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STATE-BY-STATE
ALABAMA Montgomery: Voters next month will decide a constitutional amendment on the display of the Ten Commandments in public buildings.
ALASKA Bethel: Small communities in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta are growing faster than Bethel, that part of the state’s commercial hub.
ARIZONA San Luis: Federal officials will mark the expansion of a pedestrian border crossing Wednesday.
ARKANSAS Helena-West Helena: An animal shelter says people have broken in to use dogs there for dogfighting for the second time in two weeks.
CALIFORNIA Oakland: The police department is asking all officer applicants to disclose whether they have been sexually assaulted.
COLORADO Boulder: The City Council decided against a moratorium on building so-called McMansions.
CONNECTICUT Hartford: A 4-yearold program that provides state troopers with training and equipment to reverse opioid overdoses is being credited with saving 268 lives.
DELAWARE Wilmington: A Delaware man has been sentenced to six years in prison on child porn charges.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Washington is among 20 cities being awarded support for their work to reduce carbon emissions by the Bloomberg American Cities Climate Challenge.
FLORIDA Gainesville: The former Northeast Park was renamed after iconic rocker Tom Petty, who played there as a boy.
GEORGIA Jekyll Island: The annual Shrimp & Grits Festival is moving from September to November in 2020 to avoid hurricane season.
HAWAII Hilo: A councilwoman introduced a resolution to recognize animals as “sentient beings” but withdrew it over lack of support.
IDAHO American Falls: Feds say a reserve forage area for livestock displaced by wildfires, drought or other problems will be ready next summer.
ILLINOIS Chicago: A Southwest Side park has been renamed Irma C. Ruiz Park in honor of a police officer killed when a gunman opened fire inside a school three decades ago.
INDIANA Lafayette: Purdue University is limiting health care coverage for employees’ working spouses.
IOWA Iowa City: Officials have named the black-eyed Susan the city’s official flower.
KANSAS Lawrence: City leaders want bar staff to be prepared to respond to predatory behavior, harassment and sexual assault.
KENTUCKY Nicholasville: A state senator threatened local libraries after becoming upset that his opponent was using their public spaces.
LOUISIANA New Orleans: The City Council is ending mandatory bike registrations for individual owners.
MAINE Bangor: Maine artist Gary Cooper’s Apollo 11 design will be on commemorative U.S. coins.
MARYLAND Baltimore: More than 65,000 autos were shipped through Baltimore’s bustling port in August.
MASSACHUSETTS Provincetown: Researchers say “Ladders,” a fin whale that washed ashore, was known to them for over 30 years.
MICHIGAN Cass City: Ancient etchings at Sanilac Petroglyphs State Park are being digitally preserved in a partnership with tribal groups.
MINNESOTA Minneapolis: A new traveling exhibit showcases the stories and relationships Minnesotans have with water.
MISSISSIPPI McComb: Pike County is suing an electrical utility and its own insurer over damage to voting machines from a 2016 power outage.
MISSOURI Qulin: State officials and individuals recovering from addiction say methamphetamine is on the upswing in Missouri.
MONTANA Crow Agency: The Crow Nation Legislative Branch has voted to remove two judges from the tribal court over misconduct allegations.
NEBRASKA Lincoln: The Sunday with a Scientist program will focus on chemistry, lasers and student presentations in coming months.
NEVADA Las Vegas: Investigators are trying to determine what caused a fire at a bank ATM.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Wilmot: Authorities say two participants in Colby Sawyer College’s annual “Mountain Day” got lost and a third was injured on Mount Kearsarge.
NEW JERSEY Browns Mills: A man is charged with arson and aggravated manslaughter in a fire that killed his mother and her companion.
NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: A state agency that helps people with disabilities find work is telling many job-seekers to look elsewhere for assistance, citing funding woes.
NEW YORK New York: The HMS Queen Elizabeth, the largest ship ever built for Great Britain’s Royal Navy, is visiting for a week.
NORTH CAROLINA Kill Devil Hills: The Wright Brothers National Memorial visitor center reopened two years after it closed for renovations.
NORTH DAKOTA Mandan: A needle exchange program, the Good Neighbor Project at Custer Health, is growing faster than anticipated.
OHIO Cleveland: The U.S. Coast Guard says it pulled a body from Lake Erie near a fishing area.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: The Department of Health says an increasing number of parents in the state are seeking exemptions from immunizations for their children.
OREGON Salem: A federal judge denied a request by environmental groups to halt a logging project in the Umpqua National Forest.
PENNSYLVANIA Sunbury: Authorities say one person died and nearly 40 others were injured when a tour bus and a pickup truck collided.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: A company says it’s beginning construction on the onshore wind farm with the state’s most operational capacity.
SOUTH CAROLINA York: Bedbugs have been found in offices at the Moss Justice Center.
SOUTH DAKOTA Yankton: Mount Marty College has opened a nursing center and simulation lab to provide hands-on training.
TENNESSEE Nashville: Bluegrass and country star Ricky Skaggs, singer Dottie West and fiddler Johnny Gimble are the newest members of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
TEXAS College Station: Scientists at Texas A&M earned federal approval of a genetic process to unleash cottonseed as possibly a global leading source of protein-rich food.
UTAH Heber: Authorities say a man is suspected of driving under the influence in a crash that killed six.
VERMONT Rutland: The city has a new marble sculpture of Revolutionary War hero Ann Story.
VIRGINIA Newport News: Jill Biden, wife of former Vice President Joe Biden, christened the U.S. Navy’s newest Virginia-class attack submarine, the USS Delaware.
WASHINGTON Seattle: Wheelchair users are suing the Seattle Mariners, saying they get a “second-class” experience at Safeco Field.
WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: The Division of Natural Resources says it will stock streams and ponds with golden rainbow trout again next spring after the move proved popular.
WISCONSIN Madison: Wisconsin is seeing a shortage of psychiatrists, with 20 of the state’s 72 counties lacking a practicing psychiatrist.
WYOMING Jackson: The Wyoming Game and Fish Department says this year is a below-average one for human-bear conflicts in the Jackson Hole area.