STATE-BY-STATE

News from across the USA

ALABAMA Montgomery: An Alabama review board has approved a plan to move inpatient psychiatric care from Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital in Florence to Shoals Hospital in Muscle Shoals, the Time Daily reports.

ALASKA Juneau: Homeless people who’ve been living at the mouth of Gold Creek are being told to move, The Juneau Empire reports. Juneau will start enforcing trespassing laws Sept. 5.

ARIZONA Kingman: A board member of Mohave Community College resigned following his arrest during a drug raid at his Kingman home. Jon Longoria had served as a trustee since 2014.

ARKANSAS Hot Springs: Dozens of counterprotesters marched through Hot Springs last weekend to voice opposition at a rally supporting the preservation of Confederate monuments. Police report two arrests but said the demonstrations were relatively peaceful.

CALIFORNIA San Jose: The city is scaling back plans for a novel experiment to build tiny homes for the homeless, The San Jose Mercury News reports. Officials added restrictions that limited potential sites for the homes from 99 to four.

COLORADO Glenwood

Springs: The U.S. Forest Service unveiled its long-awaited proposed Hanging Lake area management plan this week, The Post Independent reports. Officials are tackling a parking crunch caused by increasing crowds.

CONNECTICUT New Haven: A seminary outside Boston plans to pack up next year for Yale University in New Haven, a move that will unite two institutions with deep historical ties. It also will shore up the finances of Andover Newton Theological School.

DELAWARE Wilmington: An academic boot camp at St. Edmond’s Academy in Wilmington had 44 students sign up this year, The News Journal reports. The week-long program prepares students with intensive training on reading, writing and studying.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: A Sept. 9 performance in Washington by classical music maestro Gustavo Dudamel with the Venezuelan National Youth Orchestra has been canceled. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has complained about the conductor’s criticism of a government crackdown on protests.

FLORIDA Citrus Hills: Volunteers from a paint company and two local radio stations turned out over the weekend to paint the exterior of a black couple’s home that was vandalized with a spraypainted racist slur, The Citrus County Chronicle reports.

GEORGIA Athens: The University of Georgia’s fall semester opened Monday with a 5,800member freshman class sporting record academic qualifications, culled from a record number of applications, The Athens BannerHerald reports.

HAWAII Hilo: Scientists say Hawaii could lose $19 billion worth of land and structures, and millions more in infrastructure by 2100 because of rising sea levels, West Hawaii Today reports. Projections are that about 20,700 Hawaii residents will be displaced by 2100.

IDAHO Caldwell: Two months after the bodies of two women and a teen girl were found in an Idaho shed, a relative of two of the victims stepped inside the house on the property, KTVB-TV reports. The suspect in the killings, Gerald Michael Bullinger, hasn’t been found.

ILLINOIS Chicago: Mayor Rahm Emanuel has opened work on the second phase of a $220 million cargo development at O’Hare International Airport. The project is in response to demand for moving air cargo through Chicago.

INDIANA Vincennes: The George Rogers Clark National Historical Park in Indiana is discouraging visitors from taking part in a scavenger hunt where people paint rocks and leave them places, the Evansville Courier & Press reports. Officials say the practice doesn’t fit with the National Park Service’s “leave it as you found it” policy.

IOWA Des Moines: This year’s Iowa State Fair set an attendance record. More than 1.13 million people visited the 11-day event in Des Moines.

KANSAS Topeka: A lowland gorilla at the Topeka Zoo died after tests revealed she had latestage ovarian cancer, four days after undergoing surgery. Surgeons decided not to awaken the gorilla, Tiffany, are discovering the cancer.

KENTUCKY Frankfort: Wildlife officials in Kentucky say people can go online to report suspected cases of disease in dead or dying deer. Officials plan to use the information to create maps showing the extent of deer stricken with epizootic hemorrhagic disease.

LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: State residents who added solar panels to their homes have until Aug. 31 to claim a tax credit for residential solar energy systems installed through 2015. Lawmakers set aside funds to clear a backlog of credits that went unpaid when the state abruptly capped and ended the tax break.

MAINE Augusta: Federal health officials have awarded a $325,000 grant to the Northeast Telehealth Resource Center in Augusta to improve telehealth services in rural areas of Maine.

MARYLAND Westminster: Some Maryland library workers are learning how to administer the opioid overdose antidote Narcan, The Baltimore Sun reports. Library systems in Harford, Carroll and Anne Arundel counties have begun offering the training.

MASSACHUSETTS Billerica: Police say a 12-year-old boy suffered serious burns to his legs when a can of bug spray rolled into a campfire and exploded. The youth was flown to a Boston hospital for treatment, WBZ-TV reports.

MICHIGAN Detroit: Police say a crash involving a go-kart and a motorcycle during an apparent street race left one man dead and one injured, The Detroit News reports.

MINNESOTA Minneapolis: A preliminary report about a school explosion says a maintenance worker smelled gas and used a radio to tell others to evacuate just a minute before the Aug. 2 blast at Minnehaha Academy. Two people died when part of the building collapsed.

MISSISSIPPI Greenville: City leaders want to put all the local casino revenue into the municipal budget instead of giving some to schools. Greenville expects to collect just over $1.1 million in taxes from two local casinos, The Delta Democrat-Times reports.

MISSOURI Lee’s Summit: Police in suburban Kansas City are searching for a man accused of stealing a TV from a retailer while wearing a T-shirt with the phrase “I’m Broke Baby” on it.

MONTANA Lolo: Authorities say a burnout set by firefighters most likely caused the loss of two homes and eight outbuildings in a Montana fire last week. But officials also say more homes could have been destroyed if crews hadn’t set the fire to reduce fuel as strong winds pushed the flames.

NEBRASKA Lincoln: City officials are struggling with what to do about a property tax windfall, The Lincoln Journal Star reports. Lincoln has seen a nearly 9% valuation increase from last year due.

NEVADA Las Vegas: A suspended police officer was arraigned on a manslaughter charge in the May chokehold death of an unarmed man he chased out of a Las Vegas Strip casino. Police say Kenneth Lopera violated several department policies.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Seabrook: Officials are investigating a fire that heavily damaged Brown’s Lobster Pound, a popular New England seafood restaurant.

Seabrook fire officials say the kitchen was destroyed and the dining room suffered smoke and water damage.

NEW JERSEY Harrison Township: The New Jersey home where the president of Rowan University lives was made tax exempt after the school’s foundation bought it for $925,000 last year, NJ.com reports.

NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: A new analysis could lead to the merger of public transportation services here, The Santa Fe New Mexican reports. The $150,000 study examined potential efficiencies and service improvements.

NEW YORK Albany: State regulators are seeking public input on plans to expand the mountain biking trail system in the Adirondacks. A trail network is established in Wilmington, Lake Placid and Saranac Lake. Plans for the Saranac Lakes Wild Forest call for building 35 additional miles of bike trails.

NORTH CAROLINA King: State authorities have barred Stokes County from using the American Legion building for voting because a candidate for City Council is banned from the property, The Winston-Salem Journal reports.

NORTH DAKOTA Mott: Summer will last a few days longer for students in this North Dakota community. Construction crews are wrapping up work on a new building for the Mott-Regent School District, The Bismarck Tribune reports.

OHIO Oregon: Gov. John Kasich doesn’t support a proposed financial rescue of Ohio’s two nuclear plants. The issue is stalled in the state Legislature.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: The pace of new charter schools in Oklahoma has slowed. Twentyseven traditional charter schools opened in the state from 2011 to

2015, compared with just one in

2016.

OREGON Eugene: Lane County officials are seeking $11.7 million to build a 50-unit apartment building in Eugene to house homeless people, the RegisterGuard reports. The four-story building will have studio-size units with a sleeping area, private bathroom and kitchenette.

PENNSYLVANIA Bethlehem: Police say a call reporting two people engaged in sex in a vehicle outside a Pennsylvania Wal-Mart led them to jail the couple on identity theft charges. Officers found several forged credit cards in the Jeep Wrangler.

RHODE ISLAND Bristol: Members of Rhode Island’s Pokanoket tribe have set up a “long-term encampment” at Brown University, which the tribe says was illegally taken from them hundreds of years ago. More than a dozen tents were erected.

SOUTH CAROLINA Capers Island: The Coast Guard rescued eight people from a grounded recreational boat near this island about 15 miles north of Charleston. The boat ran aground on a sandbar.

SOUTH DAKOTA Fort Pierre: A statue of rodeo legend Casey Tibbs is likely to return this week after repairs, KCCR reported. Many people consider Tibbs, who died in 1990, the Babe Ruth of rodeo.

TENNESSEE Nashville: The state’s lawsuit over claims of coal ash pollution by the Tennessee Valley Authority is in federal court, where a judge ordered a cleanup this month at TVA’s Gallatin Fossil Plant so it risks no further pollution of the Cumberland River. TVA estimates that would cost about $2 billion.

TEXAS Dallas: ANorman Rockwell baseball rendering sold at auction for $1.6 million. Heritage Auctions said the painting sold Sunday to a buyer who wants to remain anonymous.

UTAH Salt Lake City: Deer Valley Resort is being purchased by a group that has 13 ski areas from Quebec to Colorado. The price wasn’t disclosed in the deal, which is likely to be finalized before ski season.

VERMONT Montpelier: The annual moose hunting permit auction raised almost $31,000. The five moose permits sold were in addition to the 80 permits awarded last month by lottery.

VIRGINIA Richmond: Pressure is mounting on officials to slow or reconsider water quality certifications for a pair of natural gas pipeline projects, The Richmond Times Dispatch reported. An environmental law group contends that Dominion Energy’s proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline won’t save money as the company claims.

WASHINGTON Seattle: Public health experts and others challenged a proposed King County initiative to ban safe injection sites for drug users. The lawsuit argues that health policy is outside the scope of the initiative process.

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston:

The Purchasing Division moved to block an electrical contractor from doing business with the state after the company and its president admitted taking part in a kickback scheme that diverted $1.5 million for traffic signal repairs, The Charleston GazetteMail reported.

WISCONSIN Kenosha: Burglars stole about $33,000 worth of cellphones and tablet computers from a wireless store, then tried the same thing at an AT&T store but couldn’t get in. Three suspects were arrested in Pleasant Prairie.

WYOMING Jackson: The Game and Fish Department trapped and relocated an adult male grizzly bear in the northwest part of the state. The bear was captured Aug. 11 for getting into livestock feed in Park County. It was moved to grizzly habitat in the Caribou-Targhee National Forest.