Around the nation
News from every state.
ALABAMA Montgomery: A study says children attending private schools on scholarship aren’t showing significant improvement on tests.
ALASKA Bethel: The name Lousetown, an identifier for a section of Bethel, was struck from the municipal code after being deemed offensive to Alaska natives who live there.
ARIZONA Surprise: Former city revenue manager Estella Sanchez was sentenced to a year in jail and ordered to repay $836,000 she stole.
ARKANSAS Hot Springs: Voters have approved a $2 million bond issue for construction of a new exhibition hall at the Mid-America Science Museum.
CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: A 10th anniversary event remembered 25 people killed when a commuter train collided with a freight train.
COLORADO Aspen: Officials are mulling increased fees on new homes larger than 5,750 square feet, allowing homeowners to offset the fees by installing renewable energy systems.
CONNECTICUT Hartford: The city opened a center to help ex-inmates integrate into society, thanks to the Hartford Foundatio’s $450,000 grant.
DELAWARE Wilmington: The Riverfront’s Constitution Yards Beer Garden will debut its Oktoberfest on Friday through Sunday.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: The new Entertainment and Sports Arena will hosts its first two concerts: Mary J. Blige on Oct. 6 and rock band Cage the Elephant on Oct. 13, WTOP says.
FLORIDA Tallahassee: The state drew 65.5 million tourists in the first six months of the year, a 5.9 percent rise over the same period in 2017.
GEORGIA Savannah: A shrimper has been sentenced to roughly 6 years in prison for filing false claims of income loss from foreign competition.
HAWAII Honolulu: A hospitality industry union has authorized a strike at six hotels operated by Marriott on Oahu and Maui.
IDAHO Boise: A new ordinance allows removal of bicycles on public bike racks that are left unattended for three days or longer.
ILLINOIS Champaign: The University of Illinois says it has a record enrollment – nearly 85,600 students – for the fall semester.
INDIANA Evansville: The state consumer advocate says regulators shouldn’t approve Vectren’sto make ratepayers pay for a solar facility.
IOWA Des Moines: Officials say the emerald ash borer has been found in a tree in Grundy County, bringing the state infestation to 65 counties.
KANSAS Wichita: An expanded food bank warehouse will help provide 1 million more meals statewide.
KENTUCKY Frankfort: Arguments before the state Supreme Court on the future of the public pension system will be shown live statewide.
LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: Louisiana has the sixth-highest adult obesity rate in the country, according to a national report, at 36 percent.
MAINE Palmyra: The monument to a Maine state trooper Thomas Merry, killed during a car chase in 1980, has been restored and relocated.
MARYLAND Baltimore: The city is suing the operator of the city’s free bus service, saying it was overpaid by $20 million the last eight years.
MASSACHUSETTS Boston: The State Lottery’s profits were $997 million in the 2018 fiscal year – second highest in its 47-year history.
MICHIGAN Detroit: The school district hopes to create a hub for urban education with a “cradle to career” campus at Marygrove College.
MINNESOTA Roseau: The Jaws of Life was used to free a black bear whose head was stuck in a milk can.
MISSISSIPPI Clinton: Voters gave 90 percent support to a $25 million bond issue.
MISSOURI Springfield: A former health care executive pleaded guilty to concealing a scheme in which other charity executives diverted $4.3 million from the corporation.
MONTANA Havre: Dan Boucher, 12th District judge, submitted his resignation, going into effect Nov. 9 – three days after the election.
NEBRASKA Omaha: Awatchdog group wants regulators to fine Creighton University for problems in an animal research project.
NEVADA Las Vegas: Land management agencies have lifted fire restrictions, including prohibition of campfires, in southern Nevada.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: New Hampshire has received $31 million as part of the settlement from the Volkswagen emissions scandal.
NEW JERSEY Toms River: Hopewell police Sgt. Richard Conte, accused of trying to meet a 15-year-old girl for sex, was released pending trial.
NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: The New Mexico Supreme Court blocked reinstating a ballot option for straight-party voting.
NEW YORK New York: Seven city police officers have been arrested in connection with a yearslong gambling and prostitution investigation.
NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: Paulette Dillard has been named president of Shaw University.
NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: Nearly 300 state employees have applied for voluntary buyouts.
OHIO Dayton: Ex-police officer Justin Sanderson was sentenced to 43 years in prison for sexually assaulting four women while on duty.
OKLAHOMA Tulsa: Gun advocates say a new Tulsa park violated state law when it turned away people carrying handguns.
OREGON Portland: A patient died by suicide July 11 at Unity Center for Behavioral Health two months after investigators told the facility that it was failing to protect patients.
PENNSYLVANIA Norristown: A Lansdale doctor was charged with unlawful prescribing. Nine of Lawrence Miller’s patients died of overdoses.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: The state’s adult obesity rate increased by 3.4 points to 30 percent, a study says. SOUTH CAROLINA Spartanburg: Officials say a 9-day-old boy was abandoned at a fire station Sunday.
SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: Record corn and soybean crops are expected this year.
TENNESSEE Memphis: Kirby High School will split its students among three locations as it cleans up a rat infestation that began last month.
TEXAS Houston: The U.S. government will expand its tent shelter for immigrant minors in Tornillo to 3,800 beds and keep it open until year end.
UTAH Salt Lake City: Forty-seven percent of new teachers leave the profession after five years in the classroom, a state study showed.
VERMONT South Burlington: The Burlington International Airport is seeing a 12 percent increase in passengers so far this year.
VIRGINIA Richmond: The state is developing rules for limiting leaks of climate-changing methane from natural gas infrastructure and landfills.
WASHINGTON Seattle: The cost for the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport’s new International Arrivals Facility has reached almost $1 billion.
WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: More than $6.5 million in federal grants were approved for upgrades to voting equipment and security in the state.
WISCONSIN Johnsonville: One of the late Robert Indiana’s last pieces – the 20-foot-tall stacked red letters spelling “BRAT” – is outside Johnsonville sausage company’s headquarters.
WYOMING Cheyenne: About 34,000 or one quarter of all ballots cast in the state primary were submitted by absentee ballot, officials say.