State by state:

News from around the nation

ALABAMA Gadsden: Dragon boats will race Saturday on the Coosa River, The Gadsden Times reports. It’s a team sport, with teams consisting of 20 paddlers, one drummer and a steersman, plus 3 alternates. Seventeen teams are expected for the Alabama event.

ALASKA Fairbanks: A magnitude 4.6 earthquake hit an island in Alaska’s Aleutians chain on Sunday. The Alaska Earthquake Center reports that the earthquake struck Adak Island. There were no reports of damage.

ARIZONA Tucson: City leaders are cosidering several options for public golf courses, The Arizona Daily Star reports. Ideas range from redevelopment to creating other recreational uses.

ARKANSAS Little Rock: A new pay plan for about 25,000 Arkansas state employees will cost an estimated $60 million a year, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports. Gov. Asa Hutchinson says the plan will raise salaries at least 1% for covered employees.

CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: No more warnings. Los Angeles police have begun issuing tickets to people who park their cars on the grassy strip between the curb and the sidewalk. The practice has been common in densely populated neighborhoods but the City Council in June decided to ban it.

COLORADO Pueblo: Residents hope the Environmental Protection Agency will expedite the Superfund cleanup of a Pueblo neighborhood around an old smelter, The Pueblo Chieftain reports. The EPA has told residents it has an interim plan to start cleanup next year.

CONNECTICUT Hartford: Officials say the recent exhumation of a Vietnam veteran’s body from the Connecticut State Veterans Cemetery was a rare use of federal law barring murderers from veteran burial grounds. Guillermo Aillon’s remains were disinterred last month after officials learned of his murder conviction.

DELAWARE Rehoboth Beach: Longtime Mayor Sam Cooper was ousted in municipal elections Saturday after more than 25 years in office. The new Rehoboth Beach mayor will be city commissioner Paul Kuhns, who got 761 votes to Cooper’s 543.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: A former District of Columbia police officer who was sentenced to two years of probation for assault lost his appeal. Clinton Turner was convicted of assaulting a shoe store employee in 2013. Turner claimed the man attacked him, but a surveillance camera showed otherwise.

FLORIDA Tampa: Crews in Florida have removed the “Old Joe” Confederate statue, a memorial to Gainesville men who lost their lives in the Civil War, The Gainesville Sun reports. The statue was returned to the local United Daughters of the Confederacy chapter.

GEORGIA St. Marys: The National Park Service plans to pay tribute to Georgia’s largest barrier island by issuing a special coin next year. The 25-cent coin will have a Cumberland Island design. The 36,000-acre island is mostly federally protected wilderness.

HAWAII Honolulu: The Honolulu Police Department will begin testing body cameras for its officers next month. KHON-TV reports that the six-month pilot program will start mid-September.

IDAHO Burley: An Idaho junior high school where 60% of students live in poverty is taking steps to ease the financial burden of back-to-school shopping. Burley Junior High School’s new Care and Share Closet offers

clothes and school supplies, The Times-News reports.

ILLINOIS Springfield: Hand of Fate Brewing in Petersburg has won the Illinois Bicentennial Craft Beer Competition. The company will brew the official beer for the Prairie State’s bicentennial, set to kick off in late fall.

INDIANA Vincennes: A twoweek walk is underway to reenact the journey across Indiana by the University of Notre Dame’s founder nearly 175 years ago. The Notre Dame Trail walk began with a ceremony Sunday in Vincennes.

IOWA Waterloo: Officials are reviewing traffic crash data to decide where to install automated red light cameras, The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports. About 10 intersections are under consideration.

KANSAS Hutchinson: Irrigation projects that aim to improve Kansas’ diminishing underground water supply will be showcased across the state this month, The Hutchinson News reports. More than a dozen water technology farms will show state farmers how to use less irrigation water on their crops.

KENTUCKY Frankfort: The National Park Service has added eight sites around Kentucky to the National Register of Historic Places. Among them are a Jewish cemetery in Middlesboro, a Victorian home school for girls in Louisville and a motel near Cave City.

LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: Children’s book author Johnette Downing will receive the 18th Louisiana Writer Award for her contributions to the state’s literary and cultural life. Among Downing’s 22 books are “Why the Crawfish Lives in the Mud.”

MAINE Winthrop: A man digging a hole for a blueberry plant in his backyard uncovered a sort of time capsule. The metal container uncovered by Randy Hooper contained old syringes, a white powder labeled “sulphate of morphine poison” and an October 1955 edition of the Boston Sunday Globe, The Kennebec Journal reports.

MARYLAND Ocean City: A Stevensville man is more than

$1.6 million richer after winning the 44th annual White Marlin Open tournament in Ocean City. Glen Frost landed a white marlin last week weighing 95.5 pounds.

MASSACHUSETTS Saugus: The 115-year-old George’s Barber Shop celebrated its first major renovation and expansion Monday with a grand reopening. The business was founded in 1902, The Daily Item of Lynn reports.

MICHIGAN Jackson: Authorities say two dogs and two cats died in a Michigan apartment building fire that forced the evacuation of 40 units. No people were injured in the Sunday night fire at Abbey Villas Apartments in Jackson.

MINNESOTA St. Cloud: State officials are partnering with a search service to make information available about opioid addiction treatments, The St. Cloud Times reports.

MISSISSIPPI Jackson: Some 20 Staffordshire Terriers were rescued from a suspected dogfighting operation in Mississippi’s Rankin County. One suspect was arrested and charged with felony dog fighting, animal cruelty and other violations.

MISSOURI Columbia: Raymond Breuer, 97, told a nurse before he died Aug. 4 that if his wife soon passed away, they should be buried in the same casket. They were. His wife, Velma, 96, died just hours later. Married 77 years, they were buried in the same casket holding hands last week, The Columbia Daily Tribune reports.

MONTANA Missoula: A man working on an irrigation project drowned in the Clark Fork River west of Missoula when the platform he and another man were standing on collapsed, the Missoulian reports.

NEBRASKA Lincoln: A woman who became the payee for her daughter’s Social Security disability benefits is accused of stealing them, The Lincoln Journal Star reports. Authorities say Maria Owen-Miller agreed to notify Social Security if her daughter left her care but didn’t when her daughter began care at a group home for children.

NEVADA Las Vegas: City officials are warning the recreational marijuana industry against any promotion of public consumption. The Las Vegas Department of Business License says pot businesses can’t publicize marijuana parties or dinners even if held in a private residence.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Nashua: New Hampshire’s Rivier University is

extending its job promise to graduates for a second year. The school promises if they don’t find employment nine months after graduation, it’ll either pay their student loans for a year or enroll them in master’s degree courses tuition-free, The Nashua Tele

graph reports.

NEW JERSEY New

Brunswick: The leader of an identity theft and mortgage fraud scheme that stole nearly

$1 million from lenders is headed to prison for

10 years after pleading guilty to money laundering.

NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico’s tobaccofree policy took effect Tuesday. Most designated smoking areas also were eliminated.

NEW YORK Tarrytown: Police say three teenagers face criminal charges over a YouTube video that shows them trespassing on a bridge that will replace the Tappan Zee Bridge but is still under construction, The Journal News reports.

NORTH CAROLINA Charlotte: A North Carolina church that meets at the Park Expo and Conference Center in Charlotte had plans for its Sunday service disrupted when an electrical fire broke out prior to the start, WBTV reports. The building was evacuated.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: More than 400 athletes and volunteers from across the U.S. and Canada are in Bismarck this week for the Special Olympics North America Softball Championship. Twenty-eight teams will compete.

OHIO Toledo: The Toledo Jeep Fest will return in August 2018 to celebrate everything Jeep after a one-year hiatus, The Blade reports. The three-day event is expected to cost $300,000.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: University of Oklahoma regents have decided to create a new entity to run OU Medical Systems, The Journal Record reports. The nonprofit, OU Medicine Inc., stems from the breakup of the system’s former operator, Hospital Corp. of America Holdings.

OREGON Astoria: The Astoria Regatta apologized for Confeder- ate flag displays last weekend during the Grand Land Parade, The Daily Astorian reports. The displays by Sons of Beaches, an off-road enthusiast group, were on the group’s parade float. The group’s leader says several battle flags were displayed to honor war veterans.

PENNSYLVANIA Pittsburgh: Vietnam War veteran Francis McKenna finally has the medals for his service after a 45-year wait, The Tribune-Review reports. While McKenna was in campaigns in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, many missions were classified. It took a three-year search to find a single line, “assigned to duty in Thailand.”

RHODE ISLAND Providence: The Providence Journal found at least four cases in the last five months where youths at Rhode Island group homes were put in situations that left them hurt, endangered or exploited. In one case, a group home lacked permission to take a 17-year-old boy to a trampoline park where he fell and suffered paralysis.

SOUTH CAROLINA Hilton Head Island: A puppy is making Marine Corps history as the first female mascot for Recruit Depot Parris Island. The English bulldog, named Opha Mae, will be the installation’s 21st mascot, The Island Packet reports.

SOUTH DAKOTA Rapid City: A Custer City man faces trial on Oct. 2 on charges of running over a wakeboarder while boating drunk on the Angostura Reservoir two summers ago, The Rapid City Journal reports.

TENNESSEE Nashville: The Tennessee State Museum is offering a free day Sept. 15 for families with home-schooled children. The museum in Nashville will hold special programs that focus on citizenship.

TEXAS Edinburg: Police acting on a tip found 17 immigrants locked in a tractor-trailer parked at a gas station about 20 miles from the Mexican border. KGBTTV reports that none of those in the trailer required medical attention.

UTAH Salt Lake City: Police descended Monday on a Salt Lake City neighborhood near a crowded downtown homeless shelter plagued by drugs and violence. Authorities said the sweep was aimed at disrupting the drug trade.

VERMONT Burke: The Burke Mountain Academy and Burke Mountain Resort will split revenues from lift passes and hotel room costs under a new operating agreement approved by a federal judge, The Caledonian Record reports.

VIRGINIA Richmond: The state is removing two magnolia trees and closing sidewalks on Capitol Square to build a monument to honor Virginia’s Native Americans. Construction is expected to start later this month and be completed in December.

WASHINGTON Spokane: An investigation discovered that staff at a Spokane veterans hospital ignored a roof hole that’s been leaking for about five years, The Spokesman-Review reports. Instead of having it fixed, officials say, a funnel directed water into a metal bucket at Mann- Grandstaff VA Medical Center.

WEST VIRGINIA Parkersburg:

Wood County officials are concerned about people ignoring jury summonses, The Parkersburg News and Sentinel reports. Officials say three people failed to show for a recent special grand jury, resulting in its cancellation.

WISCONSIN Randolph: A man who lost both legs in a mill explosion that killed five workers in May is continuing his recovery. The Wisconsin State Journal reports that Collin Vander Galien received prosthetic legs last week.

WYOMING Casper: Uranium industry officials will meet in Casper Aug. 21-25 for a symposium amid a downturn caused by low prices. Topics to be discussed include how to bring older mines back online and the outlook for cheap uranium from other countries, the Casper Star-Tribune reports.