ALABAMA Tuscaloosa: Students at Taylorville Primary School crowded around a new vending machine, but this machine is different than other vending machines, which typically dispense snacks or drinks. The new machine dispenses books. Taylorville Primary unveiled the machine in the school library by cutting a golden ribbon that was wrapped around the machine. Principal Laurie Presley said the machine is a way to reward students and to promote reading.vending machine 自动售货机dispense 售出 发放 提供snacks or drinks 零食或饮料unveil 公布 公开 为……揭幕，揭去……上的覆盖物ribbon 丝带wrapped 包，裹Alaska Anchorage: An Alaska woman hoping to cash in after a man offered her $9 million in an online murder-for-hire plot has been sentenced to 99 years in prison for orchestrating the fatal shooting of her friend, State officials saidcash in 获利，赚钱orchestrate 精心安排，密谋ARIZONA Phoenix: A bipartisan bill that cleared a Senate committee last week would spawn a medical psilocybin mushroom industry in Arizona that could grow into a larger market in the future.spawn 引发，促生psilocybin 采自蘑菰的一种迷幻药，裸盖菇素，磷酰羟基二甲色胺mushroom 蘑菇ARKANSAS Fayetteville: Officers said a woman was arrested after one dog and 34 cats were found neglected in her home, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported.neglected 疏于照管 忽视CALIFORNIA Berkeley: The 19-year-old son of a former YouTube executive died last week at the UC Berkeley campus where he resided, officials and a relative said.reside 居住，定居relative 亲戚，亲属COLORADO Fort Collins: Poudre School District removed many of the drinking fountains and replaced faucets on dozens of classroom sinks in its elementary schools to ensure the amount of lead in water students drink was within the limits allowed under a new Colorado law. The classroom drinking fountains are being replaced by hydration stations, where students can fill bottles with filtered water, PSD’s environmental coordinator said.drinking fountains (设在街头、公园及学校等的)喷泉式饮水器，一个带有喷嘴的设备，用于提供饮用水的水流faucet <美>水龙头，旋塞sink 水槽 洗涤槽the amount of lead 铅的含量hydration stations 水化站coordinator 协调人，统筹者ConNECTICUT Killingly: Two dogs were rescued from a house fire in Killingly. The two adults and three children who live in the house were not home when the fire occurred.rescue 营救，援救DELAWARE Wilmington: Wilmington Airport received $5.6 million in federal infrastructure funding to update and expand its terminal, according to an announcement from the Federal Aviation Administrationupdate and expand its terminal 用于更新和扩建其航站楼DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington: Robert Spano was recently hired to become music director of the Washington National Opera starting with the 2025-26 season. Evan Rogister, the principal conductor since 2018, will end his role at the conclusion of the 2024-25 season. Spano, 62, agreed to a three-year contract and will have the title music director designate until starting his new rolethe principal conductor 首席指挥at the conclusion of 在……的结束时刻 当 完结时designate 任命 命名FLORIDA Fort Myers: Florida lost another iconic cat recently as a 10- year-old male dubbed 255 was hit and killed by a vehicle in eastern Lee County. Photographers, preserve managers and advocates had seen the cat for years, roaming the Corkscrew Swamp Ecosystem Watershed, a 60,000-acre marsh near the LeeCollier border.iconic 标志性的dubbed 被称为roaming 漫步；闲逛；徘徊GEORGIA Cedartown: A company that recycles solar panels announced that it would build a $344 million factory in northwest Georgia, for the first time expanding to making new glass for panels.recycles solar panels 回收太阳能电池板HAWAII Honolulu: Authorities are searching for multiple suspects after a fatal shooting over the weekend, Hawaii News Now reported.suspects 嫌疑犯fatal 致命的Idaho Boise: A man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for shooting a man on Christmas day in 2022, the Idaho Press reported.Illinois Springfield: Paul Powell, the southern Illinois political powerhouse who died and left behind $800,000 in cash in the notorious “Shoebox Scandal,” used to say, “The only thing worse than a defeated politician is a broke one.” For more than half a century, a Powell-established $250,000 trust sustained his legacy, for better or worse. But the account that maintained his birthplace as a museum will soon run dry. The fate of the home in Vienna is uncertain, but it likely will be sold.sustain 维持，保持for better or worse 无论好坏 不管怎样Indiana Indianapolis: The Earth may be warming at an even faster rate than expected, escalating the threat from climate change, according to a new study by a research team that included an Indiana State University professor.escalate （使）变得严重 逐步上升