STATE-BY-STATE

ALABAMA Birmingham: A McDonald’s customer is being called a hero after he shot and killed a masked gunman who opened fire inside one of the fast-food restaurants.

ALASKA Juneau: Officials are considering a proposal to transform a former city park into a space for food trucks to set up shop.

ARIZONA Phoenix: Police say a woman is dead after she and her boyfriend were tied up in their motel room. According to investigators, the boyfriend says the couple fought with people visiting them. They were then bound before the boyfriend escaped.

ARKANSAS El Dorado: Police say two people were killed and two others injured in an early morning shooting at a home Sunday.

CALIFORNIA Sacramento: Five police officers received public safety officer medals of valor for together saving nearly four dozen people during a wildfire and an armed chase last year.

COLORADO Colorado Springs: A man accused of killing his mother and stepfather in Woodland Park when he was 15 years old will be tried as an adult.

CONNECTICUT Bridgeport: Two former Sacred Heart University football players have filed a lawsuit against the school and a fellow student who made false rape claims against them.

DELAWARE Wilmington: A man who pleaded guilty to stabbing his thengirlfriend has been sentenced to 31 years in prison for the attack and intimidating her before his trial.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: The Metropolitan Police Department says body-worn camera video critical to a major civil rights lawsuit against a D.C. police officer has been erased – despite department policy requiring it be kept for at least five years.

flashed FLORIDA a gun Tallahassee: while trying A man to prevent who four students mostly from African-American getting on an elevator college with agreeing him to has serve avoided 50 hours prosecution of commu- by nity service and pay a $100 fine.

GEORGIA Forsyth: Authorities say sheriff ’s deputies fatally shot a 42year-old woman confronting them with a pellet gun.

HAWAII Lihue: Officials have tagged nine Newell’s shearwater chicks on Kauai, aiming to gain insight into what happens when the young seabirds leave the island for the ocean.

IDAHO Nampa: A 10-year-old boy who ran away near Iowa Elementary on Monday has been found safe.

ILLINOIS Chicago: The Field Museum will revamp its Native American exhibits with the help of American Indians. Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians cultural director Marcus Winchester says the existing displays are essentially beadwork or baskets that don’t tell Native Americans’ stories.

INDIANA Marion: A man who pleaded guilty to selling heroin is challenging the state’s civil forfeiture process after the government seized his vehicle, worth more than the maximum fine for his crime.

IOWA Davenport: School Superintendent Art Tate says he intends to resign, saying he’s failed to adequately address issues regarding minority students. The district is under state supervision because a disproportionate number of minority students have been identified for special education and subject to disciplinary actions.

KANSAS Kansas City: A 58-year-old Leawood lawyer has been sentenced to one year and six months in prison for not paying his taxes.

KENTUCKY Frankfort: Officials say automotive supplier Pounds of Plastic Inc. plans to set up a manufacturing operation in Owen County that will create dozens of jobs.

LOUISIANA New Orleans: A father and son have been convicted by a federal jury in connection with two armed robberies, including one in 2017 that left an armored car guard dead.

MAINE Belgrade: Officials say private wells are being contaminated by road salt runoff.

MARYLAND Baltimore: The plaintiffs in a decadeslong legal battle over the city jail’s conditions seek to extend their 2016 settlement with the state, citing “overwhelming evidence” of noncompliance.

MASSACHUSETTS Lawrence: The pipeline upgrade work that triggered natural gas explosions and fires in September was slated to be finished ahead of schedule.

MICHIGAN Detroit: Gov. Rick Snyder says Northern Michigan University and the University of MichiganFlint will be getting new sites for cybersecurity training.

MINNESOTA Maplewood: An Oakdale woman died after the SUV in which she was a passenger struck a deer and crashed.

MISSISSIPPI pleaded guilty Jackson: to threatening A man to has bomb a Veterans Affairs office. MISSOURI St. Louis: Retired police Sgt. Ralph Harper, 67, is dead after a street shootout with a gunman. Chief John Hayden says three of Harper’s siblings also were officers. MONTANA Butte: Authorities are investigating after five baby goats were found dead, shot by a smallcaliber firearm. NEBRASKA Hebron: A 21-year-old man is facing charges in connection with the fatal shooting of one man and the wounding of the man’s brother. NEVADA Reno: Police are investigating after a man in his 60s was found fatally shot at a west Reno home.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: The New Hampshire Liquor Commission is hosting its first Distiller’s Week, featuring tasting dinners and seminars. The main event, the Distiller’s Showcase, offers more than 400 premium and ultra-premium spirits for sampling. NEW JERSEY Union Beach: New Jersey is making $50 million available to help Superstorm Sandy victims who still are not back home six years after the storm. NEW MEXICO Las Cruces: A man is recovering after he says his 120pound Rottewiler, Charlie, shot him in the back after getting his foot caught in the trigger of the gun. NEW YORK New York: The city is waiving nearly $20 million in fees owed by taxi cab owners in an effort to ease their financial burden after a string of driver suicides. NORTH CAROLINA Cary: Gov. Roy Cooper says he’s trying to lessen the

force of erratic and powerful storms like Hurricane Florence by ordering state agencies to work at cutting greenhouse-gas emissions.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: North Dakota has begun accepting applications from residents for medical marijuana cards, two years after voters approved the drug.

OHIO Toledo: School officials have announced plans for a new magnet high school aimed at preparing students for medical careers.

OKLAHOMA Quinton: The operator of a gas well that exploded in southeastern Oklahoma used a cheaper and quicker drilling plan than experts advised, the latest court filings in two lawsuits allege.

OREGON Portland: A measure to ban the use of state funds to pay for abortions is on the ballot in Oregon, the state with the least restrictive abortion laws in the nation. If it passes, Measure 106 would mean women who receive their health care through state Medicaid would not have insurance coverage for abortions.

PENNSYLVANIA Allentown: Authorities say the fatal shootings of two women apparently stemmed from a family dispute.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: Gasoline prices are down slightly in Rhode Island but remain well above the levels of a year ago.

SOUTH CAROLINA Anderson: Federal prosecutors say a man who placed bombs inside items like a teddy bear and a wicker basket around his neighborhood has pleaded guilty.

SOUTH DAKOTA Redfield: City officials are citing vandalism and littering for a lengthy shutdown of the town’s shooting range. City Finance Officer Adam Hansen tells the American News that targets at the facility were vandalized, so people began bringing items like refrigerators and other appliances to shoot at.

TENNESSEE Nashville: The 2018 muzzleloader and archery season for deer in Tennessee opens Saturday.

TEXAS College Station: The mother of a 2-year-old girl reported missing at a park was arrested and accused of making false statements to police.

UTAH Salt Lake City: Former Mayor Ralph Becker and his wife are launching Scenic Utah, an initiative devoted to cutting down on what they say is a proliferation of billboards.

VERMONT Burlington: The Vermont Air National Guard says 20 F-35 jets are coming to Burlington International Airport next year, despite opposition from local leaders.

VIRGINIA Goochland: Federal officials charged a New Zealand man who authorities say was shot while trying to break into a Virginia home after having online contact with a 14-year-old girl.

WASHINGTON Seattle: A state program allows victims of crime to register to vote without releasing their addresses to the public.

WEST VIRGINIA St. Albans: The American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia says the city’s proposed vagrancy ordinance is unconstitutional and discriminates against people for being homeless.

WISCONSIN Madison: The state Department of Natural Resources has approved three high-capacity well permits near sensitive trout streams where a judge had already invalidated previous permits.

WYOMING Cheyenne: A man convicted of first-degree murder when he was 16 will be eligible for parole after serving 35 years in prison.