STATE- BY- STATE

News from across the USA

ALABAMA Montgomery: The Alabama Supreme Court blocked a judge’s order directing the state to return seized gambling machines to VictoryLand. In 2013, the attorney general’s office seized 1,615 electronic bingo machines and $ 260,000 in cash during a raid at VictoryLand.

ALASKA Anchorage: Some Alaska residents are turning to religious organizations as an alternative to health coverage under the Affordable Care Act, The Alaska Public Radio Network reported.

ARIZONA Casa Grande: A local hair and nail salon is hoping to help its customers relax with a beer or glass of wine, the Casa

Grande Dispatch reported. Diva’s Hair & Nails has been recommended for a liquor license by the city.

ARKANSAS North Little Rock: A historic tugboat may not make it in time for a Pearl Harbor anniversary observance at the Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum, the Arkansas Democrat- Gazette reported. The Hoga, used during the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, has been stuck in Houston for the past week because of a maritime law violation.

CALIFORNIA Sacramento: Finance director Leyne Milstein included a sales tax for recreational marijuana as one of five revenue options in a report on the city budget, The Sacramento Bee reported. She noted the tax could generate at least $ 2 million per year.

COLORADO Longmont: A local man who was struck by a van in front of a library last month has died, the Longmont Times- Call reported.

CONNECTICUT New Haven: About a thousand Yale students and supporters marched across campus Monday to protest the lack of inclusion following several racially charged incidents at the Ivy League school, the New Haven Register reported.

DELAWARE New Castle: The state’s new National Guard headquarters will be named for the late Beau Biden, The News Journal reported. The two- term attorney general served in Iraq with the Delaware Army National Guard.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Design flaws in Metro’s new 7000 series trains include brittle door bolts and loose seats, The Washington Post reported.

FLORIDA Fort Myers: Edison Sailing Center is naming a new sailing event for women and girls after a Fort Myers- based leader in sailing education. The first Doris Colgate Clinic & Cup will be held Nov. 27- 29, The NewsPress reported.

GEORGIA Columbus: Officials say 25 Columbus State University students who were displaced after a fire at their apartment complex now have temporary homes, The Columbus Ledger Enquirer reported.

HAWAII Hilo: Two earthquakes struck Hawaii’s Big Island on Monday, but no injuries or damage was reported, The Honolulu Star- Advertiser said. A magnitude- 3.6 earthquake struck about 10: 22 a. m. and another of magnitude 2.5 was recorded about 8 minutes later.

IDAHO Boise: Gabe Gloden, Boise Contemporary Theater’s new managing director, will start his new job Dec. 7, the Idaho Statesman reported. Gloden replaces Helene Peterson, who left the theater in June after 13 years.

ILLINOIS Monticello: Mayor Chris Corrie resigned, saying he is struggling with chronic Lyme disease, the News- Gazette reported.

INDIANA Indianapolis: James Beard Award nominee Neal Brown, one of the city’s bestknown chefs, has abandoned plans to open a Mexican restaurant in Fletcher Place because he and would- be neighbors could not reach an agreement over operating hours and music, The

Indianapolis Star reported.

IOWA Des Moines: Science Center of Iowa’s planetarium, which has been dark since mid-January when an “electrical occurrence” took out the system in the center’s 50- foot, domed Star Theater, will reopen in mid-November, The Des Moines Register reported.

KANSAS Osage County: Mark Jungk, 54, died in a skydiving accident over the weekend after he and another skydiver collided in mid- air, The Topeka Capital

Journal reported.

KENTUCKY Louisville: A worker at a pork packing plant here has tested positive for tuberculosis, health officials confirmed. The city’s Department of Health and Wellness said there is no danger of meat contamination because of the respiratory illness at JBS USA, The Courier- Journal reported.

LOUISIANA Larose: Construction started on a roughly $ 5 million floodwall along the Intracoastal Waterway to help protect more than 300 homes and 15 businesses from Larose to Lockport, The Courier reported.

MAINE Augusta: John Bott, a spokesman for the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, says the state opted not to request federal Forest Legacy funding for fiscal year 2017, the Portland Press Herald reported.

MARYLAND Ocean City: Ocean City’s 23rd Winterfest of Lights is set for Nov. 19, The Daily Times reported. The highlight of the event is the Winterfest Express, which takes passengers on a ride through a mile- long animated wonderland of lights and displays.

MASSACHUSETTS Boston: The city will start issuing letter grades to restaurants next year, The

Boston Globe reported. The grades will give diners a better idea of an establishment’s cleanliness and food handling practices.

MICHIGAN Auburn Hills: With the reopening of the Interstate 75 interchange at University Drive, motorists here were the first in the state to experience a novel traffic management system, the

Detroit Free Press reported. According to the Department of Transportation, the interchange, known as a diverging diamond interchange, is designed to elim- inate left turns and other “conflict points.”

MINNESOTA St. Paul: Officials have raised the walleye limit for anglers on Upper Red Lake this winter. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources says the daily limit will be three walleye, one of which may be longer than 17 inches.

MISSISSIPPI Natchez: A 59year- old woman will spend time in prison and have to pay nearly $ 44,000 in restitution for her role in the embezzlement of funds from an elderly woman under her care, The Natchez Democrat reported.

MISSOURI Jackson: A man faces sentencing Jan. 15 after pleading guilty to second- degree murder in the shooting death of his stepdaughter, The Southeast Missourian reported.

MONTANA Red Lodge: A hunter is recovering after being attacked by a grizzly bear near the Wyoming- Montana state border, the Cody Enterprise reported.

NEBRASKA Omaha: A Fort Calhoun man is in the hospital after being shot in the lower leg while deer hunting, The Omaha World- Herald reported.

NEVADA Reno: Numerous power outages were reported when snow pushed into western Nevada, according to the Reno GazetteJournal.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Keene: Cheshire Medical Center has been fined $ 200,000 for sending pharmaceutical waste to unauthorized facilities. More than 30 pharmaceuticals are considered hazardous to either people or the environment, the New Hampshire Union Leader reported.

NEW JERSEY Brick: Nearly half of the homes tested for lead in their drinking water had concentrations that exceeded state and federal health guidelines for protecting public health, the Asbury Park Press reported.

NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: The Southwest Program of the Institute for Applied Ecology is launching new projects in New Mexico to raise native seeds for restoring wildfire- and flooddamaged land, The Santa Fe New Mexican reported.

NEW YORK Canastota: Six championship belts, including four from the late Carmen Basilio, were stolen from the International Boxing Hall of Fame, WSYR- TV reported. The other two belonged to Tony Zale. All the belts were on loan to the museum from the boxers’ families.

NORTH CAROLINA Manns Harbor: The North Carolina Ferry Division maintenance depot here was full last week, with four boats that were in for scheduled overhauls and two others that needed unexpected work.

NORTH DAKOTA Minot: State Fair Manager Renae Korslien says there were just under 50,000 exhibits on display at last summer’s event. There were exhibits from 52 of the state’s 53 counties. Sioux County was the exception, The Minot Daily News reported.

OHIO Cincinnati: Judge Jody Luebbers ruled that University of Cincinnati Medical Center can’t be sued after an employee leaked private medical records about a patient who had syphilis, because the employee was not acting “within the scope of her employment” by leaking the records, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported.

OKLAHOMA Okmulgee: After all the ballots were tallied late Saturday night, unofficial results had James Floyd receiving 3,090 votes, or 62.3% of the votes cast for principal chief of the Muscogee ( Creek) Nation, compared to 1,867 votes or 37.7% for the current chief, George Tiger, the Tulsa World reported.

OREGON Salem: The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission voted 4- 2 Monday to remove gray wolves from protection under the state Endangered Species Act. Ranchers said the move would address livestock attacks, while environmental groups said the move was premature given the state’s population of just 82 known wolves and could open the door to litigation, Statesman Journal reported.

PENNSYLVANIA York: Three York row homes were condemned after a fire started by discarded smoking materials displaced 14 residents, York Daily Record reported.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: Leon F. Tejada, a former state representative and former Providence councilman, has agreed to plead guilty to federal tax and wire fraud charges in connection with his operations at El Centro Multiservicios, Providence Jour

nal reported.

SOUTH CAROLINA Spartan

burg: Brandon Terry and Casey Fowler face charges after deputies say they called 911 five times because they saw possums and people jumping out of their refrigerator and microwave. Deputies believe the two were under in the influence of bath salts, WLTXTV reported.

SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: The Sioux Falls School District’s new Spanish immersion school will be named after the first Hispanic to serve on the U. S. Supreme Court. Sonia Sotomayor Elementary School is scheduled to open in fall 2016, the Argus Leader reported.

TENNESSEE Nashville: A mixeduse development planned for the city’s convention center site downtown will be called Fifth + Broadway, The Tennessean reported. The name comes from the intersection that will serve as the front gate for the planned $ 400 million development.

TEXAS Arlington: Did you hear the one about the three brothers who went to a Dallas Cowboys game at AT& T Stadium Sunday night? One wound up in the hospital; the other two went to jail — and they’ll likely all be explaining what happened to a judge, WFAA- TV reported.

UTAH St. George: Washington Elementary’s fifth- graders placed flags in memorial markers in front of each veteran’s grave at Washington Cemetery in honor of Veterans Day. The tradition started in 2001 with a donation from a friend of then- Washington Elementary principal Burke Staheli, The Spectrum reported.

VERMONT Burlington: Peter Handy, 31, pleaded not guilty to a charge of sexual assault without consent, after he allegedly followed an intoxicated 20- year- old woman as she walked home in the early morning Oct. 31 and raped her on a city sidewalk, Burlington Free Press reported.

VIRGINIA Richmond: Eight Southside Virginia localities are eligible for federal disaster loans as a result of recent flooding.

WASHINGTON Spokane: Authorities say an inmate who escaped from the Lincoln County Jail has been arrested and taken into custody. KHQ- TV reported that Ronald Rutledge was arrested without incident near Loon Lake after U. S. Marshals received a tip that he was in the area.

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: West Virginia received a D grade this year based on an assessment of government transparency and accountability, the Charleston Gazette- Mail reported. The state’s grade dropped from a D- plus last year, according to the Center for Public Integrity’s State Integrity Investigation.

WISCONSIN Appleton: Girl Scouts of the Northwestern Great Lakes announced a price increase of 50 cents per box of cookies to $ 4, up from $ 3.50, the council’s first price hike in more than seven years, Green Bay Press-Gazette reported.

WYOMING Cheyenne: The $ 30 million renovation for the Wyoming Air National Guard’s headquarters is near completion, the Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported. The majority of the construction on the 144,000square- foot building has been finished, but it still needs some furnishings to be complete.