STATE-BY-STATE

ALABAMA Montgomery: Voters next month will decide a constitutional amendment on the display of the Ten Commandments in public buildings.

ALASKA Bethel: Small communities in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta are growing faster than Bethel, that part of the state’s commercial hub.

ARIZONA San Luis: Federal officials will mark the expansion of a pedestrian border crossing Wednesday.

ARKANSAS Helena-West Helena: An animal shelter says people have broken in to use dogs there for dogfighting for the second time in two weeks.

CALIFORNIA Oakland: The police department is asking all officer applicants to disclose whether they have been sexually assaulted.

COLORADO Boulder: The City Council decided against a moratorium on building so-called McMansions.

CONNECTICUT Hartford: A 4-yearold program that provides state troopers with training and equipment to reverse opioid overdoses is being credited with saving 268 lives.

DELAWARE Wilmington: A Delaware man has been sentenced to six years in prison on child porn charges.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Washington is among 20 cities being awarded support for their work to reduce carbon emissions by the Bloomberg American Cities Climate Challenge.

FLORIDA Gainesville: The former Northeast Park was renamed after iconic rocker Tom Petty, who played there as a boy.

GEORGIA Jekyll Island: The annual Shrimp & Grits Festival is moving from September to November in 2020 to avoid hurricane season.

HAWAII Hilo: A councilwoman introduced a resolution to recognize animals as “sentient beings” but withdrew it over lack of support.

IDAHO American Falls: Feds say a reserve forage area for livestock displaced by wildfires, drought or other problems will be ready next summer.

ILLINOIS Chicago: A Southwest Side park has been renamed Irma C. Ruiz Park in honor of a police officer killed when a gunman opened fire inside a school three decades ago.

INDIANA Lafayette: Purdue University is limiting health care coverage for employees’ working spouses.

IOWA Iowa City: Officials have named the black-eyed Susan the city’s official flower.

KANSAS Lawrence: City leaders want bar staff to be prepared to respond to predatory behavior, harassment and sexual assault.

KENTUCKY Nicholasville: A state senator threatened local libraries after becoming upset that his opponent was using their public spaces.

LOUISIANA New Orleans: The City Council is ending mandatory bike registrations for individual owners.

MAINE Bangor: Maine artist Gary Cooper’s Apollo 11 design will be on commemorative U.S. coins.

MARYLAND Baltimore: More than 65,000 autos were shipped through Baltimore’s bustling port in August. MASSACHUSETTS Provincetown: Researchers say “Ladders,” a fin whale that washed ashore, was known to them for over 30 years.

MICHIGAN Cass City: Ancient etchings at Sanilac Petroglyphs State Park are being digitally preserved in a partnership with tribal groups.

MINNESOTA Minneapolis: A new traveling exhibit showcases the stories and relationships Minnesotans have with water.

MISSISSIPPI McComb: Pike County is suing an electrical utility and its own insurer over damage to voting machines from a 2016 power outage.

MISSOURI Qulin: State officials and individuals recovering from addiction say methamphetamine is on the upswing in Missouri.

MONTANA Crow Agency: The Crow Nation Legislative Branch has voted to remove two judges from the tribal court over misconduct allegations.

NEBRASKA Lincoln: The Sunday with a Scientist program will focus on chemistry, lasers and student presentations in coming months.

NEVADA Las Vegas: Investigators are trying to determine what caused a fire at a bank ATM.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Wilmot: Authorities say two participants in Colby Sawyer College’s annual “Mountain Day” got lost and a third was injured on Mount Kearsarge.

NEW JERSEY Browns Mills: A man is charged with arson and aggravated manslaughter in a fire that killed his mother and her companion.

NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: A state agency that helps people with disabilities find work is telling many job-seekers to look elsewhere for assistance, citing funding woes.

NEW YORK New York: The HMS Queen Elizabeth, the largest ship ever built for Great Britain’s Royal Navy, is visiting for a week. NORTH CAROLINA Kill Devil Hills: The Wright Brothers National Memorial visitor center reopened two years after it closed for renovations.

NORTH DAKOTA Mandan: A needle exchange program, the Good Neighbor Project at Custer Health, is growing faster than anticipated.

OHIO Cleveland: The U.S. Coast Guard says it pulled a body from Lake Erie near a fishing area.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: The Department of Health says an increasing number of parents in the state are seeking exemptions from immunizations for their children.

OREGON Salem: A federal judge denied a request by environmental groups to halt a logging project in the Umpqua National Forest.

PENNSYLVANIA Sunbury: Authorities say one person died and nearly 40 others were injured when a tour bus and a pickup truck collided.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: A company says it’s beginning construction on the onshore wind farm with the state’s most operational capacity.

SOUTH CAROLINA York: Bedbugs have been found in offices at the Moss Justice Center.

SOUTH DAKOTA Yankton: Mount Marty College has opened a nursing center and simulation lab to provide hands-on training.

TENNESSEE Nashville: Bluegrass and country star Ricky Skaggs, singer Dottie West and fiddler Johnny Gimble are the newest members of the Country Music Hall of Fame.

TEXAS College Station: Scientists at Texas A&M earned federal approval of a genetic process to unleash cottonseed as possibly a global leading source of protein-rich food.

UTAH Heber: Authorities say a man is suspected of driving under the influence in a crash that killed six.

VERMONT Rutland: The city has a new marble sculpture of Revolutionary War hero Ann Story.

VIRGINIA Newport News: Jill Biden, wife of former Vice President Joe Biden, christened the U.S. Navy’s newest Virginia-class attack submarine, the USS Delaware.

WASHINGTON Seattle: Wheelchair users are suing the Seattle Mariners, saying they get a “second-class” experience at Safeco Field.

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: The Division of Natural Resources says it will stock streams and ponds with golden rainbow trout again next spring after the move proved popular.

WISCONSIN Madison: Wisconsin is seeing a shortage of psychiatrists, with 20 of the state’s 72 counties lacking a practicing psychiatrist.

WYOMING Jackson: The Wyoming Game and Fish Department says this year is a below-average one for human-bear conflicts in the Jackson Hole area.