STATE-BY-STATE
Editor’s Note: This is an abbreviated State-By-State page. The full version will return. News from across the USA
ALABAMA Headland: Two men were arrested in a synthetic marijuana lab bust, The Dothan Eagle reports. More than 300 grams of synthetic marijuana was seized.
ALASKA Anchorage: Scientists on a research ship will study how changing Arctic Ocean winds affect plants and animals.
ARIZONA Phoenix: Nine Arizona tribes will get nearly $3 million for environmental reviews.
ARKANSAS Yellville: A ranger fatally shot a man at Arkansas’ Buffalo River National Park who refused to drop his handgun.
CALIFORNIA San Francisco:
The city is suing the owner of a building where 20 people allegedly lived in squalor in the basement of a laundromat, The San Francisco Chronicle reports.
COLORADO Denver: Colorado’s top prosecutor has decided not to charge an elector who refused to vote for Hillary Clinton even though state law required it.
CONNECTICUT New Haven: Yale University will remove a “problematic” stone carving depicting a Puritan settler aiming a musket at a Native American.
DELAWARE Dover: Gov. John Carney says he’s opposed to drilling for oil and gas in federal waters off the coast of Delaware.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: The Washington area will welcome the U.S. Coast Guard tall ship Eagle for a visit Sept. 4-8.
FLORIDA Tallahassee: Florida’s National High Magnetic Field Laboratory has reclaimed its status as home to the world’s strongest magnet at 41.4 tesla.
GEORGIA Atlanta: A white Georgia judge who lost her job won a $90,000 settlement from DeKalb County based on a discrimination claim against the chief judge, who’s black.
HAWAII Hilo: Teachers at Naalehu Elementary School are told to stay away if they came within 3 feet of a student with mumps, West Hawaii Today reports.
IDAHO Nampa: Employees at a state treatment center discovered a male resident dead in his bed, The Idaho Statesman reports.
ILLINOIS Champaign: Two teams of Illinois State Water Survey scientists collected weather data during the solar eclipse, The News-Gazette reports.
INDIANA Indianapolis: The Indiana Board of Animal Health says dog owners should watch for canine influenza. Severe cases can turn into fatal pneumonia.
IOWA Orange City: Iowa has a problem with swine swipers. The Sioux County Sheriff ’s Office is investigating the theft of dozens of hogs from two facilities, The Sioux City Journal reports.
KANSAS Topeka: A former worker in the Kansas Secretary of State’s office says she was told that a key reason she was fired was lack of church attendance.
KENTUCKY Louisville: The Kentucky Farm Bureau is holding the 54th annual Country Ham Breakfast and Auction on Thursday in Louisville. Proceeds go to a charity chosen by the winner.
LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: A Louisiana high school principal who was fired for using a wooden dowel to break up a fight between students has been reinstated by a judge, The Advocate reports.
MAINE Appledore Island: Kelp forests are critical to the fishing industry but are disappearing. The Gulf of Maine is the latest global hotspot to lose kelp.
MARYLAND Baltimore: City officials and the B&O Railroad Museum will raise money to build a new stable for the nation’s oldest continuously operating police mounted unit in Baltimore, a unit founded in 1888.
MASSACHUSETTS Boston: Ad-
vocates for homeless families want to eliminate a Massachusetts requirement of spending at least one night on the streets before being eligible for emergency shelter, MassLive.com reports.
MICHIGAN Lansing: Hunters can apply until Monday for state game area waterfowl hunts.
MINNESOTA St. Paul: Minnesota regulators have released proposed rule changes to protect wild rice that Native Americans consider a sacred food source.
MISSISSIPPI Oxford: Nearly 100 “lease-to-own” townhomes, duplexes, and single-family homes are planned to house local workers, the Oxford Eagle reports.
MISSOURI Kansas City: A lawsuit says a 15-year-old youth was held for three weeks despite dash cam video proving his innocence, The Kansas City Star reports.
MONTANA Billings: A man was awarded $30,000 by the Senior High School district in Billings for injuries he sustained at a 2008 wrestling practice, The Billings Gazette reports.
NEBRASKA Lincoln: University of Nebraska faculty face a drop in vehicle mileage reimbursement from 50 cents to 25 cents a mile, Omaha World-Herald reports.
NEVADA Las Vegas: Two suspects are charged in a series of heists at Las Vegas-area shopping malls, including three thefts the same day at Victoria’s Secret stores in June, KLAS-TV reports.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Manchester: Police say a man who left a Mall of New Hampshire store wearing stolen sneakers ran away shoeless after being confronted.
NEW JERSEY Atlan
tic City: The city’s casinos have seen nearly a 20% gross operating profit rise in the first six months of this year.
NEW MEXICO San
ta Fe: An audit of New Mexico pro- curement found that some $6.5 billion in annual outside contracts bypass competitive bidding.
NEW YORK Albany: Gov. Andrew Cuomo will nominate former Syracuse Mayor Matthew Driscoll to run the New York state Thruway Authority.
NORTH CAROLINA Enfield: Two elderly couples were shot to death while playing cards in the home of one of them.
NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: Participants in a public fossil dig south of Bismarck last week found two large T-rex teeth.
OHIO Oberlin: This Ohio city will celebrate the second Monday in October as Indigenous People’s Day instead of Columbus Day.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: The leader of a group that once held a Satanic “black mass” is claiming school harassment due to his family’s “alternative” religion, The Oklahoman reports.
OREGON Eugene: Police accused a man of threatening a Paintball Palace worker with a paintball gun during a robbery, The Register-Guard reports.
PENNSYLVANIA Clearfield: The state Game Commission killed a trophy bull elk that strayed into a chronic wasting disease area.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: Meals on Wheels of Rhode Island says they’ll no longer make weekend meal deliveries as of Sept. 1.
SOUTH CAROLINA Conway: Authorities say two South Carolina bank workers were killed in a holdup that occurred at the time of Monday’s solar eclipse.
SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux
Falls: Officials say Sioux Falls’ last lead water service line was replaced with a copper line this week.
TENNESSEE Knox
ville: The Knoxville News Sentinel re- ports that a monkey tried to enter a Knoxville home but fled when animal control officers arrived.
TEXAS Katy: A Houston-area school district will hold its first game next week in a new $72 million football stadium, believed to be the most expensive high school stadium ever built.
UTAH Salt Lake City: Prosecutors say a woman used eye drops to secretly poison her husband, making him ill for months.
VERMONT Newport: The owner of a Vermont tour boat says he’s going to end operations at the end of foliage season this year, The Caledonian Record reports.
VIRGINIA Norfolk: More than 7,000 sailors returned to Virginia this week after a seven-month deployment with the USS George H.W. Bush carrier strike group.
WASHINGTON Seattle: Highline Medical Center has agreed to pay $45,000 to settle a claim that it failed to provide sign-language interpreters for a deaf patient.
WEST VIRGINIA Charleston:
More than a dozen tire collection events are set for this fall in West Virginia. Residents can discard up to 10 tires per person.
WISCONSIN Buffalo: A 4-yearold girl died when a horse-drawn wagon lunged backward, The Wisconsin State Journal reports.
WYOMING Laramie: The University of Wyoming wants more police at home football games now that alcohol can be sold, The Laramie Boomerang reports.