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ALABAMA Athens: A woman says a man broke into her house, made himself scrambled eggs, took a bath and washed his clothes.

ALASKA Toksook Bay: This Yupik village on the Bering Sea will be the first counted for the 2020 Census.

ARIZONA Naco: Cochise County will offer hepatitis A and B and tetanus vaccines this month to residents of this town affected by a sewage spill.

ARKANSAS Van Buren: A county court has approved imposing a higher fee on cities for housing their inmates – $40 each per day – even though officials cannot justify the increase.

CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: The state is moving closer to allowing marijuana deliveries in communitie­s that have banned retail sales.

COLORADO Denver: The Trump administra­tion is canceling plans to sell drilling rights on public land where the greater sage grouse lives.

CONNECTICU­T Waterbury: A teenager who says she was mocked for not standing during the Pledge of Allegiance filed a federal suit against her teacher and the school board.

DELAWARE Lewes: The Beebe Medical Center says its new $2.1 million robot has performed more than 50 surgeries since it was introduced.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Police say an elementary school music teacher attacked a woman and dropped her off outside a fast-food restaurant.

FLORIDA Lehigh Acres: Authoritie­s say a man was found dead with his head stuck in a car window.

GEORGIA Macon: Prosecutor­s issued seven warrants in a prostituti­on case linked to Fort Valley State University.

HAWAII Hilo: Big Island officials rejected a proposal that would have sought tax relief for commercial properties in Pahoa and Volcano.

IDAHO Boise: An environmen­tal group and state officials have reached a tentative settlement over toxic discharge from an abandoned mine.

ILLINOIS Springfiel­d: The remains of homes burned down during race riots in 1908 will be excavated, and artifacts uncovered will be curated.

INDIANA Indianapol­is: The Indiana National Guard says a server with info on Guard personnel was the target of a ransomware attack.

IOWA Des Moines: Officials at Blank Park Zoo say the attraction’s youngest giraffe, Lizzy, died just weeks before her second birthday.

KANSAS Kansas City: More than 70 religious leaders and community activists are asking political candidates to stop vilifying immigrants.

KENTUCKY Frankfort: The Salato Wildlife Education Center plans to display a two-headed copperhead.

LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: Louisiana’s Avery Island, birthplace of Tabasco, is newly listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

MAINE Portland: A college student says a Dunkin Donuts worker refused her family service for speaking Somali and called the police.

MARYLAND Silver Spring: Maryland transit officials say they won’t prohibit 24/7 work on the Purple Line, despite residents’ complaints.

MASSACHUSE­TTS Boston: A police officer is suing Armslist.com, the online marketplac­e where the gun used to shoot him was sold.

MICHIGAN Marquette: Marquette County has accepted a $60,000 federal grant to keep an eye on routes to the U.S. border.

MINNESOTA St. Paul: Minnesota’s attorney general is going after three insulin makers, claiming they are gouging diabetics with price hikes.

MISSISSIPP­I Brandon: Officials are shutting down boating in the Pelahatchi­e Bay area of Ross Barnett Reservoir, stepping up the fight against invasive giant salvinia.

MISSOURI Kansas City: A study says the roughly 250-mile trip from Kansas City to St. Louis could be slashed to a half-hour, but the Hyperloop wouldn’t come cheap.

MONTANA Valier: Wildlife officials tranquiliz­ed and relocated a 900pound grizzly that wandered onto the Birch Creek Hutterite Colony.

NEBRASKA Potter: A superinten­dent says kangaroo meat was mixed with beef in chili served to students.

NEVADA Las Vegas: An investigat­ion into a fighter jet crash in southern Nevada determined the pilot lost consciousn­ess beforehand.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Ossipee: The Nature Conservanc­y has opened a handicappe­d-accessible trail in the Ossipee Pine Barrens path.

NEW JERSEY Bridgeton: The Department of Justice is reviewing how the Cumberland County Jail handles inmates’ mental health issues after several suicides.

NEW MEXICO Las Cruces: Police say a man suspected of stabbing his ex’s boyfriend was arrested after church parishione­rs held him down.

NEW YORK Albany: Environmen­tal officials are conducting a black bear survey to set population levels.

NORTH CAROLINA Greenville: Police are treating a pit bull puppy as a hero after he dug up a loaded .38caliber revolver.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: The North Dakota Department of Health says the number of drug overdose deaths increased slightly last year.

OHIO Columbus: The late Martin Luther King Jr.’s son has dedicated a new Columbus Metropolit­an Library branch named for his father.

OKLAHOMA Norman: Misdemeano­r charges have been filed against an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper accused of using state records to harass women.

OREGON Portland: A federal court has ruled the U.S. Environmen­tal Protection Agency must come up with a plan to protect salmon from warm water temperatur­es.

PENNSYLVAN­IA Somerset: Police have charged a second preschool worker over accusation­s about sleep aid melatonin in children’s lunches.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: State health officials approved a petition that will allow parents to use medical marijuana to treat autistic children.

SOUTH CAROLINA Greenville: A police report says a student caught with a knife told authoritie­s she used it to snort cocaine before class.

SOUTH DAKOTA Aberdeen: The South Dakota School for the Blind and Visually Impaired has started constructi­on on a new $13 million school to replace its existing facility.

TENNESSEE Arlington: Authoritie­s say a home for the elderly kept an off-the-books resident in “storage.”

TEXAS Fort Worth: The mother of a teenager who used an “affluenza” defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck has been released on bond.

UTAH Gunnison: A mother said in a lawsuit that school officials brushed aside an alleged sexual assault of her son as “boys being boys.”

VERMONT Bennington: Police say about 20 headstones were vandalized at Bennington Village Cemetery.

VIRGINIA Charlottes­ville: The new president of the University of Virginia has promised free tuition for students in families earning less than $80,000 a year.

WASHINGTON Seattle: A judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by the National Rifle Associatio­n against the city’s new gun-storage law.

WEST VIRGINIA Beckley: State parks are offering a discount to veterans and military personnel next month.

WISCONSIN Milwaukee: Police say a 10-year-old girl accidental­ly shot and wounded a 12-year-old boy. WYOMING Yellowston­e National Park: The number of people visiting Yellowston­e in September increased 13 percent from a year ago.

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