Around the nation
News from every state.
ALABAMA Montgomery: A former prison guard was sentenced to six years in federal custody for intending to smuggle drugs into the facility.
ALASKA Kodiak: The Coast Guard is investigating possible illegal drug activity by agency personnel.
ARIZONA Tucson: The University of Arizona has banned dockless electric scooters from its campus.
ARKANSAS Lincoln: Police Chief Brian Key was fired. Officials said only that he is under investigation.
CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: The FBI says it arrested a fourth member of a white supremacist group – Aaron Eason, 38 – on charges of inciting violence at California protests and in Charlottesville, Virginia.
COLORADO Briggsdale: The company that operates an oil tank that caught fire says the blaze started during maintenance work.
CONNECTICUT Bridgeport: Police officers agreed to settle a brutality lawsuit by a man shown beaten and bloody on the TV show “Live PD.”
DELAWARE Newark: Police say a stabbing at a hotel stemmed from a fight involving a housekeeper, apparently over cleaning supplies.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Secret Service personnel responded to the Russian Embassy on Sunday evening after an unattended package was discovered outside, WTOP reports.
FLORIDA Port St. Lucie: Police say road rage contributed to a shooting that critically injured a 3-year-old.
GEORGIA Atlanta: Georgia’s oyster season has opened after a delay connected to the summer heat.
HAWAII Lihue: With record-breaking visitor numbers and natural disasters to recover from, officials are looking to find a balance for overwhelmed land and infrastructure on Kauai.
IDAHO Boise: A $9,000 mural painted on a downtown roadway to test materials has degraded after two months and is being removed.
ILLINOIS Springfield: Raising the minimum wage would help some residents out of poverty and increase economic activity, finds a study by the nonprofit Illinois Economic Policy Institute.
INDIANA Bloomington: City officials are considering a $10 million project that includes 1,400 trees and 7 miles of recreational trails.
IOWA Iowa City: Buses in Iowa City and Cedar Rapids will offer free rides to the polls on Election Day.
KANSAS Wichita: A woman was sentenced to probation and ordered to repay nearly $100,000 she stole from a man she’d been hired to help.
KENTUCKY McDaniels: Police say a home explosion killed one person and injured two others.
al LOUISIANA transportation Baton research Rouge: A group nationsays bridges 14 percent are structurally of Louisiana’s deficient, the nation’s seventh-highest rate.
MAINE Augusta: Maine’s breast cancer support license plates have brought in $3.1 million in a decade.
MARYLAND Salisbury: A home’s floor collapsed during a weekend party because too many people were standing on it, authorities say.
MASSACHUSETTS Boston: Massachusetts announced $40 million in funding to cities and towns for road construction and transportation improvement projects.
MICHIGAN Detroit: Michigan has 3,000 civilian officers operating with no state oversight, and the agency with authority to set requirements has no plans to do so.
MINNESOTA Brooklyn Park: Residents of a Twin Cities suburb have launched a campaign to stop a developer from building a warehouse half the size of the Mall of America.
MISSISSIPPI Aberdeen: The Aberdeen Housing Authority will spend $8.5 million to tear down 24 buildings and build 48 new units.
MISSOURI City is getting Kansas a new City: name Science – “Science Donnell” City – Powered in a high-dollar by Burns part- & Mcnership with an engineering firm.
MONTANA has taken the Missoula: oath of office Seth Bodnar as president of the University of Montana.
NEBRASKA Lincoln: Lincoln Airport officials are considering reconfiguring the terminal to accommodate a possible third airline.
NEVADA Reno: Authorities say a law enforcement helicopter clipped a power line while making an emergency landing, starting a brush fire.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Durham: The University of New Hampshire is expanding a tuition-free program for qualifying students who transfer from state community colleges.
NEW JERSEY Jersey City: Authorities say a woman and a 2-year-old boy were injured in a shooting.
NEW MEXICO Las Cruces: A man is facing charges after police say he pulled a knife on his girlfriend after mistakenly believing she had appeared in an adult video.
NEW YORK New York: The police commissioner apologized to a woman who came forward with a rape allegation in 1994 but was discredited, saying police let her down “in almost every possible way.”
NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: IBM announced it will acquire North Carolina-based open-source software company Red Hat.
NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: North Dakota’s first approved medical marijuana manufacturing facility says it will have products to sell in December or January.
OHIO Lowellville: The village is celebrating the upcoming removal of a dam on the Mahoning River.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: A Republican former state senator waived his preliminary hearing on a charge of grabbing an Uber driver
and kissing her on the neck. OREGON Astoria: Plans are being made for a park to honor Astoria’s Scandinavian ties.
PENNSYLVANIA Scranton: A man accused of cutting the brake lines in his girlfriend’s car to get a piece of pipe for smoking crack was ordered to stand trial in her death.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: Nine municipalities were awarded grants to improve their commercial districts.
SOUTH CAROLINA Greenville: The police department is imposing potential fees in an attempt to curb false alarm calls from businesses.
SOUTH DAKOTA Aberdeen: Brown County has enlisted a state agency to help resolve problems with its payroll and benefits system.
TENNESSEE Memphis: Two fire stations are fostering dogs in a program with Memphis Animal Services.
TEXAS Waco: A judge delayed the second trial stemming from a chaotic, deadly 2015 shooting outside a restaurant involving rival biker clubs.
UTAH Roy: The city is looking for a new city manager, its fifth since 2014, with Jason Poulsen stepping down.
VERMONT Arlington: A new animal shelter is opening Tuesday after months of construction.
VIRGINIA Richmond: Gun thefts in the capital city and surrounding counties have soared recently.
WASHINGTON Seattle: A veteran police officer is being treated after stepping on a used syringe in a park.
WEST VIRGINIA Beckley: Police say the body of a missing teacher has been found along a county road five days after he did not show for work.
WISCONSIN Grover: Authorities say a girl, 12, died in a go-kart accident.
WYOMING Lander: The Episcopal Diocese of Wyoming is denouncing homophobic graffiti discovered at Trinity Episcopal Church.