State by state:

News from around the nation

ALABAMA Montgomery:

The Alabama State University Board of Trustees will meet Friday to announce its choice for a new president of the school. Four finalists were announced in August. ALASKA

Anchorage: A landslide snarled traffic in Sitka, but no injuries were reported. Officials tell KTUU that getting passengers to and from a ferry dock created the biggest problem Monday.

ARIZONA

Apache Junction: Pinal County sheriff ’s officials arrested an elementary school principal after investigating online ads soliciting teen girls to go skinny dipping. Authorities say Four Peaks Elementary Principal Karl Judd is charged with luring a minor.

ARKANSAS

Bentonville: Officials in Benton County are reviewing plans for a possible marijuana cultivation facility, The Northwest Arkansas DemocratGazette reports. The effort comes as Arkansas moves forward in implementing sales of medical marijuana.

CALIFORNIA

Los Angeles: Scientists assessing efforts to eradicate invasive ants on the Channel Islands off California enlisted a dog to sniff them out. Tobias, a yellow Labrador, keeps his snout to the ground in a search for nests of Argentine ants.

COLORADO

Denver: The VA’s Office of Inspector General found no system-wide problems in a review of 60 claims processed by the agency’s Lakewood office.

CONNECTICUT

Killingworth: Police say a man shot his way into Killingworth Family Pharmacy to steal drugs. Surveillance video shows the suspect firing what appears to be an assault-style rifle at the front door and an interior door where drugs are stored while the business was closed.

DELAWARE

New Castle: A $30 million library that officials hope will help revitalize a struggling part of Delaware is set to open next week, The News Journal reports. The 40,000-square-foot Route 9 Library & Innovation Center will offer computers, a full-service kitchen and a theater, as well as books.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA:

The Washington Monument is modernizing its elevator and getting a permanent area for safety checks and visitor screenings, The Washington Post reports. Officials say the monument is expected to reopen in spring 2019.

FLORIDA Gainesville:

Police say a Florida woman invited the father of her 4-year-old daughter to join her for “one last drug binge” before she entered rehab. But Joseph Beavins overdosed Sunday, and Taylor Cheyenne Perry is facing a child neglect charge.

GEORGIA Atlanta:

Police are seeking a man who kidnapped a woman in Carroll County and forced her to drive to Atlanta, where she was sexually assaulted. WSB-TV reports that the victim used pin locators on her cellphone to notify her family, and the information was relayed to police.

HAWAII Wailuku:

Hawaii Energy has launched a program to replace older refrigerators with new energy-efficient models, The Maui News reports. In all, 177 new models will be delivered. IDAHO Boise:

Air quality alerts went up throughout Idaho this week because of smoke from wildfires in the Pacific Northwest. State officials say people should limit their time outdoors if possible, especially people with respiratory issues.

ILLINOIS

Springfield: Illinois public health officials are seeing fewer human cases of West Nile virus this summer, the Springfield Journal-Register reports. The state has received 16 reported human cases so far this year, compared with nearly 90 this time last year.

INDIANA

South Bend: The new president of Indiana’s Holy Cross College says its finances are improving. The Roman Catholic liberal arts college in South Bend sold 75 acres to the nearby University of Notre Dame and suspended low-enrollment programs in computer science, gerontology and biotechnology.

IOWA

Fort Madison: The maximum-security Iowa State Penitentiary is rewarding well-behaved inmates by hosting a family picnic Sept. 16. Inmates with no rules violations in the last three years are eligible to attend, along with two visitors.

KANSAS

Wichita: Police say a boy whose body was found encased in concrete in a Wichita rental home is believed to be the son of a woman named in a July order seeking to protect him from abuse. Authorities are awaiting DNA results to determine if the body is that of 3-yearold Evan Brewer.

KENTUCKY

Bowling Green: The National Corvette Museum in Kentucky has a new exhibit that goes well beyond the iconic General Motors cars. On display are a horse-drawn sleigh and a 1935 tractor owned by the state agriculture commissioner.

LOUISIANA

Lafayette: The missing 7-year-old daughter of Lafayette Parish Sheriff Mark Garber and the girl’s babysitter were found safe after they took a canoe ride into a swamp and drifted off course because of high water.

Bristol: Archaeologists have uncovered possible evidence of the first fort at the Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site, The Portland Press Herald reports. England’s Fort Charles was built in 1677.

MARYLAND

Baltimore: Most school districts in Maryland opened for the new year this week, following Gov. Larry Hogan’s order requiring public schools to start after Labor Day, The Baltimore Sun reports.

MASSACHUSETTS

Westbor

ough: A judge added $1 million to the bail for Joshua Hubert, who’s accused of kidnapping a friend’s 7-year-old daughter and throwing her off a bridge into Lake Quinsigamond. The girl, who suffered minor injuries, swam about 100 yards and knocked on the door of a waterfront home.

MICHIGAN

Detroit: The public will get a chance to celebrate Motown’s history in Detroit with an estate sale and live global auction in October, MLive reports. The “Motown Mansion” home once owned by Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr. will be cleared of its contents.

MINNESOTA

St. Paul: The Minnesota State Fair set an attendance record this year of nearly 2 million over its 12-day run. The fair’s agricultural and creative competitions drew more than 35,000 entries as competitors vied for more than $1.5 million in prize money.

MISSISSIPPI

Fulton: Heavy rain last month damaged 246 books containing old land records in Mississippi’s Itawamba County Courthouse, The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports. Officials say each book had 700 to 800 pages of land deeds, titles and other records.

MISSOURI

Raytown: A suburban Kansas City fire department says a burglar broke into a station while firefighters were raising money for charity, The Kansas City Star reports.

MONTANA

Helena: A grizzly bear that was feeding on an elk carcass mauled a Montana bow hunter, slashing a 16-inch cut in his head that required 90 stitches. The victim says his hunting partner was able to stop the attack with bear spray.

NEBRASKA

Bennington: A siren no longer will sound in the Omaha suburb of Bennington to call firefighters to duty, The Omaha World-Herald reports. The city siren will sound only for weather or civil defense warnings.

NEVADA

Las Vegas: Officials say a wildfire that scorched part of a vast former nuclear proving ground northwest of Las Vegas didn’t affect any radioactive contamination. The lightning-

sparked fire that started Aug. 24 was extinguished Monday.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Manchester: Police say an officer was treated for carbon monoxide exposure after fumes were detected in his Ford police vehicle. The officer, alerted Monday by a CO detector, pulled over, got out and was taken to a hospital.

NEW JERSEY

Trenton: The mastermind of a medical kickback ring was sentenced to eight years prison and ordered to pay $1 million in restitution. Authorities say Rehan “Ray” Zuberi headed an operation that bribed dozens of doctors in exchange for patient referrals to medical imaging centers that Zuberi owned.

NEW MEXICO

Albuquerque: The National Hispanic Cultural Center, New Mexico’s most visited state museum, needs more than $2 million in improvements, The Albuquerque Journal reports.

NEW YORK

Albany: General Electric says arguments for more Hudson River dredging to speed its recovery from PCB contamination are “unsupported by sound evidence.” But critics of the six-year, $1.7 billion cleanup say much PCB-contaminated sediment remains.

NORTH CAROLINA

Chapel Hill: Health officials at the University of North Carolina report at least three cases Norovirus, a contagious intestinal illness, on the Chapel Hill campus.

NORTH DAKOTA

Bismarck: A parcel bordering North Dakota’s Theodore Roosevelt National Park may be included in a federal oil and gas lease sale, The Bismarck Tribune reports. But conservationists concerned about wildlife habitat are urging the Bureau of Land Management not to include the 120-acre parcel.

OKLAHOMA OHIO

Cleveland: The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo says its baby giraffe has a name: Zawadi. That means “gift” in the African Masai giraffe’s native country.

Purcell: The Oklahoma Transportation Commission has awarded a $36 million contract to replace an aging bridge linking Purcell and Lexington. The bridge over the South Canadian River was shut down for several months in 2014 for emergency repairs.

Salem: Much of Oregon has been under a haze of smoke this week as dozens of wildfires burned around the state. In the Willamette National For- est alone, officials said the week started with 16 fires covering 45,670 acres.

PENNSYLVANIA

Stroudsburg: A vacant resort in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains that was searched during the manhunt for a sniper who killed a state trooper has burned. Monroe County authorities say Monday’s blaze destroyed part of the former Penn Hills Resort. RHODE ISLAND

Providence: The Pokanoket tribe led a march this week to Brown University in a dispute over land they say was illegally taken from them hundreds of years ago. The Providence Journal reports that school officials say the tribe rejected a proposed agreement to end its campus encampment. SOUTH CAROLINA

Rock Hill: Former Winthrop University President Jamie Comstock Williamson has dropped her lawsuit against the school where she was fired in June 2014 after 11 months on the job, The Herald reports. Williamson had alleged a breach of contract. SOUTH DAKOTA

Pierre: The Argus Leader reports that since juvenile justice reforms were implemented in South Dakota in 2015, the number of juvenile criminals being incarcerated has dropped more than 50%. TENNESSEE Hohenwald:

Authorities say a Lewis County deputy fatally shot an armed man. The deputy was one of two who responded to a campground where a woman who was arguing with a male companion expressed fear because he was armed. The companion was shot when he refused to drop the gun.

TEXAS Houston:

Biologists say Texans cleaning up their properties as hurricane flooding recedes should watch out for wildlife. Officials say snakes, skunks, raccoons and other animals may seek shelter in debris piles.

UTAH

Erda: As many as 150,000 chickens died in a Utah egg farm fire, The Deseret News reports. Officials say an electrical or mechanical problem with manurehandling equipment sparked the blaze.

VERMONT

Burlington: Teachers in Burlington held informational pickets this week to urge the school board to resume contract negotiations. The two sides failed to reach an agreement, and the school board voted 9-1 to impose its own terms and working conditions on teachers.

Virginia Beach: Authorities say a police officer attempting to make a DUI arrest shot the driver’s dog after the man released the animal from his SUV and the dog became aggressive toward the officer, The Virginian-Pilot reports.

WASHINGTON Olympia:

Washington’s attorney general has sued a Tacoma hospital over allegations that it illegally withheld charity care from tens of thousands of low-income patients.

WEST VIRGINIA

Berkeley

Springs: Police say a 9-year-old boy driving a pickup truck backed into the cruiser of a Morgan County sheriff ’s deputy after striking a parked vehicle. No one was injured, but all three vehicles had minor damage.

WISCONSIN

Racine: Almost 70 Texas dogs have taken up new digs in Wisconsin thanks to Woof Gang Rescue in Racine, The Journal Times reports. Two volunteers drove to Houston to retrieve dogs from some eight flooded animal shelters. The dogs will be listed for adoption once foster parents deem them ready.

WYOMING

Jackson: Environmental regulators say they’ve detected potentially unsafe levels of bacteria in Fish Creek and Flat Creek in Jackson Hole.