State by state:
News from around the nation
News from across the USA
ALABAMA Montgomery: Alabama has settled a lawsuit that challenged the use of BP oil spill funds to build a beachside hotel and conference center. The state committed to beach access funding, dune restoration, biking trails and other amenities. The hotel is projected to open next fall.
ALASKA Juneau: The body discovered by a duck hunter last week outside Juneau was identified as Teri Heuscher, 53, a hiker who went missing in late June, authorities said. The body was found at a makeshift campsite at the base of Thunder Mountain, the Juneau Empire reports.
ARIZONA Flagstaff: The National Park Service has awarded a rafting contract for the Colorado River to a subsidiary of concessionaire giant Aramark — replacing Colorado River Discovery, which has led rafting trips from the Glen Canyon Dam to Lees Ferry since 2006, the Arizona Daily Sun reports.
ARKANSAS Royal: Citing a lack of funding, the Arkansas National Guard has halted plans to expand its at-risk youth program to the vacant Ouachita Job Corps facility, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports.
CALIFORNIA San Francisco: A group of veterans and photographers have petitioned the Navy to name a warship for Joe Rosenthal. The AP photographer took the iconic image of six Marines raising an American flag over Iwo Jima in February 1945.
COLORADO Denver: Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is leading a trade mission to India this week. Hickenlooper’s office says he’s in the country with a delegation of 12 state business and academic leaders.
CONNECTICUT Stamford: The Stamford Symphony says Barbara Smith-Soroca is retiring as chief executive officer and president after 39 years. Smith-Soroca will be honored at the orchestra’s season-opening concert on Saturday.
DELAWARE Wilmington: The Delaware Department of Transportation says a bridge rehabilitation project on northbound Interstate 95 near Wilmington is likely to result in traffic delays, WDEL-FM reports. The project is expected to be ongoing to early November.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: The long awaited opening of The Wharf is this week, and events to mark the occasion are expected to cause a traffic spike in Washington. Authorities have posted signs to tell commuters what to expect starting Thursday.
FLORIDA Boynton Beach: Authorities say two Florida women overdosed on heroin in an SUV with two infants in the back seat. After treatment, the women were booked into jail on child neglect charges. The infants were turned over to family members.
GEORGIA Jekyll Island: A rare bobcat has returned to Georgia’s Jekyll Island State Park after being found paralyzed, apparently from tick bites. The bobcat was taken to the Jacksonville, Fla., zoo, where veterinarians removed the ticks.
HAWAII Honolulu: More than 200 Hawaii households lost water when a water main broke Sunday in Kaneohe. A water wagon was positioned in the area and a roving water wagon also was made available for the 224 homes impacted.
IDAHO Filer: Filer Middle School 8th-grade English teacher Sara Holley was named last month to the National Education Association’s “30 under 30” list. The Times-News reports that Holley, who began with a kin- dergarten class, is in her third year of teaching.
ILLINOIS Springfield: Between 2000 and 2014, the number of freshmen who left Illinois to attend college rose by about 64%. And officials say fall freshman enrollment was down at most public schools, including doubledigit drops at Chicago State, Eastern Illinois and Southern Illinois at Carbondale.
INDIANA Indianapolis: Residents will start moving early next year into a 28-story apartment-and-retail tower at the redeveloped former Market Square Arena site downtown. The $120 million project will have a heated saltwater pool, a large gym, a pet grooming spa and electric car charging stations.
IOWA Sioux City: A bankruptcy petition filed by the developer of a 12-story historic art deco building in downtown Sioux City has been dismissed, The Sioux City Journal reports. The move paves the way for foreclosure proceedings on the Badgerow Building, built in 1933, to resume.
KANSAS Wichita: Changing policies and a better relationship with animal advocates have helped the Wichita Animal Control Department reduce the euthanasia rate of shelter dogs and cats by about two-thirds in the last eight years, the Wichita Eagle reports.
KENTUCKY Loyall: The Army Corps of Engineers is seeking an emergency court order to move about 60 graves to repair a landslide threatening the Wix Howard Cemetery in Loyall, The Lexington Herald-Leader reports. Relatives for the known graves have agreed to moving them to Resthaven Cemetery.
LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: Authorities arrested a La Belle Aire Elementary student after an unloaded handgun was found in her backpack. East Baton Rouge Parish officials tell The Advocate that the 11-year-old took the .40-caliber handgun from a family member without that person knowing.
MAINE Fryeburg: Maine’s agricultural fair season drew to a close with the completion last weekend of the Fryeburg Fair. Activities at the eight-day event included a flower show, dairy show, horse pulling and harness racing, a skillet throw and a pie contest.
MARYLAND Hagerstown: Authorities a pedestrian who was struck by a vehicle while tending to an injured dog in the road was fatally injured. The dog also died, the Washington County Sheriff ’s Office says.
MASSACHUSETTS Cambridge: Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski of the MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” will speak to Harvard University students Wednesday about politics and public service. The TV hosts were named visiting fellows at Harvard this fall.
MICHIGAN Ann Arbor: Officials say the invasive sea lamprey is gaining ground in Lake Superior and Lake Erie, while its numbers remain at near-historic lows in the other Great Lakes.
MINNESOTA Duluth: A scenic highway that runs along a steep ridge above the St. Louis River has reopened, five years after mudslides washed it out during heavy rain, Minnesota Public Radio reports.
MISSISSIPPI Biloxi: Oyster season in Biloxi Bay began and ended last week after only four days. The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources says oystermen tonged up 657 sacks, equivalent to 30% of the oysters on the small reef where fishing was allowed for only the second time since 1964.
MISSOURI Kansas City: Voters elected several supporters of expanding Kansas City’s streetcars in a low-turnout weekend election, The Kansas City Star reports. An expanded streetcar system will connect downtown to an area near the University of Missouri-Kansas City campus.
MONTANA Billings: The Denbury Resources energy company is seeking federal approval to build a 110-mile pipeline in Montana to transport carbon dioxide for use in oil production along the North Dakota border.
NEBRASKA Omaha: Two people are charged in a string of robberies of Omaha men who thought they were meeting with a woman they had messaged on a dating app. Police say one suspect was linked to the robberies after selling stolen cellphones.
NEVADA Las Vegas: Authorities say a driver who crossed multiple lanes on a Las Vegas highway last weekend and slammed into a large water valve has died. The victim was driving a 2004 Nissan Armada.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Portsmouth: State lawmakers want to ensure that a chemical found in water near the Pease International Tradeport doesn’t cause problems elsewhere, The Portsmouth Herald reports. Two bills would create limits for so-called PFCs found in items like Teflon.
NEW JERSEY Wayne: Authorities say a New Jersey Transit bus ran off the road and nearly struck a telephone pole Sunday, but no one was hurt. The New York City-bound bus was carrying 14 passengers.
NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico’s Chicana and Chicano Studies Department has submitted a proposal aimed at allowing the program to issue graduate degrees.
NEW YORK Valatie: A soldier who went missing during World War II will be laid to rest Friday in Valatie. Army officials say Earl Gorman was working as a radio operator on an aircraft attacked by German planes in 1944 over Yugoslavia.
NORTH CAROLINA Fayetteville: Authorities say the drivers of at least two allterrain vehicles left an injured friend behind after a wreck on a Fayetteville street. Police say Jermaine Morrison was thrown from his ATV.
NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: The city has set up a pop-up pathway, a temporary pedestrian and bike path stretching from Bismarck’s heart to the Missouri River waterfront. The Bismarck Tribune reports that feedback will be used to design the potential final product.
OHIO Cincinnati: A restored 19th-century Ohio toll house and post office is reopening to the public Oct. 29 when the Coleraine Historical Society dedicates the Blue Rock/Banning Toll House and Creedville Post Office.
OKLAHOMA Tulsa: A University of Oklahoma researcher says teachers who have left the state earned an average of $19,000 more to teach in other states, The Tulsa World reports. More than 250 former Oklahoma teachers responded to the online survey.
OREGON Springfield: A mother is charged with child neglect after authorities say neighbors found her 3-year-old son wandering naked in a road, The Eugene Register-Guard reports. The child was placed in state custody.
PENNSYLVANIA Oklahoma: State police say a mother whose SUV crashed and was left sitting disabled on train tracks pulled her infant to safety seconds before a train slammed into the vehicle. The woman and baby had moderate injuries from the crash.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: The state has been awarded a federal grant to ensure its emergency responders can effectively respond to incidents involving hazardous material. The $125,000 grant will help responders prepare for a range of transportation emergencies.
SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: The University of South Carolina closed a classroom building after a student killed herself. School officials say the woman was a doctoral student whose body was found in Gambrell Hall, which houses the university’s history department.
SOUTH DAKOTA Mitchell: Dakota Wesleyan University has dedicated a $1.2 million theater, The Daily Republic reports. The Ron and Sheila Gates Department of Theatre was previously in Hughes Hall, built in 1912.
TENNESSEE Nashville: Horse owners in Tennessee are urged to take precautions after three horses tested positive for viruses that infect the blood. The problems arose in Davidson, Knox and Bedford counties.
TEXAS Austin: Federal disaster officials say Hurricane Harvey survivors who need more time to find housing are getting an extension to Oct. 24 to stay temporarily in hotels while they look for an alternative place to live.
UTAH Ogden: The former St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Ogden has been open for the past year as a rehab center for people battling drug and alcohol addiction, The Standard-Examiner reports. North Wasatch Recovery has about 24 clients in outpatient programs.
VERMONT Hyde Park: While their school is being renovated, Hyde Park Elementary students will get their education in the Plaza Hotel, Vermont Public Radio reports. Principal Diane Reilly says it’s an improvement over the crumbling school building.
VIRGINIA Richmond: A girl was taken to a hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening after falling from a Ferris wheel at a Richmond carnival, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports. Authorities say the girl, about 10 year old, fell about 10 feet.
WASHINGTON Seattle: One of the state’s newest ferries, the Chimacum, is out of service due to a mechanical malfunction, KOMO reports. The breakdown temporarily leaves only one ferry operating on the busy Bremerton-Seattle route.
WEST VIRGINIA Morgantown: State voters overwhelmingly agreed to $1.6 billion in state bonds for a 600-plus list of projects to repair and build roads and bridges.
WISCONSIN Madison: The Navy has awarded University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers over $6 million to work on improving container software.
WYOMING Cheyenne: Snow blanketed much of southeast Wyoming and temporarily closed a 150-mile stretch of Interstate 80 on Monday. The snow caused slick road conditions along the corridor from Cheyenne to Rawlins.