STATE-BY-STATE
ALABAMA Montgomery:
The federal government has until Nov. 13 to respond to the state’s lawsuit seeking to exclude immigrants illegally living in the U.S. from census counts.
ALASKA Anchorage:
The Anchorage School District and teachers’ union have agreed to bring in a federal mediator after contract talks stalled.
ARIZONA Fountain Hills:
A 22,000square-foot mansion known as the “Butterfly home” sold for $3.3 million to LJ Phoenician, a Chinese group.
ARKANSAS Little Rock:
Chief Justice Dan Kemp recused himself from hearing challenges to a ballot measure that would legalize four casinos.
CALIFORNIA Palo Alto:
Stanford University is dropping the name of controversial 18th-century Spanish colonizer Junipero Serra from its mailing address and two dormitories.
COLORADO Denver:
Gov. John Hickenlooper formed a federal campaign committee for a presidential run.
CONNECTICUT Hamden:
A $515,798 state grant will let Sleeping Giant Day Care stay open.
DELAWARE New Castle:
The state’s government revenue forecast has inched up by $27.4 million compared with its June estimate.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA:
Mayor Muriel Bowser celebrated the opening of Plaza West, an affordable housing community for grandparents caring for grandchildren.
FLORIDA Miami:
Police charged a Broward County prosecutor who’s accused of hiding $42 in beauty products in her purse at a store.
GEORGIA Savannah:
The city has awarded AECOM Hunt an $11.2 million management contract as it builds a $140 million, 9,000-seat arena.
HAWAII Hilo:
The Hale Iki Village, a development of 11 micro units for people displaced by Kilauea volcano eruptions, is nearly finished.
IDAHO Boise:
Contractors say thefts of plumbing fixtures, wood boards and even landscaping plants from building sites are on the rise.
ILLINOIS Rockford:
The Rockford Public Library will start over on redevelopment of a library branch because of a lack of proposals, the Rockford Register star reports.
INDIANA Indianapolis:
Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch and state agriculture Director Bruce Kettler agreed to a development partnership with the Canadian province of Manitoba.
IOWA Cedar Rapids:
Authorities identified a body found in a rainswollen stream as missing kayaker John Conley, 34, of Cedar Rapids.
KANSAS Hutchinson:
Jeffrey Hooper will become Hutchinson’s new police chief.
KENTUCKY Albany:
State officials say Rack-It Truck Racks Inc. is investing more than $1.3 million to create 25 full-time jobs at a Clinton County facility.
LOUISIANA New Orleans:
A cat got into a utility company substation and knocked out electricity to more than 7,500 customers for several hours Monday.
MAINE Sullivan:
The Downeast Salmon Federation is starting removal of a more than 50-year-old dam to make a brook more accessible to fish.
MARYLAND Annapolis:
Norwegian Viking ship Draken Harald Hårfagre was moored Monday at City Dock.
MASSACHUSETTS Boston:
A federal jury convicted a former Boston police officer of illegally buying handguns for civilians.
MICHIGAN Detroit:
The Detroit Institute of Arts on Nov. 4 will unveil expanded galleries of Asian art.
MINNESOTA Minneapolis:
Officials urge residents to make sure their vaccinations are up to date after a third measles case was confirmed.
MISSISSIPPI Vicksburg:
Louisiana Circle is reopening to small vehicles and pedestrian traffic.
MISSOURI Kansas City:
Humana is holding a ceremony for Vietnam veterans on Thursday at its Humana Community location.
MONTANA Bozeman:
Yellowstone park officials say there are about 4,500 bison in the park, down by about 6 percent from 2017.
NEBRASKA York:
The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services has a spring deadline for devising a plan to address water problems at the women’s prison in York.
NEVADA Five Points:
Five Points Elementary School has received a $2,000 grant from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation.
Concord:
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Raise Up New Hampshire’s new campaign aims to fight for increased wages and paid family leave.
NEW JERSEY Lacey Township:
A nuclear power plant considered the oldest in the U.S. shut down.
NEW MEXICO Las Vegas :
The city hired Jerry Delgado as police chief, and Esther Garduno Montoya as city attorney.
Buffalo:
NEW YORK
Officials say a helicopter tour business’s owner possessed 4 pounds of cocaine.
Belmont:
NORTH CAROLINA
St. Joseph College Seminary has broken ground for a $20 million home.
Bismarck:
NORTH DAKOTA
North Dakota’s taxable sales and purchases for the second quarter of 2018 increased nearly 10 percent over the same time period last year.
OHIO Cleveland:
A lawyer representing families of six women slain by a serial killer says the city has agreed to pay $1 million.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City:
Entrepreneur James Vallion died Sunday at 87, the Oklahoman reports.
OREGON Bend:
Chimps Inc., a chimpanzee sanctuary, will pay more than $12,000 to settle violations with the state Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
PENNSYLVANIA Pittsburgh:
Federal officials are investigating after a camel began bucking as two children and a woman rode it at the Shrine Circus.
Bristol:
RHODE ISLAND
Hundreds attended a ceremony Sunday renaming a U.S. post office for 1st Sgt. P. Andrew McKenna, an Army Green Beret killed in Afghanistan.
Blacksburg:
SOUTH CAROLINA
The city received a $500,000 grant for a Lime Street park and access to the Overmountain Victory Trail.
SOUTH DAKOTA Rapid City:
The Fall River County Weed and Pest Board told rancher Susan Henderson it would cease efforts to use poison gas on prairie dogs on her property.
TENNESSEE Knoxville:
University of Tennessee President Joe DiPietro plans to retire early next year.
TEXAS Galveston:
Crews deactivated the USS Sturgis’ nuclear reactor.
UTAH Ogden:
Twenty inmates died last year in Utah prisons, down from 25 in 2016, according to the state.
VERMONT Burlington:
A $1 million National Science Foundation grant will go to an upgrade for the University of Vermont’s supercomputer.
VIRGINIA Christiansburg:
The Montgomery County Sheriff ’s Office will use $7,000 in leftover funds to buy two battery-powered radar signs.
WASHINGTON Spokane:
The closure of most of the Columbia River to salmon fishing came after the count recorded 105,795 fish, half the norm.
Charleston:
WEST VIRGINIA
Four people who sued West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner last year accusing him of wrongful termination have settled for nearly $1 million.
WISCONSIN Balsam Lake:
Authorities used bolt cutters to remove a plastic globe from a bear cub’s head.
WYOMING Cheyenne:
A man was ticketed for wandering too close to Old Faithful geyser at Yellowstone National Park.