Around the nation
News from every state.
ALABAMA Athens: A woman says a man broke into her house, made himself scrambled eggs, took a bath and washed his clothes.
ALASKA Toksook Bay: This Yupik village on the Bering Sea will be the first counted for the 2020 Census.
ARIZONA Naco: Cochise County will offer hepatitis A and B and tetanus vaccines this month to residents of this town affected by a sewage spill.
ARKANSAS Van Buren: A county court has approved imposing a higher fee on cities for housing their inmates – $40 each per day – even though officials cannot justify the increase.
CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: The state is moving closer to allowing marijuana deliveries in communities that have banned retail sales.
COLORADO Denver: The Trump administration is canceling plans to sell drilling rights on public land where the greater sage grouse lives.
CONNECTICUT Waterbury: A teenager who says she was mocked for not standing during the Pledge of Allegiance filed a federal suit against her teacher and the school board.
DELAWARE Lewes: The Beebe Medical Center says its new $2.1 million robot has performed more than 50 surgeries since it was introduced.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Police say an elementary school music teacher attacked a woman and dropped her off outside a fast-food restaurant.
FLORIDA Lehigh Acres: Authorities say a man was found dead with his head stuck in a car window.
GEORGIA Macon: Prosecutors issued seven warrants in a prostitution case linked to Fort Valley State University.
HAWAII Hilo: Big Island officials rejected a proposal that would have sought tax relief for commercial properties in Pahoa and Volcano.
IDAHO Boise: An environmental group and state officials have reached a tentative settlement over toxic discharge from an abandoned mine.
ILLINOIS Springfield: The remains of homes burned down during race riots in 1908 will be excavated, and artifacts uncovered will be curated.
INDIANA Indianapolis: The Indiana National Guard says a server with info on Guard personnel was the target of a ransomware attack.
IOWA Des Moines: Officials at Blank Park Zoo say the attraction’s youngest giraffe, Lizzy, died just weeks before her second birthday.
KANSAS Kansas City: More than 70 religious leaders and community activists are asking political candidates to stop vilifying immigrants.
KENTUCKY Frankfort: The Salato Wildlife Education Center plans to display a two-headed copperhead.
LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: Louisiana’s Avery Island, birthplace of Tabasco, is newly listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
MAINE Portland: A college student says a Dunkin Donuts worker refused her family service for speaking Somali and called the police.
MARYLAND Silver Spring: Maryland transit officials say they won’t prohibit 24/7 work on the Purple Line, despite residents’ complaints.
MASSACHUSETTS Boston: A police officer is suing Armslist.com, the online marketplace where the gun used to shoot him was sold.
MICHIGAN Marquette: Marquette County has accepted a $60,000 federal grant to keep an eye on routes to the U.S. border.
MINNESOTA St. Paul: Minnesota’s attorney general is going after three insulin makers, claiming they are gouging diabetics with price hikes.
MISSISSIPPI Brandon: Officials are shutting down boating in the Pelahatchie Bay area of Ross Barnett Reservoir, stepping up the fight against invasive giant salvinia.
MISSOURI Kansas City: A study says the roughly 250-mile trip from Kansas City to St. Louis could be slashed to a half-hour, but the Hyperloop wouldn’t come cheap.
MONTANA Valier: Wildlife officials tranquilized and relocated a 900pound grizzly that wandered onto the Birch Creek Hutterite Colony.
NEBRASKA Potter: A superintendent says kangaroo meat was mixed with beef in chili served to students.
NEVADA Las Vegas: An investigation into a fighter jet crash in southern Nevada determined the pilot lost consciousness beforehand.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Ossipee: The Nature Conservancy has opened a handicapped-accessible trail in the Ossipee Pine Barrens path.
NEW JERSEY Bridgeton: The Department of Justice is reviewing how the Cumberland County Jail handles inmates’ mental health issues after several suicides.
NEW MEXICO Las Cruces: Police say a man suspected of stabbing his ex’s boyfriend was arrested after church parishioners held him down.
NEW YORK Albany: Environmental officials are conducting a black bear survey to set population levels.
NORTH CAROLINA Greenville: Police are treating a pit bull puppy as a hero after he dug up a loaded .38caliber revolver.
NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: The North Dakota Department of Health says the number of drug overdose deaths increased slightly last year.
OHIO Columbus: The late Martin Luther King Jr.’s son has dedicated a new Columbus Metropolitan Library branch named for his father.
OKLAHOMA Norman: Misdemeanor charges have been filed against an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper accused of using state records to harass women.
OREGON Portland: A federal court has ruled the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must come up with a plan to protect salmon from warm water temperatures.
PENNSYLVANIA Somerset: Police have charged a second preschool worker over accusations about sleep aid melatonin in children’s lunches.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: State health officials approved a petition that will allow parents to use medical marijuana to treat autistic children.
SOUTH CAROLINA Greenville: A police report says a student caught with a knife told authorities she used it to snort cocaine before class.
SOUTH DAKOTA Aberdeen: The South Dakota School for the Blind and Visually Impaired has started construction on a new $13 million school to replace its existing facility.
TENNESSEE Arlington: Authorities say a home for the elderly kept an off-the-books resident in “storage.”
TEXAS Fort Worth: The mother of a teenager who used an “affluenza” defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck has been released on bond.
UTAH Gunnison: A mother said in a lawsuit that school officials brushed aside an alleged sexual assault of her son as “boys being boys.”
VERMONT Bennington: Police say about 20 headstones were vandalized at Bennington Village Cemetery.
VIRGINIA Charlottesville: The new president of the University of Virginia has promised free tuition for students in families earning less than $80,000 a year.
WASHINGTON Seattle: A judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by the National Rifle Association against the city’s new gun-storage law.
WEST VIRGINIA Beckley: State parks are offering a discount to veterans and military personnel next month.
WISCONSIN Milwaukee: Police say a 10-year-old girl accidentally shot and wounded a 12-year-old boy. WYOMING Yellowstone National Park: The number of people visiting Yellowstone in September increased 13 percent from a year ago.