STATE-BY-STATE
ALABAMA Dora: Preliminary autopsy results show a city councilman fatally shot a woman and killed himself.
ALASKA Anchorage: A former head of two Alaska juvenile detention facilities has been charged with possession of child pornography.
ARIZONA Aguila: Crews rescued a man trapped in an old mine shaft.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: The city will phase out curbside glass recycling.
CALIFORNIA Bay Point: Thousands were evacuated amid a fire in an underground natural gas storage area.
COLORADO Denver: Two Colorado pharmacists have pleaded guilty in federal court to felony charges for illegally distributing opioids.
CONNECTICUT Hartford: A white officer caught warning a group of mostly minority young people he was “trigger happy” has been fired.
DELAWARE Camden: A suspect is charged in the sexual assault of a miniature horse and a barn burglary.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: The ticket lottery for the national Christmas tree lighting ceremony runs through 10 a.m. Monday, WTOP radio reports.
FLORIDA Clearwater: Police who recovered a van filled with doughnuts got a reward: the cargo, which they shared with area homeless. GEORGIA Augusta: A boy has died after touching a fence that became electrified at a park.
HAWAII Honolulu: The statewide outbreak of mumps has ended, Hawaii health officials say. IDAHO Hailey: Actor Bruce Willis has sold his ranch for $5.5 million.
ILLINOIS Peoria: A memorial to local veterans killed since World War II will be unveiled Saturday.
INDIANA Bloomington: Police say about 300 Indiana University students who flew to Las Vegas for a prepaid trip arrived to discover no arrangements had been made.
IOWA Grundy Center: Grundy County is paying $500,000 to settle a lawsuit that alleges a man who died was left hanging for 13 minutes while a jailer stood outside.
KANSAS Topeka: License plate reader data helped authorities match a car to a robbery suspect.
KENTUCKY Sandy Hook: The state will pay $1.5 million to four women who accused their supervisor at a prison of sexually harassing them.
LOUISIANA New Orleans: This year’s Essence Festival had a record-breaking $280 million economic impact, organizers say.
MAINE Portland: The price of heating oil continues to climb steadily even as global oil prices have fallen.
MARYLAND Parkville: Farmers say an unusually wet summer has squashed this fall’s pumpkin crop.
MASSACHUSETTS Salem: A man dubbed the “Brazen Botanist” was sentenced to a year in jail for stealing plants from a porch.
MICHIGAN Petoskey: A woman says a pharmacist refused to fill a miscarriage-related prescription, saying it was against his religion.
MINNESOTA St. Paul: A seventh Minnesota child has been diagnosed with acute flaccid myelitis.
MISSISSIPPI Jackson: Mississippi’s scores were flat last year on the ACT college readiness test.
MISSOURI Columbia: The University of Missouri is honoring its Nobel Prize-winning chemist, George Smith, with a spot in a bicycle rack.
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NEW YORK Albany: The state is seeking bids for redeveloping service areas in the Thruway system.
NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: A GOP appointee to an elections board resigned after posting that Democrats plan to legalize pedophilia.
NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: Those qualifying for medical marijuana can apply for cards starting Oct. 29. OHIO Akron: Actors at an “edgy” haunted house were suspended after visitors complained about simulated rapes.
OKLAHOMA Nowata: Sheriff Kenny David Freeman, accused of stealing school supplies for his campaign, is charged with embezzlement.
OREGON Astoria: The City Council is trying to crack down on illegal parking near “The Goonies” house.
PENNSYLVANIA Vandergrift: Police say a homeless woman started a meth lab in the home of a Good Samaritan who invited her to stay.
RHODE State House ISLAND was Providence: lit up purple The this week for domestic violence victims.
SOUTH CAROLINA Gilbert: The Louisiana Cajun Navy stepped in to help after a Boy Scout troop’s trailer with camping gear was stolen.
SOUTH DAKOTA Rapid City: The former treasurer of the city’s United Methodist Women chapter has pleaded not guilty to embezzlement.
TENNESSEE Nashville: A federal judge ordered the state to stop suspending driver’s licenses of people too poor to pay traffic fines and court costs.
TEXAS Spring: Authorities are trying to identify a woman who abandoned a 2-year-old boy on a doorstep.
UTAH Salt Lake City: Four women want the Utah Supreme Court to assign a special prosecutor to bring their sexual assault cases to court.
VERMONT Montpelier: A powerful obituary for a woman with opioid addiction inspired more than 100 donations to a local recovery center.
VIRGINIA Norfolk: A Californiabased startup plans to rocket small satellites into orbit from a launch pad it’ll build on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
WASHINGTON Seattle: Authorities temporarily closed a street after dozens of large metal balls that spilled out of a truck and down the street.
WEST VIRGINIA Morgantown: Students will drop pumpkins 11 stories Friday at West Virginia University.
WISCONSIN Madison: Authorities are seeking tips about the whereabouts of Jayme Closs, 13, whose parents were found shot to death.
WYOMING Casper: Karen BuddFalen, who has represented ranchers against the federal government, was hired by the Interior Department.