News from across the USA

ALABAMA Huntsville: A 7month- old child died at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center after being left in a parked vehicle during the workday, AL. com reported.

ALASKA Fairbanks: State troopers investigated the death of four moose found shot and left along the Richardson Highway corridor without their meat being salvaged, newsminer.com reported.

ARIZONA Scottsdale: The 30,000- acre McDowell Sonoran Preserve will soon be off- limits to hobbyist drone fliers under an ordinance approved by the City Council, The Arizona Republic reported.

ARKANSAS Little Rock: Pop Pop Shoppe, a gourmet popcorn store, will open a new location Oct. 8 in midtown, serving more than 25 flavors of fresh popcorn, including adventurous options, such as spicy cornferno and wedding cake, ArkansasOnline reported.

CALIFORNIA Sacramento: Mayor Kevin Johnson was hit in the face with a pie at a farm- tofork benefit dinner at Sacramento Charter High School, then got into a brief fight that sent the pie- thrower to a hospital and jail, the Bee reported.

COLORADO Denver: Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams investigated reports that votes have been cast for people months or years after their deaths. A review of databases by KCNC- TV of voting histories compared with federal death records turned up dozens of discrepancies.

CONNECTICUT Stratford: Democratic Gov. Malloy and Lockheed Martin announced that Sikorsky Aircraft committed to keeping its headquarters in the state and adding jobs in an agreement that involves $ 220 million in incentives.

DELAWARE Dover: Seth Ramsey pleaded guilty in the crossbow killing of his father.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: “Everyone here can be a writer,” actress and children’s book author Jamie Lee Curtis told her audience at the Youth Readers Center of the Library of Congress, The Washington Post reported. “As long as you know your letters and have an imagination in your head, you can be a writer.”

FLORIDA Mangonia Park: A Brinks Security truck driver who delivered cash to ATMs was arrested on suspicion of stealing more than $ 31,000. The Palm Beach Post reported that La Que Jefferson, 26, was charged with grand theft.

GEORGIA Atlanta: During her first week of school, Muslim student Nabila Khan refused when asked to remove her veil by a Georgia State University teacher, The Atlanta Journal- Constitution reported.

HAWAII Honolulu: Disney will no longer sell a boy’s costume for a Polynesian character that some Pacific Islanders compared to blackface. The get- up depicts Maui — a revered figure in Polynesian oral traditions — who is a character in the upcoming animated movie Moana.

IDAHO Moscow: The newest Whitman County, Wash., marijuana store allowed by the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board plans to set up less than 1 mile from the Idaho border, the Moscow- Pullman Daily News reported.

ILLINOIS Chicago: Tuesday, when the production of Hamilton opens for preview business, a new six- month block of tickets will go on sale, the Chicago Tribune reported.

INDIANA Terre Haute: A canine academy opened for police dogs and their handlers to learn and practice crime- fighting skills, The Tribune Star reported.

IOWA Osage: A former school board member accused of stealing from the Mitchell County Treasurer’s Office received a deferred judgment. The Mason City Globe Gazette reported that Tracey Mooberry, 46, was put on probation Friday for a year and fined $ 350.

KANSAS Topeka: A man whose 4- year- old son was severely injured when explosives detonated in his car the day after July 4, 2015. was sentenced to 18 months of probation, The Topeka Capital- Journal reported.

KENTUCKY Mount Vernon: Two people face charges after allegedly driving around for three or four hours with an overdosing man in their car, WKYTTV reported.

LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: The state conducted its first survey of public college campuses on issues of violence and sexual assault. So few students participated that the findings don’t provide much insight into campus safety.

MAINE Portland: Three dozen sea gulls have been found dead at a 55- acre park in less than a month’s time, the Portland Press Herald reported. Three of the juvenile herring gulls were sent for testing to the National Wildlife Disease Lab in Wisconsin.

MARYLAND Baltimore: A Morgan State University student died after exercising at a campus gymnasium.

MASSACHUSETTS Cambridge: Harvard University’s largest- inthe- nation endowment shrunk by nearly $ 2 billion during the latest fiscal year to $ 35.7 billion. Harvard Management, which oversees the endowment, reported it posted a 2% annual investment loss for the year ending June 30.

MICHIGAN Potterville: Three 18- year- old brothers and their two 18- year- old sisters landed their first jobs, together, at a McDonald’s. MLive reported that Leith, Logan and Lucas Curtis all work in the kitchen at the restaurant. Lauren Curtis works at the front counter and drive- thru, and Lindsey Curtis handles the lobby.

MINNESOTA Hopkins: Three new cases have been reported in an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease. The cases bring the total to 17 in what has become the biggest Legionnaires’ outbreak in the state since 1995, the Star Tribune reported.

MISSISSIPPI Ocean Springs: After eight years of hard work, Mayor Connie Moran said the city has its first kayak launch. The Sun Herald reported the launch at the county’s harbor is a double, which means it can launch a kayak on either side of the dock.

MISSOURI St. Louis: A 2month- old baby was unharmed after being taken during a car theft, KMOX- AM reported. Police found the child unharmed inside a restroom at Sherman Park.

MONTANA Bozeman: Though the final 17- mile stretch of the Yellowstone River was reopened last week, the University of Montana estimated that Park County lost hundreds of thousands of dollars while the river was closed, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported.

NEBRASKA Lincoln: Police arrested Brandon Blacketera, 31, after finding an explosive device in the bushes of a home, the Lincoln Journal Star reported. A caller said an ex- boyfriend sent what she considered “threatening messages,” saying there was something under or in the bushes.

NEVADA Las Vegas: No one was injured, but six businesses were badly damaged in an overnight fire at a shopping center. Multiple alarms brought more than 75 firefighters to the scene off Rancho Drive near Washington Avenue.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Salem: About 1,800 items, some dating back to 1912, from the Rockingham Park racetrack were auctioned over the weekend and likely to raise at least $ 500,000, the New Hamp

shire Union Leader reported.

NEW JERSEY Trenton: Former Reebok chairman Paul Fireman and Meadowlands Racetrack operator Jeff Gural ended their campaign to persuade voters to approve casinos in the northern part of the state. The amendment that proposes opening two casinos remains on the November ballot.

NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico is bracing to have $ 22.5 million less to spend in fiscal year 2017, The Santa Fe New Mexican reported. UNM President Robert Frank said the university will put a freeze on hiring, and all college officials will perform departmental audits of temporary and part- time staff positions.

NEW YORK Rhinebeck: A dilapidated mansion that may have inspired the phrase “Keeping up with the Joneses” sold at auction for $ 120,000. The 24- room Wyndclyffe Castle, abandoned in 1950, was built in 1853 as the country house of Manhattan socialite Elizabeth Schermerhorn Jones.

NORTH CAROLINA Durham: It’s an election that’s not difficult to satirize. To celebrate the role satire has in politics, Duke University and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists hosted a three- day festival on campus, The News & Observer reported.

NORTH DAKOTA Williston: A residential air park by Lake Sakakawea is one step closer to reality, the Williston Herald reported. Williams County officials approved restricting access to a site, a move that will allow a group of farmers behind the air park to make progress on building a 3,500- foot runway.

OHIO Columbus: An 11- yearold boy was hit by at least one car and killed while heading to Woodward Park Middle School with his classmates.

OKLAHOMA Yukon: The school board sued the district’s former food supplier for allegedly overbilling by $ 427,000, The Oklahoman reported.

OREGON Bend: Conservation groups argued in a lawsuit that the state violated its own Endangered Species Act by removing the endangered status of gray wolves. The Bulletin reported that the lawsuit was filed last week, coinciding with preparations to update the wolf management plan.

PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia: The city’s main transit agency said ridership was down nearly 21% in July and 10% in August compared with last year. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported ridership numbers show that the regional rail system averages 107,000 riders a day — nearly 15% less than last year.

RHODE ISLAND Cranston: A judge ordered a 55- year- old man held without bail on charges that he allegedly assaulted and harassed a woman in a wheelchair on two separate occasions.

SOUTH CAROLINA Greenville: The Greenville News reported that the city has a $ 5.5 million surplus in its general fund supported by property taxes. The fund generated by the accommodations taxes has another $ 5 million surplus.

SOUTH DAKOTA Lower Brule: The federal government sent purchase offers to nearly 4,000 landowners who have parcels on the Indian reservation as part of its effort to help tribal governments consolidate land. The Interior Department said the offers sent to landowners with fractional interests on the reservation amount to more than $ 11 million.

TENNESSEE Nashville: Chancery Court Judge Ellen Hobbs Lyle denied a request from Metro Nashville Public Schools that she order the state to provide more money for education, The Tennessean reported. The school district’s petition said lawmakers did not provide enough money to hire the legally required number of teachers and translators for English- language learners.

TEXAS Houston: Harris County leaders unveiled a financing plan for a $ 105 million redevelopment of the Astrodome that would include raising the two bottom floors to accommodate about 1,400 parking spaces. County commissioners will determine Tuesday whether to spend $ 10.5 million on the design of the parking garage inside the county- owned stadium.

UTAH Provo: Students at Harvest Elementary School in Saratoga Springs lobbied successfully to bring back fry sauce, a regional delicacy missing from their school’s cafeteria. The combination of mayonnaise and ketchup is beloved in the state, The Daily Herald reported.

VERMONT Montpelier: The Agency of Transportation received an additional $ 16 million in federal highway funds it can spend on its projects.

VIRGINIA Richmond: It’s officially fall, and that means the pumpkin patches opened at Ashland Berry Farm and Chesterfield Berry Farm, the Richmond TimesDispatch reported.

WASHINGTON Seattle: Eastside for Hire will take over the taxi operations at the SeattleTacoma International Airport, The Seattle Times reported.

WEST VIRGINIA Marlinton: Seth Kiriluk, executive for the Seneca District of the Buckskin Council of Boy Scouts of America, may have earned a month’s worth of “Do a good turn daily” credit when he rescued an injured adult bald eagle from the Greenbrier River, the Charleston Gazette- Mail reported.

WISCONSIN Milwaukee: Fatalities, injuries and accidents are up in the year since the state raised the speed limit to 70 mph on most interstate highways, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. Since the speed limit increase in June 2015, interstate fatalities rose 37%.

WYOMING Casper: Lawmakers rejected a proposal to increase taxes on wind energy, the Casper Star- Tribune reported.