STATE-BY-STATE ILLINOIS

Brookfield:

ALABAMA Anniston: The agency created to redevelop Fort McClellan sold the headquarters area for $2.3 million to a group that will create independent living apartments as part of a $23 million renovation.

ALASKA Juneau: The only federally recognized tribal college in Alaska has announced that it will waive tuition for the state’s Native students starting next semester.

ARIZONA Douglas: Police found several packages of marijuana hidden under the hood of pickup truck after the vehicle caught fire, The Sierra Vista Herald reports.

ARKANSAS Little Rock: Cam Patterson, the chief operating officer of New York Presbyterian Hospital’s Weill-Cornell Medical Center, is a search committee’s choice to become chancellor of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

CALIFORNIA Yosemite National

Park: The last Native American village in Yosemite Valley, destroyed in the 1960s by the National Park Service, is being rebuilt so that Miwuk Indian youths can learn about their culture, the Fresno Bee reports.

COLORADO Colorado Springs: Officials say a record-breaking number of people, more than 487,000, visited the summit of Pikes Peak this year.

CONNECTICUT Hartford: Higher education has come to the city’s downtown. The University of Connecticut and Trinity College recently established locations there.

DELAWARE Dover: Health officials say Delaware has a 10% decline in Affordable Care Act enrollment next year compared with this year.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Police say a suburban Washington driver who was operating under the influence hit a sign that lodged in the car’s windshield and kept on going while authorities tried to stop the car.

FLORIDA Tallahassee: Gov. Rick Scott’s “Project Sunburst” plan to put his emails and those of top staff online has ended quietly.

GEORGIA Rome: A Confederate monument at Myrtle Hill Cemetery was taken down after being vandalized. The Rome News-Tribune reports that the hands and rifle of the soldier figure were cut off and the face was bashed in.

HAWAII Honolulu: Hawaii’s two largest banks say they’ll give cash bonuses to most of their employees and increase the minimum wage by next month, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports.

IDAHO Burley: State police say a pickup truck thief was arrested after the vehicle ran out of gas on Interstate 84 and a trooper stopped to help, The Times-News reports.

The Brookfield Zoo says Aussie the polar bear was euthanized last week at age 32 after a decline in health.

INDIANA West Lafayette: State officials have approved more than $37 million for a new veterinary teaching hospital at Purdue University, the Journal & Courier reports.

IOWA Dubuque: The county conservation board has approved a privately financed bike trail through a forest preserve, the Telegraph Herald reports.

KANSAS Marion: The Marion-Florence School District has stopped letting high school seniors personalize parking spaces after one student painted his spot with a gay pride rainbow flag.

KENTUCKY Frankfort: The Kentucky Capitol will soon have its first lifesized statue of a woman. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that officials will erect a statue of Nettie Depp, who was elected superintendent of Barren County schools in 1913.

LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: State officials have unveiled a second mobile pet shelter for emergencies, similar to the one used during the 2015 hurricane season.

MAINE Sanford: City officials renewed the lease of the Cockpit Cafe at the Sanford Seacoast Regional Airport, The Journal Tribune reports.

MARYLAND Aberdeen: Authorities say an 18-year police veteran has admitted stealing heroin, cocaine and Fentanyl from city agency’s evidence room.

MASSACHUSETTS Boston: The city is expanding its Post-Overdose Response Team, which has public health workers and emergency responders make follow-up visits to people who survived an overdose on drugs.

MICHIGAN Lansing: A new state law is aimed at encouraging grocery stores to open in underserved urban areas.

MINNESOTA Rochester: Some state farmers are using a combination of greenhouses and late-season vegetable storage to extend the usual summer and fall markets through the winter months, The Post Bulletin reports.

MISSISSIPPI Tupelo: City police officers are receiving settlement checks for back wages after a federal probe found that Tupelo violated overtime rules, the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports.

MISSOURI St. Joseph: Lafayette High School Principal Chris Early lost a bet with student council members and suffered the consequences: He was taped to a wall, The St. Joseph News-Press reports. The students had to collect 1,000 cans to donate to food banks. They brought in more than 3,000.

MONTANA Billings: The Interior Department has approved a 60million ton expansion of the Rosebud Mine.

NEBRASKA Holdredge: Power officials are lowering the water level at Johnson Lake to prepare for a maintenance outage on a hydro plant below the lake.

NEVADA Amargosa Valley: Authorities are looking for five people who entered the closed Devils Hole area at Death Valley National Park and damaged government property.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: The state Fish and Game Department is offering a free ice fishing day on Jan. 20. That day, people can fish without a license.

NEW JERSEY Trenton: Gov. Chris Christie pardoned a police officer who forfeited his job after admitting giving confidential law enforcement data to a neighbor. The pardon was one of 10 announced last week by Christie’s office.

NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: Authorities say a suspended University of New Mexico fraternity being investigated for misconduct allegations won’t reopen, The Albuquerque Journal reports.

NEW YORK Albany: Gov. Andrew Cuomo has selected 23 historic sites for inclusion on the state and national registers of historic places.

NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: Environmental regulators will start testing major drinking water supplies after a chemical used to make Teflon was found in Wilmington’s water.

NORTH DAKOTA Grand Forks: Border security authorities are trying to recruit University of North Dakota students to alleviate a pilot shortage, KFGO-AM reports.

OHIO Sandusky: The operator of a dozen hospitals in Ohio and Michigan is buying a home medical equipment business, the Sandusky Register reports.

OKLAHOMA Sapulpa: The Commerce Department awarded a $1.5 million grant to this Tulsa suburb for water system improvements.

OREGON Portland: A state audit calls for more oversight of Oregon’s nearly 50 alternative high schools and online schools that account for nearly half of the state’s dropouts but enroll only 10% of its high school students, The Oregonian reports.

PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia: The parents of a 4-month-old girl say the child was attacked by a raccoon inside their home, KYW-TV reports.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: The city is launching an electric bicycle sharing system next summer.

SOUTH CAROLINA Lancaster: Three people are accused of possessing weapons and other military gear stolen from an Army National Guard armory, The Herald reports. Authorities say the weapons include machine guns and a grenade launcher.

SOUTH DAKOTA Pierre: State wildlife officials say they’ve sold 18% fewer pheasant hunting licenses to out-ofstate residents this year.

TENNESSEE Morristown: Hamblen County Commissioners have rejected a symbolic resolution condemning same-sex marriage. The vote was 5-4 against with four abstentions.

TEXAS Corpus Christi: The Coast Guard confiscated a Mexican fishing vessel after finding its crew illegally fishing off the Texas coast. The fourperson crew was transferred to the Border Patrol.

UTAH Salt Lake City: Vending machines designed to accept charitable contributions placed Dec. 1 by the Mormon church at Temple Square downtown brought in nearly $500,000, the Deseret News reports.

VERMONT St. Albans: State police say speeding is on the rise across Vermont. The Burlington Free Press reports 8,975 tickets issued this year through about mid-December.

VIRGINIA Richmond: State regulators ordered Dominion Energy to put a new transmission line under the Rappahannock River, not over it with concrete pilings in the river as the utility wanted, The Richmond TimesDispatch reports.

WASHINGTON Redmond: Authorities say 10 people were taken to hospitals for carbon monoxide exposure after a vehicle was accidentally left running in a garage attached to a townhome, KOMO-TV reports.

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: A partnership between the state and The Conservation Fund will protect about 32,000 acres of forest as habitat for West Virginia’s new elk population, The Herald-Dispatch reports.

WISCONSIN Columbus: Police say the former executive director of the Midwest Horse Fair is accused of stealing more than $200,000 from the organization for personal purchases, including her college tuition, the Wisconsin State Journal reports.

WYOMING Cheyenne: Enrollment in the state’s public schools is falling along with the population. Almost 300 fewer students enrolled in Wyoming schools this year compared with last year, The Northern Wyoming Daily News reports.

Compiled from staff, wire reports