Around the nation
News from every state.
ALABAMA Greenville: Butler County has unveiled a new monument that lists the names of 19 area men who lost their lives in World War I.
ALASKA Anchorage: Sheila McMahon, suspected of fraudulently applying for $70,000 in Alaska Permanent Fund dividends, pleaded not guilty.
ARIZONA Phoenix: Gov. Doug Ducey declared a state of emergency in Coconino County after excessive rain caused flood damage. He said $200,000 will be used toward recovery efforts.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: An online poll has determined that Bukavu will be the name of a baby gorilla at the Little Rock Zoo.
CALIFORNIA Anaheim: Disneyland has agreed to raise the minimum wage for employees at its theme park to $15 an hour.
COLORADO Castle Rock: Police say a man shot his wife because he mistakenly believed that she was a home intruder. No charges have been filed, as police have ruled out foul play.
CONNECTICUT Hartford: Winners of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection’s first Discover Outdoor Connecticut Photo Contest will have their photographs published in Connecticut Wildlife magazine.
DELAWARE Delaware City: Formosa Plastics Corp., which has had a long history of environmental violations, is being closed.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: An American University graduate student has tested positive for tuberculosis.
FLORIDA Fort Lauderdale: Nova Southeastern University says it is the only school to offer doctorates in medicine and osteopathic programs on the same campus.
GEORGIA Atlanta: The city’s leaders abruptly canceled a job offer to its first chief education officer shortly after announcing the hire.
HAWAII Hilo: Jack’s Tours announced it’s closing due to the de-
cline in tourism on the Big Island after the Kilauea eruption.
IDAHO Boise: Idaho Court of Appeals Judge Sergio Gutierrez, the state’s first and only Latino judge, will retire at the end of this year.
ILLINOIS Sabula: Work on a new bridge connecting Iowa and Illinois has been delayed by high water in the Mississippi River.
INDIANA Fort Wayne: About 300 members of the Indiana Air National Guard are back from a threemonth deployment in Afghanistan.
IOWA Clear Lake: Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti will speak at the Iowa Democratic Wing Ding on Aug. 10.
KANSAS Kansas City: Julie Ford, interim superintendent of the Kansas City, Kansas, school district, has resigned after less than a month.
KENTUCKY Lexington: Three people were injured in an explosion during an estate sale at a house.
LOUISIANA Gretna: Elias Jorge Ictech-Bendeck has sued a parish and the operator of a landfill, saying smells are making people sick.
MAINE Augusta: This year’s deer permit lottery on Sept. 7 is giving out 84,745 permits, or 28 percent more than last year.
MARYLAND Greenbelt: A fire in the Franklin Park at Greenbelt Station apartments displaced 14 people.
MASSACHUSETTS Boston: The state has raised its age to buy tobacco to 21.
MICHIGAN Unionville: A Bob Segerthemed bar named Cat Man Do has recently opened.
MINNESOTA St. Paul: The Minnesota secretary of state’s office says nearly 29,700 people had cast ballots by July 26 for the state’s August primary election.
MISSISSIPPI Natchez: Robert Galmore, 46, died in a logging accident.
MISSOURI Springfield: Missouri
State University is spending $1.6 million to buy 52 pianos.
MONTANA Havre: Hill County Attorney Jessica Cole-Hodgkinson is resigning amid criticism that she is unprepared to prosecute cases.
NEBRASKA Lincoln: The state is giving online businesses until 2019 to start collecting sales taxes on orders placed within the state.
NEVADA Reno: The Fire Department has joined the PulsePoint app, which alerts people trained in CPR.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Pinkham Notch: Officials say maintenance projects have caused hikers to seek alternate routes up Mount Washington, possibly resulting in more rescue calls.
NEW JERSEY Trenton: Attorney Robert Novy, who taught elder law seminars, has admitted stealing nearly $3 million from the elderly.
NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: Former Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson is considering getting into a U.S. Senate race.
NEW YORK New City: A family has received a replica Civil War Campaign Medal for their ancestor.
NORTH CAROLINA Huntersville: American Tire Distributors has laid off about 100 employees.
NORTH DAKOTA Grand Forks: North Dakota Mill and Elevator had $14.2 million in profits in its last budget year.
OHIO Cleveland: The Cleveland Orchestra has suspended concertmaster William Preucil after the publication of two accounts detailing sexual misconduct allegations.
OKLAHOMA Tulsa: American Electric Power is dropping plans for what would have been the country’s largest wind farm after regulators rejected the $4.5 billion project.
OREGON Klamath Falls: Henley High School has the top graduation rate for midsize and large schools at 97.9 percent.
PENNSYLVANIA Harrisburg: The state Supreme Court says a grand jury identifies more than 300 “predator priests” in six Roman Catholic dioceses.
RHODE ISLAND Bristol: A post office will be named after 1st Sgt. P. Andrew McKenna, an Army Green Beret who was killed in Afghanistan.
SOUTH CAROLINA Camden: Officers chased down a driver who was unconscious and revived him with CPR.
SOUTH DAKOTA Pierre: State health officials say the West Nile virus season has been detected in 11 counties.
TENNESSEE Nashville: An employee at the bar Stirrup has been diagnosed with Hepatitis A.
TEXAS Burnet: Burnet County Sheriff Calvin Boyd says eight boys have been removed from a boarding home as investigators determine whether they were illegally used as labor.
UTAH Provo: Although Latino students make up the largest ethnic minority group in the state, just 2.45 percent of educators are Latinos, the Board of Education said.
VERMONT Burlington: City officials are offering a survey on ways to revitalize Memorial Auditorium.
VIRGINIA Virginia Beach: The police department says officers have started to wear body cameras.
WASHINGTON Seattle: A movement has started to save the 79-year-old Showbox from demolition.
WEST VIRGINIA Morgantown: The “West Virginia’s Climb” campaign seeks to have 60 percent of workingage residents with a postsecondary credential by 2030.
WISCONSIN Madison: State Rep. Dale Kooyenga will repay the state $30,000 for stealing a protester’s sign.
WYOMING Casper: State economist Jim Robinson says Wyoming is in a “muted” recovery after the energy crash two years ago.