Around the nation 6B
News from every state.
ALABAMA Livingston: The new University Charter School at the University of West Alabama has received a federal grant of nearly $1.2 million.
ALASKA Anchorage: The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for possible survivors of a helicopter crash last week near Lituya Bay.
ARIZONA Phoenix: Heating, ventilation and air conditioning company Orangutan Home Services will pay $150,000 in fines for calling residents on the “Do Not Call” registry.
ARKANSAS Midway: Baxter County officials are investigating the cause of a hole in the ground that flared into a 12-foot-high flame.
CALIFORNIA Santa Ana: Si Chen, who helped smuggle military and space communications technology from the U.S. to China, has been sentenced to 46 months in prison.
COLORADO Fort Collins: Colorado State University president Tony Frank is stepping down in July.
CONNECTICUT Branford: Grammywinning singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran and his fiance stopped in at Tommy Sullivan’s Cafe.
DELAWARE Middletown: Datwyler Sealing Solutions, a Swiss company, has opened a $100 million factory that will produce medical components for injectable drugs.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Millennials in D.C. will spend on average of $727 this holiday shopping season, above the national average of $658, according to an Accenture survey.
FLORIDA Port Orange: Police say Hellmuth Kolb, 81, tried to buy a woman’s 8-year-old daughter for $200,000. Kolb has been arrested.
GEORGIA Atlanta: The City Council has voted to replace “Confederate” in two street names with “United.”
HAWAII Kailua-Kona: Two monk seal pups found malnourished on Laysan Island are recovering.
IDAHO Boise: Idahoans are being asked to ignore a voter-registration phone scam.
ILLINOIS Smithton: The Smithton School District 130 is seeking voter approval Nov. 6 for a $5 million expansion plan.
INDIANA Hammond: Some Purdue University Northwest students are angry that the school’s diplomas are being changed to specify that they graduated from a satellite campus.
IOWA Des Moines: White House press secretary Sarah Sanders is the guest speaker at Gov. Kim Reynolds’ Harvest Festival fundraiser Oct. 13.
KANSAS Lawrence: Only 42 percent of University of Kansas students graduated within four years, according to graduation data.
KENTUCKY Frankfort: State officials say they want to install a riverbed bubbler in Lake Barkley to block the spread of the Asian carp.
LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: The state is receiving a $3.6 million, five-year grant from the Department of Education to help schools develop emergency operation plans.
MAINE Portland: A Maine man plans to apply for a grant to explore the conversion of a cruise ship into a homeless shelter.
MARYLAND Annapolis: Barack Obama has endorsed Ben Jealous for governor.
MASSACHUSETTS Boston: The Massachusetts Business Coalition on Immigration wants more protections for foreign-born workers.
MICHIGAN Royal Oak: Beaumont Hospital has earned its fourth straight nursing designation by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
MINNESOTA St. Paul: A deer killed during the opening weekend of the archery season has tested positive for chronic wasting disease.
MISSISSIPPI Starkville: Republican Rep. Gregg Harper is donating papers to Mississippi State University.
MISSOURI Joplin: A Friends of Camp Mintahama is trying to save a Girl Scouts camp.
MONTANA Missoula: The University of Montana has been fined for “inaccurate and misleading” crime statistics from 2012 to 2015.
NEBRASKA Lincoln: Lancaster County and city agencies have invested more than $90,000 in drones.
NEVADA Elko: Eight hikers and a sheriff ’s deputy were escorted to safety from the top of a canyon during a wildfire, authorities said.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Lee: The Mast Way Elementary School is a National Blue Ribbon School.
NEW JERSEY Trenton: The state’s gas tax rose by 4.3 cents to 41.4 cents per gallon.
NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: The state plans to cut full-time jobs in human resources across state government by more than 30 percent.
NEW YORK Albany: Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation adding a second letter “Z” to the name of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, correcting a 50-year mistake.
NORTH CAROLINA Wilmington: A U.S. flag seen on camera being torn to shreds by Hurricane Florence has brought $10,900 at auction.
NORTH DAKOTA Fargo: People magazine has named the caramel rolls at The Shack on Broadway the best breakfast dish in the state.
OHIO Lancaster: Thousands of DNA profiles are missing from crime databases, according to a USA Today Network investigation.
OKLAHOMA McAlester: Indianola Public Schools principal Gary Gunckel has been charged with child abuse in connection to the paddling of two students.
OREGON Portland: A widow has filed a $1 million lawsuit against a woman she believes was having an affair with her husband.
PENNSYLVANIA Harrisburg: The state House voted 140 to 44 for a bill that would end lawmakers’ free use of state-leased vehicles.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: An 18month investigation into illegal firearms and drug trafficking has led to charges against 26 people.
SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: State residents are getting an extra 10 days to register to vote because of Hurricane Florence.
SOUTH DAKOTA Custer: The National Park Service is suspending tours at Jewel Cave National Monument until April to improve the scenic route.
TENNESSEE Memphis: Officials are asking for help and offering a $5,000 reward for information about 400 guns stolen from a United Parcel Service facility.
TEXAS Austin: Texas Republicans are hoping straight-ticket voting can help the party fend off Democrats.
UTAH Salt Lake City: Data show heroin overdose deaths dropped in the state in 2017, the first time in seven years.
VERMONT Winooski: The city has received more than $8.5 million to help complete water and sewer system upgrades, part of the Main Street revitalization.
VIRGINIA Norfolk: Republican state Sen. Bill Stanley wants some of the sales tax from online purchases to go toward school construction.
WASHINGTON Seattle: No one was on board a small wooden sailboat that is sinking in Puget Sound.
WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: State senators have voted to allow impeached Supreme Court Justice Beth Walker to remain in office.
WISCONSIN Madison: Butterfinger is the state’s favorite Halloween candy, according to CandyStore.com.
WYOMING Casper: A natural gas drilling project faces opposition from an environmental group.