STATE- BY- STATE

ALABAMA Chatom: Authorities say 23 people are jailed after a large dog fight was raided in Alabama. The Washington County raid also resulted in the seizure of six guns, 41 vehicles and $ 7,000 in cash.

ALASKA Juneau: Alaska’s population is climbing even though more people are moving away than moving in. KTOO- FM reports that Alaska’s population has grown slightly due to births.

ARIZONA Sedona: Authorities killed a rabid bobcat that injured four people in two attacks in the Sedona area. The bobcat was shot because it was acting unusually aggressive, authorities said.

ARKANSAS Walnut Ridge: This Arkansas city is hoping to consolidate with Hoxie this year to boost economic growth. KAIT- TV reports that Walnut Ridge Mayor Charles Snapp points to a previous merger with College City in boosting revenue. But Hoxie Mayor Lanny Tinker says his city isn’t interested.

CALIFORNIA Riverside: Parents in Riverside County are asking school officials to expel a fifth grader who drafted a “kill list.” The Press- Enterprise of Riverside reports that the Lake Mathews Elementary School principal told parents in a letter that an investigation determined no one at the school was in danger.

COLORADO Highlands Ranch: A suburban Denver Maserati dealership employee has been found dead behind the wheel of one of the sports cars. KUSA- TV reports that the car was spotted in a retention pond.

CONNECTICUT Waterbury: Officials say they’ve finished the environmental cleanup of a former industrial site in Waterbury. The Republican- American reports that construction on a new home for the city’s Department of Public Works is expected to begin there in the spring.

DELAWARE Wilmington: A rally is planned Friday in Wilmington to welcome Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, back to Delaware after eight years in Washington.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: A District of Columbia woman plans to run seven marathons in seven days on seven continents, beginning next week. Add this to that amazing effort: BethAnn Telford says she continues to battle brain cancer, WTOP Radio reports. Telford, 47, is one of 33 participants in the 2017 World Marathon Challenge.

FLORIDA Clearwater: Rescue workers chipped away part of the chimney on a vacant house to rescue an 8- year- old Florida girl who got stuck inside, The Tampa

Bay Times reports.

GEORGIA Savannah: Actor D. W. Moffett will lead the Savannah College of Art and Design’s film and television department. Moffett played Joe McCoy on the TV show “Friday Night Lights.”

HAWAII Honolulu: A historic theater building in Hawaii was gutted by a weekend fire. The blaze ripped through the Akebono Theater, which was built in 1919. No one was injured.

IDAHO Idaho Falls: A quarantined potato pest has been found in an eastern Idaho field. The Capital Press reports that the 150- acre field was added to the pale cyst nematode eradication program on Dec. 21, bringing the number of regulated fields to 27.

ILLINOIS Chicago: Where the desks of Chicago police detectives once stood in a West Side police district are now classrooms for theater- art courses. And the old firing range in the basement is a storage space for costumes as the former 12th District Police Station is transformed into the new home of the Chicago Children’s Theatre.

INDIANA Fort Wayne: The Allen County Courthouse will soon be filled with scaffolding as workers repair water- damaged murals and the rotunda’s stained glass dome. The nearly $ 350,000 in restoration work is expected to take a few months, The NewsSentinel reports.

IOWA Cedar Falls: A business owner says she’ll close her Cedar Falls skin care products shop because officials rejected her pink storefront. The Waterloo- Cedar

Falls Courier reports that Kirsta Dolash will open a store on Iowa City’s pedestrian mall, where she is allowed to have a pink storefront.

KANSAS Topeka: Airbnb says it will begin collecting taxes on its home- sharing bookings in Kansas starting Feb. 1. The Kansas City

Star reports that the agreement will make Airbnb lodging similar to hotels and other lodging in terms of taxing.

KENTUCKY Louisville: Research shows that Kentucky had more than twice the national rate of drug- dependent babies in 2013. The Courier- Journal reports that Kentucky’s rate was 15.1 cases per 1,000 live births. The U. S. rate was 7.3.

LOUISIANA Shreveport: Three Shreveport historical museums that were set to shut down by the end of 2016 have been given a few weeks of new life. The Shreveport

Times reports that a Jan. 26 fundraiser is planned.

MAINE Augusta: An interest group that represents Maine’s paper industry has closed after 50 years. The Portland Press Herald reports that the Maine Pulp & Paper Association did not have enough resources to keep running.

MARYLAND Annapolis: An Annapolis film festival this weekend is honoring a disabled Maryland man who died from asphyxiation in 2013 when three sheriff’s deputies tried to forcibly remove him from a movie theater. The Baltimore Sun reports that the Ethan Saylor Memorial Film Festival features works created by or about people with Down syndrome.

MASSACHUSETTS Gloucester: Gloucester officials are warning residents to be careful after a coyote attacked a resident’s dog. The Gloucester Times reports that Sarah Olsen’s poodle had to be euthanized.

MICHIGAN Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan will have a series of projects in its new initiative to address poverty. Grants totaling $ 200,000 will fund the efforts.

MINNESOTA Minneapolis: The U. S. Department of Justice has sued KleinBank of Minnesota for allegedly engaging in mortgage lending practices that discriminate against minorities. The lawsuit filed last week alleges “redlining,” when banks deny or avoid providing credit to consumers because of racial demographics.

MISSISSIPPI Biloxi: The Biloxi City Council chose Martin Luther King Jr. Day to ditch its “Great Americans Day” and replace it with a city holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader,

The Sun Herald reports.

MISSOURI Nickelville: A Lawrence County highway was closed so crews could clean up an oil pipeline spill. Enbridge Energy said nearly 200 barrels of oil leaked from a pipeline at its pump station near Nickelville, KYTV- TV reports.

MONTANA Helena: Montana officials are searching for ways to fund a $ 10.2 million plan to combat the spread of invasive mussels in state waters. It includes increasing the number of watercraft inspection stations and creating decontamination stations.

NEBRASKA Wahoo: Wahoo police officers have stopped using body cameras because officials say the city can’t afford to comply with new state policies. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that the policies were set in October by the Nebraska Commission on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice.

NEVADA Las Vegas: An awkward breakup of the nation’s fifth- largest school district is continuing a messy slog toward an August deadline. The Las Vegas- area district has more than 320,000 students at 357 campuses.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Manchester: Authorities are searching a Manchester home in the case of a woman who once lived there and disappeared in 1981. Denise Beaudin’s family last saw her that Thanksgiving, when she was 23.

NEW JERSEY Cape May: The co- owners of New Jersey’s Cape May Brewing Co. are honoring the 175th anniversary of Villanova University, their alma mater, by creating a uniquely named commemorative brew: “Demisemiseptcentennial Ale,” KYW- TV reports.

NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: New Mexico lawmakers may rewrite regulations that mandate euthanizing bears and other wild animals that attack a human. A bill would give health and wildlife officials the ability to consider the risk of rabies and whether the animal acted in self- defense.

NEW YORK New York: Being next to Trump Tower has taken some of the shine off of Tiffany. The posh Manhattan jeweler cites a 14% sales decline in November and December at its flagship 5th Avenue store amid the security barricades, protesters and media camp at the president- elect’s front door.

NORTH CAROLINA Asheboro: Nearly 800,000 people visited the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro last year. Zoo officials said it was the third largest turnout ever since the zoo opened in 1974.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: For the fourth time in eight years, the North Dakota Legislature will consider legislation to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. Similar legislation failed in the 2009, 2013 and 2015 sessions.

OHIO Toledo: A donated garage door replaces one that was spraypainted with a swastika and a profane message cursing Arabs at a Lebanese family’s Toledo home. WTOL- TV reports that police are investigating.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Oklahoma City firefighters responding to a report of “snorting” coming from a swimming pool last weekend discovered a hole in the pool’s liner and a cow trapped in the water. Crews brought in a wrecker to hoist the animal out of the pool.

OREGON Portland: An apparently stillborn infant was found with his homeless mother at a Portland bus stop in the cold. The

Oregonian/ OregonLive reports that the mother suffers from severe mental illness. PENNSYLVANIA Elizabeth

town: Rheems Fire Chief Charles Stanford says 3,600 chicks were killed in a farm chicken house fire. A malfunctioning heater caused the fire Monday.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: Providence police are buying a tool that can get information from data recorders in modern vehicles. The Providence Journal reports that it can tell investigators the speed of a vehicle just before a crash, whether brakes or the accelerator were used, how many people were in the vehicle and whether they were wearing seatbelts.

SOUTH CAROLINA Charleston: The South Carolina Court of Appeals will hear arguments next month in a dispute over plans to create a new cruise ship terminal in Charleston’s historic district, The Post and Courier reports.

SOUTH DAKOTA Lake Andes: The Yankton Sioux Tribe’s police chief is asking reservation residents to call his department’s administrative line with emergencies rather than 911, The ( Mitchell) Daily Republic reports.

TENNESSEE Nashville: The Tennessee State Review Board has scheduled a meeting next week to review proposed nominations to the National Register of Historic Places.

TEXAS Pasadena: A judge has extended to 2023 federal oversight of Pasadena’s election system after finding that the Houston suburb implemented a voting plan meant to dilute Latino power at the polls, The Houston Chronicle reports.

UTAH Salt Lake City: Utah State University and a fraternity want a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a former student accusing the school and organization of failing to act on reports of sexual assault and heavy drinking at parties.

VERMONT Randolph: Vermont is holding a conference next month to help the state’s brewers avoid environmental violations. Organizers say Brewery Day on Feb. 23 will cover state regulations.

VIRGINIA Leesburg: The federal government has greatly expanded the size of a national historic landmark commemorating Ball’s Bluff Battlefield in Virginia. The October 1861 battle was a significant Confederate victory.

WASHINGTON Billings: Puget Sound Energy says the partial closure of the Colstrip power plant could come earlier than planned. Puget Sound reached an agreement last year with environmentalists that requires two units at the Montana plant to close by 2022.

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: No outside agency has been asked to investigate a Jan. 4 wreck in which a woman died after her car collided with a Charleston police cruiser that apparently didn’t have its sirens on in responding to an armed burglary, the Charleston Gazette- Mail reports.

WISCONSIN Janesville: Police chiefs from around the country converged in Janesville this week to discuss ways to reduce the use of deadly force. House Speaker Paul Ryan, who is from Janesville, hosted the session.

WYOMING Cheyenne: New rules against burning off excess natural gas from oil and gas wells on public land are taking effect. A federal judge in Wyoming refused to block them pending the outcome of a lawsuit challenging a requirement to capture rather than flare gas.