STATE-BY-STATE
News from across the USA
ALABAMA Montgomery: A survey says 75 percent of state companies are having a hard time filling jobs.
ALASKA Juneau: The city plans to replace its diesel buses with electric buses over the next decade.
ARIZONA Phoenix: More than two dozen members of the Arizona Army National Guard are heading to Afghanistan for nine months.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: Filmmakers Jeff Nichols and Kathryn Tucker have created a cinema society to connect filmmakers throughout the state.
CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: The city has approved a pilot program for dockless electric scooters that could remove thousands from city streets.
COLORADO Aurora: A would-be robber at an E-Cig of Denver store was thwarted when he dropped his airsoft gun behind the counter.
CONNECTICUT Rocky Hill: The Department of Labor will provide employment and job training help for veterans Sept. 21 at Stand Down 2018.
DELAWARE Christiana: A lifeguard at an apartment complex was taken to a hospital after lightning hit Monday.
marks DISTRICT Emergency OF COLUMBIA: Preparedness September Month in the D.C. area.
FLORIDA Lakeland: The city is evaluating safety after five of its signature swans were hit and killed by drivers.
GEORGIA Atlanta: A new quarter honoring Cumberland Island National Seashore has been released.
HAWAII Honolulu: A state Department of Education fraud and ethics hotline has gotten more than 500 tips, with 59 substantiated claims.
IDAHO Boise: A treatment center and shelter for children who are victims of sex trafficking will open this fall or early winter in the Boise area.
ILLINOIS Chicago: More than two dozen libraries will receive grants to teach middle and high school students how to use new technology.
INDIANA Fort Wayne: Legislation designates a large aircraft hangar in Fort Wayne as the site of a proposed National Airmail Museum.
IOWA Lehigh: Authorities say a Webster City man was shot by his brother while squirrel hunting.
KANSAS Wichita: Child and Family Eyecare is giving away free eye exams and glasses to people without insurance on Friday.
KENTUCKY Falmouth: Rescuers are trying to find homes for 450 potbellied pigs.
LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: A $4 million donation will help Louisiana State University’s opera program renovate a recital hall.
MAINE Augusta: The state’s “any deer permit” lottery is set for Sept. 7. It will give out 84,745 permits.
MARYLAND Columbia: Police say a woman who was found dead in her backyard may have been killed by a pit bull she adopted two weeks ago.
MASSACHUSETTS Haverhill: A $102 million project to replace one of the Interstate 495 bridges across the Merrimack River started this week. It won’t be done until 2022.
MICHIGAN Royal Oak: Detroit Zoo officials say five flamingo chicks have hatched in recent weeks.
MINNESOTA St. Paul: Organizers say this year’s 12-day Minnesota State Fair attracted more than 2 million people, a record.
MISSISSIPPI Merigold: The contents of an iconic juke joint owned by the late Willie “Po’ Monkey” Seaberry will be sold at auction Oct. 1.
MISSOURI Cape Girardeau: NPR affiliate KRCU-FM and The Arrow, the student newspaper at Southeast Missouri State University, have joined forces to provide coverage.
MONTANA Missoula: A survey says the City Council and mayor were the best-paid in the state in 2016.
NEBRASKA Grand Island: Road shows are teaching about waste produced from nuclear energy that could be shipped through Nebraska.
NEVADA Stateline: Schindler Elevator Co. asked a judge to reconsider a jury’s $2 million award to a man whose claimed he was injured by a sudden drop in a casino elevator.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Deering: Veterans interested in transitioning from the battlefield to crop fields are invited to a Sept. 15 workshop hosted by the UNH Cooperative Extension.
NEW JERSEY Holmdel: Two 3-foot statues of M&M candy characters stolen from a children’s concert last month were returned unharmed.
NEW MEXICO Carlsbad: The city’s Labor Day parade was canceled when firefighters were the only participants to show up.
NEW YORK Geddes: More than 1.26 million people, a record, attended the New York State Fair.
NORTH CAROLINA Asheville: Ralph Douglas Husby, 77, a retired economics professor accused of robbing a bank July 5, was hospitalized after he fell and broke his hip in jail. NORTH DAKOTA Jamestown: A high school teacher received treatment after a student allegedly stabbed the instructor with a pencil.
OHIO Columbus: Ground was broken this week for the new Franklin County Forensic Science Center.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Students statewide fared poorly on state tests taken this spring following a two-week walkout by teachers.
OREGON Portland: Grant County will pay $28,000 in legal fees that The Oregonian/OregonLive spent to obtain public records about Sheriff Glenn Palmer’s management.
PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia: Pearl Nipon, 90, the fashion designer behind the Albert Nipon label, died in Philadelphia on Sunday, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
RHODE ISLAND Warwick: A memo- rial soccer honoring goalie Gianna Toll Gate Cirella, High School who died last year from a sudden illness, has been vandalized with plant.
SOUTH CAROLINA Greenville: The largest commercial airlift of horses in history landed Sunday at Greenville’s airport for the FEI World Equestrian Games in Tryon, North Carolina.
SOUTH DAKOTA Rapid City: Officials say the city’s landfill could be full by 2037 – 16 years earlier than thought.
TENNESSEE Nashville: Republican Marsha Blackburn has named Pilot Corporation founder Jim Haslam II and contractor Steve Smith as her Senate campaign’s finance chairmen.
TEXAS El Paso: Four people were hurt when a motorcycle slowed so its passenger could pick up the cellphone she had dropped and was hit from behind by another motorcycle.
UTAH Salt Lake City: The chances of reviving the historic Utah Theater are looking grim without millions of dollars in public funding.
VERMONT Johnson: The Vermont Electric Co-Operative is getting a $1.7 million grant to repair 54 transformers and nearly 2,900 miles of damaged transmission and line poles.
VIRGINIA Waynesboro: A branch of Virginia’s Museum of Natural History will be built in a parking lot that’s not in the city’s 100-year flood plain.
WASHINGTON Everett: A man whose 5-year-old son was shocked by power lines in downtown Everett faces a charge of reckless endangerment.
WEST VIRGINIA Logan: Chief Logan State Park is hosting guided tours to an area where scores of 90 elk roam.
WISCONSIN Milwaukee: Gov. Scott Walker says the state should focus on fixing and maintaining roads instead of spending more to widen them.
WYOMING Cheyenne: Democratic and Republican congressional candidates are willing to participate in a debate before the Nov. 6 election.