STATE-BY-STATE
News from across the USA
ALABAMA Anniston: A school bus got caught in the crossfire of a shootout between two juveniles. No students were on board.
ALASKA Juneau: A lead and zinc mine is planning to build a 10-mile road to two possible expansion sites.
ARIZONA Yuma: Border Patrol agents have arrested two large groups of immigrants from Guatemala and Honduras.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: Ascent Children’s Health Services, which provides daycare for children with developmental disabilities is closing all of its centers in Arkansas.
CALIFORNIA San Diego: Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse, based in Texas, will open its first California restaurant Nov. 3.
COLORADO Denver: Students missed out on nearly $50 million in financial aid during the 2015-16 school year because they didn’t complete all forms, Colorado data shows.
CONNECTICUT Hartford: Two-term Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has accepted a teaching position at the Boston College Law School.
DELAWARE Newport: A chemical tank blew its top and caught fire. No injuries were reported.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Six people were sent to the hospital after a street crash involving six vehicles.
FLORIDA Port Orange: Sen. Dorothy Hukill, 72, has died just days after ending her re-election campaign to enter hospice care.
GEORGIA Macon: The Macon-Bibb County Commission has approved $90,000 to help open a community resource center at Little Richard’s boyhood home.
HAWAII Honolulu: AlohaCare and Ohana Health Plan will cover dental care for adults on Medicaid.
IDAHO Boise: Veterans Services head Marv Hagedorn must complete training following social media posts demeaning sexual assault victims.
ILLINOIS Chicago: Michael Jordan has been voted Illinois’ greatest athlete as part of a Top 200 project leading up to the state bicentennial.
INDIANA Whitestown: The town has purchased a 135-acre junkyard with plans for a $150 million redevelopment project.
IOWA Jewell: A section of Highway 69 was closed after several drivers hit a 9-by-8 sinkhole.
KANSAS Olathe: Lawrence Payne faces up to a year in jail and $50,000 fine for importing endangered Asian leopards.
KENTUCKY Frankfort: The state Board of Education gave key approval for new minimum high school graduation requirements, including exit exams.
LOUISIANA New Orleans: Metal covers are missing from nearly 150 storm drains around New Orleans, and the mayor’s office says they’re trying out covers that lock.
MAINE Augusta: A survey shows that the state’s bald eagle population is growing.
MARYLAND Annapolis: Maryland has a new around-the-clock tip line (1-833-MD-B-SAFE) and mobile app to make it easier to report potential threats at schools.
MASSACHUSETTS Boston: More than 1,500 unionized hotel workers have gone on strike.
MICHIGAN Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan has raised $5 billion during a fundraising campaign that’s scheduled to end this year.
MINNESOTA St. Paul: Minnesotans now can select “X” as a third gender option when applying for or renewing a state driver’s license.
MISSISSIPPI Jackson: A panel created by House Speaker Philip Gunn is looking for ways to reduce human trafficking in the state.
MISSOURI St. Louis: The downtown convention center will get a
$175 million upgrade.
MONTANA Helena: Studded tires will be allowed on roads from Oct. 1 through May 31.
NEBRASKA Lincoln: Faculty at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has voted to replace President Jeffrey Rudy because of a lack of trust in his leadership.
NEVADA Las Vegas: Jimmy Kimmel will open a comedy club next spring on the Strip.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Boscawen: Steve Geddes has grown the heaviest pumpkin in North America history at 2,528 pounds.
NEW JERSEY Trenton: Morris County School of Technology’s Jennifer Skomial has been named New Jersey’s Teacher of the Year.
NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: Rep. Monica Youngblood has been ordered to serve a day in jail after being found guilty of aggravated drunken driving.
NEW YORK Albany: The liberal Working Families Party will back Gov. Andrew Cuomo. NORTH CAROLINA Morehead City: The North Carolina Seafood Festival will not be held this weekend because of damage in the area from Hurricane Florence.
NORTH DAKOTA Fargo: North Dakota State University is proposing a $60 million research facility on its Fargo campus to house food-related science departments.
OHIO Cleveland: Judge Michael Nelson says he’ll no longer send non-violent criminals to the Cuyahoga County Jail after six inmates died in four months.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: An inspection has found that a lamp post that electrocuted a man after he fell in a canal was grounded and correctly connected.
OREGON Gates: Three people were killed and two were seriously injured after an SUV crash.
PENNSYLVANIA Bethel Park: A
construction crew repairing a water line struck a gas main, sparking a fire that injured one worker.
RHODE ISLAND Newport: Students of Pell Elementary School got to speak to an astronaut aboard the International Space Station.
SOUTH CAROLINA Greer: A 13-yearold has been arrested after being accused of making threats to his middle school.
SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: Philanthropist and credit card magnate T. Denny Sanford is the only South Dakotan on the Forbes list of billionaires, ranking 316th with $2.6 billion.
TENNESSEE Germantown: Chelse Chambers, 23, hit two officers with her car as she fled possible arrest on suspicion of using counterfeit cash at a Waffle House.
TEXAS San Antonio: Violent crime rates grew in about half of the city’s communities from 2016 to 2017, according to FBI data.
UTAH Salt Lake City: The congressional race between Rep. Mia Love and Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams is being labeled a tossup.
VERMONT Montpelier: Motorist are being reminded to watch out for moose this time of year.
VIRGINIA Richmond: A woman has been charged with trying to smuggle drugs into a prison in her vagina.
WASHINGTON Seattle: Michael Bloomberg has pledged $1 million to back the state’s carbon fee ballot measure.
WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: Wheeling Island and Mardi Gras casinos will allow sports betting this fall.
WISCONSIN Superior: The Superior Refining Company has been fined more than $83,000 for safety violations.
WYOMING Casper: A jury has acquitted a man who shot a 4-year-old girl twice with a BB gun when she entered his trailer.