50 ★ States

News from across the USA

ALABAMA Mobile: The mayor is proposing to annex 13,000 residents into the city. Al.com reports that the proposal would make the city the second-largest in the state, jumping past Huntsville and Montgomery.

ALASKA Anchorage: The University of Alaska Board of Regents approved a $277 million operating budget request Friday. The budget cut must still be approved by the Legislature.

ARIZONA Phoenix: Home prices in the metro area are poised to hit a new record this month. A growing number of first-time buyers are getting beat out by investors driving up prices.

ARKANSAS Little Rock: The city’s teachers will go on strike for one day Thursday over a state panel’s decision to strip their collective bargaining power and complaints about state control of the 23,000-student district, union officials said Monday.

CALIFORNIA San Francisco: A progressive lawyer who campaigned to reform the criminal justice system has won the city’s tightly contested race for district attorney. Chesa Boudin declared victory Saturday night after four days of ballot counting.

COLORADO Denver: Two dozen aging dams in the state have been rated in unsatisfactory condition and are located in places where their failure would likely kill at least one person, according to an investigation.

CONNECTICUT Hartford: The state is providing an additional $20 million in help to homeowners dealing with failing foundations.

DELAWARE Dover: The New Castle County Police Department is asking for more than $100,000 in state taxpayer money to help pay overtime and other costs.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington: A man and a teenager have been shot and wounded by an off-duty police officer working as an apartment security guard. News outlets report the officer has been placed on administrative leave.

FLORIDA Marathon: A Miami man has won a stone crab claw eating competition in the Florida Keys. Kevin Bombardier bested 23 rivals Saturday by cracking and consuming 25 claws in 14 minutes and 16 seconds, a new record at the Keys Fisheries Stone Crab Claw Eating Contest.

GEORGIA Atlanta: State officials plan by the end of the year to submit proposed rules to the federal government for growing hemp, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

HAWAII Hilo: Housing officials say Keolahou, the newest homeless shelter on the Big Island, is near capacity just weeks after opening.

IDAHO Boise: Last month’s chilly weather broke records for Idaho, coming in as the coldest October since the state began recording average temperatures in 1895.

ILLINOIS Carbondale: The city is receiving a $14 million federal grant to build a downtown transit hub that will service more than 30 counties.

INDIANA Bloomington: Indiana University has reopened the art museum on its campus here after a three-year renovation that’s opened up some of its workings to public view.

IOWA Iowa City: For a second consecutive year, fewer international students started the fall semester at the University of Iowa.

KANSAS Kansas City: Court records say an off-duty police officer who told a bar server, “I have my gun on me. I’ll shoot you,” was initially allowed to keep his service weapon after a responding officer urged witnesses not to press charges.

KENTUCKY Louisville: As the final votes trickled in during last week’s gubernatorial election, a network of automated Twitter accounts suddenly sprang into action to spread misinformation about the election being rigged, says the CEO of VineSight, a company that tracks political misinformation on social media. LOUISIANA New Orleans: The city has a 25-bed facility where people found seriously drunk in public can sober up under the care of trained staffers. The City Council voted Thursday to authorize police to take people to the Sobering Center, near the French Quarter.

MAINE Portland: A drop in the catch of lobsters off the state has customers paying more and fishermen concerned about the future. Maine’s harvest is about 40% off last year’s pace through September.

MARYLAND Baltimore: Kimberly Klacik, the Republican whose social media posts about trash in the city ultimately led to President Donald Trump’s verbal attack of the late Rep. Elijah Cummings, says she’ll run for his seat in Congress.

MASSACHUSETTS Wellfleet: The season’s first cold-stunned sea turtles were rescued from Cape Cod beaches over the weekend.

MICHIGAN Oshtemo Township: A man whose hobbies include ritualized combat with replica weapons from the Middle Ages says he wielded a battle ax to fend off an intruder.

MINNESOTA St. Paul: State wildlife officials have rejected a request from environmental groups to ban the use of lead in rifle bullets, birdshot and fishing tackle.

MISSISSIPPI Meridian: The state has one of the highest numbers of dams that pose dangers and are in poor condition, an investigation finds, with 375 high-hazard dams that could kill someone if they fail.

MISSOURI Columbia: A judge has found the University of Missouri knowingly violated the state’s open records law by overestimating the cost to provide records.

MONTANA Sarpy Creek: When a coal company used a backhoe to dig up a 2,000-year-old bison killing ground on the Crow Indian Reservation in 2011 to make way for mining, investigators found the damage violated federal law and would cost $10 million to repair. But documents and interviews with investigators show nothing happened.

NEBRASKA Omaha: The State Board of Education has approved new social studies standards aimed at encouraging students to look at history from multiple perspectives, including those of religious, racial and ethnic groups; women; LGBTQ people; and Native American nations.

NEVADA Charleston: A proposal to expand Lee Canyon Ski Area is moving forward despite concerns it could harm the endangered Mount Charleston blue butterfly.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Lebanon: Pregnant women trying to quit smoking are getting more help at Dartmouth Hitch cock Health thanks to a $20,000 grant from the March of Dimes and the Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation.

NEW JERSEY Atlantic City: State education and teachers’ union officials are vowing to work together on expanding the teaching of black history, including an initiative to send teachers to sites associated with the slave trade.

NEW MEXICO Milan: Environmental officials say more wells are needed to measure uranium plumes in the San Andres-Glorieta aquifer.

NEW YORK Albany: State officials are urging New Yorkers to be on the lookout for spotted lanternfly egg masses over the winter.

NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: Income tax filers will get more generous breaks on their returns soon but could pay more upfront sales taxes for online purchases in a measure Gov. Roy Cooper signed into law.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: Construction is moving along on the Long X Bridge project, while future funding remains unclear for the rest of the U.S. Highway 85 expansion.

OHIO Akron: Authorities are searching for a Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal that was reportedly stolen from the Akron Beacon Journal’s former office.

OKLAHOMA Norman: The University of Oklahoma says a student was found dead at a campus student housing building Saturday, but officers determined there was no threat to others in the area.

PENNSYLVANIA Monroeville: The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission has agreed to pay the town nearly $1 million for its public swimming pool at Bel-Aire park, as part of a road widening project.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: A new exhibition about the history of the census has opened at the Rhode Island State Archives.

SOUTH CAROLINA Myrtle Beach: A new segment of the Carolina Bays Parkway between state highways 707 and 544 opened Thursday.

SOUTH DAKOTA Wind Cave National Park: An elevator problem preventing tours is entering its fifth month, costing the park revenue.

TENNESSEE Memphis: Free screenings are available for students at public schools in Shelby County where elevated lead levels have been detected.

TEXAS Houston: Researchers say they’re uncertain about the environmental impact of the chemicals used to extinguish a massive fire in March at a petrochemical storage facility. UTAH Salt Lake City: The Washington, D.C.-based American Geophysical Union and Colorado-based Geological Society of America have removed job postings at Brigham Young University from their websites because of the school’s LGBTQ policies.

VERMONT Montpelier: A nearly 2mile section of the Siboinebi Path was dedicated at a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday.

VIRGINIA Newport News: Four black women who gained national attention in a recent book and movie for groundbreaking NASA work at the Langley Research Center during space-race years will receive special awards from Congress.

WASHINGTON Seattle: Seismologists used Major League Soccer’s championship as an opportunity to study information collected while fans shook the stadium. KING-TV reports the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network installed seismic monitors at CenturyLink Field on Sunday for the championship match between the Seattle Sounders and Toronto FC.

WEST VIRGINIA Huntington: An annual memorial service at noon Thursday will honor the 75 lives lost in a 1970 plane crash involving Marshall University’s football team.

WISCONSIN Madison: Officials in Lafayette County have dropped a resolution warning journalists they would face prosecution if they edit an upcoming news release.

WYOMING Cheyenne: A legislative panel has rejected a proposal that would’ve prevented some people with mental illnesses from buying guns.