STATE-BY-STATE
News from across the USA
ALABAMA Birmingham: A 28-year-old security guard was found shot to death at the Woodlawn apartment complex where he worked an overnight shift, AL.com reported. ALASKA Covenant Anchorage:Church tipped Chugacha pizza delivery reported. man Ken $1,900, Felber KTVA-TVhas no plans to splurge since he needs new snow tires and has medical expenses, but he does plan to take his wife out for a good spaghetti dinner.
ARIZONA Phoenix: The Arizona
Republic suggested a little monstrous mood music: 30 sinister songs perfect for Halloween, including creepy classics such as I
Love the Dead by Arizona’s own Alice Cooper and Bauhaus’ gothic dirge Bela Lugosi’s Dead.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: The Livestock and Poultry Commission decided not to put the Rolling R feral hog-hunting ranch out of business, even though the owner acknowledged animals have escaped, ArkansasOnline reported.
CALIFORNIA Sacramento: From an airplane 6,000 feet above the timberline, scientist Greg Asner used a spectrometer and other instruments to assess the effects of lingering drought. About 120 million trees are at risk, the Los Angeles Times reported. COLORADO Denver: A memorial in Denver’s City Park for a police officer slain in a 2012 shooting was vandalized last week and investigators are searching for those responsible,
The Denver Post reported. Police said the monument to Officer Celena Hollis was sprayed Oct. 15 with profane graffiti denouncing law enforcement.
CONNECTICUT Hartford: Kevin Dillon, Connecticut Airport Authority’s executive director, said the authority plans a bid for a casino, the Hartford Courant reported.
DELAWARE Dover: A fourthgrade teacher at North Smyrna Elementary was selected as the state’s teacher of the year, The
News Journal reported. Sandra Hall was chosen from a pool of 9,000 teachers that was then narrowed down to 19 educators. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: The Georgetown Business Improvement District suspended a private messaging service that residents, retailers and police used to discuss people they considered suspicious, The Washing
ton Post reported.
FLORIDA Fort Myers: A dog attack on Fort Myers Beach has the parents of the victim and her dog anxious to find the owner of three pit bulls to see if the animals are current on their rabies shots, The News-Press reported.
GEORGIA Statesboro: Georgia Southern University held a dedication ceremony for the School of Nursing Memorial Garden that honors seven young women involved in an accident on Interstate 16 in April, the Savannah
Morning News reported. Five of the women were killed, and two were injured.
HAWAII Lihue: Another ordinance meant to hold dog owners responsible for their pet’s excessive barking could go before Kauai County officials nearly two months after a previous dog barking ordinance was repealed,
The Garden Island reported.
IDAHO Boise: Authorities said an 18-year-old man accidentally shot and killed a 15-year-old boy while playing with a gun he believed was unloaded, KBOI-TV reported. ILLINOIS Naperville: Folks can wax nostalgic for the days when shoppers could hear about getting “it all at a great Kmart price” while listening to Air Supply, Toto and instrumental remakes of popular tunes, the Naperville Sun reported. Mark Davis hung on to cassettes from the ’80s and ’90s when he worked at the Ogden Mall Kmart, and he posts the retro background music and voice-over announcements at https://archive.org/details/attentionkmartshoppers.
INDIANA Bloomington: The Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened a hate crimes investigation into a weekend attack on Muslim woman, The Herald
Times reported.
IOWA Des Moines: About 32,000 Iowa households are eligible for refunds on their state income tax returns over the past three years after a May U.S. Supreme Court ruling that affects income surtaxes for schools, The
Register reported.
KANSAS Great Bend: The local zoo’s oldest resident, a 50-yearold spider monkey named Spidey, has died, the Great Bend Tribune reported. KENTUCKY Maysville: Five people died in an early morning fire in a series of row houses here,
The Kentucky Enquirer reported.
LOUISIANA New Orleans: Police released a photo of a young woman suspected of taking $10,000 worth of watches and $800 in cash from a man’s room inside the Bourbon Orleans Hotel, The Times-Picayune reported.
MAINE Augusta: The Maine Department of Corrections is proposing changes that would prohibit prisoners from soliciting or communicating with a pen pal, Maine Public Broadcasting Network reported.
MARYLAND Ocean City: The City Council voted to put handheld credit card readers on its summer-season trams as a convenience for riders who aren’t carrying cash, The Daily Times reported.
MASSACHUSETTS Pittsfield: Berkshire District Attorney David Capeless said a gun found in a locker at a local middle school last week was “fully loaded,” a statement that runs contrary to information fromthe mayor’s office, The Berkshire Eagle reported. He said he was “dismayed that the mayor’s office would release incorrect information.”
MICHIGAN Tyrone Township: Authorities have discovered the body of a man who likely had been dead in his home for a year, the Livingston County Daily
Press & Argus reported. MINNESOTAMille Lacs will St. be Paul:open to Lake ice fishingafter agreementfor walleye was this reached winter betweencials on the the quota state limit,and tribalthe Star offi
Tribune reported.
MISSISSIPPICounty Board Tupelo:of SupervisorsThe Lee unanimouslyincrease for county approved employees,a 2% the Northeast Mississippi Daily
Journal reported.
MISSOURI Cape Girardeau: Plans call for Cape Girardeau to have a new $11 million conference center by mid-2017, following action by the city council, the
Southeast Missourian reported. The eight-story hotel will replace the existing Drury Lodge.
MONTANA Deer Lodge: The
Montana Standard reported that NorthWestern Energy unveiled its first solar panels in Montana at an event Monday. The panels are located on private property the company is leasing about eight miles north of Deer Lodge.
NEBRASKA Lincoln: A motorcycle stolen more than 30 years ago turned up in Lancaster County spring flooding debris, KETV-TV reported.
NEVADA Carson City: Republican Assemblywoman Jill Dickman announced she’ll run for re-election to the state Legislature. NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: A third of state moose hunters were successful during the first two days of the nine-day season, The
Union Leader reported. The 108 permit holders took a total of 36 moose — 24 bulls and 12 cows.
NEW JERSEY Edison: The Edison Memorial Tower will be relit Saturday after a $3.9 million renovation to the once-crumbling tribute to namesake inventor Thomas Alva Edison, the Home
News Tribune reported. NEWsix decades MEXICOof travelingSanta Fe: the After globe, Helen inducted Schreider,into the 89, Explorersa has been Club, KRQE-TV reported. Schrieder was named not only a member of the Explorers Club but a national fellow.
NEW YORK Albany: Gov. Cuomo signed a series of bills that aims to ensure equality for women in the workplace and provide stronger laws for victims of domestic violence, the Gannett Albany Bureau reported.
NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: Kylee Wideman dreams of becoming a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. She and her teammates from North Carolina State University were named the best college dance team in a competition hosted by the television show Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team. They will perform at halftime Dec. 19 at a Cowboys game, according to The News & Observer.
NORTH DAKOTA Mi
not: A zoning rule caught some child care providers by surprise. The city changed its zoning ordinance in July 2014 to require home child-care operations with more than 14 children to obtain $250 permits, the Minot
Daily News reported. OHIO Fairfield: A police officer was suspended for three days after he accidentally shot a female high school student with a stun gun at school, The Cincinnati
Enquirer reported. Fairfield Officer Kevin Harrington tried consoling the 17-year-old victim in his office after he found her crying in the hallway. He was joking with her when he accidentally fired the stun gun.
OKLAHOMA Skiatook: Micalah Millard, 14, took down a buck with antlers that green-scored 1871⁄ inches, the Tulsa World
8 reported.
OREGON Portland: Massive stones from Eastern Oregon will be used to construct a medieval castle wall at a Japanese garden here, the Baker City Herald re- ported. The Baker blue granite will be used for a 21-foot-high by 140-foot-long wall zig-zagging through the Portland Japanese Garden. PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia: Police are investigating after an elementary school student found a bag of nearly three dozen bullets on the floor of her classroom. WCAU-TV reported that police still don’t know who the bullets belong to or how they got there.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: The El Tiburon Sports Bar will remain closed following a triple shooting over the weekend, the
Providence Journal reported. SOUTH CAROLINA Greenville: Though flu season has only just begun, influenza has claimed its first victims in South Carolina,
The Greenville News reported. Four people from across the state have died from the disease, said Linda Bell, state epidemiologist.
SOUTH DAKOTA Spearfish: City leaders are set to open a $5.8 million facility built to replace a city-owned call center that collapsed during a blizzard two years ago. The Atlas Building, funded by insurance money, is tentatively set to open in early November, with Mass Markets as the main tenant, the Rapid City Journal reported.
TENNESSEE Nashville: Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge, a honky-tonk that has been an incubator for country music artists, celebrated its 55th anniversary Wednesday with a star-studded concert, The
Tennessean reported. The bar also has been credited with helping revitalize the historic downtown area.
TEXAS Allen: Allen High School principal Steve Payne, who had been on leave, is retiring, The
Dallas Morning News reported.
UTAH Salt Lake City: The owner of a dog shot and killed by a local police officer is suing the city and five officers for nearly $2 million in the dog ’s death, The
Salt Lake City Tribune reported.
VERMONT Burlington: Skiers who are in a rush to get back on the mountain are in luck this fall,
The Free Press reported. Killington Resort was the first ski mountain to open to the general public in North America on Monday. Season-pass holders broke in the runs on Sunday
VIRGINIA Chincoteague: A veterinarian determined that a pony found dead last week had a broken neck from a fallen limb, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. WASHINGTON Tumwater: The former Olympia brewery is set to go up for auction later this month. The Olympian reports the property will be sold in four separate pieces on Oct. 28 at the Red Lion Hotel. The brewery was closed in 2003, four years after Miller Brewing took over the Olympia brand. WEST VIRGINIA Morgantown: More than 350 elementary, middle and high school teams from across the state and region will participate in West Virginia University’s annual Pumpkin Drop on Friday. The teams have spent months designing protective casings for their pumpkins, TheDPost.com reported. Those pumpkins will be dropped from the roof of the university’s engineering building.
WISCONSIN Milwaukee: Nearly one year after 5-year-old Laylah Petersen was shot and killed while sitting on her grandfather’s lap, police announced that three men have been charged in her slaying, the Journal Sentinel reported. The accused shooters targeted the wrong house, authorities said.
WYOMING Casper: A wildfire that destroyed 12 homes and displaced more than 1,300 people began in a landfill’s woodchip pile, the Casper Star Tribune reported. Camera images recorded flames coming from the pile after employees went home.