STATES
News from every state.
ALABAMA Dothan: Houston County Schools will receive about $340,000 in new money, State Rep. Paul Lee, R-Dothan, told the Dothan Eagle.
ALASKA Anchorage: Overdose deaths in Alaska involving the synthetic opioid fentanyl more than quadrupled last year, a new report says.
ARIZONA Surprise: A new city law prohibits talking on a cellphone or sending text messages while driving.
ARKANSAS Wilson: A new museum building opens this month to showcase a collection of centuries-old Indian artifacts excavated nearby.
CALIFORNIA Sacramento: The state Department of Motor Vehicles says wait times improved by an average of 30 minutes between July and August.
COLORADO officials say they Estes euthanized Park: State a wildlife bear after Rocky it Mountain broke into National several homes Park. near
CONNECTICUT Wallingford: A boarding school is removing ex-headmaster Edward Shanahan’s name from its athletic field over failing to report sexual misconduct allegations.
DELAWARE Dover: The annual NASCAR Hauler Parade will be Oct. 4 as part of festivities for the Oct. 5-7 triple-header at Dover Speedway.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: The Nation’s Escape Triathlon will force the closure of several streets Sunday, WTOP radio reported.
FLORIDA Sarasota: The addition of two public restrooms at historic St. Armands Circle was approved, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reported.
GEORGIA Atlanta: Calendars approved for the next three years call for school to start on the second Monday in August, about a week later than recent years.
HAWAII Honolulu: United Airlines will invest $200 million in airport upgrades over the next decade.
IDAHO Boise: A group of state and local leaders launched a drive to oppose a ballot initiative seeking to legalize historical horse racing.
ILLINOIS Champaign: The city has settled two lawsuits accusing police of wrongdoing for $3.7 million.
INDIANA Indianapolis: A traveling exhibit that recreates the Sept. 11 terror attacks opens Friday at the Indiana World War Memorial.
IOWA Fort Dodge: The former St. John’s Lutheran Church in Webster County is being turned into a homeless shelter for women and children.
KANSAS Mankato: A fund has been started to help two Jewell County sheriff deputies who were shot on duty last week, KSAL reported.
KENTUCKY Frankfort: Carol H. Steckel has been named the state’s new commissioner for the Department of Medicaid Services.
LOUISIANA Shreveport: A new management group is seeking missing exhibits, sent away for repairs, from the Sci-Port Discovery Center.
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um Brands Portland: signed Canada’s a deal to Premi- buy Ready Seafood, one of the state’s biggest lobster dealers.
MARYLAND Baltimore: A dam that blocked wildlife habitats for more than a century will be removed.
MASSACHUSETTS Boston: Ginkgo Bioworks struck a nearly $125 million deal with a Canadian company in the legal marijuana industry.
MICHIGAN Traverse City: A new public shooting range has opened in Grand Traverse County.
MINNESOTA St. Paul: The state’s pheasant population showed a 19 percent increase from 2017.
MISSISSIPPI Ridgeland: Relatives of Steven Jessie Harris, found mentally incompetent to stand trial, are seeking $11 million in a lawsuit over his 11-year detention in a county jail.
MISSOURI Columbia: Boone Hospital Center and BJC Healthcare will end their current lease agreement when it expires at the end of 2020.
MONTANA West Glacier: Glacier National Park will offer limited shuttle and tour access on Going-to-theSun Road starting Friday.
NEBRASKA Lincoln: Ten bats caught in the area have tested positive for rabies so far this year – many more than most years.
NEVADA Las Vegas: Nevada is partnering with communications firm Viasat on a plan to become the first state with Wi-Fi at all state parks.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: The new Capital City Charter School opened in an old Bon-Ton store.
NEW JERSEY Atlantic City: New Jersey utility officials will soon start reviewing plans for a 25-megawatt offshore wind project.
NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: School board President Steven Carrillo’s plan to hire armed officers for two high schools was voted down.
NEW YORK Islip: A tooth taken from the leg of a boy bitten at Fire Island National Seashore was identified as that of a sand tiger shark.
NORTH CAROLINA Clayton: Smithfield Foods is closing a meat distribution center and laying off about 100 employees, officials said.
NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: North Dakota’s Health Department has documented the state’s first case of measles in seven years.
OHIO Cleveland: Icelandair and Wow Air are suspending flights between Cleveland and Iceland in late October, Cleveland.com said.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Voters can change their address or party online starting Monday.
OREGON Portland: The tribalowned Kah-nee-ta Resort & Spa closed for good Wednesday.
PENNSYLVANIA Pittsburgh: The Poise Foundation has donated $10,000 to create a fund to support organizations assisting the local black community in times of crisis.
RHODE ISLAND Newport: Officials say they expect an increase in visitor counts because of anticipated fall season cruise ship crowds.
SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: A deal to merge troubled utility SCANA with Dominion Energy moved a step closer, meaning more than $1 billion in rebates for utility customers.
SOUTH DAKOTA Philip: A grain elevator has reopened after the threat of a grain bin collapse at the facility.
TENNESSEE Madisonville: A seventh-grader found live insects in granola in her school lunch. An official said the flour mites were immediately removed.
TEXAS Falfurrias: Agents intercepted more than $4.1 million worth of liquid methamphetamine being smuggled in buckets labeled as paint.
UTAH Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will start sending “mission calls” by email instead of traditional mail.
VERMONT Burlington: The University of Vermont is offering free tours of the campus through mid-October.
VIRGINIA Sandston: Bryan Tucker says he erected an electrified fence to keep kids waiting for the school bus off his property, but it was in the county right-of-way and taken down.
WASHINGTON Yakima: Intersection upgrades were unveiled as part of a $1.6 million settlement with the family of a boy who died in a 2015 crash.
WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: Republican Dean Jeffries was appointed to the West Virginia House of Delegates seat vacated by Tim Armstead.
WISCONSIN Madison: Student Polly Olsen sued Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, saying her free speech rights were violated when she was forced to stop handing out Valentine’s cards with Bible references.
WYOMING Cheyenne: Gov. Matt Mead has appointed his chief of staff, Kari Jo Gray, to the Supreme Court.