AP members statewide want:
• Train wrecks, airplane crashes, drownings, unusual deaths, farm and traffic fatalities.
• Meetings where action of statewide interest is taken or a prominent person speaks.
• Riots, demonstrations, strikes.
• Major fires, explosions, chemical spills.
• Major crime, raids, jail breaks, bank robberies, hate/bias crimes or incidents.
• Weather news, including ice and hail storms, heavy snow, tornadoes, blizzards, flooding, heavy and damaging rainstorms, record heat and cold. Often, weather details from around the state will be collected and filed in one roundup story.
• Human interest stories; the odd, the offbeat, the heartwarming; whatever makes people laugh or cry.

Not of statewide interest:
• Routine city council, school board or other public meetings.
• Non-fatal auto or boating accidents, unless it’s unusual.
• Minor stabbings and shootings, petty crimes, minor house, farm, building or range fires.
• Suicides or obituaries, unless the person is known statewide or unusual circumstances are involved.
• Publicity handouts, including local pageant winners, fund-raisers and charity events.