STATE-BY-STATE
ALABAMA Huntsville: Community colleges are reaching out to former ITT Tech students after the institute’s closure last week, AL.com reported. Calhoun Community College will host an information session and open house Thursday. Athens State University’s website says the school is “committed to assisting students wishing to transfer.”
ALASKA Juneau: The state imports 96% of its food, and Gov. Walker said that should change, the Juneau Empire reported. Walker noted there are 42 farmers markets statewide compared with 11 in 2004.
ARIZONA Flagstaff: A Route 66 fixture will change hands this month, the Arizona Daily Sun reported. The Grand Canyon Cafe has been in Fred Wong’s family for more than 70 years. After more than three decades of working 14 hours a day at the restaurant, Wong is retiring and passing the baton to restaurateurs Paul and Laura Moir and Michael and Alissa Marquess.
ARKANSAS Alma: There was a flash of light, then state trooper Roy Moomey woke up in his mangled patrol car as emergency personnel worked to keep him alive. Moomey said he remembers trying to herd motorists off Interstate 40 because a wrongway driver was heading in their direction. Moomey saw the car’s headlights, but he doesn’t remember the head-on crash that took the life of Matthew Choate, 24, and almost took Moomey’s,
ArkansasOnline reported.
CALIFORNIA San Luis Obispo: Remains were found during an excavation at Polytechnic State University for a college student missing for more than 20 years, but it may take months before officials can identify whether they are human, The Sacramento
Bee reported.
COLORADO Denver: An elderly man in an electric wheelchair was hit and killed by an SUV in Lakewood, The Denver Post reported.
CONNECTICUT Hartford: The Foundation for Dental Outreach will open its annual two-day free clinic Friday at the XL Center. The clinic is for people who need dental work done but can’t afford it.
DELAWARE Dover: Six Democrats are spending considerable amounts of time and money vying to become the next lieutenant governor, a post that carries few official duties and has been vacant for more than a year, when incumbent Democrat Matt Denn became attorney general. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: When the National Museum of African American History and Culture opens Sept. 24, no major artifacts from Martin Luther King Jr. will be on display. “It’s outrageous,” Clarence Jones, a former King attorney, told The Washington
Post. Jones focused the blame on King ’s children, who charge licensing fees.
FLORIDA Tallahassee: State Supreme Court Justice James Perry will step down from his post because he has reached the mandatory retirement age. State law requires that justices retire once they turn 70, though they can serve out their term if their birthday falls in the last three years of their six-year term. Perry is 72.
GEORGIA Augusta: Isaiah Bush, 18, faced burglary charges after a deputy found him in the back of a Family Dollar store that had closed for the night, the Savannah
Morning News reported.
HAWAII Honolulu: The state received an $8.4 million federal grant aimed at training doctors to better help patients suffering from alcohol or substance abuse,
Hawaii News Now reported.
IDAHO Boise: State tax revenue in August came in 2.2% ahead of forecasts and 6% higher than last August.
ILLINOIS Chicago: The state backed off a 2-year-old policy that allowed only its sickest residents with hepatitis C who rely on the traditional Medicaid program to get disease-curing drugs, the
Chicago Tribune reported.
INDIANA Bloomington: Indiana University launched a new Institute for Korean Studies on its Bloomington campus.
IOWA Des Moines: About 150 protesters convened at a Dakota Access pipeline worksite Saturday, northwest of Boone near the Des Moines River, to voice opposition to the oil pipeline. The $3.8 million project will run underground through four states to bring crude oil from North Dakota to Illinois, The Des
Moines Register reported.
KANSAS Topeka: Police said a violent-crime unit that was formed in May after a spate of shootings and homicides in the city is working but officers still need the public’s help to reduce gang violence, the Topeka
Capital-Journal reported.
KENTUCKY Shelbyville: Inmate Joshua Reece alleged in a lawsuit that Shelby County deputy jailer William Anthony Carey ordered inmates to beat Reece because he had dated the deputy’s wife, The
Courier-Journal reported.
LOUISIANA Barataria Bay: A Coast Guard news release said, “Approximately 200 birds have been observed as oiled to varying degrees in the Cheniere Ronquille Barrier Island and East Grand Terre Island areas” after a 5,250-gallon spill of crude oil,
The Times-Picayune reported.
MAINE Ellsworth: A hiking trail was dedicated to Ed Hastings, a researcher who led one of the largest salmontagging efforts in the world. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Hastings managed the logistics of tagging 350,000 young Atlantic salmon.
MARYLAND Adelphi: The University System of Maryland’s Board of Regents voted unanimously to no longer give bonuses to the system’s chancellor or campus presidents. Future compensation agreements will be publicly announced after closed meetings.
MASSACHUSETTS Stoughton: Two people were thrown from a van and three more were injured when the vehicle rolled over on Route 24.
MICHIGAN Dearborn: AAA Michigan said gas prices statewide fell by about 9 cents per gallon in the past week. The average price for self-serve regular unleaded gasoline was about $2.20 per gallon Sunday.
MINNESOTA St. Paul: Former mayor Larry Cohen, who was mayor of the capital in the 1970s and served as a Ramsey County commissioner and chief district judge, died Sunday after battling cancer. He was 83.
MISSISSIPPI Jackson: Enrollment for the fall semester rose strongly at Mississippi’s eight public universities but fell for the sixth-straight year at the state’s 15 community colleges. Preliminary counts show students enrollment rose 2.5% at universities and fell 0.9% at community colleges.
MISSOURI Carthage: Kindergartners at Fairview Elementary School learn in two languages. The Joplin
Globe reported the classroom features two teachers. One speaks only Spanish in class; the other, only English.
MONTANA Helena: Barriers were put up around areas of the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest to keep out vehicles, forcing campers to walk to campsites near waterways, the
Independent Record reported.
NEBRASKA Omaha: The American Cancer Society has announced it will break ground this month on an $11.5 million housing facility for people and their families traveling to Omaha for cancer treatment. Lodging at the Hope Lodge Nebraska will be free for patients and their families traveling more than 40 miles for treatment.
NEVADA Reno: KTVNTV reported that Andrew Clinger, who was accused of sexual harassment by three women, agreed to resign as city manager. He will receive six months of severance pay and $30,000 to cover legal fees.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: Freedom New Hampshire, a coalition aimed at securing equal rights for transgender people, launched last week and works with law enforcement and other groups, the Concord Monitor reported.
NEW JERSEY Ocean Township: Eddie Antar, the man who turned the “Crazy Eddie” electronics stores into a retail giant before it collapsed amid federal fraud charges, died at age 68.
NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: Tourism officials will close four visitor centers next month. The
Santa Fe New Mexican reported that visitor centers in La Bajada, Raton, Chama and Anthony will be affected.
NEW YORK Owego: An Owego Apalachin school bus transporting the defending Class B state champion girls’ varsity volleyball team to a tournament tipped on its side during an accident on Interstate 88, school officials said.
NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: Police Chief Cassandra DeckBrown released a report that reaffirms her department’s commitment to community policing and says the department will begin a Citizens Police Academy to try to increase transparency and understanding between police and the public, The News &
Observer reported.
NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: The state Supreme Court said 63% of applicants passed the bar exam this year, compared with the 69% pass rate of 2015.
OHIO Akron: Ellet High School was closed Monday after a section of the building caught fire over the weekend.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: After the wettest year on record, parts of the state are dry again, and moderate drought or abnormally dry conditions affect more than 640,000 Oklahomans. About 48% of the state is abnormally dry, and 14% is in moderate drought, a higher percentage than any other state in a seven-state region except New Mexico, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
OREGON Baker City: Nearly 400 acres of privately owned forest with Douglas and white fir, larch and ponderosa pine along Main and East Eagle Creeks in northern Baker County is up for sale, the Baker City
Herald reported.
PENNSYLVANIA Pittsburgh: The Liberty Bridge into downtown will remain closed an extra week for repairs.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: The state Department of Trans- portation scheduled an 80-hour closure of a bridge so it can be replaced. The East Shore Expressway Bridge was closed at 9 p.m. Friday. It’s scheduled to reopen by 5 a.m. Tuesday.
SOUTH CAROLINA Easley: Rebecca Barten Smoak, 57, is facing a murder charge after police said her neighbor named her, while on his death bed, as the shooter.
SOUTH DAKOTA Mitchell: The
Daily Republic reported that residents have nicknamed coffee shops that offer beverages and small food items in a drivethrough “box shops.” In recent years, three “box shops” and three chain coffee shops have opened. In total, there are five locally owned, non-chain coffee shops and at least 25 other fastfood joints, gas stations and restaurants that also sell coffee.
TENNESSEE Nashville: The Tennessee Agriculture Department broke ground on the construction of a state metrology laboratory, officials said. The lab being built at the Ellington Agricultural Center in Nashville will maintain the state’s primary standards of mass, volume and length used for certified scales, meters and temperature measuring devices.
TEXAS Austin: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick will work next year to eliminate in-state tuition for undocumented college students, a benefit that has been law since 2001 and affects 2% of students,
The Texas Tribune reported.
UTAH Salt Lake City: The Salt
Lake Tribune reported there were more than twice as many passengers at Provo Municipal Airport and 6.7% more at OgdenHinckley Municipal Airport compared with 2013.
VERMONT Cornwall: State police and the Division of Fire Safety investigated the cause of a fire Saturday afternoon that destroyed a covered bridge on Swamp Road, the Burlington Free
Press reported.
VIRGINIA Richmond: Two police officers were injured after a man they attempted to arrest allegedly assaulted them with a frying pan, the Richmond Times
Dispatch reported.
WASHINGTON Yakima: A homeless camp across from a police department must close by Nov. 15, the Yakima Herald
Republic reported. City officials noted an increased population and issues with intoxication at the camp.
WEST VIRGINIA Morgantown: A team of West Virginia University engineering students won the $750,000 top prize in a NASA robotics competition.
WISCONSIN Milwaukee: Advocates who want the state to manage the gray wolf population will meet Thursday to support a return of hunting and trapping seasons, the Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel reported. The Great Lakes Wolf Summit aims to bring together parties from Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan.
WYOMING Yellowstone
National Park: A section of the Grand Loop Road between Mammoth Hot Springs and Norris Junction will be closed for about four weeks for construction. The closure will take place between Willow Flats, just south of Indian Creek Campground, and Roaring Mountain, 5 miles north of Norris Junction.