STATE-BY-STATE
ALABAMA Montgomery: The state received a $1.5 million grant to expand its pre-K through third grade early learning program.
ALASKA Soldotna: The Spring Creek Correctional Center has launched a program that lets some inmates have companion dogs.
ARIZONA Phoenix: The University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix received a $2.3 million grant to research depression.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: The Capitol Arts and Grounds panel will consider plans to reinstall a Ten Commandments monument.
CALIFORNIA Stockton: Authorities say a crackdown on gangs netted 47 arrests and 35 firearms.
COLORADO Golden: A teen was rescued from an old mine shaft that his friends said he was trying to explore.
CONNECTICUT Hartford: The state’s two tribes want to be part of the discussion of an expansion of gambling.
DELAWARE Dover: As lawmakers consider legalizing recreational marijuana, law enforcement officials want to ensure that users don’t have guns.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Authorities arrested more than two dozen people on drug and firearms charges.
FLORIDA Orlando: The “Johnny Reb” Confederate statue removed from a park is in Greenwood Cemetery.
GEORGIA Grovetown: A former city clerk is charged with unlawfully obtaining at least $5,000 from FEMA.
HAWAII Honolulu: The police chief said medical marijuana patients should never have been asked to to give up their guns.
IDAHO Hailey: County commissioners rejected plans for a Camp Rainbow Gold facililty.
ILLINOIS Champaign: The University of Illinois plans to build a new soccer and track and field complex.
INDIANA Indianapolis: The Board of Education has approved new requirements for high school graduates starting in 2023. IOWA Iowa City: The University of Iowa art museum will be renamed for Richard and Mary Jo Stanley, who are donating $10 million.
KANSAS Wichita: Sedgwick County officials said no to incentives to attract a Tyson Foods chicken processing plant, Wichita Eagle reports.
KENTUCKY Louisville: The University of Louisville says interim President Greg Postel will preside at winter commencement Friday. LOUISIANA New Orleans: A civil rights group has filed suit over fees and fines collected by the mayor’s court in Gretna.
MAINE Naples: A woman was pulled to safety from her burning car after a crash to avoid a deer. MARYLAND Baltimore:
AARP has filed a court brief supporting Maryland’s pharmaceutical pricing law.
MASSACHUSETTS Amherst: The University of Massachusetts vaccinated more than 5,000 students. MICHIGAN Baraga: An Upper Peninsula tribe says it has federal approval to enter cigarette processing.
MINNESOTA St. Paul: Census data show a growing number of residents speaking multiple languages.
MISSISSIPPI Jackson: The Southern Poverty Law Center and the MacArthur Justice Center sued Corinth over improper incarceration.
MISSOURI Jefferson City: Gov. Greitens and his staff are using an app that erases messages after they’re read, The Kansas City Star reports.
MONTANA Billings: Officials face a Jan. 1 deadline to minimize how many inmates are in county jails or lose $1 million.
NEBRASKA Clay Center: Authorities say six children were hurt in a crash of a holiday trolley, KSNB reported.
NEVADA Carson City: A pair of Peregrine falcons moved into the Capitol building.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: Two public policy groups have taken a look at the financial impact of proposed school voucher legislation.
NEW JERSEY Newark: Mars Wrigley Confectionary will base its U.S. headquarters in New Jersey.
NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: The agency overseeing New Mexico’s museums and historic sites says $3.2 million is needed for repairs.
NEW YORK New York: Japanese Emperor Hirohito’s memoir of World War II fetched $275,000 at auction.
NORTH CAROLINA Greensboro: Bennett College has been given one last year to improve its finances.
NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: Burleigh County is eliminating about half its polling sites in favor of 12 vote centers.
OHIO Lordstown: Authorities say a man found dead at a construction landfill died by hanging.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: A task force has OK’d a plan to move seven community colleges under the authority of larger governing boards.
OREGON Astoria: Commercial fishing of Dungeness crabs is delayed to Dec. 31, The Daily Astorian reports.
PENNSYLVANIA New Kensington: A gas station is testing whether blue bathroom lights cut drug use.
RHODE ISLAND Smithfield: Bryant University is mourning the loss of its bulldog mascot, Ironclad Tupper I, who died last week.
SOUTH CAROLINA Clemson: Wildlife officials are eyeing how many bears are killed outside hunting season.
SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: A woman was awarded $30,000 after her ex-husband, a doctor, accessed her medical records without permission.
TENNESSEE Clinton: A preliminary investigation finds that an electrical malfunction causd a fire at the Little Ponderosa Zoo.
TEXAS San Marcos: Texas State University says five non-students were kicked off campus for trespassing by posting white supremacist fliers.
UTAH Salt Lake City: A bell from the USS Utah in the Pearl Harbor attack is back at the University of Utah.
VERMONT Rutland: Officials have delayed a paving project in hopes of getting a more favorable bids.
VIRGINIA Virginia Beach: Police say five people were hurt when a driver smashed into a Bank of America.
WASHINGTON Spokane: The state Supreme Court ruled that a property tax exemption for senior citizens and disabled veterans is unconstitutional.
WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: A surge of overdoses prompted the state pharmacy board to designate gabapentin as a “drug of concern.
WISCONSIN Madison: University of Wisconsin System leaders will put an associate degree program under control of a four-year school.
WYOMING Cheyenne: State health officials report increasing flu cases, mostly from southwestern Wyoming. Compiled from staff, wire reports.