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Wonder CALIFORNIA wants Los to Angeles: raise money Stevie through a concert for California fire victims. The R&B legend plans to help firefighters and first responders at the 22nd annual House Full of Toys Benefit Concert on Dec. 9.
COLORADO Denver: Despite federal opposition, the city is trying again to become the first in the nation to open a supervised drug injection site.
CONNECTICUT New Haven: Police say exotic birds worth a total of $15,000 were stolen from a pet store.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washing
ton: Benjamin Banneker Academic High School is to relocate into a new building at the site of the old Shaw Junior High School by 2021.
FLORIDA Brevard: Albert Manero has etched a name for himself and the nonprofit he founded, Limbitless Solutions Inc., at the University of Central Florida. Limbitless designs and manufactures inexpensive prosthetic arms for children using 3-D technology. Last week Manero showed the technology to representatives at the United Nations.
GEORGIA Jefferson: A South Korean company plans to create more than 2,000 jobs as it builds a battery plant. Gov. Nathan Deal says SK Innovation plans to spend up to $1.7 billion to make lithium-ion batteries for hybrid electric vehicles at the plant in Jackson County.
HAWAII Honolulu: A man who suffered a heart attack shortly after Hawaii mistakenly issued an alert about a ballistic missile has filed a lawsuit against the state.
IDAHO Boise: Micron Technology is the nation’s second-largest maker of semiconductors. But on Giving Tuesday, over 100 Micron employees pushed silicon, nickel-oxide and copper aside and replaced them with hardwood, glue and elbow grease. They joined volunteers from Sleep in Heavenly Peace, a local nonprofit organization that builds beds for kids who don’t have one.
ILLINOIS Chicago: Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt now has a little bling to go along with the international attention she gained as the near-centenarian team chaplain during LoyolaChicago’s run to the NCAA Final Four. Loyola great Jerry Harkness, who was a member of its 1963 championship team, helped present her with a Final Four ring Tuesday night.
INDIANA Indianapolis: John Cusack made baseball movie “Eight Men Out” at bygone Indianapolis ballpark Bush Stadium in the 1980s. He’ll return to Indiana in February for a screening of 2000’s “High Fidelity” at the Murat Theatre in Old National Centre.
IOWA Des Moines: Fifty-eight inmates are suing state officials, claiming they have been denied a constitutional right to pornography.
KANSAS Wichita: The state is recalling hundreds of vehicle license plates containing the letters “JAP” in the wake of complaints that they’re offensive to Japanese-Americans.
KENTUCKY Georgetown: Seven Kentucky State Police troopers recently became parents and had a photo shoot to celebrate.
LOUISIANA New Orleans: The New Orleans artist known as Big Freedia has sued a former choreographer, seeking a declaration of ownership for choreography and music from the time they worked together.
MAINE Portland: Hunters had their most productive deer season in over 10 years, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife says.
MARYLAND Columbia: The Little Sisters of the Poor have a theory about how they got Christmas back from the Grinch who stole half the presents they bought for hospice residents and employees. Sister Joseph Caroline and Sister Bernadette were wheeling gifts out of Costco when a man who offered to help. Sister Bernadette tells WBALTV she expressed gratefulness and told him she’d pray for him. When the nuns got home, they discovered half the gifts were missing. But Costco called: Their cart had been found abandoned, contents intact. The nuns believe Sister Bernadette’s gratitude deflated his intentions.
MASSACHUSETTS Pittsfield: The Berkshire Museum, which drew international condemnation for its decision to raise money by selling dozens of works of art, including two by Norman Rockwell, says it only needed to sell about half the pieces to reach its goal.
bike MICHIGAN share system, Detroit: MoGo, Detroit’s has public been used launch for last over year 237,000 despite rides the since entree its of electric scooters to the city.
MINNESOTA Little Falls: At the Charles Lindbergh House and Museum, preparations are underway for a cozy World War I Christmas at a special event Friday to Sunday.
MISSISSIPPI Greenwood: The city might be the Historic Stoplight Capital of the World, says Barrett Williams, a historic preservationist.
MISSOURI Kansas City: Artists are planning to transform a broadcast tower that looms over downtown into a giant light installation.
MONTANA Two Dot: Mac and Melody White’s badger Gilbert is an unusual pet. “They’re kind of between a cat and a dog,” Mac White says of the badger’s temperament.
NEBRASKA Omaha: The funeral of a Vietnam veteran initially believed to have no known living family could have been a sparsely attended affair. But the national attention brought by an Omaha World-Herald funeral notice saw hundreds turn up Tuesday to honor Stanley Stoltz.
NEVADA Reno: Tuesday was a special brewing day at Sierra Nevada Brewing Company – and at least one brewer in Reno. Sierra Nevada spent the day making IPA. All proceeds will be donated to Camp Fire relief, a Facebook post says. Brewer’s Cabinet of Reno hopes to have Resilience IPA ready Dec. 10.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Loudon: A farmer is calling it quits on a yearslong project to breed a rare type of turkey called the Chocolate turkey.
NEW JERSEY Asbury Park: Krampus Asbury Park festivities return to downtown Friday and Saturday.
NEW MEXICO Alamogordo: MainStreet will host Olde Fashion Christmas, which includes Santa Claus, Christmas carols and an ice skating rink, downtown Saturday.
NEW YORK New York: The “Fearless Girl” statue that inspired millions has been plucked from her spot opposite Wall Street’s “Charging
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SOUTH DAKOTA Hartford: A flower shop, Backdoor Garden, has announced plans to open downtown.
TENNESSEE Nashville: Henley, an upscale eatery that opened last year, snagged the title of the “most beautifully designed bar” in Tennessee by Architectural Digest magazine.
TEXAS Corpus Christi: If you didn’t get an H-E-B Selena tote bag earlier this year, you’ll have another chance. The late singer’s fans can purchase the new design starting Dec. 6.
UTAH Cedar City: Iron County school officials are considering changing Cedar High’s mascot. A review is underway to determine if the Redmen name and image should remain.
VERMONT Burlington: If you wonder what’s going on inside your teen’s head, University of Vermont scientists are here for you. The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study will follow 12,000 9- and 10-year-old children over the next decade.
VIRGINIA Linden: Feed the bears, 10 grand a year. Jeffrey Sylvia was convicted of violating state law against feeding bears and fined $500. Wildlife officials say he had been spending over $10,000 a year on the effort.
WASHINGTON Richland: The federal government is threatening to sue the state to block new legislation that helps workers at a former nuclear weapons production site win more compensation claims for illnesses.
WEST VIRGINIA Institute: A new development training program for entrepreneurs is being offered by West Virginia State University.
WISCONSIN Bayfield: Curt Basina and wife Linda, members of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, have created a distillery and tasting room owned and operated within the boundaries of the reservation. It’s a first in Wisconsin – and the nation.
WYOMING Casper: The U.S. Department of Defense says the remains of a Korean War soldier have been identified as those of a Kaycee-born man.