News from across the USA Newark:

ALABAMA Montgomery: A couple were charged with withholding food from their 7-yearold child, AL.com reported. ALASKA Anchorage: A woman swept into Cook Inlet was rescued by a private floatplane, which landed near the woman. She was placed onto a float, and the airplane taxied to shore. ARIZONA Phoenix: Among the fans waiting for Guns N’ Roses’ reunion performance at the University of Phoenix Stadium were Dave and Jessi Sherwood. “We met and fell in love 22 years ago to Guns N’ Roses,” Jessi told The Arizona Republic. They have a daughter named Patience after the band’s song. ARKANSAS Hot Springs: A couple were accused of ziptying a 4-year-old girl to furniture as a form of punishment, according to The Sentinel-Record. CALIFORNIA Santa Monica: It’s common for parents to enroll their kids in prekindergarten tutoring programs. Some children are signed up for separate one-on-one sessions that cost $120 to $200 an hour, the Los Angeles Times reported. COLORADO Centennial: A Denver suburb has partnered with the ride-hailing app Lyft to help people get to and from the Regional Transportation District train station, The Denver

Post reported. CONNECTICUT Hartford: Connecticut State Police saved its 100th person with the opioid overdose reversal drug Narcan this past weekend. DELAWARE Wilmington: State police arrested 39-year-old Lataka Mason, who they say poured bleach on another woman in a Target store. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: The Federal Transit Administration issued an urgent safety directive saying Metro hasn’t sufficiently trained its operators and controllers to understand its signal systems, The Washington Post reported. Three times since October trains or maintenance vehicles came “within seconds” of striking other trains or Metro workers. FLORIDA Orlando: A 14-yearold student is recovering in a hospital after lightning struck a nearby tree at The First Academy during lunchtime. GEORGIA Atlanta: Bon

Appétit magazine named Staplehouse as America’s Best New Restaurant of 2016, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. HAWAII Honolulu: Genki Sushi, a chain that serves sushi on a conveyor belt, threw out food and scrubbed its counters after state authorities identified its raw scallops as the probable source of a hepatitis A outbreak. IDAHO Nampa: KTVB-TV reported that the Nampa School District will issue Dell Latitude laptops to Columbia High School students this week. The laptops are part of a three-year, $3.5 million project to modernize classroom technology and curricula. ILLINOIS Chicago: Police officers’ emails discussing the Laquan McDonald shooting can’t be kept secret even though they were transmitted privately, Attorney General Lisa Madigan ruled, according to the Chicago Tribune. INDIANA Hammond: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has approved an $8.7 million loan guarantee that will help the city build a community wellness center. IOWA Council Bluffs: Kael Karagianis, 18, who pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide in a Neola crash, has been ordered to carry a photo of the boy who was killed, The Daily Nonpareil reported. KANSAS Wichita: Authorities investigated the death of a man whose body was found on top of a freight elevator at a 10-story apartment building, The Wichita

Eagle reported. KENTUCKY Paducah: Police have arrested a female substitute teacher accused of having sex with two male students, The

Paducah Sun reported. A grand jury indicted Kasey Warren, 27, on charges of third-degree rape and third-degree sodomy. LOUISIANA New Orleans: Snowballs, the deceptively simple treat of shaved ice and flavored syrup, have kept residents cool for decades. More than 12,000 of The Times-Picayune’s readers voted, and Hansen’s Sno-Bliz came in as their favorite snowball stand. MAINE Portland: A 19thcentury clock tower at the top of the Odd Fellows Building in the Woodfords Corner area is ticking again after nearly 20 years. The clock’s motor was repaired, and the faces were restored and repainted, the Portland Press Herald reported. The clock tower also lights up at night. MARYLAND Ocean City: The Maryland Association of Counties summer conference runs through Saturday here. The conference is focusing on technology trends in county government. MASSACHUSETTS North Ad

ams: Two men charged with using a wooden board and pipes to beat another man in a dispute over a shared kitchen said they acted in self-defense, The Berk

shire Eagle reported. MICHIGAN Montague

Township: Ronnie Jo Claflin, 27, will spend a year in jail for failing to stop at an Aug. 8 crash that killed a Detroit-area bicyclist, Susan Cummings, 50, who was traveling across the state’s Lower Peninsula to raise money for the Hope Water Project, the

Muskegon Chronicle reported. MINNESOTA Big Lake: Many cities and counties are opting out of a state law allowing small dwellings that can be short-term housing for aging people who aren’t quite ready for assisted living or a nursing home. The Minnesota Legislature passed a law last session permitting the housing, called granny pods, the

St. Cloud Times reported. MISSISSIPPI Jackson: Not only is a state commission putting the Jackson school district on probation, but members ordered an audit of all of the district’s schools, expressing concern over safety and discipline. MISSOURI Perryville: A suspect was in custody after a chase through several southeastern counties with a pregnant woman inside the car, KFVS-TV reported. MONTANA Bozeman: State wildlife officials counted more than 1,000 dead mountain whitefish in the Yellowstone River, the Bozeman Daily

Chronicle reported. Officials had yet to determine what caused the die-off. NEBRASKA Omaha: The city will pay $250,000 to continue its fight against the emerald ash borer, the Omaha World-Herald reported. The borer, believed to be the most destructive insect to afflict trees in North America, was found in Omaha in June. NEVADA Stateline: Work began on some of the first beach homes on Lake Tahoe in more than 30 years. The Tahoe Beach Club broke ground on the $300 million project that will include 143 new condos and a private beach on the eastern side of the lake. NEW HAMPSHIRE Woodstock: Hikers on the Walker Brook Trail, site of the wreckage of a WWII B-18 bomber, were cautioned about wasps making their home there. Joseph Badurina, 51, and his 7-yearold son and 14year-old nephew were stung by wasps. The three had hiked to the wreckage of the bomber that crashed on the side of Mount Waternomee on Jan. 14, 1942. NEW JERSEY A health department report says 15 patients of a Morris County dentist developed infections that forced 12 of them to undergo heart surgery and led to one death. The report released last month says the patients went to John Vecchione in 2013 and 2014. Vecchione, who is still practicing, has offices in Budd Lake and Parsippany. NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: Prison officials have been packing two inmates in cells built for one person at Western New Mexico Correctional Facility in Grants, violating population controls, The Santa Fe

New Mexican reported. NEW YORK Lockport: Authorities say underage individuals were involved and that the owners of High Tread International were not at fault in a fire at a tire recycling facility that burned for nearly three days last week. A body was found amid the debris, and the Niagara County coroner has said DNA testing will be conducted to determine the identity. NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: Police asked for the public’s help to determine what caused a loud noise reported as gunshots at Crabtree Valley Mall, The News & Observer reported. NORTH DAKOTA Barlow: No injuries were reported in the collapse of two grain bins. OHIO Liberty Township: Trustees extended door-to-door solicitation hours to 9 p.m. from May through September and to 6 p.m. from October through April following a lawsuit, The Hamilton-Middletown Journal-News reported. Township officials say they had to lift the curfew because courts ruled soliciting is protected by the Constitution as free speech. OKLAHOMA Tulsa: An earlymorning fire that destroyed two American Legion sheds also claimed hundreds of U.S. flags used to decorate the graves of military veterans each Memorial Day, Tulsa World reported. OREGON Medford: A 57-yearold woman drowned after she fell into the water during a rafting trip down the Rogue River, the Mail Tribune reported. PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia: District Attorney Seth Williams belatedly reported receiving $160,000 in gifts from friends, including $45,000 worth of roof repairs and other home improvements. Philly.com reported the Democrat omitted the gifts on annual statements of financial interest he filed from 2010 to 2015. RHODE ISLAND Providence: Six months after Gov. Raimondo announced a plan to offer com- puter science at every school by December 2017, the state is on track to reach its goal, The

Providence Journal reported. SOUTH CAROLINA Greenville: People should eat only limited amounts of bass from Lake Keowee and Lake Hartwell because of mercury found in the tissue of those species, state regulators said. SOUTH DAKOTA Huron: KOKK-AM reported that Dakota Provisions will expand the cold storage space at its turkey processing plant at a cost of $9 million. It will also expand into another building in an industrial park at a cost of $30 million. TENNESSEE Nashville: The Tennessee chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy said it had no legal choice but to accept $1.2 million from Vanderbilt University in exchange for relinquishing the naming rights to the private school’s Confederate Memorial Hall, The Tennesse

an reported. TEXAS Austin: Nearly 94% of districts and about 84% of public schools in the state met minimum education standards, officials said. UTAH St. George: Red Hills Deseret Garden is closed for a week to allow for the removal of illegally introduced goldfish and other popular pet species, The

Spectrum reported. Steve Meismer with the Virgin River Program said the illegally introduced fish outnumber and threaten the garden’s endangered native fish. VERMONT Barre: Investigators believe a dangerous batch of heroin caused nine overdoses, including one fatality, that were reported over the weekend, the mayor said. The victims ranged from age 19 to 54, and at least some of them required multiple doses of the antidote drug Naloxone to be revived. VIRGINIA Chesterfield County: Niagara Bottling, a family-owned and -operated beverage supplier, will invest $95 million to establish a manufacturing and bottling operation at Meadowville Technology Park, adjacent to Amazon’s distribution center, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. WASHINGTON Spokane: Three weeks after proposing an ordinance to fine railroad companies up to $261 per car carrying crude oil or coal through downtown, the City Council voted to withdraw the measure from the November ballot, The Spokesman-Review reported. WEST VIRGINIA Huntington: Officials warned people about an especially dangerous batch of heroin after emergency crews responded to more than two dozen reported overdoses within a four-hour span, the Charleston Gazette-Mail reported. WISCONSIN Madison: The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is increasing safety for both workers and drivers by cracking down on talking and driving. Beginning Oct. 1, it will be illegal to talk on a handheld mobile device while driving in a Wisconsin road work zone, USA TODAY Network-Wisconsin reported. WYOMING Greybull: Six hunters lost a combined 10 years of hunting privileges in connection to the illegal killing of nine elk the day after Thanksgiving 2015, the Cody Enterprise reported. The highly publicized killings involved hunters from Moorcroft, Sunshine, Gillette and Greybull. In all, 16 citations were issued.