STATE-BY-STATE

News from across the USA

ANALASKA Anchorage: Vandals broke plates, poured bleach on floors, stole cash registers and cut a natural gas line at an Anchorage restaurant accused of racism on social media.

ARIZONA Flagstaff: The superintendent at the Grand Canyon will be reassigned amid a federal investigation into undisclosed allegations.

ARKANSAS Helena-West Helena:

Phillips County has begun building a 100-bed jail.

CALIFORNIA Morro Bay: The boatshaped building on the Embarcadero in Morro Bay has been demolished.

COLORADO Thornton: Rocky Top Middle School apologized for not warning parents that a drag queen was a career day speaker.

CONNECTICUT Groton: Submarine builder Electric Boat is moving forward with plans for an $850 million expansion at its Groton shipyard.

DELAWARE Millsboro: Court records say a man told police he strangled his grandmother, 69, because he saw a chance to be alone and get high.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: District Attorney General Karl Racine’s office will investigate sex abuse by Catholic clergy in the local archdiocese.

FLORIDA Key West: The Florida Keys’ population has dropped by nearly 3,000 since Hurricane Irma last year.

GEORGIA Atlanta: Gov. Nathan Deal has called a special session of the legislature to grapple with the recovery costs from Hurricane Michael.

HAWAII Honolulu: Police are trying to find a rare bonsai tree that was stolen from a nursery owner who spent 56 years caring for it.

IDAHO Boise: Comedian Chelsea Handler endorsed Paulette Jordan, a Democrat and Native American woman running for governor, but her Twitter post included a photo of the wrong Native American.

ILLINOIS Chicago: Democrat J.B. Pritzker has donated $15 million more to his campaign for governor, pushing his total to $161.5 million.

INDIANA Greenwood: A soldier whose remains were returned by North Korea in July will be buried Saturday with full military honors.

IOWA Osceola: A county attorney accused of being drunk in a courtroom apologized and asked voters to let her continue her work.

KANSAS Topeka: State officials say several changes should decrease the time people spend renewing their driver’s licenses.

KENTUCKY Morehead: A court clerk jailed for refusing to offer marriage licenses after gay weddings became legal told voters at a forum she did not treat anyone unfairly.

LOUISIANA Benton: Elementary school gym teacher Aubrey “Perry” Norcross is accused of rape and video voyeurism of children.

MAINE Bangor: A Canadian man was sentenced to a month in jail for importing illegally harvested moose antlers into the USA.

MARYLAND Catonsville: Citing negative stereotyping of Arabs, an elementary school has canceled its production of Disney’s “Aladdin Jr.”

MASSACHUSETTS Truro: A landmark lighthouse, the Highland Light, has closed for a renovation that will last until 2020.

MICHIGAN Fulton: A man serving a life sentence in his estranged wife’s death led authorities to where he buried her body eight years ago in exchange for an Xbox.

MINNESOTA St. Paul: More than 300 people have died in traffic crashes this year.

MISSISSIPPI Byhalia: The final four-lane segment of U.S. 72 has opened, giving the route four lanes from Tennessee to Alabama.

MISSOURI Columbia: Amid questions about its legality, the Sycamore restaurant dropped a plan to offer people 30 and under a sandwich discount if they voted.

MONTANA Helena: An election official says a Republican mailer contains bad information about the deadline for absentee ballots to be received: It’s at 8 p.m. Nov. 6.

NEBRASKA Omaha: Union Pacific will lay off 475 railroad workers and eliminate 200 contract jobs by the end of the year.

NEVADA Reno: The University of Nevada, Reno, will spend $2 million to fix accessibility mistakes made during a $14 million Mackay Stadium upgrade in 2016.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Newington: Police are investigating the theft of more than $6,500 worth of Victoria’s Secret lingerie.

NEW JERSEY Dover: More than 100 people are homeless after a fire Monday destroyed six businesses.

NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: Firefighters rescued three homeless people from swift-moving water in an arroyo during storms Tuesday.

NEW YORK Hempstead: A pizza deliveryman who was detained at an Army base over his immigration status is out of jail after his arrest in a domestic violence case.

NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: The state fair nearly topped 1 million in attendance despite a one-day delay.

NORTH DAKOTA Fargo: The old city hall will be demolished soon.

OHIO Cincinnati: Megdelawit Habteselassie is the first black female student body president at the 199year-old University of Cincinnati.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Hobby Lobby plans to buy the shuttered campus of St. Gregory’s University for $8 million.

OREGON Portland: Charges against suspended Marion County Circuit Judge Vance Day, accused of letting a felon handle a firearm, were dismissed because a key witness would not participate.

PENNSYLVANIA Allentown: Former Mayor Ed Pawlowski, 53, was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison for rigging municipal contracts.

RHODE ISLAND Lincoln: At least one tornado touched down during violent thunderstorms Tuesday.

SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: Sheriff’s Investigator Farrah Turner died Monday, 19 days after she was ambushed while approaching a house to question a child sex assault suspect.

SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: City schools’ crowded classroom problem is getting worse, officials say.

TENNESSEE Nashville: Gov. Bill Haslam has appointed Decosta Jenkins and Jamie Woodson to the University of Tennessee Board of Trustees.

TEXAS Houston: Harris County commissioners have banned so-called “robot brothels” from the county.

UTAH Salt Lake City: A state senator drove to Las Vegas to try marijuana – in gummy bear form – as a vote on legalizing medical marijuana looms.

VERMONT Burlington: The Safe Harbor Health Center, a homeless shelter, has received city funding to stay open two more months.

VIRGINIA Portsmouth: A new police program teaches high schoolers what to do during traffic stops.

WASHINGTON Olympia: Voters in two counties who had mistakenly been sent ballot-return envelopes that require postage will receive postage-paid envelopes in the mail soon.

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: Blasting state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey for a “blatant disregard” of public records laws, a judge ordered the U.S. Senate candidate to release correspondence with opioid makers.

WISCONSIN Madison: Twenty of Wisconsin’s 72 counties lack a practicing psychiatrist, a report says.

WYOMING Casper: The dean of the University of Wyoming College of Education says enrollment has fallen by 25 percent and that a teacher shortage looms.