Around the nation
News from every state.
ALABAMA Birmingham: NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley is one of several big names behind a venture capital fund for companies based in Alabama or willing to move there.
ALASKA Anchorage: Colville Inc. says changing ice conditions allowed it to deliver oil to Prudhoe Bay by barge for the first time.
ARIZONA Phoenix: Steven Watson, a former Phoenix-area bank employee, was convicted of stealing more than $169,000 from dormant accounts.
ARKANSAS Springdale: The city will install one-way, protected bike lanes.
CALIFORNIA Sacramento: Placer County will make reforms to its two jails and pay more than $1.4 million to settle claims in an abuse case.
COLORADO Greeley: A Colorado horse contracted incurable equine infectious anemia, and about 240 others may have been exposed to it.
CONNECTICUT Bridgeport: City official refuse to identify members of the committee that will recommend finalists for new police chief.
DELAWARE Lewes: Prosecutors are pursuing theft and other charges against Sergio Izzo Jr., a contractor accused of defrauding homeowners.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Georgetown University is 22nd in U.S. News & World Report’s rankings of the nation’s best colleges, WTOP reports.
FLORIDA St. Petersburg: Hundreds of thousands of dead fish have been found on Pinellas County beaches, killed by a red tide algal bloom.
GEORGIA Augusta: The city will prohibit smoking in bars and most other public, indoor spaces starting Jan. 1.
HAWAII Honolulu: The U.S. Department of Justice has fined Azure Fishery LLC and related parties $475,000 for violations of the Clean Water Act.
IDAHO Boise: A judge rejected Atlanta Gold mining company’s request for more time to pay a $251,000 fine over arsenic flowing into streams.
ILLINOIS Chicago: About 6,000 residents of Illinois’ understaffed nursing homes are hospitalized each year with sepsis, a deadly infection, a Chicago Tribune and Kaiser Health News investigation found.
INDIANA West Lafayette: Purdue University is blocking Netflix and other streaming services in a pilot program aimed at improving reliable connections to academic websites.
IOWA Ames: Ames Main Street used edible landscaping for the second year and gave 200 pounds of sweet potatoes to Food at First.
KANSAS Manhattan: Kansas State University researchers got a $540,000 National Science Foundation grant to study why several grassland bird species are declining.
KENTUCKY Lexington: Don McGuire, the last surviving member of The Hilltoppers, has died at 86. The group rose to fame in the 1950s.
LOUISIANA New Orleans: A city ordinance limiting street art sales to two parts of the French Quarter violates free speech, a court ruled.
MAINE Portland: The Maine Cannabis Convention is coming back for a fourth year next month.
MARYLAND Baltimore: A federal judge gave a Texas woman 17 years in prison for helping her lover, an Army sergeant, kill his wife.
MASSACHUSETTS Boston: A Beverly man will plead guilty to sending threatening letters with white powder to President Donald Trump’s sons. The powder wasn’t hazardous.
MICHIGAN Lansing: Job applicants and those seeking some occupational licenses will no longer have to say they have a felony conviction.
MINNESOTA Brooklyn Center: A man was charged with defacing an Arby’s “now hiring” sign with racist and sexist slurs.
MISSISSIPPI Corinth: The Crossroads Museum will close from Dec. 1 to Jan. 31 and may not reopen.
MISSOURI Waynesville: The Waynesville Daily Guide has become the second Missouri newspaper to close in two weeks.
MONTANA Great Falls: Former Browning pediatrician Stanley P. Weber was convicted on four counts of sexual abuse involving two boys.
NEBRASKA Lincoln: University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers will lead the largest drone-based study of tornadoes and severe storms ever conducted.
NEVADA Las Vegas: A statewide operation resulted in the arrests of 135 people sought on felony charges.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Hampton: Two Massachusetts women are suing The Sands Resort after being diagnosed with Legionnaire’s disease.
NEW JERSEY Paterson: Hundreds of recovering addicts participated in Passaic County’s eighth annual recovery walk Saturday morning.
NEW MEXICO Las Cruces: The state Agriculture Department has scheduled five meetings to get feedback on a new rule for hemp cultivation.
NEW YORK New York: The Cortlandt subway station, destroyed in the World Trade Center attack 17 years ago, reopened Saturday. NORTH CAROLINA Chapel Hill: Eight people arrested at the University of North Carolina say “police broke the peace” after a protest over a Confederate statue’s toppling.
NORTH DAKOTA Pingree: A fire Sunday destroyed the building that housed a community center here.
OHIO Dayton: Dayton History has unveiled the new John W. Berry Sr. Wright Brothers National Museum.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: The state Capitol’s copper roof will be replaced at a cost of $9.3 million.
OREGON Roseburg: The U.S. Forest Service has closed Lake in the Woods campground more than a month early because someone damaged the tube used to collect fees.
PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia: Hundreds participated in the annual Philly Naked Bike Ride on Saturday.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: Rhode Island is getting nearly $26 million in additional federal funding for road maintenance and safety projects.
SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: Gov. Henry McMaster has declared a state of emergency for Hurricane Florence, activating a price gouging law.
SOUTH DAKOTA Huron: Some hunters oppose proposed changes in deer hunting license applications.
TENNESSEE Nashville: The remains of Navy Reserve Ensign Harold P. DeMoss will be buried Sept. 15 with full military honors here.
TEXAS Galveston: Ten years after Hurricane Ike, recovery projects face a state-imposed December 2019 deadline for completion.
UTAH Provo: Utah County commissioners rejected a 0.25 percent sales tax hike for transportation projects.
VERMONT East Burke: The second “Hemp Fest” at the Burke Mountain Resort took place over the weekend.
VIRGINIA Richmond: Henrico County may build another jail to ease overcrowding because of the opioid crisis.
WASHINGTON Redmond: A Cirque du Soleil performance ended abruptly Friday when a hose on a hydraulic system broke and sprayed the audience with vegetable-based oil.
WEST VIRGINIA Thurmond: Goats are being used to eliminate an invasive weed species at New River Gorge National River.
WISCONSIN Eau Claire: City schools hope to close a $5.8 million deficit.
WYOMING Cody: Inspiration Point at the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River is open after reconstruction.