Around the nation
News from every state.
ALABAMA Montgomery: Democrat Bob Vance raised $200,000 in his campaign for Alabama chief justice last month, while Republican Tom Parker raised less than $4,000.
ALASKA Anchorage: Duck hunters found a 177-pound woolly mammoth tusk near the village of Shishmare.
ARIZONA Phoenix: A former chief executive of metro Phoenix’s mass transit system pleaded guilty to falsely claiming personal expenses for him and his wife as business costs.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: A group asked Arkansas’ highest court Monday to disqualify a ballot measure that would legalize four casinos.
CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: A $15,000 reward has been posted in the shooting death of a California condor.
COLORADO Fort Collins: The city will soon begin “time-of-day” pricing for electricity next month.
CONNECTICUT New Haven: Ben Davol, U.S. Sen. John McCain’s state campaign manager during his 2000 campaign for president, died of cardiac arrest during a charity bicycle ride.
DELAWARE New Castle: A Colonial School District bus driver was cited by police after trying to drive through floodwaters, leaving the bus disabled.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Parents of children in overcrowded schools here and in suburban Maryland say enrollment forecasts are inaccurate.
FLORIDA Tallahassee: Legislators declined to steer $58 million to school districts to hire more police officers.
GEORGIA Atlanta: The city will extend hours for alcohol sales for several days around the 2019 Super Bowl.
HAWAII Hana: The Hana Highway Regulation Committee is working with Maui agencies to curb bad driving behavior on Highway 360.
IDAHO Boise: Idahoans may see smaller tax refunds next year.
ILLINOIS Chicago: A 69-year-old man was badly hurt in an apartment house fire after safely dropping his 7-year-old grandson to police from a second-floor window.
INDIANA Muncie: Ball State University will pay an anti-abortion student group $300 plus $12,000 in attorneys fees to settle a suit over its student activity fee policies.
IOWA Cedar Falls: A steam leak at a university dining hall killed a maintenance worker Monday.
KANSAS Manhattan: Kansas State Marching Band drum major Blake Moris proposed at halftime of Saturday’s football game against Mississippi State. Carly Tracz said yes.
KENTUCKY Bowling Green: Journalist Marcela Turati will receive the Fleischaker/Greene Award from Western Kentucky University.
LOUISIANA Hammond: The floor of the Greater St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church collapsed during a funeral, sending a dozen people into a 4-foot deep hole.
MAINE Augusta: Republican Gov. Paul LePage will continue denying applications under a voter-approved Medicaid expansion until lawmakers provide funding on his terms.
MARYLAND California: Authorities say the body of a missing swimmer, Manuel DeJesus Portillo Romero, 20, was found Sunday.
MASSACHUSETTS Beverly: A 17year-old student pilot making her first solo flight landed successfully after losing a wheel during takeoff.
MICHIGAN Alto: A fire caused significant damage to the home of Republican candidate for lieutenant governor Lisa Posthumus Lyons.
MINNESOTA Canby: A proposed wind farm is stirring fierce opposition from residents less than a mile away in South Dakota.
MISSISSIPPI Ellisville: Jones County Junior College now wants to be called Jones College.
MISSOURI St. Louis: Prosecutors say Barbara Skudrzyk, former busi- ness director of Washington University’s Division of Medical Education, embezzled about $300,000.
MONTANA Helena: The American Civil Liberties Union of Montana wants the state to to make changes to its probation and parole system.
NEBRASKA Omaha: The Fire Department wants the city to charge $400 for helping pick up people who have fallen, even if unhurt.
NEVADA Las Vegas: Hundreds of steel posts will be installed along the Strip to boost pedestrian safety.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Hampton: A man accused of kicking a seagull that tried to eat his cheeseburger at Hampton Beach was fined $124.
NEW JERSEY Newark: The city’s Grammy museum will host an exhibit honoring city native Whitney Houston starting next month.
NEW MEXICO Rio Rancho: Intel Corp. is moving development of a new generation of storage and memory technology to New Mexico.
NEW YORK Rochester: The Police Department says Ruth, its 18-yearold police horse, is dead following a “catastrophic medical emergency.”
NORTH CAROLINA Charlotte: Duke Energy has filed plans to close its seven North Carolina coal plants during the next 30 years.
NORTH DAKOTA Thompson: The driver of a tanker truck carrying hot tar died three days after his vehicle rolled into a ditch, tipping over and sending tar into the cab.
OHIO Bolivar: A grocery store employee has been charged with felony theft for helping herself to three to five slices of deli ham a day, and sometimes salami, for years.
OKLAHOMA Tulsa: Hundreds of people gathered for the opening of a $465 million park, one of nation’s largest, along the Arkansas River.
OREGON Salem: A rescue flight has landed with 125 animals from highkill shelters in Oklahoma. PENNSYLVANIA East Stroudsburg: Teachers who have been working without a contract for two years went on strike Monday.
RHODE ISLAND Johnston: A corn maze is raising awareness of hemophilia and other blood disorders.
SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: Several dozen schools will add a full-time school resource officer thanks to a $2 million state budget addition.
SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: U.S. marshals used Facebook to find a woman who was picked for a federal jury but disappeared on the first day.
TENNESSEE Memphis: The Purple Haze Night Club is closing for two weeks to review its security after someone brought a gun inside and shot four people early Monday.
TEXAS Houston: A 24-year-old former teacher has been sentenced to eight years in prison for having sex with a 15-year-old student.
UTAH Salt Lake City: Officials say customers of the New Yorker Restaurant from July 25 to Aug. 15 may have been exposed to hepatitis A.
VERMONT Barre: The mayor wants an old building to be a teen center.
VIRGINIA Richmond: State Attorney General Mark Herring asked federal judges to redraw 11 gerrymandered state House districts and not wait for legislators to do it.
WASHINGTON Seattle: PCC Community Markets will stop selling chinook salmon products caught in Northwest waters to help endangered orcas.
WEST VIRGINIA Huntington: The VA Medical Center here was renamed for retired Marine Hershel “Woody” Williams, 95, a longtime advocate for veterans and their families.
WISCONSIN Milwaukee: More than 4,100 sexual assault evidence kits dating to the 1980s have been tested.
WYOMING Casper: Three former Riverton High School wrestlers got eight-day sentences for hazing.