50 ★ States

ALABAMA Mobile: A man convicted of murder over a decade ago was captured Monday a day after escaping from a minimum-security corrections center, prison officials said.

ALASKA Juneau: The state House has voted against accepting a spending package passed by the Senate that included payments of about $5,500 total per resident.

ARIZONA Tucson: A federal appeals court has upheld a judge’s ruling overturning a federal agency’s approval of a plan for a new open-pit copper mine in southeastern Arizona.

ARKANSAS Fayetteville: A raccoon ran loose in the stands during Arkansas baseball’s Friday game, but a fan came to the rescue, grabbing the animal with his bare hands and holding it up to cheers from the crowd.

CALIFORNIA Modesto: The state will acquire a former farm property in the San Joaquin Valley and create the first new state park in 13 years.

COLORADO Colorado Springs: The city is enacting a fire ban after a series of blazes have spread quickly in hot and dry conditions, including a fatal one caused by smoking.

CONNECTICUT Bridgeport: A former assistant police chief ’s lawsuit claiming he was defrauded out of the chief ’s job can go forward, a state appeals court has ruled.

DELAWARE Dover: State lawmakers have introduced bipartisan legislation that would put state law enforcement officials in charge of background checks for gun purchases.

FLORIDA Vero Beach: A food truck exploded during a seafood festival Saturday, sending one person to the hospital with severe burns, according to authorities.

GEORGIA Atlanta: A group of voters who challenged U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s eligibility to run for reelection said Monday that they have filed an appeal of the Georgia secretary of state’s decision that she can appear on the ballot.

HAWAII Honolulu: Hawaiian Airlines is exploring electric aircraft technology with an eye toward using the vehicles for interisland travel, Hawaii News Now reports.

IDAHO Boise: State officials have agreed to a $119 million settlement with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and three major distributors over their role in the opioid addiction crisis. The money will address damage wrought by the drugs.

ILLINOIS Chicago: Mayor Lori Lightfoot tightened a citywide curfew for young people Monday, a day after she restricted access by unaccompanied minors to Millennium Park after the weekend shooting death of a 16-yearold boy near “The Bean” sculpture.

INDIANA Noblesville: A tiny community garden that provided 1,500 pounds of free food over five years to people in need was bulldozed by city crews after a nuisance call about overgrown grass.

IOWA Des Moines: School districts across the state are up against a federal deadline that will end a pandemic-era free meals program for students next month.

KANSAS Topeka: A federal judge is blocking a public school’s policy preventing teachers from outing transgender students to parents after the teacher raised religious objections. KENTUCKY Richmond: A judge entered a not guilty plea Monday for a man accused of fatally shooting the daughter of a former state lawmaker during a home invasion.

LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: Child drownings are on the rise in Louisiana, according to the state Department of Health, which says inability to swim, lack of supervision, and unfenced pools, spas and water bodies are the top causes.

MAINE Portland: A proposed order from the state’s Board of Environmental Protection would let stand a permit issued for a $1 billion electric transmission corridor to serve as a conduit for Canadian hydropower.

MARYLAND Annapolis: U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen says he has suffered a minor stroke and is being treated at a hospital out of an abundance of caution. The Maryland Democrat said he’s been told there are no long-term effects or damage.

MASSACHUSETTS Boston: Chelsea Millsap, 32, who can trace her ancestry to the Pilgrims, has become the first woman named sexton in the nearly 300-year history of Boston’s historic Old North Church.

MICHIGAN Detroit: A man walking on a footbridge to a Detroit Tigers game said he fell 15 feet to the ground when part of the concrete collapsed May 9, but the bridge still was open until the Detroit News reached out to the Michigan Transportation Department on Sunday.

MINNESOTA Lutsen: Communities in northeastern Minnesota are preparing to deal with more flooding and are calling for volunteers to help with sandbagging.

MISSISSIPPI Jackson: The state has revised its landlord-tenant law to give renters time to gather their belongings from a home before being forced to leave, after a federal judge ruled that the previous law was unconstitutional.

MISSOURI Springfield: The state has retained a dubious distinction for the 10th time, topping the Humane Society of the United States’ list of the most abusive puppy mills. MONTANA Crow Agency: Little Big Horn College, a tribal college on the Crow Reservation, will host the 10th annual Crow Summer Institute on June 6-24, offering free Crow language and culture classes.

NEBRASKA Lincoln: The state has agreed to pay $479,000 to the family of a “talkative” man strangled to death in 2017 by a fellow inmate who didn’t want a cellmate.

NEVADA Las Vegas: A proposed ballot initiative seeks to amend the state constitution to establish open top-five primaries and rankedchoice voting for general elections.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: A former Trump official running for Congress did not violate state law by voting twice in 2016 primaries, the state attorney general’s office said Thursday without taking a position on whether federal law was broken.

NEW JERSEY Toms River: The Ocean County Board of Commissioners plans to wade into the debate over the state’s new health and sex education curriculum this week.

NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: The city’s Asian American community is testing a new online service to bolster security for businesses in the wake of two deadly shootings.

NEW YORK New York: City health officials issued an advisory Monday urging masks in indoor settings.

NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads to a conviction in the shooting death of an endangered red wolf found April 15.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: Hoping to head off an explosion of electronic pull tab machines at gas stations and liquor, grocery and convenience stores, state regulators want to change the definition of a bar to make clear where the games that mimic slot machines are allowed.

OHIO Columbus: Gov. Mike DeWine has asked the Ohio Rail Development Commission to work with Amtrak to study potential new routes, according to a spokesperson. OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: New laws signed by Gov. Kevin Stitt will increase funding for local enforcement of the medical marijuana industry and target illicit sales of cannabis.

OREGON Portland: Criminal defendants who have gone without legal representation for long periods of time amid a critical shortage of public defense attorneys filed a lawsuit Monday that alleges the state violated their constitutional right to legal counsel and a speedy trial.

PENNSYLVANIA Carlisle: Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Mehmet Oz criticized GOP primary rival Kathy Barnette over a 2015 tweet in which she wrote that “Pedophilia is a Cornerstone of Islam.” Oz, who would be the nation’s first Muslim senator, called the comments “disqualifying.”

RHODE ISLAND Providence: A congressional candidate recently arrested on a menacing charge in another state has dropped out of the race.

SOUTH CAROLINA Greenville: Grace Church has purchased a dormitory building from Greenville Technical College to convert into affordable housing as part of a special program to address the local housing crisis.

SOUTH DAKOTA Pierre: Ongoing drought has been hard on the state’s wildlife. The U.S. Forest Service says the grouse population in the Fort Pierre National Grassland has declined by 15% in 2022.

TENNESSEE Knoxville: In its quest to redefine tourism at the gateway to the Great Smoky Mountains, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is planning an immersive theme park that would share tribal history.

TEXAS Houston: Two people were killed and three more taken to a hospital with injuries after a shooting at a flea market Sunday, officials said.

UTAH Salt Lake City: A copper mining company will begin manufacturing tellurium, a rare mineral used in solar panels that used to be discarded with other mine tailings.

VERMONT Montpelier: Gov. Phil Scott signed a law Monday creating an advisory committee to make recommendations on how to spend the state’s share of settlement money with drugmakers and distributors over the toll of prescription opioids.

VIRGINIA Norfolk: A professor whose research on pedophilia created a stir at Old Dominion University for using the phrase “minor-attracted person” instead of “pedophile” has landed a new job with Johns Hopkins University’s Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse.

WASHINGTON Seattle: Amtrak will postpone restoring its Cascades passenger-train service between Seattle and Vancouver, B.C., until possibly December, citing a lack of personnel.

WEST VIRGINIA Welch: Gov. Jim Justice has visited the site of a planned $147 million highway project that will connect Welch to the Coalfields Expressway.

WISCONSIN Sparta: The popular Elroy-Sparta State Trail officially reopened over the weekend following several years of flood-related repairs.

WYOMING Cheyenne: GOP U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis apologized Monday after getting booed for her remarks on sexual identity during a University of Wyoming graduation speech.