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News from across the USA

ALABAMA Birmingham: A man who allegedly tossed cellphones and drugs in a Birmingham prison faces contraband and marijuana charges, Al.com reports.

ALASKA Gustavus: The resignation of Gustavus Mayor Connie Edwards prompted the city council to rehire longtime librarian Kate Boesser, who was fired by the mayor, KTOO-FM reports.

ARIZONA Window Rock: The Navajo Nation Council is taking steps to hold a referendum on using $216 million of the tribe’s Permanent Trust Fund for road projects across the reservation,

The Gallup Independent reports.

ARKANSAS Little Rock: Gov. Asa Hutchinson says Arkansas’ waiting list of people with developmental disabilities in need of services has been cut by 500.

CALIFORNIA Avalon: Thousands of tiny red crabs are blanketing the shore on Catalina Island, The

Orange County Register reports.

COLORADO Aspen: Colorado officials are blaming dry weather for a spike in bear calls. The As

pen Daily News reports that bears are having problems finding food.

CONNECTICUT West Haven: Fire officials say an estimated 40 cats died of smoke inhalation and five were rescued during a Connecticut house fire this week.

DELAWARE Dover: A former bank loan officer has agreed to plead guilty in a case involving a doctor who allegedly recruited straw borrowers for loans.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: A District of Columbia councilman will introduce a bill to reduce fines for fare evaders, WRC-TV reports.

FLORIDA Jacksonville: A Florida foot doctor pleaded guilty to health care fraud by billing for services never done and sometimes just clipping toenails.

GEORGIA Atlanta: Police are looking into why a police officer beat a homeless woman.

HAWAII Hilo: A local museum’s sculpture of the Hawaiian goddess of the sea was beheaded, the

Hawaii Tribune-Herald reports.

IDAHO Boise: Idaho’s judicial discipline panel has exonerated a judge who sentenced a teen to probation for assaulting a football teammate. Critics complained that the sentence was too lenient.

ILLINOIS Carbondale: Southern Illinois University System President Randy Dunn is recommending a Canadian scientist to head the Carbondale campus.

INDIANA South Bend: This city won’t get a multi-million dollar grant to remove lead from homes, despite some lead-poisoned children, South Bend Tribune reports.

IOWA Prairieburg: Residents in Prairieburg are raising money to repair a city park destroyed by a tornado, KWWL-TV reports.

KANSAS Pittsburg: Thieves who stole a tiny house in Missouri took it to this Kansas community, The Joplin Globe reports.

KENTUCKY Whitley City: Video surveillance shows that a 79year-old Kentucky man who was found dead was attacked by dogs.

LOUISIANA Gueydan: A man who killed a whooping crane faces at least 45 days in prison.

MAINE Augusta: Maine’s governor says he’ll defend his “ancient power” of clemency after questions arose about his pardon of a dog set to be euthanized, The Morning Sentinel reports.

MARYLAND Baltimore: Maryland’s governor and the mayor of Baltimore met this week to discuss violent crime , WJZ-TV reports. More than 450 people were shot in Baltimore this year.

MASSACHUSETTS Boston: A document broker is headed to prison for trafficking the identities of Puerto Rican U.S. citizens and selling them to people living in the country illegally.

MICHIGAN St. Joseph: A Michigan church treasurer was sentenced to 30 days in jail after more than $40,000 in church funds was reported missing, The

Herald-Palladium reports.

MINNESOTA Minnetonka: A study is looking at a new control for zebra mussels at Lake Minnetonka. Researchers are testing a copper-based product to kill or slow the spread of their larvae.

MISSISSIPPI Grenada: The Mississippi fire marshal’s office says Chaz Atkins is charged with malicious mischief in the burning of the Yalobusha River bridge.

MISSOURI St. Louis: Relatives of a Missouri park worker who died of complications from the tick-borne Bourbon virus want to warn the public about it, The St.

Louis Post-Dispatch reports.

MONTANA Billings: A man charged with vehicular homicide while under the influence of marijuana is challenging Montana’s standard for pot DUI, The

Billings Gazette reports.

NEBRASKA Chadron: The treasurer of Nebraska’s Dawes County has taken a plea deal on forgery and official misconduct charges.

NEVADA Carson City: A bipartisan team of Nevada political leaders will host a national conversation on clean energy Oct. 13.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: Gov. Chris Sununu has signed a bill requiring voters who move to New Hampshire within 30 days of an election to provide proof that they intend to stay.

NEW JERSEY Trenton: New

Jersey’s Supreme Court says dashboard video and other information related to a fatal 2014 shooting of a suspect by Lyndhurst police should be released.

NEW MEXICO Silver City: Police are probing a possible arson of an evidence impound unit, The

Silver City Sun-News reports.

NEW YORK Schenectady: Demolition of a decrepit train station in Schenectady is underway. Work on the new $23 million station is expected to be completed by the end of next year.

NORTH CAROLINA Conservatives unhappy with the work of the University of North Carolina Center for Civil Rights say a proposed ban on litigation is meant to apply only to the center.

NORTH DAKOTA Minot: A downtown bar is suing Minot for the right to operate a strip club,

The Minot Daily News reports.

OHIO Cincinnati: The father of the Cincinnati Zoo’s popular baby hippo Fiona has joined her and mother Bibi in their first time together as a family.

OKLAHOMA Tulsa: Police are investigating the shooting deaths of a man and a woman during a softball game in a Tulsa park. Investigators say it isn’t clear whether the two victims were the targets of the shooting.

OREGON Portland: A Lane County sheriff ’s deputy has filed a nearly $1 million lawsuit against the man convicted of shooting him, The Oregonian reports.

PENNSYLVANIA Downington: A parochial school has dropped a requirement that girls wear tights. Parents said it was sexist and medically hazardous.

RHODE ISLAND Warwick: A witness testified that a man was pacing and babbling about aliens hours before he allegedly beat another man to death and assaulted responding police, The

Providence Journal reports.

SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: Prosecutors say a woman collected more than $250,000 by writing bogus checks to the IRS.

SOUTH DAKOTA Rapid City: A man who fatally stabbed another man five times with a bayonet will serve 10 years in prison.

TENNESSEE Millington: A change of command ceremony is set for Friday at the Naval Support Activity Mid-South here.

TEXAS Amarillo: A woman was sentenced to 34 months in prison after admitting to selling more than $400,000 in fraudulent vouchers for future airline travel.

UTAH Salt Lake City: Utah’s largest teachers union is suing the state school board over a new public database of disciplinary actions taken against educators,

The Salt Lake Tribune reports.

VERMONT Waterbury: State officials say Vermont has identified more than $6 million in public infrastructure damage from recent storms and flooding.

VIRGINIA Norfolk: A man pleaded guilty to killing a bald eagle because he was upset that it was taking fish from his pond.

WASHINGTON Shelton: A man who was dragging a dead raccoon down the street to use as crab pot bait was shot in the leg by a man who thought the animal was a dead dog, KCPQ-TV reports.

WEST VIRGINIA Talcott: Crowds gathered last week to watch the grand opening of the John Henry Historical Park.

WISCONSIN Madison: Brennan’s Markets, a grocery store chain with roots in Wisconsin. is closing all of its stores, the Wis

consin State Journal reports.

WYOMING Cheyenne: Investigators say lightning ignited a fire that burned 3 square miles of Medicine Bow National Forest.