Across the nation
News from every state.
ALABAMA Huntsville: Madison County is spending $3 million to buy land for a county service center.
ALASKA Juneau: The cruise industry projects about 80,000 more passengers this year vs. 2017.
ARIZONA Flagstaff: The area is seeing a bountiful apple harvest months after avoiding a late spring frost.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: The U.S. Department of Education awarded a $23 million grant to the Arkansas Public School Resources Center.
CALIFORNIA San Francisco: The Sheriff ’s Department will let inmates up for release decide if they want to leave at night or wait until morning.
COLORADO Colorado Springs: Fort Carson is planning prescribed burns from October to late December to clear dry grass from training areas.
CONNECTICUT Groton: A ceremony will commemorate submarine Cmdr. Dudley Morton and the USS Wahoo.
DELAWARE Dover: A New York man may have netted nearly $73,000 selling counterfeit Apple products.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Councilman Jack Evans is “very confident” he has the votes to advance the Sports Wagering Lottery Amendment Act.
FLORIDA Jacksonville: An off-duty police officer rescued a girl and baby left in a hot car atop a parking garage.
GEORGIA Savannah: Savannah/ Hilton Head International Airport is getting a $7.6 million federal grant.
HAWAII Honolulu: The Department of Education is proposing policy changes on sexual harassment.
IDAHO Coeur D’Alene: The Coeur d’Alene Tribe approved plans for a youth and family recreation center.
ILLINOIS Urbana: The University of Illinois is dedicating the Yingying Zhang Garden to a Chinese scholar kidnapped and killed last year.
INDIANA Tipton: Superintendent Kevin Emsweller says a new solar farm should save more than $2 million over 20 years.
IOWA Thompson: The remains of Army Pvt. Donald Brown have returned home after over 70 years.
KANSAS Manhattan: Kansas State will stop offering the $9,000-a-year Putnam Scholarship.
KENTUCKY Frankfort: Gov. Matt Bevin honored two police officers who helped save state NAACP President Raoul Cunningham’s life.
LOUISIANA Clayton: Mayor Josephine Washington said officials are considering water rate hikes.
MAINE Millinocket: Nonprofit group Our Katahdin is getting over $5 million to turn Great Northern Paper Mill into an industrial park.
MARYLAND Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University will name a new building after Henrietta Lacks.
MASSACHUSETTS Marion: The state Division of Fisheries and Wildlife completed habitat restoration for the endangered roseate tern.
MICHIGAN Lansing: The state will spend up to $7.4 million to help Upper Peninsula communities address damage from June flooding.
MINNESOTA Brooklyn Park: A squirrel apparently stunned by a car was revived by the driver, who performed chest compressions.
MISSISSIPPI Starkville: Michael Wayne Devaughn is charged in two 1990 sexual assaults and killings.
MISSOURI Sedalia: A former Pettis County Museum volunteer got five years’ probation for artifact theft.
MONTANA Helena: Kim Phillips has harvested about 20 acres of hemp after a year of battling to gain access to irrigation water.
NEBRASKA Lincoln: Taylor Michael Wilson, who pulled an emergency brake aboard a train, has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison.
NEVADA Las Vegas: Green Valley High School canceled classes Monday because of a water-line break.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Durham: The University of New Hampshire will host the Craft Brewery Startup Workshop on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from Oct. 23 to Nov. 1.
NEW JERSEY Trenton: The annual bear hunt began Monday but was banned from state-owned lands.
NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: Some University of New Mexico faculty and students want murals removed from a library for their depictions of Hispanic and Native Americans.
NEW YORK New York: The organics collection program stalled because not enough people are participating.
NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler seeks over $300 million for Hurricane Florence cleanup and recovery.
NORTH DAKOTA Ellendale: The Organization of People in Ellendale for Restoration of the Arts is trying to raise $560,000 for renovations of the Ellendale Opera House.
OHIO Grove City: A tranquility garden is being created at Scioto Grove Metro Park in memory of a slain Ohio State University student.
OKLAHOMA Midwest City: An anonymous call led to the arrest of Camron Bryan Callaway, a suspect in a man’s fatal shooting.
OREGON Cannon Beach: Communication dead spots are frustrating emergency responders.
PENNSYLVANIA Allentown: Animal welfare workers removed 71 beagles from “deplorable conditions.”
RHODE ISLAND Narragansett: U.S. Rep. James Langevin will talk extreme weather with experts Oct. 16 at the Coastal Resiliency Symposium.
SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: Former Vice President Joe Biden praised Democratic state treasurer nominee Rosalyn Glenn on Monday.
SOUTH DAKOTA Mitchell: The city is seeking part-time help to finish the murals at the Corn Palace.
TENNESSEE Morristown: The Vietnam War Memorial Moving Wall will be on the Walters State Community College campus Thursday to Monday.
TEXAS Fort Worth: More than 100 items by designer Cristobal Balenciaga are up at the Kimbell Art Museum.
UTAH St. George: Richard Farnsworth has been sworn in as police chief.
VERMONT Vergennes: Invasive zebra mussels are threatening an underwater preserve in Lake Champlain.
VIRGINIA Sterling: Investigators are checking out possible skeletal human remains found near schools.
WASHINGTON Seattle: A statue of late Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell was unveiled at the Museum of Pop Culture at Seattle Center.
WEST VIRGINIA Morgantown: West Virginia University has announced a $4 million gift for two scholarships.
WISCONSIN Spring Green: The Hillside Theatre at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin estate will be restored.
WYOMING Cody: The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is looking into the killing of a bull elk.