STATE-BY-STATE

News from across the USA

ALABAMA Montgomery: More than 400 students are missing class this week after a fire damaged Booker T. Washington Magnet High School on Saturday.

ALASKA Anchorage: Police are looking for a man who dumped fish heads in woods near an elementary school. He faces a $300 fine for discarding garbage that attracts animals – which apparently it did. A bear is being credited for cleaning up the fish.

ARIZONA Tucson: Authorities say 128 immigrants believed abandoned by smugglers in a remote desert area at the Arizona-Mexico border are facing deportation.

ARKANSAS Little Rock: The Arkansas Health Department has found that water at some state prisons doesn’t pose any immediate health risks after investigating complaints of it being brown and dirty.

CALIFORNIA Sacramento: Male prison guards will be prohibited from pat-down searching incarcerated women and viewing them while they are not fully dressed under a law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown.

COLORADO Colorado Springs: Wakeboarding and a chainsaw carving competition are part of the festivities for the Labor Day Lift Off balloon festival from Sept. 1-3.

CONNECTICUT Waterbury: State transportation officials say three completed eastbound lanes in the widening of Interstate 84 should open this week. Westbound lanes should open next month, a year ahead of schedule.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: A group of Eagle Scouts and would-be scouts have completed a two-month bicycle trip from Seattle. The boys, who biked about 65 miles a day, promoted scouting, cycling and camping along the way.

FLORIDA St. Petersburg: A total of 540 Florida manatees have died through Aug. 12, compared to 538 in 2017, according to state wildlife statistics. Experts blame an early year cold snap and the toxic red tide algae in the Gulf of Mexico.

GEORGIA Sandy Springs: Fruit bouquet company Edible Arrangements is moving its corporate headquarters to Georgia from Connecticut.

HAWAII Honolulu: Hawaiian Airlines is offering travel waivers in anticipation of Hurricane Lane, which is expected to hit this week.

IDAHO Boise: The state failed to get a Women’s Business Center after none of the applicants for a Small Business Administration grant received a passing grade.

ILLINOIS Chicago: Officials broke ground on the 100,000-square-foot Exelon Student Recreation Center, which will include an indoor track, artificial turf, basketball courts and community rooms.

INDIANA Indianapolis: Attendance at the State Fair fell by 5 percent to 860,131 from last year’s level, but a single-day record was set: 91,000 on Aug. 14, during a $2 ticket promotion.

IOWA Hiawatha: Iowa College Access Network, a nonprofit considered the state leader in financial aid assistance programming, is changing its name to ICAN.

KANSAS Topeka: Training sessions on open government in Colby and Garden City have been canceled due to lack of interest.

KENTUCKY Frankfort: A requirement that teachers obtain master’s degrees has been removed by officials.

LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: Environmental solutions company Thermaldyne has invested $50 million in a reclamation plant that’s set to open this year and bring 75 jobs.

MAINE Bowdoin: The Unicorn Root plant has been found on private land after having last been seen in the state 130 years ago.

MARYLAND Baltimore: Carjackings are on rising in the state, especially in Baltimore County which has seen a 130 percent increase in a two-year period, WBFF Fox 45 reports.

MASSACHUSETTS Stoneham: The Stone Zoo is looking for a female stork that flew away Friday and has evaded experts since.

MICHIGAN Detroit: Detroit Renewable Energy is working to fix its foul odor issues amid complaints from neighbors.

MINNESOTA Rosemount: Prosecutors allege Marshall Anthony Knoll, a 59-year-old with 17 prior driving-while-intoxicated convictions, was on meth and amphetamine when he caused a crash that caused serious injuries in October. He was charged in March but not arrested until last month.

MISSISSIPPI Jackson: The Mississippi State Department of Health is confirming two more cases of West Nile virus, bringing the year’s total to 23.

MISSOURI Columbia: The University of Missouri has its lowest total enrollment in more than a decade, but the freshman class numbers are up 13 percent from last year.

MONTANA Helena: The state Supreme Court has upheld a judge’s decision to remove Montana Green Party candidates from the November ballot.

NEBRASKA Nebraska City: The Riverview Marina State Recreation Area is closed until further notice because of flooding.

NEVADA Las Vegas: U.S. magistrate judges George W. Foley Jr. and Carl Hoffman Jr. plan to retire next year, officials say. Last month Magistrate Judge Valerie Cooke retired.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Manchester: A 40-mile “Solidarity Walk for Immigrant Justice” started Wednesday and will end Saturday. It goes from one Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility to another to mirror the trip of a detained immigrant.

NEW JERSEY Atlantic City: Prosecutors say Calvin Wiggins, 24, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison in the death of a good Samaritan who tried to help a woman Wiggins was assaulting at a bus stop.

NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: Medical cannabis producer Mother Earth Herbs has had its license revoked. The company and executive Vivian Moore were accused of submitting falsified audits. Moore denies the claims.

NEW YORK New York: Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed a bill that creates the nation’s first commission to investigate prosecutorial misconduct against state district attorneys and their assistants.

NORTH CAROLINA Winston-Salem: Police say that a 5-year-old suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the hand, leading to charges against adult Charles Derrick Parsons. The wound was non-life-threatening.

NORTH DAKOTA Jamestown: Myron Schlafman, 69, will lose his left hand after severing it while operating a meat grinder in his garage. “It was just one of those freak accidents,” wife Cel Schlafman said.

OHIO Mason: Amusement park Kings Island is offering free admission to teachers for the last weekend in August to celebrate the beginning of the school year.

OKLAHOMA Tulsa: Illusionist and “America’s Got Talent” contender Rob Lake will perform in his home state Oct. 13 at Brady’s Theater.

OREGON Pendleton: A lamb named Henry fetched $162 per pound at an auction where lambs were generally going for $7 a pound. Henry was raised by Maddy Thomas, an 11-yearold diagnosed with a brain tumor last year. The $23,200 will help her family cover medical expenses.

PENNSYLVANIA Harrisburg: Gubernatorial candidate Scott Wagner said he will not release a tax return because his income is nobody else’s business and suggested that labor unions will use it to try to organize workers at the non-union wastehauling business he owns.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: The state is spending $3 million in federal funds to secure and modernize its elections systems.

SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: Officials say the number of deaths caused by opioids increased to 748 in 2017, up from 508 in 2014. Overdose deaths involving fentanyl increased from 68 in 2014 to 362 last year.

SOUTH DAKOTA Rapid City: Using a number of factors – including cost and financing – personal-finance website WalletHub ranked South Dakota as No. 1 in the nation for community colleges systems.

TENNESSEE Hixson: Authorities say Michael David McElrath, 46, fatally shot his 15-year-old son and the family dog. His bond is $1 million.

TEXAS El Paso: City Council approved a $989 million budget for the 2019 fiscal year.

UTAH Salt Lake City: The total cost of fighting the Coal Hollow Fire has reached $11.58 million, officials say.

VERMONT Montpelier: Secretary of State Jim Condos said more than 107,000 people cast ballots in the primary, the second-best primary turnout by vote count in state history.

VIRGINIA Charlottesville: Ku Klux Klan member Richard Preston was sentenced to four years in prison for firing a gun near a school at a white nationalist rally last summer. No one was struck.

WASHINGTON Tacoma: The Resource Center is set to hold its first art exhibit Aug. 30 when local artist LeShawn Gamble shows “The Un-TIEd States of America.”

WEST VIRGINIA Morgantown: Several fraternities have disassociated from West Virginia University in an attempt to form an independent Interfraternity Council in response to the university’s effort last spring to strengthen oversight after recent behavior issues.

WISCONSIN Wausau: Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources is investigating air pollution at a 3M Co. factory.

WYOMING Gillette: Police say a 40year-old man has lost more than $388,000 in an online dating scam in which he sent a woman money purportedly for cancer treatment in March. He has not heard from her since then. Police are investigating but believe the money is likely unrecoverable.