50 ★ States

ALABAMA Montgomery: David Persky, a senior at Stanhope Elmore High School, has been selected to march in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York.

ALASKA Anchorage: Alaska’s newly elected governor will be sworn in above the Arctic Circle, a first for the state. Republican Gov.-elect Mike Dunleavy will take the oath of office Dec. 3 in Noorvik, a tiny Inupiat Eskimo village where his wife grew up.

ARIZONA Bullhead City: The Mohave County Sheriff ’s Office is planning to create a registry of Alzheimer’s and other dementia patients.

ARKANSAS Mountain Home: Dyson, a 9-year-old boy with a rare inflammatory disease, was surprised Friday to learn his Make-A-Wish dream of visiting Lego World in Orlando, Florida, was being granted.

CALIFORNIA Anaheim: Disney has revealed some new details about “Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge,” a new land opening next year at Disneyland. On “Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance,” guests can join an epic battle between the First Order and the Resistance – including a face-off with Kylo Ren himself.

COLORADO Fort Collins: Eating crickets could be the key to a healthy gut, finds a recent study by Colorado State University Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition associate professor Tiffany Weir.

CONNECTICUT Middletown: Police are holding a “Click It or Ticket” campaign aimed at enforcing the state’s seat belt law this holiday week.

DELAWARE Wilmington: The Grecian-style monument on the grounds of The Tatnall School in Greenville was a gas station in Wilmington during the 1920s. It’s possibly the only service station of about 50 built by and operated by the Atlantic Refining Co. in the era that’s still standing.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washing

ton: The family of a then-6-year-old girl who was electrocuted at the MGM National Harbor resort just outside the city plans to sue.

FLORIDA Fort Myers: It’s one of the most uniquely Southwest Florida signs that Christmas is coming: When Harriet the bald eagle lays an egg, the holidays are a little more than a month away. At 2:37 p.m. Friday, Harriet’s first egg appeared in her North Fort Myers nest.

GEORGIA Atlanta: College enrollment is booming in Georgia, even as it declines nationwide.

HAWAII Kailua-Kona: A photographer and coffee farmer is capturing portraits of other coffee farmers and hand-dyeing each with coffee from each individual’s farm. The Donkey Mill Art Center is displaying the portraits for its annual exhibit celebrating the Kona Coffee Cultural Festival.

IDAHO Boise: Federal investigators are looking into a weekend explosion at a hazardous waste site that killed one worker and injured three others.

ILLINOIS Chicago: People rescued from a trapped elevator in one of the city’s tallest skyscrapers later learned they had dropped 84 floors.

INDIANA Indianapolis: An Indiana Department of Natural Resources press release announces the return of #OptOutside, offering free admission to any state park, reservoir or state forest this Black Friday.

IOWA Des Moines: Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, who joined horror-punk band The Misfits when he was just 16, and his eponymously named solo band will be wrecking the small stage at Vaudeville Mews on Nov. 28 for an all-ages show.

KANSAS Wichita: City police will soon ask gun owners and dealers to keep spent ammunition as a way to help identify stolen weapons.

KENTUCKY Louisville: Soldiers from Fort Knox will pay tribute to President Zachary Taylor at a wreath-laying ceremony at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Zachary Taylor National Cemetery.

LOUISIANA Shreveport: Twisted Root Burger Company’s annual Pitch-Black Friday celebration returns Friday. Area beer enthusiasts can sample 18 different dark beers from around the world.

MAINE Machiasport: Maine’s rebuilt fishery for scallops is getting started for the winter Tuesday.

MARYLAND Baltimore: Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is donating $1.8 billion to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University.

MASSACHUSETTS Leicester: The long wait for recreational marijuana sales to begin in Massachusetts is over, with the first commercial pot shops set to open Tuesday.

MICHIGAN Grand Ledge: The oldest standing church building in the city, the former Grand Ledge Baptist Church, dates back to 1879. By next fall it will be transformed into a modern 12-room artisan hotel.

MINNESOTA St. Cloud: The city’s recently upgraded LED lighting system also offers audio tools that officials are using to promote local music talent.

MISSISSIPPI Gulfport: The Institute For Marine Mammal Studies has been a leading force in helping save the critically endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle. Since the 2010 BP oil spill, it has rescued over 1,000 of the turtles, returning 98 percent of them to the Gulf of Mexico.

MISSOURI Springfield: World War II veteran Vince Plaster celebrated his 100th birthday with family, friends and a feast Sunday. He was the guest of honor at VFW Post 3404’s Thanksgiving dinner fundraiser.

NEBRASKA Lincoln: Road workers in the state have become more careful about where deer crossing signs are placed, hoping to boost their effectiveness.

NEVADA Reno: Officials are working to stem a bus driver shortage in the city amid a tight job market.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Durham: Researchers at the University of New Hampshire will survey 3,000 law enforcement agencies across the country in an effort to improve the reliability and consistency of data on hate crimes.

NEW JERSEY Bergen: Do you owe back taxes to New Jersey? If so, you’re in luck, as the state launched a controversial tax amnesty program last week. The program offers qualifying taxpayers a discount if they pay up before Jan. 15.

NEW MEXICO Las Cruces: The 70s Reunion Party will take partygoers back in time to enjoy the music of Motown and soul and disco hits from an exciting era, Saturday at the Las Cruces Convention Center.

NEW YORK Albany: New York state’s health department is launching a pilot program expanding Medicaid coverage to doula services in an effort to reduce childbirth complications for women and babies.

NORTH CAROLINA Asheville: A chickenpox outbreak at a private school now ranks as the state’s largest since a vaccine for the virus became available more than 20 years ago, health officials say.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: North Dakota set oil and gas production records in September, but a slowdown is expected in the coming months due to a sharp drop in oil prices.

OHIO Cincinnati: There’s a new, free way to catch a ride in the Cincinnati area. It’s called Oggo – a fleet of boldly colored electric vehicles summoned by app and paid for by “collaboration with sponsors.”

OKLAHOMA Broken Arrow: A public memorial service is planned in this Tulsa suburb for singer-guitarist Roy Clark, who headlined TV show “Hee Haw” for nearly a quarter-century.

OREGON Salem: Sparrow Furniture, a new type of socially conscious business, helps its refugee employees learn English and other crucial workplace and cultural skills.

PENNSYLVANIA Lititz: A first-of-its kind hotel opened to overnight guests Sunday. Hotel Rock Lititz was designed with touring musical artists and their entourages in mind.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: The cost of food in Rhode Island has increased by 15 percent in the past two years, outpacing wage growth, the Rhode Island Community Food Bank says.

SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: South Carolina’s new rules requiring moped drivers to have a license and register their vehicles are in effect.

SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: A few miles from the rocky wilderness of Badlands National Park is a tiny gray house. Inside, there is no running water, no electricity and no gas. Amy Kruse and her husband, Phil, make sure to include those details in their Airbnb listing for the historic property. “You get the whole landscape all to yourself,” Kruse says.

TENNESSEE Nashville: Comedian Conan O’Brien brought his stand-up comedy tour to Nashville on Sunday, making Music City the butt of several jokes, including about the Nashville Predators: “Do you care about your hockey team?” The crowd roared in affirmation. “I didn’t think you did, because you named them after sex offenders.”

TEXAS San Angelo: The Parks and Recreation Department is considering installing poles in city parks so members of the public can hang their own hammocks to relax.

UTAH St. George: The newly opened Snake Hollow Bike Park is the largest municipal bike park in the state.

VERMONT Burlington: The city will not be without a New Year’s celebration after the long-running First Night Burlington was forced to close this year due to financial troubles. A new celebration called Highlight will ring in the new year.

VIRGINIA Williamsburg: Officials at the College of William & Mary have approved a 5.4 percent tuition increase for in-state undergraduate students who start next fall.

WASHINGTON Kitsap: The Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe’s Jeffrey Veregge has his comic book-inspired art on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York through next October.

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: The West Virginia Education Department says digital items that were going into state surplus are instead being refurbished and placed in schools and libraries across the state.

WISCONSIN Madison: Local entrepreneur Kate Field scored a deal Sunday on an episode of ABC’s “Shark Tank” for her kombucha supply company, The Kombucha Shop.

WYOMING Yellowstone National Park: Park officials say they’re investigating after a photo was posted online showing one of the park’s geothermal features from a drone, which is illegal.