STATE-BY-STATE

News from across the USA

ALABAMA Mobile: A new memorial to troops killed since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will be unveiled here. WKRG-TV reported that the new memorial at the U.S.S. Alabama Battleship Memorial Park will formally open Friday. ALASKA Girdwood: Residents are concerned about losing Alaska State Trooper patrols at the end of the year. Trooper barracks will close Dec. 31 as part of stateordered budget cuts, according to KTVA-TV. ARIZONA Tucson: Local officials are grappling with a bus strike that has lasted more than a month. The Arizona Daily Star reported that council members were recently updated on the strike as well as Sun Tran’s management and operations. ARKANSAS Jessieville: Jessieville High football coach Don Phillips put himself on a onegame suspension after a player was seen waving a Confederate flag at a pep rally, The SentinelRecord reported. CALIFORNIA San Francisco: Authorities are issuing more carpool violation tickets. The Oakland Tribune reported that state and Santa Clara County officials surveyed motorists and found that an average of 41% of drivers on county’s expressways cheated in the carpool lanes at 28 locations the county monitored. Tickets are $491. COLORADO Denver: Searchers found the body of a Westminster man who left to go on a hike in Eldorado Canyon State Park on Saturday but never came back, KUSA-TV reported. The disappearance of David Robles, 53, prompted a large-scale search of the area by multiple agencies over the course of several days. CONNECTICUT Ansonia: The city will soon fit its police officers with body cameras, the New Haven Register reported.

DELAWARE New Castle County: A farmland preservation bid along Port Penn Road criticized for its locally unprecedented price has received tentative federal approval, a partial vindication for the county’s independent conservation program, The News Journal reported. The morethan-$3 million, conditional offer still has to win final endorsement from a Natural Resources Conservation Service national reviewer and eventual backing from County Council. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Mayor Muriel Bowser and Police Chief Cathy Lanier want to keep a closer watch on repeat gun offenders, The Washington Post reported. FLORIDA Tallahassee: Taxi companies in Tallahassee and Broward County are suing the state over app-based transportation services, alleging that Florida officials aren’t requiring Uber and Lyft to prove that the way they calculate trip distances — and charges — is accurate, the Tallahassee Democrat reported. GEORGIA St. Simon’s Island: Steve Theus is the new manager of the Fort Frederica National Monument on St. Simon’s Island. He is a longtime ranger at the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site, the Florida Times-Union reported. HAWAII Honolulu: A jury awarded Ewa Beach homeowners about $27 million in a lawsuit against a developer trying to build a recreational lagoon instead of the marina it originally planned, the Honolulu Star Advertiser reported. IDAHO Idaho Falls: Potato farmers say they’re optimistic they will improve on last year’s harvest. The Post Register reported that yields and spud sizes are expected to be better.

ILLINOIS Urbana: This fall’s freshman class at the University of Illinois’ flagship Urbana-Champaign campus is the second largest in school history. The News-Gazette reported that overall enrollment on campus increased by roughly 1%. INDIANA Indianapolis: Russell Taylor, 44, the former head of Jared Fogle’s foundation, will be sentenced Dec. 10 after agreeing to plead guilty to child pornography charges, the Indianapolis Star reported. Taylor admitted to secretly producing videos of 12 children and sharing some of those videos with Fogle, the former Subway pitchman who has also agreed to plead guilty to child porn charges. IOWA Des Moines: The Iowa State Medical Examiner’s office said more testing would be needed to determine the cause and manner of death for 27-year-old Tyler Sash, a former Iowa Hawkeyes standout safety who was founded dead Tuesday in Oskaloosa, The Register reported. KANSAS Topeka: State officials said a review of the state’s new welfare law shows it doesn’t conflict with federal rules governing state child care programs. KENTUCKY Louisville: Saying lack of Internet access is an impediment for low-income residents, Mayor Greg Fischer is helping to broaden a city effort to better connect residents through a new project that will bring free Wi-Fi service to parts of western Louisville, The Courier-Journal reported. LOUISIANA Thibodaux: A former state trooper was tapped as the new police chief to replace Scott Silverii who retired. The Daily Comet reported Mayor Tommy Eschete nomination of Bryan Zeringue will go before the City Council at its Sept. 15 meeting. MAINE Hiram: State officials said five people were killed on motorcycles over the holiday weekend, pushing the state death toll for riders to 26 so far this year.

MARYLAND Salisbury: A deal to purchase Natural Food Holdings will move Perdue Foods into organic pork, The Daily Times reported. MASSACHUSETTS Franklin: Police shot a man after he poured gasoline on his home and threatened to blow it up. Davis Thayer Elementary School was evacuated as a precaution. MICHIGAN Detroit: Nicole Curtis, the star of HGTV’s Rehab Addict and a Lake Orion native, claims that she narrowly escaped being carjacked after a jazz festival, the Detroit Free Press reported. MINNESOTA Rogers: A police officer was hospitalized after falling more than 10 feet from an attic here while trying to arrest a suspect, KSTP-TV reported.

MISSISSIPPI Gulfport: The Mississippi Highway Patrol issued 4,925 citations with 109 DUI arrests during the Labor Day weekend, The Sun Herald reported. MISSOURI Advance: A woman died in a mobile home fire in southeast Missouri, KFVS-TV reported. MONTANA Billings: A man has pleaded guilty to driving under the influence after police found him sitting in his car in a Taco Bell parking lot. The Billings Gazette reported that Justin Burns, 37, has three previous DUI convictions from 2006, 2003 and 1993. NEBRASKA Grand Island: Attendance at this year’s Nebraska State Fair was the highest since the fair moved here from Lincoln in 2010. More than 352,000 people attended the fair, which closed Monday after opening Aug. 28. NEVADA Las Vegas: The Southern Nevada Health District said seven salmonella cases in Nevada, including four in Clark County, may be tied to an outbreak related to cucumbers that has sickened 285 people in 27 states and killed a California woman, the Las Vegas Sun reported. NEW HAMPSHIRE Manchester: The state’s first Jobs Corps Center will open here later this month, putting the center in all 50 states. The center will provide classes for nine vocations and earning a GED, and will accommodate 300 students, the New Hampshire Union Leader reported. NEW JERSEY Trenton: This year’s high school freshmen won’t have to pass the state’s new standardized exams to graduate and some juniors could be exempt from the English portion of the test, the Asbury Park Press reported. NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: Councilor Chris Rivera wants to ask voters to approve up to $12 million in new bonds for soccer field improvements at the Municipal Recreation Complex, The Santa Fe New Mexican reported. NEW YORK Rochester: Personal information on more than 10 million people has been exposed to computer hackers who mounted a sophisticated cyberattack on Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, based here, and related companies, the Democrat and Chronicle reported.

NORTH CAROLINA Hendersonville: The Henderson County Board of Commissioners is concerned about Duke Energy’s plans for a power transmission line that would run from Asheville to Campobello, S.C., The Times-News reported. NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: The City Council has approved $9,500 to purchase M4 rifles for school resource officers to keep in their vehicles. The Bismarck Tribune reported that the amount was included in the city’s 2016 budget. OHIO Oakley: Kroger opened its largest store ever, a $28 million, 145,000-square-foot Marketplace with a bulk natural foods department, a beer growler and wine bar, a baby center, and a pharmacy with two drive-through lanes. The store, which also has a fuel center and a Fred Meyer Jewelers, has 375 employees, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported. OKLAHOMA Norman: A baboon breeding and research program operated by the University of Oklahoma’s Health Sciences Center will end within four years, The Oklahoman reported. OREGON Newberg: Two bicyclists were hit by an SUV here, killing one and injuring the other, KATU-TV reported.

PENNSYLVANIA Benezette: The Pennsylvania Game Commission installed an elk cam on State Game Lands 311, PennLive.com reported. The elk cam is provided by HD On Tap, a company that has also provided live video from a bald eagle’s nest in Hanover. RHODE ISLAND Providence: The state is receiving nearly $1 million a year for the next four years to help combat drug overdoses, the Providence Journal reported. SOUTH CAROLINA Greenville: Native son U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham is polling so low as a presidential candidate that he didn’t make the cut for Heritage Action’s Republican candidate forum Sept. 18. White House hopefuls had to have at least 1% support in the Real Clear Politics poll average for August. Graham only had 0%, The Greenville News reported. SOUTH DAKOTA Rapid City: The City Council approved a 1.5% property tax hike, KOTA-TV reported. TENNESSEE Nashville: An 11year-old sixth-grader was charged with carrying an unloaded .25-caliber semi-automatic pistol onto the LEAD Prep Southeast school grounds Wednesday afternoon and with aggravated assault for threatening to shoot a fellow student, The Tennessean reported. TEXAS Houston: Oil company Cameron International said it’s cutting 150 jobs in Houston over the next four months because of the low crude prices and declining business conditions. Similarly, Conoco Phillips has said it will cut more than 500 jobs in the Houston area, the Houston Chronicle reported. UTAH West Point: Police arrested a man with burned feet in connection with a grassfire here, the Deseret News reported. VERMONT Burlington: The state Legislature acted fairly in cutting cash assistance for about 860 poor Vermont families, an attorney argued Tuesday in court. The budget cut means lower benefits for families who receive Reach Up cash assistance and have a parent or other adult with a disability receiving Supplemental Security Income. Facing a class-action lawsuit on behalf of impacted families, a government attorney argued the change is “merely an accounting mechanism” and does not discriminate against Vermonters with disabilities, Burlington Free Press reported. VIRGINIA Roanoke: A medical helicopter team based here had two minor encounters involving drones this year. As a result, Carilion Clinic is warning hobbyists to keep their aircraft away from medical helicopters, The Roanoke Times reported. WASHINGTON Seattle: A person was rescued from a barge here with a shipyard crane. The Seattle Times reported that the Seattle Fire Department used the crane to reach the person, who was described as a cardiac patient. WEST VIRGINIA Moundsville: Neglected horses and cattle that were seized from a farm have found new homes. Twenty-two horses and 10 cattle were sold at a public auction at the Marshall County Courthouse. Authorities seized the animals from a farm south of Cameron earlier this year. WISCONSIN Madison: More hunting seasons are getting set to open as turkey and grouse seasons begin this weekend and woodcock season opens in the next two weeks, the Green Bay Press-Gazette reported. The state’s wild turkey population remains strong, and the numbers appear to be stabilizing. WYOMING Gillette: Nearly 75% of the state’s elementary and secondary schools have earned passing grades in the 2014-15 school year, the Gillette News Record reported.