in standardized testing scores amid the pandemic, the Casper Star-Tribune reports.

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