WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Tucked away in a storefront in downtown Worcester, surrounded by old posters of movies and hip-hop stars that adorn the walls of his office sits the vice president of Wu-Tang Management.

MILAN, N.M. (AP) — A dozen Cuban asylum-seekers detained in a New Mexico have twice been placed in solitary confinement for going on hunger strikes, two of the asylum-seekers said.

LELAND, Ill. (AP) — Parents of students at a northern Illinois elementary school are angry after an older student led an experiment that asked their children to open child-proof medicine bottles.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A judge has ordered a forensic search of computers used by three former top officials at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency as part of an investigation into whether they sought to suppress concerns by federal regulators about pollution risks from the proposed PolyMet c…

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The Latest on the second trial of a border activist accused of harboring immigrants (all times local):

HOLYOKE, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts man who founded a company to cultivate recreational marijuana faces a $50,000 fine for allegedly selling $1.3 million in unregistered securities to about 40 investors.

BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP) — An intruder was fatally shot and another man injured during a fight at a homeless shelter that stunned other residents, officials said.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities have confirmed the identity of human remains found last week during the search for a Tennessee teen who vanished in 2017.

PHOENIX (AP) — A judge has sent the Arizona Department of Corrections back to the negotiating table after the department failed to comply with a settlement requiring better health care.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — A health care information technology company says it will create 400 jobs through a new operations center in central North Carolina.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A specially equipped Boeing 777 jet took off from Dulles International Airport on Tuesday carrying a true Washington celebrity: Bei Bei, a 4-year-old giant panda.

NEWBURYPORT, Mass. (AP) — The former president of a Massachusetts city council has been sentenced to 2 ½ years in prison after pleading guilty to raping a teenage boy.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Democratic leaders of the Connecticut House of Representatives are suggesting the governor reconsider tolling just big trucks, a now-defunct idea the Democrat had campaigned on during last year’s election.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A statehouse watchdog says West Virginia isn’t doing criminal background checks on its child protective services workers.

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a former Albany County lawmaker has been sentenced to one year of probation for working with a former upstate New York mayor to steal campaign funds.

BLUE HILL, Maine (AP) — An inspection report says a Maine hospital failed to safeguard medical records and left some in locations where cleaning staff could access them.

BELVIDERE, N.J. (AP) — A man who allegedly used baseball bats and a knife to kill his parents in their home will remain jailed until his murder trial.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A panel in Maine has ruled that Uber discriminated against a blind woman when a driver refused to give her a ride because she was traveling with her guide dog.

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — An county council in Ohio on Monday revamped its law restricting panhandling to settle a lawsuit that said the previous ordinance restricted free speech rights by criminalizing the act of giving or receiving donations.

BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) — As a certified nurse midwife for over 30 years, Dianne Quadros recently hit a special milestone: delivering her 5,000th baby.

WASHINGTON (AP) — For years, the federal Bureau of Prisons has been plagued by systematic failures, from massive staffing shortages to chronic violence. But the largest agency in the Justice Department has largely stayed out of the public view.

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Testimony indicates a Maine man scuffled with his sister-in-law’s spiritual adviser hours before he allegedly killed the woman in Hampden.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Police at Syracuse University are investigating reports that a white supremacist manifesto was posted online and shared at a campus library.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Hartford police say two young girls were found safe after they were mistakenly believed to be in a car when it was stolen.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Several Arkansas universities have reported a drop in international student enrollment.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on an Arizona man’s guilty plea in federal court to illegally manufacturing bullets found in a high-rise hotel suite where a gunman unleashed the Las Vegas Strip massacre two years ago (all times local):

TIGARD, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s state employee pension fund is invested in an Israeli company whose smartphone spyware has been used against dissidents, human rights defenders and journalists by repressive regimes. It’s also invested in two prison companies that run immigrant detention faciliti…

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — A Washington state man accused of fatally shooting his father has made a preliminary court appearance.

STANFORD, Ky. (AP) — Staff members at a Kentucky jail have filed a lawsuit against their boss, accusing him of sexual harassment and sexual discrimination.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board says Uber had an ineffective safety culture when one of its autonomous test vehicles ran down and killed a pedestrian last year in Tempe, Arizona.

CASSVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say deer hunters in Missouri have found the skeletal remains of an Oklahoma man who has been missing for nearly a year.

NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — When Gus’s Pizza bit the dust, Bill Cornish, the landlord, needed somebody to open a new restaurant in the 24 Eugene O’Neill Drive space that also houses Winners, an off-track betting parlor.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Three Republican lawmakers in Kentucky say they plan to introduce a bill that would make intimidating sports officials a misdemeanor offense.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Authorities in North Carolina say a man suffered serious injuries after he was stabbed during a fight inside a store.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina appeals court says there was nothing unlawful about Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration firing an agency spokesman who had served under Cooper’s Republican predecessor.