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ALABAMA Birmingham: The city council has approved an ordinance prohibiting smoking in a 100- block zone around schools and health facilities.
ALASKA Fairbanks: An escaped goat that eluded authorities for two days has been adopted as the official mascot of an organization supporting people affected by opioids.
ARIZONA Phoenix: A baby weighing less than one pound when she was born nearly five months ago is being released Monday from a Phoenix hospital.
ARKANSAS Conway: A technology company that works with Medicaid programs is expanding its central Arkansas facility and hiring 1,200 new workers.
CALIFORNIA Bonsall: A wildlife center is planning a fundraiser for construction of a safe house for the world’s decreasing population of cheetahs, officials said.
COLORADO Fairplay: Classes are resuming in rural Park County School District RE- 2 despite a teachers’ strike now in its second week. Teachers went on strike Oct. 14 over salary increases and other issues. It is the third teachers’ strike in Colorado in the last 18 months.
CONNECTICUT Norwich: The Otis Library has removed a memorial to Sikhs killed in India 35 years ago after a protest call from the Indian Consulate in New York.
DELAWARE Wilmington: A significant decline in blood donors has caused the Mid- Atlantic’s supply to drop to critically low levels, according to a release from the Blood Bank of Delmarva.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washing
ton: A 35- year old Alexandria, Virginia, man was arrested for impersonating an officer at a Southeast housing complex, WUSA- TV reported.
FLORIDA Cape Coral: The National Weather Service confirmed that an EF- 1 tornado touched down in northwest Cape Coral on Saturday morning. There have been no reports of any injuries.
GEORGIA Fort Stewart: The commanding general of the Army post where three soldiers died in a weekend training accident said their armored vehicle rolled off a bridge and was submerged upside down in a stream.
HAWAII Honolulu: The city is considering setting limits on the number of surfing contests held on Oahu’s South Shore, officials said.
IDAHO Boise: A panel of lawmakers is examining property tax options amid complaints that taxes are going up with rising property values, while also hearing on Monday concerns from cities and counties that they’re operating on tight budgets.
ILLINOIS Springfield: A new area code is being added to the 217 territory in central Illinois. The area code will be 447. The 217 area code covers 36 counties in Illinois and includes Springfield, Champaign, Urbana, Decatur, Danville, Quincy and Rantoul.
INDIANA Indianapolis: Police said a school bus carrying about two dozen students crashed into a pawn shop, leaving most of the bus inside the business. Police said that no students were injured.
IOWA Peosta: The city council has accepted the resignation of its mayor despite his request that they let him remain in office.
KANSAS Wichita: The National Agricultural Statistics Service said that winter wheat planting was 77% complete, near the five- year average for this time of year in Kansas.
KENTUCKY Owingsville: The state Transportation Cabinet said a bridge- replacement project on Kentucky 1944 in northwest Bath County is expected to begin Monday over White Oak Creek just east of Cow Creek Road.
LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: The state agriculture department said the destruction of two pieces of equipment at a logging site in Winn Parish has stalled work for a Natchitoches Parish logging business.
MAINE Ellsworth: Maine is holding lotteries for licenses to participate in one of the most lucrative fisheries in the state, which is home to a near- shore scallop fishery that was worth about $ 6 million last year.
MARYLAND Baltimore: Federal officials said they’re close to breaking a record for the number of guns they have seized this year at the Baltimore/ Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.
MASSACHUSETTS Cambridge:
Harvard is set to award the W. E. B. Du Bois Medal to Queen Latifah and six other recipients on Tuesday.
MICHIGAN Flint: Mott Community College officials said bedbug- infested chairs have been removed from a student lounge.
MINNESOTA St. Paul: The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources said a 57 ¼ - inch muskie weighing about 47 pounds that was caught on Lake Vermilion is a catch- and- release state record.
MISSOURI Republic: A man broke state records for the heaviest and second- heaviest pumpkins. KMBCTV reported that the 1,798- pound and 1,677- pound giants that Richard Bottorf entered into the Republic Pumpkin Daze weigh more combined than a compact car.
MONTANA Great Falls: The U. S. Department of Justice has awarded $ 2.9 million to four tribes in Montana.
NEBRASKA South Bend: Work is expected to begin this winter on a pedestrian- bicycle bridge over the Platte River southwest of Omaha that was battered during flooding earlier this year.
NEVADA Reno: A whooping cough outbreak has prompted the closure of a private high school until next week.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Sugar Hill: Members of St. Matthew’s Chapel said they discovered a time capsule from 1893 in the church’s foundation.
NEW JERSEY West Long Branch: A conference Tuesday at Monmouth University brought together industry and environmental groups who agreed that communication and coordination are essential to sharing the ocean.
NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: A beer named after the AMC- TV hit series “Breaking Bad” and brewed by an actor from the show sold out after its debut.
NEW YORK Albany: Insurance companies must ensure that patients don’t face higher out- of- pocket costs when receiving emergency care under a new state law.
NORTH CAROLINA Winston- Salem:
The city has voted to change the name of its annual Dixie Classic Fair to the “Carolina Classic Fair” starting in 2020.
NORTH DAKOTA Fargo: Gov. Doug Burgum declared a statewide flood emergency to help residents affected by heavy rains and a blizzard.
OHIO Piketon: A private company will test schools and homes near a former uranium enrichment plant for radiological contaminants after trace amounts of enriched uranium were found at a nearby middle school.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Thousands of illegal cellphones are making it into the hands of prison inmates who use the devices to commit crimes, but prison officials testified Monday that they’re prohibited from using one of the best tools to stop it – jamming technology.
OREGON Corvallis: Oregon State University has reinstituted an abandoned 2005 management plan for its McDonald- Dunn research forest outside Corvallis.
PENNSYLVANIA Pittsburgh: President Donald Trump’s visit to Pittsburgh on Wednesday will close roads and a dozen schools.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: The Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission said it made a mistake that a hunting lodge in Richmond does not qualify for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places.
SOUTH CAROLINA Charleston:
Charleston County said it is sending its recyclable material to a facility that separates garbage from salvageable material and turns irrecoverable waste into fuel pellets.
SOUTH DAKOTA Aberdeen: Officials said a small plane missing for nearly two weeks has been found crashed near Aberdeen.
TENNESSEE Caryville: The U. S. Department of Agriculture said more than 6,000 pounds of frozen sausage patties have been recalled over concerns of salmonella contamination.
TEXAS Sarita: U. S. Border Patrol agents seized more than $ 4 million worth of drugs at a checkpoint.
UTAH Logan: A power company replaced three ceramic insulators during an unplanned outage.
VERMONT St. Albans: People are being allowed back into an industrial complex after firefighters ventilated a building because of a hydrogen leak.
VIRGINIA St. Paul: Three Amazon executives visited parts of western Virginia on what Gov. Ralph Northam said was as a tour to become familiar with the area’s assets.
WASHINGTON Sedro- Woolley: Students at Sedro- Woolley High School are building and using aerial drones in a high- tech extension of traditional math studies.
WEST VIRGINIA Morgantown: A spokesman for West Virginia University said a campus building was evacuated after a student’s chemical lab experiment went awry.
WISCONSIN Madison: University of Wisconsin researchers are trying to persuade legislators to approve a bill to fund efforts to locate the remains of missing Wisconsin soldiers.
WYOMING Casper: Power Company of Wyoming has moved a step closer to clearing a final environmental requirement for its massive Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Energy Project in Carbon County.