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ALABAMA Mobile: Two dogs have died at a shelter, prompting its temporary closure. Mobile police said in a statement Tuesday that the dogs at the City of Mobile Animal Shelter displayed symptoms of canine distemper, but a confirmed diagnosis is pending from a veterinary lab.
ALASKA Anchorage: The state Department of Fish and Game said the number of nuisance bears killed around Anchorage fell sharply this summer.
ARIZONA Phoenix: The city plans to temporarily restrict access to a popular hiking spot at the Dreamy Draw Recreation Area for parts of 2021 for the construction of a $300 million water project.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: A report showed the obesity rate in Arkansas has increased among public school and state employees and their spouses.
CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: Los Angeles County health officials said a visitor to Disneyland this month might have exposed others to measles.
COLORADO Fort Collins: Allegiant Airlines is pulling service from the airport serving Fort Collins and Loveland.
CONNECTICUT Hamden: Authorities said two students were among four people taken to a hospital following a crash between a school bus and a car. A New Haven school official said the injuries do not appear to be serious.
DELAWARE Rehoboth Beach: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be pumping sand along the north end of Rehoboth Beach.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington: Charter schools in the nation’s capital have seen their first drop in enrollment since 1996.
FLORIDA Ocala: State wildlife officials said they have captured and relocated a black bear that had been eating out of a trash bin at an elementary school.
GEORGIA Fitzgerald: Mayor Jim Puckett told local news outlets that the town is building the world’s largest chicken topiary, a 62-foot steelframed chicken with plants growing on it.
HAWAII Kailua-Kona: A power company is seeking public input on a proposed solar array it said will generate enough electricity to power an average of more than 14,200 households.
IDAHO Twin Falls: Family members looking through an elderly relative’s belongings found two World War II-era grenades.
ILLINOIS Marion: Six prisoners were taken to a hospital following a carbon monoxide leak at a southern Illinois jail.
INDIANA Indianapolis: Firefighters said a vehicle has plunged from the fourth floor of a downtown parking garage, killing a man and a woman inside. It wasn’t immediately clear how the vehicle fell from the garage.
IOWA Des Moines: Police caught a man who said he wanted to steal home plate at the city’s minor-league baseball park.
KANSAS Anthony: A 3.7 magnitude earthquake centered near the Kansas-Oklahoma border was felt as far as 75 miles away, but no injuries were reported.
LOUISIANA New Orleans: The Environmental Protection Agency has invited the city to apply for up to $111 million in loans to help restore its aging sewer system.
MAINE Portland: The City Council has voted to ban the sale and distribution of plastic straws.
MARYLAND Ocean City: Don Whittington of Wicomico County caught Maryland’s first record triple tail on Oct. 19 near the Baltimore Canyon off the coast of Ocean City, weighing in at 11 pounds and measuring 25.25 inches.
MASSACHUSETTS Cambridge: The student newspaper at Harvard University is facing a campus backlash over a routine request for government comment on a demonstration against a federal immigration agency.
MICHIGAN Fenton: Genesee County Sheriff Robert Pickell said a “wellorganized machine” of thieves appears to be behind the theft of tons of apples and pumpkins from orchards and farms in Michigan and Indiana.
MINNESOTA St. Paul: The Minnesota Court of Appeals is deciding whether to grant requests by opponents of the proposed PolyMet copper-nickel mine to cancel two of its most important permits and order further proceedings.
MISSISSIPPI Natchez: Adams County is looking at ways to hold residents accountable for more than $2 million owed in outstanding garbage collection fees.
MISSOURI Kansas City: WDAF-TV reported that eight to 10 horses were roaming on eastbound 152 shortly after 8 a.m. Wednesday.
MONTANA Billings: A Montana landowner is suing the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service to halt the hunting of bison just outside of Yellowstone National Park.
NEBRASKA Lincoln: A state environmental group has launched a campaign urging the Omaha Public Power District to set a goal of dropping its carbon emissions to zero by 2050.
NEVADA Las Vegas: Officials said September marked the seventh time since January that McCarran International Airport handled more than 4 million passengers in a month.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center will be opening a geriatric emergency department, joining about 100 other hospitals across the country that have implemented similar care.
NEW JERSEY Princeton: Princeton Theological Seminary will provide scholarships and set up doctoral fellowships to repent for having benefited from slavery.
NEW MEXICO Lincoln National Forest: The state’s Department of Game and Fish is using longer-lasting motion-capture wildlife cameras, mathematical models and GPS collaring devices to count its transient cougars.
NEW YORK Canajoharie: A painting seized by the Nazis from a Jewish family in 1933 has been recovered from a museum in upstate New York by the FBI. The work, “Winter” by American artist Gari Melchers, was part of the collection at the Arkell Museum in Canajoharie until Sept. 10, according to federal court documents.
NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: The law license of North Carolina’s first female lawyer, Tabitha Ann Holton, is now part of the state Supreme Court’s collection of historic artifacts.
NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: The North Dakota Industrial Commission has approved a study of the composition of the state’s natural gas.
OHIO Newark: Developers plan to turn the iconic, basket-shaped building that was once headquarters for The Longaberger Company into a hotel.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Federal prosecutors said a New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to smuggling more than 1,000 box turtles that were illegally collected in Oklahoma.
OREGON Portland: The city has rejected a request from Zenith Energy to add underground pipes at its Northwest Portland oil terminal along the Willamette River.
PENNSYLVANIA Upper Darby: A hazmat team responded to a halfway house this week after a resident received an order of uranium through the mail. Authorities said the substance posed no health threat.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: The Rhode Island Lottery said sports betting revenue in the state is at less than half the projected numbers.
SOUTH CAROLINA Greenville: Authorities are searching for a dognapper and a missing Bichon Frise worth about $10,000 that was snatched from a home.
SOUTH DAKOTA Pierre: A Federal Election Commission report showed South Dakota’s Democratic Party’s federal campaign committee owes nearly $47,000 in debts and obligations and has a negative balance of about $8,600.
TENNESSEE Crossville: One of the tallest treehouses in the world has burned down. News outlets reported the 97-foot-tall, 10-story treehouse caught fire and quickly burned down Tuesday night in Crossville. No injuries were reported.
TEXAS Abilene: The Abilene Zoo’s jaguar Estrella, who escaped in 2017, has been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and is receiving hospice care.
UTAH Salt Lake City: A retired couple spends five mornings a week teaching a free Tai Chi class to members of the city’s homeless population, encouraging them to find community and stability in their lives.
VERMONT Newport: The City Council voted 3-1 on Monday in favor of an ordinance to allow ATVs on its streets next year.
VIRGINIA Norfolk: The city’s top prosecutor and the state’s attorney general said Norfolk can relocate a Confederate monument despite a state law barring the removal of war memorials.
WASHINGTON Everett: Crews are trying to clear a large logjam that’s threatening to damage a major local highway near Everett.
WEST VIRGINIA Williamson: Williamson Memorial Hospital filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday in federal bankruptcy court.
WISCONSIN Madison: The state Department of Natural Resources board has approved new regulations that change how the department measures bacterial contamination in water bodies.
WYOMING Gillette: Not all furloughed workers offered their jobs back plan to return to work at two coal mines recently purchased by a subsidiary of Alabama-based FM Coal.