Around the nation
Auction of San Francisco street canceled.
ALABAMA Rockford: The Coosa County sheriff says a two-time escapee’s most recent getaway was the result of an electronic glitch in a door lock control panel, AL.com reports.
ALASKA Anchorage: Authorities say a suspect in the theft of a mounted zebra head from a local home was arrested and charged with felony burglary and theft, KTVA reports.
ARIZONA Mayer: A man accused of burglarizing a disabled pickup truck called 911 for help when the vehicle’s owner showed up and confronted him, The Daily Courier reports.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: A judge threatens to block the state from issuing birth certificates if lawyers don’t find a way by Jan. 5 to fix a law that the U.S. Supreme Court says illegally favors heterosexual parents.
CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: Environmentalists seek to block a plan to pump water from under the Mojave Desert and sell it to Southern California cities and counties.
COLORADO Denver: A coffee shop that was vandalized and drew protests after putting up a controversial sidewalk sign has reopened. The sign at Ink! Coffee read, “Happily Gentrifying the Neighborhood Since 2014.”
CONNECTICUT Hartford: Homeowners with crumbling foundations can seek state reimbursement for testing costs, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy says.
DELAWARE Dover: A panel set up to study the extinction of certain animal and plant species in Delaware held its final meeting this week.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: A record pressing factory that can turn out about 9 million discs a year is expected to open in January, The Washington Post reports.
FLORIDA Jacksonville: There’s a baby boom at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens. Two giraffe calves were born in the past week, The Florida Times-Union reports.
GEORGIA Atlanta: Two former corrections officers pleaded guilty to charges involving abuse of inmates. Authorities say one used a stun device on a DeKalb County Jail inmate, and the other punched U.S. Penitentiary inmate in the face.
HAWAII Honolulu: A billionaire was blocked from docking at a Molokai harbor when he tried to visit the island with his yacht, Hawaii News Now reports.
IDAHO Boise: The state wants the EPA to take over regulating underground injection wells needed by the oil and natural gas industry to dispose of wastewater.
ILLINOIS Chicago: A meeting Friday will open a review of potential impacts that the future Obama Presidential Center will have on Jackson Park, The Chicago Sun-Times reports.
INDIANA Indianapolis: The growth of small-scale farms for local and organic crops has led to more agriculture-related injuries and deaths. Officials say up to a quarter of Indiana’s 115 farm fatalities in the past four years were at small operations such as hobby and lifestyle farms.
IOWA Grinnell: Authorities say an 86-year-old man died near where a grass fire began. The fire and Bernard Willfang’s death appear accidental.
KANSAS Manhattan: Kansas State University will use a $1 million gift to create at least 30 matching scholarships as part of the school’s Family Scholarship Program.
KENTUCKY Lexington: The Kentucky Horse Park’s Hall of Champions will welcome Point Given next spring. Point Given has a career nine wins, including the 2001 Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes.
LOUISIANA New Orleans: A man wearing a gun belt and bullet-proof vest emblazoned with “State Agent” while chasing another man down a French Quarter street faces charges of impersonating an officer. Authorities say Wayne Lozier Jr. is actually a bar bouncer.
MAINE Hancock: A man says his four pit bull puppies stolen over the weekend were returned to him.
MARYLAND Frederick: Authorities are investigating a possible poaching incident after a hunter discovered the carcass of a black bear that was killed out of season. Bear hunting season was Oct. 23-26.
MASSACHUSETTS Hyannis: A hockey stick featuring the signatures of former President John F. Kennedy and his brothers, Robert and Edward Kennedy, is on display at the John F. Kennedy Hyannis Museum, The Cape Cod Times reports.
MICHIGAN Detroit: The Bedrock real estate firm plans to develop more than 700 rental and for-sale housing units on the 18-acre site of the former Frederick Douglass Homes housing project.
MINNESOTA St. Paul: Several teens were arrested after going in an offlimits Mississippi River bank cave.
MISSISSIPPI Columbus: Twentyeight Mississippi University for Women students sought treatment at a hospital because of high levels of carbon monoxide in their dorm.
MISSOURI St. Joseph: Two people injured in a Fourth of July explosion that destroyed a home filed a lawsuit claiming that a tenant was making fireworks at the time, The St. Joseph News-Press reports.
MONTANA Helena: The state Supreme Court has ordered creation of a special court to oversee claims filed on behalf of people who became ill or died following exposure to asbestos from a W.R. Grace mine.
NEBRASKA Lincoln: Court records say a judge has forwarded for trial the criminal case against the Lancaster County treasurer. Andy Stebbing is accused of selling cars without a dealer’s license and filing fraudulent tax returns.
NEVADA Elko: A former ranch hand faces up to life in prison without parole and possible deportation after pleading no contest to killing and decapitating a woman in 2016, The Elko Daily Free Press reports.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: State transportation officials propose a 50% increase in tolls on state roads.
NEW JERSEY Trenton: A state medical board temporarily suspended the license of a doctor accused of erratic behavior. The complaint says Sharon Worosilo tried at length to perform an epidural injection on a patient while repeatedly asking an X-ray technician what to do next.
NEW MEXICO Los Alamos: Los Alamos National Laboratory gets a new director Jan. 1. Terry Wallace will replace Charles McMillan.
NEW YORK Albany: The state attorney general says dozens of sexual assault survivors who were improperly billed for rape exams by a New York City hospital will be reimbursed.
NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: State auditors say two DMV workers used government vehicles for unauthorized commutes over three years.
NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: Hunters killed six mountain lions during the Zone 1 early season that ended Sunday. The late season opened Monday.
OHIO Columbus: Ohio State University will pay $450,000 to settle a negligence claim over the death of a student who dived into shallow water during a traditional cold-weather jump into Mirror Lake.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Identical twin sisters were sentenced this week to federal prison for conspiring to steal U.S. postage stamps.
OREGON Pendleton: A man who skipped out on a court hearing on a hate crime charge in 2012 has been rearrested in Umatilla County, The East Oregonian reports.
PENNSYLVANIA Pittsburgh: Two rare tiger cubs whose mother didn’t bond with them are being hand-raised at The Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: The state ACLU says police departments that have traffic ticket quotas are breaking a 2010 Rhode Island law.
SOUTH CAROLINA Aynor: Authorities say 26 guns were stolen from Rivertown Auction Co. and Gun Store in a robbery, The Sun News reports.
SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: Someone stole an urn with the cremated remains of Alice Durham, and the family wants it back, KELO-TV says.
TENNESSEE Knoxville: The Tennessee Valley Authority says its biologists discovered a new species of fish in the Duck River tributary streams.
TEXAS Fort Worth: Officials at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport will use about $52 million in federal aid for runway and lighting upgrades.
UTAH Ogden: A state lawmaker wants to study the cost of capital punishment to see if it’s cheaper to keep an inmate in prison for life, The Standard-Examiner reports.
VERMONT South Burlington: The newly opened Jaycee Park for dogs closed amid a neighbor’s complaint that the barking made him “miserable,” The Burlington Free Press says.
VIRGINIA Charlottesville: A University of Virginia professor says he’ll respond to allegations of sexually harassing female students in the creative writing program.
WASHINGTON Seattle: The city’s first woman mayor since the 1920s took the oath of office this week.
WEST VIRGINIA Follansbee: Brooke County will cut 7 primary schools down to 4, The Intelligencer reports.
WISCONSIN Madison: Officials say 10 state hunting licenses were sold to infants after Gov. Scott Walker eliminated the minimum hunting age.
WYOMING Casper: An assistant teacher accused of hitting an autistic student no longer works for the Natrona County School District, the Casper Star-Tribune reports.
Compiled from staff, wire reports.