Around the nation
News from every state.
ALABAMA Jacksonville: Jason Isbell, the Charlie Daniels Band and others will perform Wednesday to raise funds for Jacksonville State University, hit by a tornado in March.
ALASKA Anchorage: Wildlife experts are calling this summer one of the busiest years for bear encounters.
ARIZONA Phoenix: A U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit accuses Riddle Painting and Coatings of subjecting employees to a hostile work environment.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: College enrollment in the state declined by 1.3 percent in the 2018-19 school year.
CALIFORNIA Stanford: A law school professor is launching the Enough is Enough Voter Project political action committee to target politicians who commit or ignore sexual misconduct.
COLORADO Aurora: The Cherry Creek School District agreed to an $11.5 million settlement after a middle school teacher admitted inappropriate sexual contact with students.
CONNECTICUT Hartford: Voter equipment and election monitors will be added and post-election audits enhanced to boost election security.
DELAWARE Georgetown: About 50 people at Georgetown Elementary School are being tested after having been exposed to active tuberculosis.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: The Potomac Paddle Pub, a solar- and paddlepowered 15-passenger vessel, opens to the public Oct. 4, WTOP reports.
FLORIDA Gainesville: Full-time University of Florida professors got an average 8.8 percent raise in 2017-18.
GEORGIA Conyers: Honey Creek Elementary School closed Monday after an apparent norovirus outbreak.
HAWAII Honolulu: Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut products produced Sept. 6-21 in Kea’au are being recalled due to potential E. coli contamination.
IDAHO Coeur d’Alene: A cougar that wandered across a parking lot near a day care center has been euthanized.
ILLINOIS Chicago: A judge has vacated the convictions of 18 men investigated by a corrupt Chicago police sergeant, bringing the number of tossed convictions to 42.
INDIANA West Lafayette: Purdue University is getting a $30 million donation to help fund the renovation of its Union Club Hotel.
IOWA Estherville: Residents have filed more than 300 complaints about the stench from the Central Bi-Products rendering plant.
KANSAS Salina: The state attorney general’s office has determined that the Salina City Commission violated the state’s open records law.
KENTUCKY Louisville: State officials unveiled redesigned driver’s licenses that will enhance security and make counterfeiting harder.
LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: Ochsner Health System promises improved operating rooms, equipment and technology for state-owned hospitals in Shreveport and Monroe.
MAINE Crab Island: Crab Island, once owned by Arctic explorer Robert Peary, is for sale for $950,000. It includes two private beaches.
MARYLAND College Park: The University of Maryland is moving more than 500 students to hotels after mold was reported in Elkton Hall.
MASSACHUSETTS Boston: The state issued a public health alert after hepatitis A spiked among the homeless and substance abusers.
MICHIGAN Lansing: A new Treasury office website helps people claim lost or abandoned property.
MINNESOTA St. Paul: The Department of Natural Resources says the gray wolf population is stable.
MISSISSIPPI Ripley: North MS Tool has moved from Booneville to Ripley in a $700,000 expansion.
MISSOURI Jefferson City: Former Callaway County Collector Pamela Oestreich has pleaded guilty to embezzling about $300,000.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: The lights at the First Church of Christ, Scientist are shining for the first time since the 1980s due to a fouryear, $2.5 million renovation.
NEW JERSEY Middletown: Firefighters rescued two 11-year-olds who got stuck in a 30-foot tree.
NEW MEXICO Las Cruces: The city will receive $11 million in federal funds to build a transit maintenance and operations center.
NEW YORK Albany: A measure that makes it illegal to pay for dogs, cats or other animals through lease-toown plans has been enacted.
NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: Civil rights and election advocacy groups are joining for a “By The People” campaign to oppose all six constitutional referendums on fall ballots.
NORTH DAKOTA Minot: A $37 million Ward County jail expansion and renovation is almost complete.
OHIO Columbus: The family of an Ohio State University alumnus who donated more than $30 million says the school is illegally draining millions in “development fees” and imperiling the endowment.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: A cyberattack has limited parental access to student information, the district says. Federal officials are investigating.
OREGON Salem: The state Winegrowers Association urged lawmakers to protect the state’s $5.6 billion industry from false claims.
PENNSYLVANIA Harrisburg: A state
panel to replace urged voting Congress machines and legislators more quickly.
to RHODE the failing ISLAND 300-year-old Richmond: Wyoming Repairs Dam should be done by next summer.
SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: Lt. Bob Beres, also known as “Trooper Bob,” is hanging up his badge.
SOUTH DAKOTA Rapid City: Pennington County is opening a social services complex in the former National American University building.
TENNESSEE Memphis: A woman was given 24 years in prison for stealing $162,000 from a program that funds summer meals for poor children.
TEXAS Houston: Texas prisons’ medical providers approved only 71 dentures for a state inmate population of more than 149,000 in 2016.
UTAH Logan: The tab for a wastewater treatment plant rose $25 million, officials say, because of new steel tariffs and rising construction costs.
VERMONT Kenny hopes Wallingford: a former 1820s Michelle Odd Fellows community building hub with can become a coffee a shop new and bakery and a wellness center.
VIRGINIA Richmond: A jetty will be built on Tangier Island to protect a navigation channel and harbor.
WASHINGTON Bellingham: A city Fire Department officer retired and another quit after several department members practiced intubations on a body that was taken to a fire station.
WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: A U.S. attorney is suing a hemp farm and others, saying they violating the federal Controlled Substances Act.
WISCONSIN Madison: The state might end the ruffed grouse season early to protect the population.
WYOMING Cheyenne: Two members of the Cheyenne Animal Center board quit after the shelter’s CEO was suspended but not fired for ordering a dog to be pepper-sprayed.