STATE-BY-STATE
News from across the USA
ALABAMA Gadsden: A pregnant woman who said she used heroin and other drugs faces a chemical endangerment of a child charge.
ALASKA Anchorage: The Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission wants to raise the number of bowhead whales that can be harvested annually by subsistence hunters from 11 villages.
ARIZONA Phoenix: Court records say a Phoenix man was arrested after telling police he beat his cat to death because he couldn’t find anyone to adopt it.
ARKANSAS Bentonville: Alice Walton, daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton, has created a foundation to display art from vaults and private collections.
CALIFORNIA San Diego: Officials say an amphibious vehicle hit a gas line, sparking a fire that injured 15 Camp Pendleton trainees.
COLORADO Aspen: State wildlife officials tranquilized a mother bear and her two cubs after they climbed into a tree on a pedestrian mall, The Aspen Times reports.
CONNECTICUT Old Lyme: State Police seized a kilogram of fentanyl, with a street value of $1 million, during an I-95 traffic stop.
DELAWARE Wilmington: Complaints about physician behavior such as sexual misconduct have nearly doubled in Delaware, from an average of 137 a year to 264, The News Journal reports.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Residents from across the Washington area filed a record number of noise complaints about Reagan and Dulles airport flights, The Washington Post reports.
FLORIDA Miami: A nun who became an Internet sensation in a video showing her wielding a chain saw in full habit after Hurricane Irma says she used Google to find out how to start the tool.
GEORGIA Atlanta: Authorities say two children were struck in separate incidents by a stolen car being chased by Atlanta police. Neither child was seriously hurt.
HAWAII Honolulu: The state Office of Consumer Protection is probing hotel operator resort fees, Hawaii News Now reports.
IDAHO Boise: Several groups are working to bring the country’s first International Dark Sky Reserve to a remote Idaho area.
ILLINOIS Chicago: A federal judge says Chicago can move forward with repairs to a crumbling Lake Shore Drive viaduct where dozens of homeless people live.
INDIANA South Bend: Mayor Pete Buttgoeg wants city workers to get paid parental leave when they have a baby or adopt, The South Bend Tribune reports.
IOWA Des Moines: Iowa farmland values are up this year, reversing several years of declines, The Des Moines Register reports.
KANSAS Topeka: The state’s Lansing Correctional Facility was put on lockdown Friday after a fight in the dining room between two groups of inmates, The Topeka Capital-Journal reports.
KENTUCKY Frankfort: Gov. Matt Bevin says Kentucky should consider a constitutional amendment to let the governor appoint the state attorney general.
LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: Police are investigating a Louisiana State University student’s death as possible fraternity hazing.
MAINE Machiasport: Maine has shut down shellfish harvesting along almost a third of its coast because of algae bloom, The Portland Press Herald reports.
MARYLAND College Park: Oops. The city’s announcement about letting non-citizens cast ballots in municipal elections was wrong. The mayor-council vote was 4-3, but charter amendments require six votes to pass.
MASSACHUSETTS Wrentham: A man was sentenced to 18 months of probation for animal cruelty in the killing of three baby swans, The Sun Chronicle reports.
MICHIGAN Farmington Hills: A teacher is on leave after an 11-year-old boy said he was physically forced out of his chair to stand at the Pledge of Allegiance.
MINNESOTA Brooklyn Park: Officials say an automated text message erroneously reported a possible shooter at the Brooklyn Park campus of Hennepin Technical College. Instead, the situation was a suspicious package.
MISSISSIPPI Pocahontas: Authorities say a trapped driver was rescued from a fire after colliding with a propane truck.
MISSOURI Springfield: Mayor Ken McClure says the wooden cross outside First Baptist Church was set on fire, The Springfield News-Leader reports.
MONTANA West Glacier: Work is being done to protect what’s left of the fire damaged Sperry Chalet in Glacier National Park.
NEBRASKA Omaha: An exfaculty member and his wife have given $10 million to Creighton University for academics.
NEVADA Las Vegas: A federal jury convicted a man of selling the horns of an endangered black rhino to an undercover buyer.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Lincoln: Officials say three teens dressed only in shorts and sneakers and without outdoor gear were rescued after they got lost near the top of Little Haystack Mountain.
NEW JERSEY Atlantic City: A man who was severely burned after drinking a beer tainted by a chemical used to clean tap lines at an Atlantic City casino’s restaurant was awarded $750,000.
NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: An endangered Mexican gray wolf was killed by authorities after a Native American tribe complained of cattle deaths.
NEW YORK New York: Officials support getting rid of a nearly century-old law that bans dancing at most New York City bars.
NORTH CAROLINA Randleman: Police say they found a 5-year-old girl locked in a closet in an empty house without food or water. The girl also had burns and bruises on her body.
NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: Regulators say cleanup is nearly done four years after a pipeline break spilled 20,000 barrels of oil in a North Dakota wheat field.
OHIO Oak Harbor: Workers will spend several weeks fixing cracks in a reactor protection wall at Davis-Besse nuclear power plant on Lake Erie.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: A bookstore owner was found dead under a book pile in his burning store, sparking a homicide probe.
OREGON Portland: Officials say some 1.6 million fish were moved from Cascade Hatchery because of a wildfire in Columbia River gorge, The Oregonian reports.
PENNSYLVANIA West Chester: Dilworth Farm, where George Washington’s troops narrowly escaped the British during the Revolutionary War, has received historic protection.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: Prosecutors say a bookkeeper admitted to embezzling more than $700,000 from a medical firm and retirement accounts.
SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: A former state trooper is charged with reckless homicide in a fatal crash by running a stop sign at 80 mph in a 40 mph zone.
SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: The Tri-Valley schools superin- tendent invited home-school families to the official enrollment count Sept. 29 for a free computer and lunch, The Argus Leader reports. But Gov. Dennis Daugaard wants the invite dropped.
TENNESSEE Knoxville: The University of Tennessee says one of its professors helped identify a species of prehistoric crocodiles that roamed coastal areas 95 million years ago.
TEXAS Corpus Christi: A replica ship built by Spain to honor Christopher Columbus sank in Texas amid Hurricane Harvey, KRIS-TV reports.
UTAH Salt Lake City: Utah lawmakers will convene a special session Wednesday to try to curb violence and drug trafficking in a Salt Lake City neighborhood near a downtown homeless shelter.
VERMONT South Burlington: Several flights at Burlington International Airport were delayed or diverted last week when runway lights went out.
VIRGINIA Roanoke: Virginia officials expect record numbers of bears killed during the early hunt Oct. 2-4, The Roanoke Times reports.
WASHINGTON Everett: The city has agreed not to enforce a bikini barista ban during a court challenge.
WEST VIRGINIA Martinsburg: A man pleaded guilty to mail fraud involving false insurance claims alleging power surge damages for more than $354,000.
WISCONSIN Madison: A federal judge has given class action status to juvenile inmates in a lawsuit over conditions and practices at the Lincoln Hills School for Boys and Copper Lake School for Girls.
WYOMING Cheyenne: An appeals court ruling last week gave a big win to environmentalists seeking to block federal coal leases at two Wyoming mines.