STATE-BY-STATE

ALABAMA Birmingham: The Alabama Department of Transportation says “appropriate action” will be taken after photos on Facebook showed a department truck dragging the body of a dead dog on Interstate 20, Al.com reports. The agency apologized and says the incident is being investigated.

ALASKA Anchorage: Officials are advising boaters to steer clear of a dead humpback whale spotted in the Gulf of Alaska’s Knik Arm, KTVA-TV reports. An orange buoy was attached to the carcass.

ARIZONA Prescott: A plaque at the gravesite of gunfighter “Doc” Holliday’s girlfriend was stolen from the Arizona Pioneers’ Home cemetery, The Daily Courier reports. Mary Katherine HoronyCummings died in 1940 just days before her 90th birthday.

ARKANSAS Cash: This aptlynamed city collected an average 45% of its annual spending from fines, forfeitures and costs from 2014 to 2016, The Jonesboro Sun reports. The state’s Speed Trap Law limits cities to 30% of total expenditures from fines and fees.

CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: The Los Angeles city attorney is taking legal action against two Hollywood Hills properties where neighbors have long complained of frequent large and disruptive parties. City Attorney Mike Feuer says “the party’s over for out-ofcontrol nuisance houses.”

COLORADO Denver: The state launched a new Medicaid reimbursement system in March. But The Denver Post reports that five hospitals and five hospital systems were still owed nearly $211 million after the first four months of the change.

CONNECTICUT Hartford: Painter Jasper Johns wants his rural Connecticut estate to become an artists’ retreat after he’s gone. The planning commission for the town of Sharon recently gave its approval for the plans of the 87-year-old artist, whose textured images of American flags are icons of modern art.

DELAWARE Newark: Cancer patients in Delaware have more treatment options. A new state law says health insurers must cover any FDA-approved medically appropriate treatment for stage 4 metastatic cancer and other cancers without requiring proof that the patient didn’t respond to a different treatment.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: The former VA hospital chief in Washington has been fired again. The Department of Veterans Affairs cites mismanagement found in audits for dismissing Brian Hawkins, who also was let go in August but went back on the payroll after appealing to a merit board.

FLORIDA Dunedin: A Florida teacher found an empty bookshelf when she returned to her classroom that served as a shelter for Hurricane Irma evacuees. Martha Hereford-Cothron tells the Tampa Bay Times that some of the 80 missing works in her Highland Middle School classroom were signed by her favorite authors.

GEORGIA Atlanta: A judge added another year and three months to the sentence of a federal inmate who escaped May 8 from the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta to celebrate his birthday.

HAWAII Hilo: Hawaii County may build an igloo village for homeless people in Kona. The site would be across from the West Hawaii Civic Center, West Hawaii Today reports.

IDAHO Boise: Police have identified an Eagle man as the suspected driver of a Porsche that plowed into a crowd of spectators at a car show earlier this month. Eleven people were injured.

ILLINOIS Chicago: The University of Illinois at Chicago plans to build a $100 million residence hall and academic complex, the Chicago Tribune reports.

INDIANA Indianapolis: Brown County officials say their seasonal “leaf cam” (www.browncounty.com/leaf-cam) is up and running to document fall foliage. The camera is on top of a cabin at Bean Blossom overlook this year.

IOWA Des Moines: A woman who says she was wrongly ticketed for speeding by a traffic camera is taking her case involving a $75 fine to the Iowa Supreme Court. Marla Leaf’s lawyer will argue that Cedar Rapids violates equal protection and due process by delegating police power to a private company.

KANSAS Prairie Village: Kansas has no age requirement to run for governor. So Republican Tyler Ruzich, 16, of Prairie Village, filed campaign papers last week, The Hutchinson News reports. Also, Jack Bergeson, 16, of Wichita, is seeking the Democratic nod.

KENTUCKY Frankfort: A rogue distillery worker has pleaded guilty to charges in a Kentucky bourbon theft scheme. Gilbert “Toby” Curtsinger, a former Buffalo Trace employee, faces up to 15 years in prison.

LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: Louisiana ended its fiscal year June 30 with a surplus topping $100 million. Officials say the state collected more money than projected from sales taxes and personal income taxes.

MAINE Bangor: A retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer accused of smuggling narwhal tusks was sentenced to five years, two months in federal prison. Prosecutors say Gregory Logan smuggled about 300 tusks valued at up to $3 million.

MARYLAND La Plata: Pigs recently exhibited at the Charles County Fair are sick with swine flu. Officials don’t know yet if humans are vulnerable to this particular strain.

MASSACHUSETTS Boston: A draft report says Massachusetts could benefit from a shift to the Atlantic Time Zone if other New England states follow suit.

MICHIGAN Lansing: Officials have detected a case of a viral disease that causes periodic dieoffs of Michigan deer, this time in Genesee County. Epizootic hemorrhagic disease, or EHD, is spread by a biting fly.

MINNESOTA Bloomington: A farm near Mall of America could be the site of a World’s Fair. Bloomington officials voted to buy the Kelley Farm property for $32 million as a possible Expo 2023 site, The Star Tribune reports.

MISSISSIPPI Vancleave: The historic Red Creek Bridge is closed for inspection following a crash that damaged its steel trusses and left a hole in the deck, The Sun Herald reports. A track hoe was being pulled by a GMC Brigadier that crashed into the span.

MISSOURI Springfield: The Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Springfield plans to expand by 10 acres after receiving a $2.6 million grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs, The Springfield News-Leader reports.

MONTANA Browning: A judge has ordered this Montana town to turn over most of its assets to the Blackfeet Tribe to settle lawsuits between the two. Browning is seeking to disincorporate.

NEBRASKA Grand Island: Stores at the Conestoga Mall received three counterfeit $100 bills in less than an hour, The Grand Island Independent reports. Police say they have security camera footage of two male suspects.

NEVADA Las Vegas: A doctor sentenced in July to probation and a week in jail for lewdness involving women patients is now barred from treating Medicare and Medicaid patients. Several women accused Dr. Jorge Burgos of molestation.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: An audit of how New Hampshire manages federal education funds found six areas of significant concern. One of the problem areas was making sure that schools use money for authorized purposes. The audit says the lack of fiscal oversight creates a risk of waste or fraud.

NEW JERSEY Atlantic City: A strip club that used to be at the Trump Taj Mahal casino says it has a valid lease to return when the site reopens next year. But the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino says the club, Scores AC, is preventing a reopening without “potential denigration” of its brand.

NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: Officials are unveiling design plans for a Memorial Park to honor 11 women whose bodies were found in a mass grave and are believed to be serial killer victims. The mass grave was discovered in 2009 on Albuquerque’s West Mesa.

NEW YORK Rochester: Authorities arrested three people who allegedly used obituaries to plan thefts from vehicles at funeral homes. So-called smashand-grab thefts have been reported in the past three months in Monroe and Livingston counties.

NORTH CAROLINA Fayetteville: Police say a suspect is arrested in an arson blaze at Camp Ground United Methodist Church. Several members of the church were inside at the time, but no one was hurt.

NORTH DAKOTA Devils Lake: A local domestic violence shelter is trying to raise money to keep its doors open. The Safe Alternatives for Abused Families shelter director says the need has far exceeded expectations but it costs more than $500 a day to operate.

OHIO Cleveland: The city is asking the FBI for help in reducing the number of unsolved homicides. Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson last month called the city’s homicide clearance rate of around 50% “unacceptable.”

OKLAHOMA Norman: University of Oklahoma President David Boren, a former governor and U.S. senator, says he’ll retire as head of the state’s flagship school next June.

OREGON Salem: City officials are considering an ordinance to outlaw sitting or lying on public sidewalks during the day, The

Statesman Journal reports. One police official says they’re “in no way trying to make homelessness a crime,” but officers have to deal with business and safety concerns.

PENNSYLVANIA Doylestown: A man whose spiritual and financial hold on an ex-Amish couple developed into a sexual relationship with six of their daughters was sentenced to up to 87 years in prison. Officials say Lee Donald Kaplan cast himself as a prophet, claiming to speak with God.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: Brown University plans to replace undergraduate loans with grants that don’t need to be repaid, The Providence Journal reports. The school launched a $120 million fundraising project, called The Brown Promise, last week.

SOUTH CAROLINA Anderson: Reckless homicide charges against Army Corps of Engineers employee Joseph Jess Fleming in the death of a South Carolina sheriff’s deputy have been dropped. Devin Hodges’ life jacket got tangled in the propeller when he was thrown from a boat operated by Fleming on June 1.

SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: State lottery officials say a retired Sioux Falls woman claimed a record Dakota Cash jackpot last week of more than $614,000 for the Sept. 6 drawing.

TENNESSEE Memphis: Federal authorities are seeking help from the public about the Sept. 9 theft of firearms from a Bass Pro Shops store in Memphis. A reward of up to $1,000 is offered for information leading to a conviction.

TEXAS Aransas Pass: Fuel oil is leaking from shrimp trawlers that sank in the Aransas Pass harbor during Hurricane Harvey. The leaks prompted the harbor master to close the boat launch at Redfish Bay Boat House until the vessels can be salvaged.

UTAH Salt Lake City: An infestation of bats prompted West High School to cancel afterschool programs so workers could root out the mammals. Janitors, some using butterfly nets, rounded up more than 300 bats over three days last week.

VERMONT Wilmington: A man wants to turn most of his 62-acre property into a wildlife refuge for bears, The Brattleboro Reformer reports. Jim Burke met with the local Development Review Board last week to discuss a refuge that wouldn’t be enclosed by a fence.

VIRGINIA Richmond: More than 200 acres associated with seven Civil War battles in Virginia will get nearly $1 million in preservation grants. The targeted land is associated with the battles of Appomattox Court House, Cold Harbor, Fisher’s Hill, Gaines Mill, New Market, Second Deep Bottom and Second Manassas.

WASHINGTON Tacoma: The 5.1-acre Weyerhaeuser mansion property has been sold for nearly $5.9 million to a nonprofit that says the Tacoma Waldorf School will occupy the education building on the grounds, The News

Tribune reports.

WEST VIRGINIA Winfield: Putman County’s school board has voted to suspend a former principal who was rehired as a teacher this year, The Charleston GazetteMail reports. Bradley Knell was charged last month with driving under the influence.

WISCONSIN Madison: Police are investigating anti-Semitic graffiti including swastikas spraypainted on a monument near the Gates of Heaven Synagogue building in Madison, the Wisconsin State Journal reports.

WYOMING Cheyenne: Yellowstone National Park and areas of northwest Wyoming received up to a foot of snow toward the end of last week as summer ended.